Reply #45: Ah, but there ARE strikes all across Europe

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They're just not in all countries yet and the timing is scattered in the countries where they are happening. But when you have strikes and actions in Greece, Italy, Britian, Spain and SERIOUS protest actions in several other countries, it's not idealistic to think that a loose organization working in a united front across national borders could co-ordinate these strike actions occasionally. It would be good training for more serious pan European actions in the future.

Co-ordinated actions would NOT have to be the precursor to an immediate revolution. They could be just what they are, co-ordinated actions that show the proletariat it's POTENTIAL power.

I still don't think that it would stop the austerity measures anywhere though. So in that I'm not being idealistic. Only a Pan European socialist revolution will be able to do that. The best these strikes can hope for is to slow the austerity train. But DAMN, if you're going to make the effort to strike against an international capitalist conspiracy to steal from the working class, you might as well do the best you can to make the reaction to it international also.