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              1. So somehow I ended up reading about the 2011 Wisconsin protests and it's actually really interesting though I'm still reading about it.
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              Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin at the time, basically passed a bunch of tax cuts for corporations, and wanted to close the budget shortfall by taking away public workers' rights to collectively bargain, so they could lower public sector wages without pushback
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            The Midwest IWW branches seriously began organizing for a general strike, reaching out both domestically and internationally for organizers. They reached out to the CNT (yes THAT one from CNT-FAI) in Spain and France's CGT which organized the country's 2019-2020 general strike
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          Soon after, however, the "pragmatic reformists" came in. They argued that instead of fiddling around with a general strike, a thing that has not happened in the US for decades, activists should instead focus on forcing a recall vote for Scott Walker.
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        It would be much easier and more popular, they argued, to force Scott Walker out of office via the ballot, so that a Democract more sympathetic to the left could write better laws. In the end a general strike never ended up happening as energy was redirected to elections
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      So what ended up happening? In 2012 the recall vote came and went. Scott Walker won. It like, wasn't even close. The law still stands to this day, despite some challenges to some parts of the law in the years following.
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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    The Supreme Court of Wisconsin, which is elected, upheld the austerity law in 2014. Liberals and (non-radical) trade unions tried to back the election of a more progressive supreme court candidate to change the balance of the court and also failed
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      Electoralism isn't "pragmatic". That's just liberal ideology talking. Elections on their own consistently fail to bring change. Strikes and unrest, however, do. Btw below are the number of bills Bernie Sanders has actually managed to pass while in Congress
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