> On Jan 24, 2026, at 03:27, stevencolatrella via groups.io > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis-St. Paul on Friday as > hundreds of businesses closed their doors, and workers and students stayed > home to demand an end to the sweeping immigration crackdown that has roiled > the Twin Cities for weeks.
August Nimtz discusses the general strike in his home city of Minneapolis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbZdlu0SUyY A strike was called by the Minneapolis AFL-CIO and other unions, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bvrC8p_Nw0:"MINNEAPOLIS – The Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO along with regional bodies throughout the state, including the Saint Paul Regional Labor Federation, the West Area Labor Council, the North East Area Labor Council and the East Central Labor Council, have joined in solidarity to endorse a powerful unified statewide action on January 23: Day of Truth and Freedom." The CWA and other unions were apparently involved as well as were a Teamsters local, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10240464116965402&set=a.1890099417144 This call is being replicated in other cities - a general strike was called for Portland today, Sunday, and one of the leaders mentioned that this was a way of working towards a general strike despite there has been no organizing to date. The next question that pops into my mind is "what's the end game?" In 1934 in Minneapolis, San Francisco/Oakland, Toledo and other cities had strikes that turned into general strikes that shut down cities and led the employers to reconsider their tactics. We know that the breakthrough of industrial unionism followed these strikes. What is the target and goals of a general strike today? Will Trump mind if a city is shut down while he ramps up federal police intervention in the city? Are we creating coalitions of working people that develop strategy and tactics to continue until demands are met. In the video above, Nimtz cites Lenin's distinction between active boycotts and passive boycotts; and example of the latter would include boycotting elections, lettuce, and other things, but the former involve organization, organizing, strikes and other actions. Nimtz commented that he wasn't sure which is happening in Minneapolis. Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40359): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40359 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117428974/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
