General strike
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A general strike is a strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labour force in a city, region, or country participates. General strikes are characterised by the participation of wo
Constantin François de Chassebœuf, whose early conception of the general strike lay the groundwork for its systematic formulation in the 19th century
William Benbow pictured in Punch in 1848
Statue commemorating the 1842 general strike
Mikhail Bakunin, leader of the anti-authoritarian faction of First International, which advocated for a revolutionary general strike to overthrow the state and capitalism
Anarcho-syndicalism
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Anarcho-syndicalism is an anarchist organisational model that centres trade unions as a vehicle for class conflict. Drawing from the theory of libertarian socialism and the practice of syndicalism, an
Members of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist trade union CNT marching in Madrid with their red and black flags, 2010
A women's convention at the Bourse du Travail in Troyes, c. 1900
Demonstration by the Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA) in 1915
Arrested anarcho-syndicalist workers, following the Patagonia Rebellion, c. 1920