First and foremost, one cannot simply will a general strike into existence at a set date or time as if it were simply another protest or rally. You can no more declare a general strike into existence than you can declare a hurricane into motion!
Our principal task is to further the intellectual understanding and development of the class struggle within the class, and to organize towards the realization of Communism as a class.
We can either learn from the mistakes of the past, or repeat them. If you want to overthrow capitalism and build a world in which all people are free, only Communist organizations prepared to meet the revolutionary wave will be able to do so.
Every attempt at socialist revolution has to this point failed, yet we must remember that for centuries the right of kings held complete dominion over humanity