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DESCRIPTION:INSANE DIALECTICAL POSSE presnets:\n\nWith the crushing of the Paris 
 Commune in 1871, the center of the world revolutionary working class 
 shifted westward to the militant immigrants in Gilded Age Chicago. Their 
 “Chicago Idea” of the 1880s was agitation to create organizations to be 
 “the living germs of a new social order which would replace the bourgeois 
 world.” The mass movement was destroyed by the hanging of the four 
 Haymarket Martyrs. In 1889 May Day was declared as International Workers’ 
 Day to honor their memory (except in the U.S.).\n\nOut of the 19th century 
 also came the most effective tactic to unify all workers in solidarity: the 
 general strike. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the closest we have 
 come to a nationwide general strike. In the 1919 “Seattle Commune” 
 workers used the general strike to run the city for 5 days. During the 
 Great Depression unemployment hit its highest rate ever (24.9% in 1933), 
 yet the next year three general strikes (San Francisco, Minneapolis and 
 Toledo) took the class war on the offensive. In the late 1930s the country 
 was swept by a wave of sit-down strikes that spread like wildfire, 
 innovating an effective new tactic. In 1946, in the strike wave that began 
 at the end of World War II, general strikes shut down six cities (including 
 Oakland), paralyzed whole industries, and with mass strikes everywhere, it 
 was the most militant year in U.S. history. A wildcat strike wave occurred 
 again in the late 1960s, led by groups like the League of Revolutionary 
 Black Workers in Detroit. \n\nThe memory of Haymarket lives on and 
 reappeared again with immigrants workers, this time Latina/o, in the 2006 
 May Day General Strike that forced the withdrawal of the racist 
 Sensenbrenner Bill (HR 4437). This historical survey attempts to show that 
 this radical history can serve the anti-capitalist struggles of today. This 
 is a multimedia presentation (approximately 45 minutes); to be followed by 
 open discussion.\n\nThis event is free. Wheelchair accessible. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/18/18659104.php
SUMMARY:General Strikes, May Day & Wildcats A History of the Strike Weapon in the U.S.
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave. (at 65th Street), 
 \nOakland, CA 94609\n510-595-7417\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/18/18659104.php
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