#General STrike2020

Working Class Unites Across India for 250 Million Strong Strike

December 4, 2020 UNAC Editor Featured, India, Labor Struggles, Paths to Emancipation, Uncategorized

by Martha Grevatt, published on Workers World, December 1, 2020 For the second time this year, a class-wide mobilization in an “All-India strike” brought out 250 million workers. With one in four working-age people in India participating, this 24-hour work stoppage can again claim the status of “world’s biggest strike.” The first record-breaking general strike had taken place on Jan.[…]

New York Workers Assembly Against Racism

October 31, 2020 UNAC Editor Labor, Organizing, Protest

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, October 23, 2020 A powerful and forward-planning Workers Assembly Against Racism was held at Union Square in New York City on Oct. 18. Participants projected the possibilities of workers’ power through general strikes, shutdowns and mass actions to dramatically push back ongoing attacks — including police and racist violence, evictions, lack of stimulus[…]