| This was achieved by 18 months of demonstrations and strikes, and a general strike led by the oil workers. |
| For example, in France in 1968 the student movement fed into a general strike of ten million workers. |
| A general strike, Leon Trotsky once wrote, poses the question of power point-blank. |
| The protests followed a general strike organised by the General Labour Confederation against rising fuel prices. |
| In February 1917 economic strikes and food protests led by women fused into a general strike that drew the army into an insurrection. |
| Large industrialists, enlisting the support of unions, announced the first general strike. |
