.Written: Written at the end of 1899 Published: First published in 1924 in the magazine Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya, No. 8-9. Published according to a manuscript copied by an unknown hand. Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1964, Moscow, Volume 4, pages 310-319. Translated: Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala and D. Walters Public Domain: Lenin Internet Archive (2003). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source. In recent years, workers’ strikes have become extremely frequent in Russia. There is no longer a single industrial gubernia in which there have not occurred several strikes. And in the big cities strikes never cease. It is understand able, therefore, that class-conscious workers and socialists should more and more frequently concern themselves with the question of the significance of strikes, of methods of conducting them, and of the tasks of socialists participating in them. We wish to attempt to outline some of our ideas on these questions. In our first article we plan to deal generally with the significance of strikes in the working-class movement; in the second we shall deal with anti-strike laws in Russia; and in the third, with the way strikes were and are conducted in Russia and with the attitude that class-conscious workers should adopt to them.