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  1. Beautiful Trouble - Pocket Edition
    A Toolbox for Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    Ideas for organizers.
  2. Brisbane general strike of 1912
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The 1912 Brisbane General Strike in Queensland, Australia, began when members of the Australian Tramway Employees Association were dismissed when they wore union badges to work.
  3. Bureaucratic mass strikes: A response to Mark O'Brien
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The mass strike of 30 November 2011 (N30) was the broadest and biggest ever British public sector strike and involved the largest number of women workers in any British strike. Dave Lyddon comments.
  4. The Case of Occupy and the Longshoremen's Union
    Who's Speaking for Whom?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Occupy Oakland should not be pretending to speak on behalf of Oakland's dockworkers, and should not be telling the dockworkers when and how they should strike. Occupy Oakland's actions are the opposite of democratic, and an affront to the basic notiions of worker's self-activity, workers' empowerment, and workers' control.
  5. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  6. Facing Reality
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes."
  7. The General Strike for Industrial Freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1972
  8. General Strike France 1968
    A factory-by-factory account
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Andre Hoyles analyses the development, organisation and end of the mass strike in France, 1968, with reference to case studies of particular factories.
  9. General Strike of 1842
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The strike started among the Staffordshire miners and soon spread through the country affecting factories, mills and coal mines from Dundee to South Wales and Cornwall.
  10. Great Strike of 1913
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A near general strike that took place in New Zealand in 1913.
  11. Journalists and media attacked during general strike in Nepal
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliates, the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) and the Nepal Press Union (NPU), in condemning several incidents of attacks on journalists and media workers during the general strike
  12. The Making of Jericho Road
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
  13. The March 29 Strike Against Labor Law Reform in Spain
    Outline of the Conjuncture
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The general strike of March 29, although it mobilized a good part of the population, apparently took place with more pain than glory. Once the day of the strike was over, everything seemed to continue as before: namely, the continuation of an aggressive policy against the wage-labor population, in an economic context characterized by recession.
  14. Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 5
    From 1848 to the Bolshevik Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
    Seymour analyzes the syndicalist movements - which emphasized that the main obstacle to social revolution lay in the organizational weakness of the anarchist movement and the disorganization of the working class in general - that preceded World War I.
  15. A Marxist History of the World part 85: June 1936: the French general strike and factory occupations
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    In the mid-1930s French workers launched a wave of strikes and occupations. Neil Faulkner explains how the Stalinised Communist Party worked to contain this resistance.
  16. The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1906
    Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International."
  17. Die Massenstreikdebatte
    Arbeiterbewegung Theorie und Geschicthe
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  18. New Orleans general strike of 1892
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A general strike in the U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana, that began on November 8, 1892.
  19. "No one represents us": the 15 May movement in the Spanish state
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    On 15 May 2011 thousands of people, mainly young, demonstrated all over the Spanish state under the slogans "For real democracy now" and "We are not commodities in the hands of politicians and bankers". The demonstrations explicitly rejected the participation of political parties or trade unions.
  20. The Oakland General Strike of 1946
    Resource Type: Article
    An account of the General Strike in Oakland, California.
  21. Obsolete Communism
    The Left-Wing Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
  22. Palestinian general strike 1936
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Part of the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.
  23. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  24. The Political Mass Strike
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1913
    If we want to prove ourselves worthy of the great coming events then we must not begin at the wrong end by attempting to make technical preparations for the mass strike. When the situation is ripe, the tactic of the mass strike will present itself. Let us not rack our brains about supporting it at the right time. What is necessary is that you watch the party press to ensure that it is your instrument and expresses your opinion and your mood. You must also see to it that our parliamentarians feel a mass pressing them from behind.
  25. The problem of the one-day strike: a response to Sean Vernell
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    An overview of the wave of strikes that took place over the issue of pensions across public sector trade unions between March 2011 and June 2012.
  26. Radical America - Volume 6 Number 5
    Special Issue: Quebec
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1972
    An analysis of the Quebec general strike of 1972 and its roots in Quebec history.
  27. Rosa Luxemburg
    Selected Political Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
  28. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
  29. Saint Louis general strike 1877
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Generally accepted as the first general strike in America, the 1877 Saint Louis general strike grew out of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. The general strike was largely organized by the Knights of Labor and the Marxist-leaning Workingmen's Party, the main radical political party of the era.
  30. The Social Passion
    Religion and Social Reform in Canada 1914-28
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    An account of the movement within Canadian protestantism which sought to revive the neglected social dimensions of Christianity and to involve the church in social action.
  31. The Socialist Register 1971
    Volume 8: A survey of movements and ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1971
  32. The Socialist Register 1976
    Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
  33. The Socialist Register 1978
    Volume 15: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  34. Strike!
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
  35. The Trade Union Movement of Canada, 1827-1959
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    An account of trade union evolution as a whole for the period 1827-1959, as well as an ouline of continuing sphere's of Labour's effort, such as organization of the unorganized, the fight for better conditions, legislative and political action, peace and Canadian independence.
  36. United Kingdom general strike of 1926
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The 1926 General Strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike called by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an unsuccessful attempt to force the government to act to prevent wage reduction and worsening conditions for coal miners.
  37. We're Going to Run This City
    Winnipeg's Political left after the General Strike
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    Explores the dynamic municipal politics thqt came out of the largest labour protest in Canadian history and the ramifications for Winnipeg throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
  38. When the State Trembled
    How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    Recovers the story of how the business elite-led Citizens' Committee of 1000 crushed the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
  39. Where Ya at, General Strike ? !
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    The trade union hierarchy will claim that the will to fight a class battle is not there, yet they have done their best to make sure that Ontario's workers and anti-harris activists are ocvercome by doubt and demoralization. Nothing less than a general strike will even make harris sit up and take notice, let alone offer serious concessions.
  40. Winnipeg General Strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was one of the most influential strikes in Canadian history, and became the platform for future labour reforms. In March 1919 labour delegates from across Western Canada convened in Calgary to form a branch of the "One Big Union", with the intention of earning rights for Canadian workers through a series of strikes.
  41. Winnipeg General Strike
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    In Winnipeg on May 15, when negotiations broke down between management and labour in the building and metal trades, the Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council called a general strike.
  42. Winnipeg's Red Scare
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    An account of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.

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