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Is there some information about the general strike of 1886? This page is linked to from the 1886 page, but when I get here there is no information. Bizarre.

It's there now.Bobanny 06:20, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

General Strike v. Sympathy Strike

At what point does a sympathy strike qualify as a general strike? I understand that general strikes tend to have a more revolutionary, political, and class-based character, and that a "critical mass" is part of the formula, but can someone offer a more precise distinction between the two? The article makes a good distinction between general General Strikes and industry-specific General Strikes, but doesn't make the distinction with sympathy strikes adequately. More specifically, if there's any BC or Canadian labour people out there, I'm wondering why the 1903 CPR strike isn't considered a general strike but the 1918 one day strike is considered the first Canadian general strike. I'm not sure about number of workplaces or industries involved in either, but it seems that the main difference is the revolutionary consciousness in 1918, being the year after the Bolshevik Revolution. Thanks, Bobanny 06:20, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

General strike proposed for the USA on 9-11-2007

Still to early to talk about this in wikipedia?

edit by someone else who actually signs his posts: link: http://strike911.org 24.45.152.94 00:43, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

General Strike, Election Day 2007

A Garret Keizer has also proposed a general strike for Election Day 2007 in the Notebook section of the the October 2007 issue of Harper's. As more information on this idea becomes available, it should probably be added here. — Aldaron • T/C 20:33, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

General Strike vs. Mass Strike

This article should really make the distinction between the 'general strike' advocated by the syndicalists (like Sorel) and the 'mass strike' advocated by certain elements of the pre-war socialist movement - Luxemburg comes to mind. I'll do this when I have slightly more time in my schedule. Until then, what do you all think? NauticaShades 21:56, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I have removed this text from the article, and pasted it here:

Georges Sorel published Reflections on Violence in 1908, in which he promotes an understanding of the myth of the general strike:

To estimate, then, the significance of the idea of the general strike, all the methods of discussion which are current among politicians, sociologists, or people with pretensions to political science, must be abandoned. Every-thing which its opponents endeavour to establish may be conceded to them, without reducing in any way the value of the theory which they think they have refuted. The question whether the general strike is a partial reality, or only a product of popular imagination, is of little importance. All that it is necessary to know is, whether the general strike contains everything that the Socialist doctrine expects of the revolutionary proletariat.

Sorelian ideas helped the emergence of national syndicalism, and also of right-wing groups like the Cercle Proudhon.

I think it could be worked back into the article. However, it lacks context; i don't think many readers will comprehend its relevance without some intro. Richard Myers (talk) 22:24, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

1948 German general strike

Any reason why this strike (12 November 1948) is not even in the list? It is clearly described in the corresponding German article. Tdent (talk) 19:36, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Iran

May be able to add Iran to the list of examples. One of the reasons for the fall of the Pahlavi regime in 79 was a general strike, including the oil industry which was responsible for generating most of Iran's revenues.