Commentary

Can Occupiers Pull Off a General Strike?

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 31, 2011, 12:58 pm

On September 17, the first day of Occupy Wall Street, one of the many scattershot ideas proposed in the first General Assembly meeting was a call for a general strike. It struck me at the time as one of the most important, but also least feasible, things anybody had suggested—most important, because a civil resistance movement won’t really work unless it manages to mobilize millions of people in ways…

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