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13. It won't start with one internet rando
Wed Aug 12, 2020, 10:44 PM
Aug 2020

asking a handful of other Internet randos how to do it; were a general strike that simple we would have already managed them.

Solidarity was successful because it started as a single trade union in an industry that was both geographically concentrated (the shipyards in Gdańsk) and utterly essential to the economy, formed after decades of repression that makes what we’re experiencing seem like kindergarten. That’s a confluence of events that is incredibly rare, and is probably not a model one should assume is applicable to any given situation.

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