Figure 1: Federation of General Workers Myanmar (FGWM) staging a strike in Hlaingthaya, industrial satellite of Yangon in February 2021 Source: Facebook, Federation of General Workers Myanmar (FGWM). The General Strike Committee of Nationalities (GSCN) emerged23 as another early organizer to mobilize minority peoples living in cities such as Yangon. Youths belonging to the GSCN pleaded with ethnic leaders to condemn the coup and not to cooperate with the leadership of the SAC, which sought to co-opt ethnic minority parties by offering them The GSCN was founded on 11 February. It brought together members of twenty-nine nationalities under four goals: (1) to abolish dictatorship, (2) to abolish the 2008 constitution, (3) to establish a federal democratic union, and (4) to free all those arrested for opposition to the coup. One of its powerful early gestures was to reclaim the word taingyintha, a term with negative connotations toward minorities not indigenous to Burma. The GSCN claims that it will use the term lumyosu instead of taingyintha, regarding the latter as a legacy of the Burma Socialist Programme Party era (1962–88). 23 9 21-J07648 01 Trends_2021-7.indd 9 28/4/21 9:34 AM