THE GENERAL STRIKE, A TOOL OF WORKING CLASS REVOLUTION

I just heard a story that you never hear about in the mainstream capitalist media and that is that Puerto Rico has recently had a General Strike.  Apparently a huge percent of the population, about five percent participated in a mass demonstration and there was some sort of work stoppage.


The General Strike was apparently a response to the cutbacks that are being imposed in Puerto Rico during Great Depression II.  Even worse is the fact that public employees are being fired and are being replaced with private contractors across the board.  In Puerto Rico you would never know that there was hope for anyone but the neoliberals and oligarchy. 

I think I need to learn more about how the workers of Puerto Rico are working together.
Wouldn't it be great if there was a United States general strike or a General Strike in California or a number of states?

THE G20 AND DEMOCRACY

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia was the location of the most recent display of Yankee repression of those citizens seeking to assemble peacefully and to exercise their free expression and right to petition the government.  Only those rights are no longer recognized, let alone guaranteed in the United States of America.


     The message from the American and International capitalist class is clear,

"You have the right to be beaten, gassed, maced, tazed, blasted with destructive sound and microwaves, and to be arrested and prosecuted if you dare walk down the streets of America and speak your mind!"

    Yes the G8 has just become the G20.  So as the capitalist nations of the world were in a position of perhaps more democracy vis-a-vis one another the peoples of the United States remain the disenfranchised losers of this new form of capitalist tyranny.