The Nation Magazine

This May Day, activists agitating for immigrant rights, labor and Occupy Wall Street joined together to hold demonstrations in cities across the country. Here’s some of what happened in NYC.

“The General Strike Is Not Reformist”

Professor Gayatri Spivak of Columbia University on the idea of the general strike, fundamentally altering the relations between the classes, “catastrophic change” and revolution.

Find the entire VideoNation series on the general strike here.

Imagining a New General Strike

The latest in our VideoNation series on the general strike—why May Day should not be solely about work, but should reshape our ideas about how society is built.

The general strike is among the most powerful examples of coordinated action for social and economic justice. John Nichols explains how it works.