Boaventura de Sousa Santos: The General Strike
What is the significance of this reappearance of the general strike? While it is true that history does not repeat itself, what parallels can be drawn with the conditions and social struggles of the past? … Yesterday the struggle was for alternatives (socialism) that the ruling classes recognized as existing, therefore brutally repressing the people defending them; today the struggle is against neoliberal common sense, massively reproduced by the subservient media, that there are no alternatives to the impoverishment of the majority and the hollowing out of democratic choices.
