It isn't a general strike. action is being taken (probably - we are still being balloted) by 4 unions - PCS, UCU, NUT and ATL. This could bring as many as 800,000 workers out on strike. This is the first massive strike against cuts, and the feeling is that more, and bigger will follow. This is not a general strike- consider it a precursor, but we are certainly working up to one.
In terms of support, there are days of action being planned in many towns and cities, so support could involve attending them, attending your local picket line, leafletting your community to build support, taking direct action in support of the strike, agitating for mass school/college/uni/non-union workplace walkouts - the sky is the limit!

See you on the picket lines/barricades!

It is a sad fact that many people dont understand the fundamental mechanics of Pensions, ie that they involve Stock market speculation more often than not in earth and community trashing companies.
Capitalism is more than broken yet still the so called left want us to revive it. The fight for our future MUST NOT be based on pensions but on people and planet. If we continue on our present path we will be unable to collect any pension.

"Capitalism is more than broken yet still the so called left want us to revive it. The fight for our future MUST NOT be based on pensions but on people and planet. If we continue on our present path we will be unable to collect any pension."

The great suspicion about the left is that without Capitalism, there is no way to campaign for the re-emergence of the old ideals of Socialism or Communism. So the left is dependent on Capitalism and therefore Capitalists.

Its why the left is every bit as much an enemy as the right for those who seek autonomy from both.

The Unions will predictably engineer a national strike in order to leverage a national Labour government into power which will be used to take control of the cuts agenda, an agenda they themselves brought about. So oddly, a national strike only serves to reinforce the cuts agenda and to pass control of its execution to the very people who brought it about.

This is Capitalism in action at a time when the Capitalist engine, the United States, is in a state of global collapse.

The Labour party are part of that Capitalist engine, so must be part of its collapse.

We must not tolerate its survival. It has nothing to offer but Red Capitalism.

ok so now those who aren't involved in this sector want to strike or rally to support the strike. What good will this actually do? It seems to me that some people are just wanting to get involved for the sake of it. This is not a general strike yet. Save the fun for when it becomes one! Not even all the unions are striking! What hope do you have if the unions don't even work together? The first stage should be to rally all the unions to support each other. What you forget is the only people who will actually show up or support this will be those directly involved who will receive union pay for striking, students who like to be militant and some unemployed people who can afford to support it. Those who face losing their jobs if they take action will not benefit in any way by supporting this. You can't help others until you help yourself. just think about that when you retire and get no state pension and some other sucker is living off a huge pension packet that you protested for! All the time we live in a capitalist society this is how it is but the revolution hasn't happened yet and it sure won't at this rate. You need to educate the nation rather than the minority trying to take over the world single-handedly.

I figured that if the british public are ill-informed about the strike, then it is most probably because of a Government-backed media crackdown on reporting on it.