There is an old poem by some dead European guy from 1925 that coined the now famous phrase which has ever so eloquently summed up a certain generalized hopeless feeling that, at the time, gripped his generation after World War 1, and seems to describe the position of Radicals within the heart of the World's Economic Empires find ourselves in. The poignancy of the poem comes from it's conclusion, which, ends with a line that says "this is how the World ends, not with a bang but a whimper".
Now, 100 years after this abstract thought was first put out into the World via print, Radicals are surely reflecting upon that idea now more than ever before. Why? Well, the one thing that Radicals have been clamoring for since the tragic outcome of France's short-lived, and ultimately failed Revolution of May 1968, the General Strike, has, as of the time of writing this report, again, proven to not be enough to kickstart a fundamental change in the Socioecopolitical order. We are specifically referring to the short lived Minnesota General Strike of 2026.
While the Minnesota Strike was undoubtedly an true act of true courage by all of the thousands of participants who got out into the semi-arctic conditions of those crucial January days, the simple and singular demand of ending and removing all ICE presence from the state proved not to be a catalyst for a larger, more disciplined, and rapidly spreading strike that effected the rest of the nation.
While there are numerous analyses about the Minnesota Strike and what lessons should be learned from the failed project, the aim of this report is to produce a list of demands that would've been not only been unable to be ignored by the federal government at the risk of undergoing a catastrophic collapse in legitimacy, but would've also rewired how Radicals think about attempting to gain back power from the state when it finds itself in a time of crisis.
Demand #1: Abolish ICE
The majority of Americans now back abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement forces unconditionally. Despite what rhetoric you might hear from our critics on the "Center", or, the Right, this demand is extremely practical because, firstly, ICE has no democratic accountability mechanism like regular police officers do since they are a department of the federal government. And, the only hope we have of reigning their lawlessness in is via weak, ineffective, and incremental "reforms" proposed by Democrats that mandate the masked Gestapo to say your pronouns before they send you to the government blacksite. and secondly, their jobs can be performed by local police units, so, their entire inception is superfluous. Not only that, but, ICE has only existed since 2003. Should we really believe that an institution younger than Ice Spice is somehow too long established to get rid of?
Demand #2: The Creation of a Local/State System of Credit to Indefinitely Sustain a General Strike
The purpose in establishing a local/state system of credit would allow Strikers to pay their bills, manage debt, and reduce collective financial hardship while participating in General Strikes. Does it not strike anyone else as odd that, if the government's job was to represent and help the public, that it doesn't do anything to help the public gain any real power or concessions from the employer class and simply act powerless to affect our work lives? If the World's Economic Empires are primed and poised for a wave of strikes that will rival the brutality and intensity of the 1984 UK Miner's Strike like this publication thinks that they are, forcing the political class to establish a local/state version of credit is indispensable for ensuring that the people get what they want. And, we stress the importance of the local-only application to this credit system because anything else would swiftly be struck down in court for violating the federal reserve act of 1913.
Demand #3: A "Snap Election" on the Federal Level with Hand Counted Ballots
The prospect of a "snap election" (the name for special elections around the World other than America) would not only be historically significant and put added pressure upon a unpopular administration, but it would basically be a move of tactical genius on the part of protesters if they demanded it. Laying out when it would be held, and putting the current administration on the defensive as it is sure to unilaterally reject this ultimatum if this call was coming from the crowds and lean further into into the blatantly Fascist offer of easing ICE presence in favor of voter role info from the states, yet, their stubbornness on insisting for their "Devil's bargain" would quickly delegitimize the government so much that further demands from the crowd, electoral or otherwise, would make the administration's position untenable.
Demand #4: National Referendum on the 1807 Insurrection Act, Posse Comitatus Protections, and, The President's Role as Commander in Chief
If all else fails or proves to not be enough to bring this administration to it's knees, then, the Strikers must do whatever it takes to delegitimize the government and make simply ignoring the Strike, or, going the "legal" route of giving all dissidents who participated in tit lengthy prison sentences to be looked at as options with diminishing returns on the part of the government.
This specific proposal would essentially undermine the legitimacy of the position of president of the United States as it would attack the president's ability to unilaterally use lethal force or state violence to simply "sweep aside" any perceived threats to the position's power.
The beneficial tactical position that a nationwide referendum would bring would be to split the current supporters of the administration into camps that contradict each other, the anti-government overreach Right vs. the administration's unquestioning supporters. Since, it would be a logistical nightmare for the government to try to "rig" a national referendum in their favor, they'd actually have to put the legwork of unironically convincing Americans that investing unilateral power within the office of president would be a smart thing to do and would not eventually and cataclysmicly backfire within the confines of a newer, more authoritarian, and more amply funded president which would have yet another unaccountable federal militia to do their bidding against the American people.
