General Strikes and the Long-Term Impacts

Sally Kohn: General strikes function very differently than they do in leftist discourse. In a place like the rust belt of America you don't just walk off the job but also give out free food and people bring coffee down to the picket line, she says. It becomes this huge community initiative of autonomy and self-defense according to Kohn. The idea that our liberation is collective involves each other has been decimated by neoliberalism said Kohn.