Abstract. We show that each general Haar system is permutatively equivalent in L p ([0, 1]), 1 < p < ∞, to a subsequence of the classical (i.e. dyadic) Haar system. As a consequence, each general Haar system is a greedy basis in L p ([0, 1]), 1 < p < ∞. In addition, we give an example of a general Haar system whose tensor products are greedy bases in eachThis is in contrast to [11], where it has been shown that the tensor products of the dyadic Haar system are not greedy bases inWe also note that the above-mentioned general Haar system is not permutatively equivalent to the whole dyadic Haar system in any1. Introduction. By a general Haar system corresponding to a dense sequence T = {t n : n ≥ 0} ⊂ [0, 1], we mean a sequence of orthonormal (in L 2 ([0, 1])) functions which are constant on intervals generated by the points of the sequence T -it is constructed analogously to the classical dyadic Haar system, but with the sequence T used instead of the sequence of dyadic points. (For a more detailed description of general Haar functions, see Section 2.2.) It has been shown by L. E. Dor and E. Odell [3] (cf. also the monograph [9]) that there are pairs of general Haar systems which are not equivalent in any L p ([0, 1]), 1 < p < ∞, p = 2. They have also asked whether there exist general Haar systems which are not permutatively equivalent in these spaces. (Recall that two basic sequences in a Banach space are called permutatively equivalent if one of them is equivalent to some permutation of the other.) In the present paper, we prove that each general Haar system is permutatively equivalent in L p ([0, 1]), 1 < p < ∞, to some subsequence of the dyadic Haar system (Theorem 3.2). We also give an example of a general Haar system