We cannot fully grasp the monumental blow that would happen to the executive office if the 1807 Insurrection Act was repealed, Posse Comitatus protections were universally granted even within times of civil unrest, and the office of "president" was stripped of the "Commander and Chief" role over this country's police, national guard, and other armed forces. It might be the single greatest step that this nation ever took towards establishing a Parliamentary Democracy, which is needed if America is to survive into the 22nd Century as a coherent entity.
Demand #5: Convening a Constitutional Convention Composed Entirely of Citizens
To date, the only Constitutional Convention that has ever happened occurred within the lifetime of the "Founding Fathers", and, was used to get rid of the weak governmental structures of the Articles of Confederation in favor of our current, largely unchanged constitution that we all know today.
Any constitutional scholar will tell you that both the greatest strength and weakness of the current American constitution is the fact that it is so profoundly hard to modify as well as the process of a Constitutional Convention being ambiguous and vague as it is currently set by law.
This legal stasis should be a focal point for advocates of a General Strike, who, in the event that the government pigheadedly opts to shut down any and all demands coming from the crowds, could make a demand that might draw in weary fence-sitters who would otherwise keep a "healthy distance" away from any and all strikers.
Calling for a Constitutional Convention without the use of vain, self-important, and arrogant politicians, in our current political climate, would allow a profoundly broken nation like our's to rethink who should hold power within American Democracy. This publication recommends that all "delegates" should be chosen by sortition (a.k.a. by lottery) based on an algorithm that seems to account for race, class, political party membership, etc. to try and create a body that is as closely representative to the broader American public as possible.
Demand #6: Withhold State Resources to the Federal Government
If the stakes are truly dire, then, Radicals must give the administration an ultimatum: either every single aforementioned demand is realized and codified, or, a national disintegration on the level of the Soviet Union in 1991 is on the table if the current administration seems to shrug off everything else.
This threat, however, can only be realized if every single political class within every single state in the union is forced by their constituents to engage in this financial rebellion. Merely proposing for the states to stop sending aid to Washington DC would create a bond market route and a complete bloodbath on Wall Street.
Despite the immense power of this potential demand, it's also, in our opinion, the weakest possible demand because it relies upon established political figures to act in a way that breaks down the artificial "Democrat vs Republican" binary in favor of a new political fault line that puts the entirety of the people against a corrupt and immoral political elite. It's our opinion that many politicians would likely signal their "neutrality" by refusing to run for reelection, or, attempting to stoke sectarian splits among General Strikers.
Demand #7: Legal Dissolution of All Police Departments and National Guard Chapters and Distribution of All of their Resources to the Public
If it gets to the point where the Insurrection Act of 1807 is evoked or Habeas Corpus is suspended, that would more than likely become the prelude to a very long, extremely bloody, armed insurgency emerging on the homeland for the first time in American history. This, unfortunately, is where this publication thinks this government is headed and it has been equipped with the tools of mass surveillance that no other Authoritarian regime has ever been gifted in Human history.
If this worst case scenario comes to pass, then, General Strikers are obligated, directly by one of Thomas Jefferson's own writings, to take up arms and struggle for a newer, more common sense Socioecopolitical order by force.
Links & Sources:
1. May 68: When France took a stand -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVWcHxMsMg8&t=460s&pp=ygUGbWF5IDY4
2. Minnesota Tried a General Strike. Now What? -https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/minnesota-tried-a-general-strike.-now-what
3. Six Vital Lessons From Minnesota’s General Strike -https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/minneapolis-minnesotas-general-strike-ice-border-patrol-trump/
4. Support for abolishing ICE reaches 50% -https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/54225-support-for-abolishing-ice-reaches-50-percent-february-27-march-2-2026-economist-yougov-poll
5. US Rep. Joyce Beatty introduces ICE reform bill as Homeland Security leadership is shaken up -https://www.wosu.org/politics-government/2026-03-06/us-rep-joyce-beatty-introduces-ice-reform-bill-as-homeland-security-leadership-is-shaken-up
6. How The 1984 Miners' Strike Changed Britain Forever | VICE -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJCQr5s9uAw
7. Federal Reserve Act -https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/fract.htm
8. Bondi Links Minneapolis Violence to Voter Data -https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/bondi-links-minneapolis-violence-voter-data
9. Is A New Constitutional Convention Around the Corner? | Civics Made Easy -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1L5WgKEeyY
10. A real democracy would use sortition -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12V9rV_bp_M
11. Habeas corpus -https://www.uscourts.gov/glossary-legal-terms/habeas-corpus
12. The tree of liberty... (Quotation) -https://www.monticello.org/encyclopedia/tree-liberty-quotation
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