"millions" in Italian general strike

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Apr 16 14:22:32 PDT 2002


Matthew Snyder wrote:


>Doug Henwood writes:
>> [can we please have one of these?]
>
>*Could* we (Americans) have one of these? Is it possible in
>a country this large? Certainly it could be done in large
>cities if the right essential services were on board (public
>transportation, schools, banks...), but I'm having trouble
>figuring out the logistics of organizing a national general
>strike.

Italy's not a small country. It's more a matter of ideology & institutions than logistics, I'd say. Like Sweeney's gonna call for a general strike - not, of course, to be disrespectful toward the leader of the organized working class.

Doug



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