Sometimes things have to get real bad before people are willing to step up. That doesn’t mean that day isn’t coming, it just means it isn’t today. It took 100 years of wildcat strikes, violence, vandalism, and governments mass-murdering their own people in the 19th century before the wins of the 20th were finally realized. Organize. Organize and build networks of people who can move goods and people. An army is like a knife, the cutting edge may be where the drama happens, but if there isn’t a whole lot of metal supporting that edge, it’s just a fragile wire.

The sheer scale of globalized business means this is largely a non-issue for the company. You burn down their factory in New Jersey, there’s 10 other factories in other countries they can lean on to make up the shortfall. The owner likely hasn’t ever been physically in the factory (possibly even the country itself), so you can’t do the old Wobbly “how about you sign this contract or Mr Pistol gets angry”. Even if you manage that, the executive board will have a new CEO by the end of the month, and a flock of lawyers will find every way to tear that contract to shreds, or they’ll simply shut down your plant (if you’re in the US or a Western nation) or hire death squads to murder you and your union organizing friends (if you aren’t).

Whether the class war is lost has yet to be determined.