YES!!! UK on general strike!!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/nov/30/public-sector-workers-strike-uk



This is how you do it. If you want to get through, you must disrupt, you must shut things down and make the status quo impossible. And a massive general strike is the way to do it!

As much as they like the rhetorical bs of everything they do is win win win, they just don't have this kind of numbers and support to be this disruptive to the bankers. occupying things like parks and city halls only makes them look bad as well. You need to be disruptive on this kind of scale in order to have any kind of effect on the bankers and the status quo. Until then, nothing will ever change and the bankers will just keep on getting away with their crap.

Movements like OWS are how you build to a movement capable of a general strike.

Hell, they've already done one general strike in Oakland. And I'd describe the Move Your Money campaign as a great success that cost the banksters billions.

November 21, 2011 12:00 PM
America, Take A Bow! Megabanks Could Lose $185 Billion Due to Bank Transfer Day
By Susie Madrak

Is there anything quite as exhilarating as knowing that, despite their posturing to the contrary, Big Banks took a real hit, thanks to a broad-based populist movement? Maybe we can move onto the cable behemoths next: "A Month Without Cable," where everyone cancels their cable for a month and uses Netflix instead -- I can dream, can't I?

During “Bank Transfer Day” earlier this month, 40,000 Americans moved their money from the nation’s biggest banks to credit unions, voicing their distaste with the action’s of America’s financial behemoths. About 650,000 Americans joined credit unions in October, which is more people than in all of 2010 combined. According to cg42, a consulting firm that does work for the biggest banks, “the nation’s 10 biggest banks could stand to lose as much as $185 billion in deposits in the next year due to customer defections.” Of the banks, “Bank of America is the most vulnerable and could lose up to 10% of its customers and $42 billion in consumer deposits in the next year.”

Plus, you know, a lot less money to buy politicians!

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http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/america-take-bow-megabanks-could-lose

warning them to swing that rudder to the left or the consequences will be more dire.

Want to make a statement? Strike until January 2, 2012.

about their own employment, because the government is trying to change public sector pensions in nearly all cases. But there are many unions and sectors involved, so it has an effect somewhat similar (though not as much as in the past; due to privatisation, buses are running much as normal (except in Northern Ireland, where they haven't been privatised, it seems), and so are most rail services).

It may have an effect; certainly, the threat of it had forced the government to improve its proposals, but when the unions said they still weren't good enough, the government murmured about withdrawing the improved offer. We'll see what happens next.