This article provides a conceptual analysis of key definitions and core concepts relating to the right to strike . It examines the significance of the distinction between the "right to strike" and the "freedom to strike" and the question of whether the right to strike is an individual or a collective right or both. The article further examines the issue of whether the right to strike is simply an economic right or whether it could also have political underpinnings. It shows that, although the classic purpose of the strike is that it is an economic weapon in industrial relations and is therefore tied to the concept of trade dispute, in many situations the dividing line between industrial and political matters is very hard to draw. It is argued that a distinction should be made between purely political strikes, which are not permissible, and ' strikes with both industrial and political aspects (strikes with mixed motives) which should be permitted in order to give greater protection to the interests of workers.