Don't organize strikes using networked digital means. If you want to know why, look up things like the Battle of Blair Mountain and the origin of the Pinkertons

Don't organize strikes using networked digital means. If you want to know why, look up things like the Battle of Blair Mountain and the origin of the Pinkertons. For a general strike in particular, it's meant to shake the foundation of economic power, and using resources that your enemies control to organize is a bad strategic blunder. You organize in places and spaces your enemies either can't access or can't monitor as well. Monitoring digital spaces, searching through data, etc. is too easy. You want in-person cells of people, secretive USB drops to share documents, archives of mistreatment on hard drives that are stuck in a box in someone's closet. The primary advantage labor has is that it's spread out and there are way more laborers, so the idea is to decentralize your organization so to take advantage of what you've got working for you: The less centralized you are, the less your enemies can take advantage of their data processing power, because they can't find the data they need. In terms of digital/software involvement if necessary, I would suggest: - Software that erases/bricks devices if it isn't prevented. If the cops are called on your strike, you don't want them getting everybody's information. - Authentication methods using fingerprints, facial, or eye recognition that are completely out of corporate control + have open, shareable code. - If you're going to organize digitally at all, have at least 2 (ideally more) tech-savvy people in the group. You need at least 2 so they can check each other, which is why more is ideal. - Related to this, software teaching basic op sec and how to manage your electronics/giving advice and reminders to strikers to mind their digital footprint would be useful. - Use of computer science to do things like unidentify PII, because if a movement gets large enough, some central organization will be necessary, which means security comes into play again. In general, I'd recommend keeping it to an '80s tech level. (NB: This is all hypothetical. I don't personally think strikes are a very viable method in 2022 in the Western World, I just have an interest in political tactics and strategy + I'm from a Michigan car family so I do actually know a fair amount of labor history/am sympathetic to labor movements.)