General Strike
A general strike is a Grève of all the workers in a Ville, an area or a Pays. At the end of the 19th century, the movements of international workers recommended the general strike to achieve political or industrial goals. In France, the general strike was theorized, inter alia, by Aristide Briand, then by Georges Sorel in the form of a mobilizing myth. Rosa Luxemburg devoted a work to the subject in 1906.
Notable general strikes
- the General strike of 1918 in Switzerland
- the General strike of 1932 in Geneva
- 1936 (in France)
- the General strike of the winter 1960-1961 in Belgium
- May 1968
- the Orange revolution of 2004 in Ukraine.
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