Engineers at New Jersey Transit are poised to go on strike one minute after midnight Friday morning, a stoppage that would create huge problems for100,000 daily train commuters, businesses across the New York metropolitan area as well as fans of Shakira and Beyoncé,

The strike, taking place on the outskirts of New York City, the center of world finance, poses the need for a general confrontation between the working class and the capitalist ruling elite.