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Truly impressive that they managed to organize that! I wonder if it would be easier or harder today; I'd asumme that authorities would be quicker with arrests and beatings these days if you organized that, plus the "seceding plebeians" have to go somewhere - you can't just hide an entire city's worth of workers these days and wild camping is illegal in most places.
Might be different in less developed countries.
Portugal had a general strike just last month! It is still possible, even if unions aren't as strong as they used to be.
Damn, I haven't heard about that! I'm gonna go read up on it.