The last six months have seen mass, grassroots protests in Serbia, in a student-led movement first triggered by the collapse of the canopy at the Novi Sad train station that killed sixteen people.

The idea of a general strike — however realistic or unrealistic — has gained momentum in select activist and labor circles in the last few years as a means of changing the status quo in the U.S.

B E L G R A D E, Yugoslavia, Sept. 28 -- The Yugoslav opposition today ordered a general strike to ratchet up pressure on President Slobodan Milosevic to step down.