Organizing regional Strike Comittees

A mass strike wave has started in the US, the first since the 1960’s and the largest since the 1930’s. People everywhere are asking—how do we build for a General Strike? But the General Strikes have already begun—on Jan.23 and Jan.30. The question is how do we build them into the massive scale of tens of millions that can defeat the war on workers by Trump and his fellow billionaires and then go on the offensive to take back what they have stolen? What do we do right now?
Workers’ history can help answer this question. In May, 1968 a mass strike in France grew from student protests of thousands to a national general strike of ten million workers occupying factories, in the course of a single month. A key step taken then, a week after the movement began, was the organizing of Student-Worker Committees of Action, which grew into Strike Committees. These Committees were democratically-organized coordination committees, which decided the times and places of demonstrations, the demands and coordinated with other strike committees. Base committees—mostly just 10 or 20 workers, students or community members, were organized to send delegates to the Strike Committee meetings so the decisions accurately reflected what participants wanted at a given moment. The Strike Committees were where the decisions were taken to add positive demands—for a vast reduction in the work week, for much higher minimum wage—to the initial defensive demands against the government’s repression and austerity attacks. The movement won these demands over the course of repeated mass actions.
Organizing city-wide and regional Strike Committees is what we need to do right now to grow the strike movement. Initially, these committees will just consist of individual activists from various organizations, workplaces and communities. But, once formed, they can rapidly grow into delegated bodies, with dozens of base committees. Out of these regional Strike Committees, we can help over time to organize a National Strike Committee capable of mobilizing millions and democratically leading a united powerful movement.
We urge activists from Rapid Response Networks, unions, student groups, immigrant rights groups, activist groups and community groups, as well as individuals outside of groups, to start organizing such Strike Committee meetings in the coming days. In NJ we are calling for an initial meeting to form regional strike committees, to be held by zoom Sunday, Feb 8. at 3:00 PM EST. We’ll first meet together to discuss the basic process of building the Strike Committees and then we will break up into subgroups to organize the nuclei of such Committees for Northern Jersey, Central Jersey and South Jersey and any other areas where we have enough people present. All welcome, no matter your location—we want to spread this process everywhere.
Hosts: International Luxemburgist Network; Save Gaza, Save Us All
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Feb 8, 2026 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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