A nationwide activist movement seeking to organize millions of Americans into a general strike is raising money through a federally tax-exempt nonprofit, despite promoting an explicitly anti-capitalist agenda and maintaining partnerships with revolutionary socialist organizations.
The campaign, known as General Strike US, says it is building a network capable of coordinating a nationwide work stoppage once 11 million Americans, approximately 3.5% of the population, have pledged to participate.
Its ambitions extend considerably beyond conventional labor disputes. The movement’s published demands include abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), convening a constitutional convention, ending certain forms of American military aid, repealing right-to-work laws, and substantially restructuring taxation and social policy.
Meanwhile, A Radical Guide, a California-based nonprofit recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) public charity, has served as the campaign’s fiscal sponsor since April 2026, accepting donations for national organizing efforts and individual chapters. The arrangement raises questions about how tax-deductible contributions are used to support a campaign seeking sweeping political and economic changes.
A General Strike Aimed at Transforming America
Founded in 2022, General Strike US presents itself as a decentralized network of workers, activists, and grassroots organizations building toward a coordinated national work stoppage. Its website states that the strike will begin once the movement accumulates 11 million signed commitments, known as “Strike Cards.”
According to the campaign, the proposed strike would not merely seek better wages or improved working conditions.In an open letter promoting the campaign, participating organizations declare that “The root cause is capitalism.”
The letter describes the United States as a corporate oligarchy and argues that existing economic and political institutions must be fundamentally transformed. It calls for a mass mobilization intended to build a new system, with the withdrawal of labor presented as the principal means of exerting pressure.
The movement’s published demands encompass immigration, healthcare, taxation, constitutional reform, military policy, criminal justice, and environmental issues.
Among them are abolishing ICE, convening a constitutional convention, ending military aid associated with occupations or ethnic cleansing, taxing wealthy Americans, overturning the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, and repealing right-to-work legislation.
The website says final demands will be developed after six million Strike Cards have been collected, meaning participants are being recruited before the campaign has finalized its specific objectives.
The campaign’s fiscal sponsor reports that General Strike US has accumulated 446,752 signed Strike Cards, with 54 active chapters and 24 partner organizations.
The organization’s model seeks to consolidate participants across different sectors, community organizations, and local chapters before announcing a nationwide strike date. Its fundraising materials also envisage distributing financial support to participants once the campaign reaches its final preparation phase.
The Tax-Exempt Charity Funding Strike Organizing
The movement’s financial infrastructure includes A Radical Guide, a federally recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit registered under employer identification number 99-2242457. According to IRS-derived records, the organization received federal tax-exempt recognition in April 2024. Eligible contributions are tax-deductible.
A Radical Guide was established by activist Jason Bayless, whose background includes work with animal-rights organizations and the Move to Amend campaign. The nonprofit announced in April 2026 that it had become the fiscal sponsor of General Strike US after approximately two years of collaboration. Its fundraising page explicitly solicits donations for the campaign’s organizing operations.
The organization also hosts donation pages for General Strike Los Angeles and General Strike San Diego. An August 2026 announcement said A Radical Guide takes no administrative overhead from San Diego contributions. The donations support local organizing and the development of systems intended to sustain participants during a future strike.
The financial relationship is particularly explicit on the General Strike Los Angeles website, which describes a strike fund intended to sustain a future work stoppage. The chapter identifies planned expenditures including financial assistance for striking workers, mutual-aid supplies, distribution facilities, and transportation.
Its frequently asked questions section confirms that contributions are tax-deductible through A Radical Guide, identifying the nonprofit by name and federal tax identification number. The national campaign’s fundraising materials also outline three organizing phases, culminating in the distribution of strike funds to registered participants needing financial assistance.
The arrangement raises questions about the oversight of charitable contributions and whether funds are restricted to activities permissible under federal nonprofit law.
The IRS states that 501(c)(3) organizations may engage in some public-policy advocacy and lobbying, but substantial lobbying can jeopardize tax-exempt status. Such organizations are also prohibited from intervening in elections involving candidates for public office.
Revolutionary Socialist Organizations Among Partners
General Strike US’s own partner directory identifies several organizations that openly advocate revolutionary socialist politics. They include the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), which calls for the socialist transformation of American society, and Workers World Party, which advocates replacing capitalism with a socialist economic system through revolutionary change.
Other organizations listed include CODEPINK, the California National Party, and several activist networks involved in protests, economic boycotts, and grassroots organizing. The California National Party advocates eventual political independence for California, while CODEPINK campaigns against American military interventions and what it describes as imperialism.
The relationship with A Radical Guide predates formal fiscal sponsorship. In February 2024, the nonprofit publicized a General Strike US panel featuring organizers from several activist groups.
More recently, A Radical Guide co-hosted the September 2026 international workshops of the NYC Anarchist Book Fair, whose program included a joint session by General Strike US and the National Panther Party on revolutionary general-strike networks.
Canadian Student Activists Promote International General Strike Campaign
The American campaign comes amid separate efforts to promote general-strike organizing internationally, including among Canadian student activists. A Canadian social-media account highlighted plans for a “National Student Strike Bootcamp” scheduled for October 25, 2026.
The event’s promotional materials identify austerity, artificial intelligence, imperialism, weapons spending, tuition, and the cost of living among the issues motivating student-strike organizing.
The announcement calls for discussions about international student strikes, crises facing younger generations, and strategies for organizing effective work stoppages. The same account also highlighted General Strike Global, a movement promoting the mobilization of 3.5% of the world’s population to challenge what it describes as imperial capitalism.
Social-media materials indicate that an account identifying itself as General Strike Canada was established in October. The Canadian campaign is promoting a similar mobilization framework, although a formal organizational or financial relationship with General Strike US has not been independently established.
The developments nevertheless illustrate how the language and tactics of coordinated mass strikes are circulating among activist networks beyond the United States.
A Tax-Exempt Funding Arrangement Facing Unanswered Questions
General Strike US presents its campaign as an effort to use collective economic pressure to force sweeping changes to American institutions. Its published ambitions, partner organizations, recruitment strategy, and plans for financial assistance place it within a broader ecosystem of anti-capitalist organizing.
Yet its fundraising infrastructure includes a federally tax-exempt American charity. A Radical Guide’s public materials confirm the sponsorship arrangement but do not disclose the amount transferred to General Strike US, the identities of its major donors, or the detailed restrictions governing expenditures.
ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer lists no detailed Form 990 financial returns for A Radical Guide, leaving its annual revenue, major funding sources, and transfers to General Strike US unestablished by the records reviewed. The central unanswered question is how the nonprofit ensures that tax-deductible contributions support permissible charitable activities while financing the organizing infrastructure of a nationwide political strike movement.
The arrangement is not evidence, by itself, of wrongdoing. But the scope of the campaign’s ambitions and the explicit fundraising relationship raise substantial questions about accountability, financial transparency, and the boundaries of charitable sponsorship.