General strike january 209/25/2023 And the first experience of anything like a real general strike came soon afterwards, with the ‘Plug Riots’ which swept Lancashire and Yorkshire in 1842. He propagated the call for a ‘national holiday’ – a cessation of work by the whole working class which, he held, would achieve a quick victory for the workers’ movement. ![]() It was first elaborated in the 1830s, in Britain, by William Benbow, who was associated with the ‘physical force’ wing of Chartism. THE IDEA of the general strike is nearly as old as the working class movement. Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive. ? The General Strike (January 1985)įrom Socialist Worker Review, No. 72, January 1985, pp. 8–9. The Pentagon accused Suleimani of having masterminded the mob attack.Chris Harman: What do we mean by the General Strike? (January 1985)Ĭhris Harman What do we mean by. The strike came at a time when Iraq was already on the brink of an all-out proxy war, and hours after a two-day siege of the US embassy in Baghdad by a mob of PMF militants and their supporters. Suleimani had been central to almost all that Iran did and senior officials under Barack Obama considered him close to untouchable. The assassination had followed a tit-for-tat series of strikes by the US and Iran, protagonists in Iraq since late 2006. ![]() Hours after his death on Friday, Suleimani’s position was filled by a deputy commander, Brig Gen Esmail Ghaani, Iranian media reported. This has been led in Iraq, but also by establishing a seemingly permanent military foothold in war-torn Syria, linking Tehran to the Mediterranean and a land border with Israel. Through a mix of security operations and diplomatic coercion, he has been more responsible than anyone else for projecting Iran’s influence in the region. Many consider Suleimani to have been the second most powerful person in Iran, behind Khamenei, and arguably ahead of Rouhani. The Pentagon statement accused the Quds force of being responsible for the deaths of hundreds of US service members and the wounding of thousands more. Suleimani was commander of the Quds force, the elite, external wing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, which the Trump administration designated a terrorist organisation in April last year. His fellow Democratic hopefuls Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders warned the attack could spark a disastrous new war in the Middle East. The US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, said Trump had “tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox”. Washington and its regional allies Israel and Saudi Arabia, who also see Tehran as an arch-foe, all braced for potential reprisals. No Iranian official detailed what type of retaliation was being planned or for when. In Iraq, Hadi al-Ameri, a Iran ally and head of the paramilitary Badr Organization, called on all Iraqi factions to expel foreign troops. Tehran’s Lebanon-based ally Hezbollah also promised to avenge the killing. The US bears responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism.” Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said on Twitter: “The US’ act of international terrorism, targeting & assassinating General Suleimani – THE most effective force fighting Daesh (ISIS), Al Nusrah, Al Qaeda et al – is extremely dangerous & a foolish escalation. With no doubt, Iran and other freedom-seeking countries in the region will take his revenge.” The Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, said in a statement: “Suleimani’s martyrdom will make Iran more decisive to resist America’s expansionism and to defend our Islamic values. ![]() Photograph: Mehdi Ghasemi/AFP via Getty Images The commander of the Iranian Quds force, Gen Qassem Suleimani.
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