Internationalism No. 82, December 2025 Page 12 From the series Workers’ struggles in the world “Why is it that large-scale factory production always leads to strikes? It is because capitalism must necessarily lead to a struggle of the workers against the employers, and when production is on a large scale the struggle of necessity takes on the form of strikes”. What has changed since Lenin wrote these theses in 1899? The capitalist mode of production has spread throughout the world, we have entered the imperialist phase, and wage earners now make up 80-90% of those who produce goods and services, numbering over two billion. Consequently, “large-scale [...] production”, and therefore the “struggle” in “the form of strikes”, are now phenomena which are present worldwide. The strike has become a “natural economic phenomenon” of the capitalist mode of production, as Lenin wrote in 1902, and it has spread across the globe. Its regularity and diffusion ...