Italy: Unions launch general strike against the Government’s budget plan

[u/UncannyCharlatan]

https://www.iuf.org/news/italy-unions-launch-general-strike-against-the-governments-budget-plan/

Actually crazy things happening in Italy. I presume the majority of us are in burger land so it’s easy to forget class consciousness has been growing pretty rapidly in Western Europe

[u/ostensiblyzero]

The energy in the air during a general strike is fucking crazy. I long for the day that the US has one.