June 30th General Strike
Edu act | 25.05.2011 15:02 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements
As a general strike is planned for June 30th, can we really get everyone together to strike for fair pensions for all on this day? The current unemployed, contract workers, self-employed and temporary workers are also going to suffer upon retirement. They are the ones who do not have company pension schemes and are forced to take out private pensions because the state pension just isn't enough. Ideas for co-operating as a nation welcome. There will be several of us supporting the union strikes but I am dubious to the scale of this strike. It is an apparent general strike yet many people are ill informed of it. Speaking with the "general public" many do not see how they can be involved. Let's take to the streets and show this is something for EVERYONE - not just those who are currently in employment.
Edu act
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Thanks for the support, but..
25.05.2011 15:49
In terms of support, there are days of action being planned in many towns and cities, so support could involve attending them, attending your local picket line, leafletting your community to build support, taking direct action in support of the strike, agitating for mass school/college/uni/non-union workplace walkouts - the sky is the limit!
See you on the picket lines/barricades!
Town End boy
Pensions for All aka Stock market rules
25.05.2011 16:44
Capitalism is more than broken yet still the so called left want us to revive it. The fight for our future MUST NOT be based on pensions but on people and planet. If we continue on our present path we will be unable to collect any pension.
Ivor Had-Enough.com
Red Capitalism and the Cuts Capitalista.
26.05.2011 10:14
The great suspicion about the left is that without Capitalism, there is no way to campaign for the re-emergence of the old ideals of Socialism or Communism. So the left is dependent on Capitalism and therefore Capitalists.
Its why the left is every bit as much an enemy as the right for those who seek autonomy from both.
The Unions will predictably engineer a national strike in order to leverage a national Labour government into power which will be used to take control of the cuts agenda, an agenda they themselves brought about. So oddly, a national strike only serves to reinforce the cuts agenda and to pass control of its execution to the very people who brought it about.
This is Capitalism in action at a time when the Capitalist engine, the United States, is in a state of global collapse.
The Labour party are part of that Capitalist engine, so must be part of its collapse.
We must not tolerate its survival. It has nothing to offer but Red Capitalism.
Citizen No.1
campaigning for the sake of it
06.06.2011 00:10
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