General strike Archives - Solidarity (Ireland)

Strikes, solidarity, and the struggle against imperialism and Israeli apartheid

Italy saw an unprecedented wave of pro-Palestinian mobilisation after Israeli Occupying Forces intercepted the international aid flotilla. The working class, with support from major trade unions including the CGIL and USB, called a nationwide general strike in protest against Israel’s genocide in

Oct 14, 2025

Uncategorized·World News

France: Macron intensifies class war

By Nicolas Croes — LSP/PSL (Left Socialist Party–our sister organisation in Belgium) This May Day will be the 13th day of strikes and demonstrations called by the union coalition against Macron and his pension reform. Whether it will represent a major escalation

May 5, 2023

World News

France: Workers revolt against the “President of the Rich”

By Myriam Poizat An explosive revolt in France began on 19 January 2023. The French government announced its proposal to raise the pension age from 62 to 64, and with that hundreds of thousands of working-class people took to the streets in

Apr 11, 2023

World News

9 November: General Strike in Belgium–Reports from Belgian socialists

The following leaflet that the members of LSP/PSL distributed on the picket lines and actions was well received with a lot of discussion on the need for nationalisation of the entire energy sector, but also on how to move forward to build

Nov 11, 2022

World News

Sri Lankan PM Resigns after counter-revolutionary assault provokes fury

By Serge Jordan Events have taken a frenetic pace in Sri Lanka over the last 72 hours. Nothing short of a revolutionary crisis has developed, one that is likely to be a forerunner of similar upheavals in other countries. On the morning

May 12, 2022

World News

Sri Lanka: First general strike in 42 years

By Serge Jordan Global capitalism is in the midst of growing economic throes and working class resistance. Sri Lanka has been violently propelled to the forefront of both. The words of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the Communist Manifesto that “All

May 2, 2022

Theory & History

April 1920: Revolutionary General Strike in Ireland

One hundred years ago this month, workers downed tools and took over their workplaces and towns. What began as a hunger strike in prison grew into a general strike against British Imperialism that pointed in the direction of socialism and workers’ power.

May 7, 2020

France. Build for an indefinite general strike everywhere!

By Nicolas Croes (our sister organisation in Belgium) The first day of strikes and protests against French President Macron’s proposed reform of the pension system was a resounding and historic success. On Thursday 5th December, there were nearly 250 demonstrations across France

Dec 11, 2019

Mass general strike in India

Article by members of New Socialist Alternative, our sister organisation in India, about the 150 million strong general strike against the Modi government. India’s Working Class people have a tremendous history of showing their built-up anger and collective bargaining strength time and

Jan 9, 2019

Theory & History

100 years on: When working class power defeated conscription

April 2018 marks the one hundredth anniversary of a historic general strike in Ireland. Cillian Gillespie looks at the events of this strike and the revolutionary potential that existed in this movement to unite workers north and south. 23 April 1918 was

Apr 23, 2018

General strike

Strikes, solidarity, and the struggle against imperialism and Israeli apartheid

France: Macron intensifies class war

France: Workers revolt against the “President of the Rich”

9 November: General Strike in Belgium–Reports from Belgian socialists

Sri Lankan PM Resigns after counter-revolutionary assault provokes fury

Sri Lanka: First general strike in 42 years

April 1920: Revolutionary General Strike in Ireland

France. Build for an indefinite general strike everywhere!

Mass general strike in India

100 years on: When working class power defeated conscription

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden