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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've got a piece in the NYT today about how collective joy — participatory, youthful, anti-corporate — can defeat Trumpism and transform America www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

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Opinion | Young Democrats Are Putting the Party Back in Politics. It’s Working. (Gift Article)

Fun, free events communicate a larger goal: that everyday people should be able to afford a joyful life.

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It's fantastic that Zohran is delivering. But it’s a problem that workers are receiving the goods instead of helping win them www.laborpolitics.com/p/why-hasnt-...

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Why Hasn't Zohran Done More to Boost Organizing?

Zohran is delivering. But it’s a problem that workers are receiving the goods instead of helping win them

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

seems pretty clear that MAGA plans to disrupt the midterms by sending ICE agents to demand everybody waiting in voting lines provide proof of citizenship blue states can legally ban this, but Dems have passed such a ban only in one state (New Mexico) so far www.laborpolitics.com/p/a-plan-to-...

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What's Our Plan to Stop ICE From Stealing the Midterms?

Waiting until November would be a disaster. Time to go on offense to ban ICE from polling places.

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

NYC friends, please post here your favorite personal memories and anecdotes about volunteering for and joining the events of Zohran's campaign (Working on a new project about the campaign's social/belonging/fun dynamics, would love to include your stories)

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Got subscriber number 10,000 to just now to my substack :) A big thanks to all of you who read and share it, it really means a lot to me

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

First I heard that Thomson Reuters employees were organizing against their company's complicity with ICE was when this NYT reporter called me to ask if I knew my research had sparked their effort 😭 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/t...

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Why is there no anti-war movement even though the war is very unpopular? Top reasons imo 1) Americans feel powerless 2) People are hoping the war ends quickly 3) Trump Is doing so many awful things 4) People confuse mobilizing w/ organizing 5) Sectarianism has helped marginalize anti-war activity

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

NCAA is sounding the alarm on a charter aircraft shortage for March Madness teams because ICE is using up the planes 👀

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

55% percent of House Democrats voted for the most recent military budget Trump is setting the world on fire, but Democrats gave him the matches www.laborpolitics.com/p/cut-the-mi...

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We Spend Almost a Trillion Yearly on War. That’s Insane.

Cut the military budget in half. Bloated war spending remains a sacred cow for far too many

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

ICE agents this morning apparently kidnapped a student after lying to get into a Columbia dorm

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Want to get your college to break its contracts with the companies propping up ICE? Join the Schools Drop ICE organizing training & campus meet-up tonight Tuesday Feb 24 at 8pm ET/5pm PT — RSVP at tinyurl.com/schoolorgani...

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Like bowling, boycotting is best done together I wrote this piece to share with your friends and family who think they're "doing their part" against ICE and Trump by not shopping at bad companies www.laborpolitics.com/p/shopping-i...

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Shopping Isn’t a Strategy

The goal of a boycott is not to make ourselves feel better. The goal is to make society better.

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Sewer socialism is not just about good governance and public services—it's about building (and leaning on) a powerful working-class political organization🧵

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Robin for Ward 2 @robin4mpls.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Join me this Saturday for an online panel ICE OUT: The Minneapolis Model. I’ll be speaking alongside Jacobin Editor @sunraysunray.bsky.social and author @ericblanc.bsky.social about lessons from the Minneapolis resistance to the fascist ICE occupation. Register here: buff.ly/5IssMad

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Good to see union density (slightly) increase in 2025, despite Trump!

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Not every day you see orgs as distinct as the American Federation of Teachers and the Young Democratic Socialists of America come together to push ICE and its enablers off our schools 🙏

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

RSVP for this Sunday's mass call to find out how you can help push ICE's corporate collaborators off your campus

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 10/02/2026

What does it *feel like* to build worker power? Season two of Haymarket Originals is bringing you inside one of the most dynamic and inspiring organizing drives in the labor movement today. Heat The Ground Up is an oral history of Starbucks Workers United, voiced by the baristas who built it.

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

On May 1, 2006, millions of immigrants defeated a horrific Republican immigration bill by taking to the streets and walking out of work To defeat ICE today we should learn from this "Day Without an Immigrant" www.laborpolitics.com/p/weve-had-a...

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We’ve Had a Nationwide Immigrant Strike Before. We Can Do It Again.

The 2006 “Day Without an Immigrant” offers urgent lessons for beating ICE today

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

"The president has said that business officials are calling and complaining to him about longtime workers being thrown out of the country" - Wall Street Journal Trump listens to billionaires, which is why we need to force billionaires to break with ICE

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

How has Minneapolis remained so non-violent in the face of Trump's horrific provocations? JaNaé Bates Imari explained to @thedigradio.bsky.social how MN's deep progressive orgs set a tone of non-violent discipline for the movement as a whole

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Organizing a general strike requires three ingredients: momentum, organization, & militant, risk-tolerant leaders. The proportions can vary, but until we have a sufficient combination of these factors, a general strike will remain a wish rather than a reality www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-to-org...

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How to Build a Real General Strike Against ICE

Minnesota shows what’s possible—here’s how we turn that spark into the kind of disruptive power that can actually stop ICE

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

General strikes are workers’ most powerful weapon. But it takes more than hashtags to make them real. Here’s how we can build a real general strike to stop ICE in the US www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-to-org...

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How to Build a Real General Strike Against ICE

Minnesota shows what’s possible—here’s how we turn that spark into the kind of disruptive power that can actually stop ICE

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Ready to fight ICE at work? We can help. Here's @ericblanc.bsky.social on Brian Lehrer today with how.

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Spoke on Brian Lehrer-WNYC this morning about how we can organize an actual general strike in the US to stop ICE and Trump www.wnyc.org/story/a-hist...

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A History of General Strikes | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC

Labor Politics author Eric Blanc talks about the history of general strikes, and what makes them effective.

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The Brian Lehrer Show @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Catch @ericblanc.bsky.social talk about the history of general strikes, and what makes them effective, and listeners call in if they are participating in today's general strike. www.wnyc.org/story/a-hist...

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A History of General Strikes | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC

Labor Politics author Eric Blanc talks about the history of general strikes, and what makes them effective.

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Over 1,000 tech workers have signed this open letter calling on their companies to break from ICE—including employees at Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple, Nvidia, and OpenAI 👀

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

French unions are raising hell about Capgemini's contract with ICE, demanding it immediately sever ties Need that type of union energy here

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Minneapolis has developed an effective new tactic to disrupt ICE and break companies away: Make a ton of late-night noise outside the hotels ICE agents are staying at Minneapolis organizer Aru Shiney-Ajay explains why this tactic has been so powerful — and how people nationwide can do the same 🧵

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE can't function without the private sector. Here are ICE's top corporate collaborators 👇

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Many sympathetic “radical King” accounts still cling to a American fairy tale—the Great Man who had it in him. But MLK Jr came up inside a web of socialist organizers who treated racial & economic justice as inseparable & treated organizing as a teachable craft www.laborpolitics.com/p/who-taught...

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How did MLK Jr. Become a Socialist?

A forgotten network of radicals helped teach King how to organize—and how to link civil rights to economic redistribution for all

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

People don't realize how much corporations are collaborating with—and making possible—ICE's deportation machine

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

ICE relies on companies to help carry out its thuggery — we need to go after these private sector collaborators Here are our suggestions for corporate targets and campaign tactics www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators

ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

NYC — tonight at 6pm, Foley Square

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

One of the underappreciated benefits of socialists running on the Democratic ballot line is that it makes it harder for the establishments of both parties to join together to stop you 🧵

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

We are a Left with ballots cast but few shop floors won, with more cultural importance than class power For Zohran's election to start a lasting transformation we have to acknowledge an uncomfortable truth: despite our impressive electoral reach, our movement’s roots are still shallow

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Victor Berger lambasted manifest destiny, mocked yellow peril rhetoric, fought for Filipino & Haitian independence, praised Zapata & opposed US in Mexico, defended Moroccan revolutionary Abd-El-Krim, backed Indian independence, & supported China’s national independence jacobin.com/2025/12/berg...

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When the Sewer Socialists Struggled for Racial Equality

Critics of the American sewer socialists often point to racist statements made by their leading light, Wisconsin’s Victor Berger. A close examination of his writings shows that those views changed dra...

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Remarkable that decades of historians somehow overlooked that Victor Berger — sewer socialism's founder — went from being a white supremacist to one of the country's most high profile white anti-racists. I tell this unknown story here. www.laborpolitics.com/p/from-white...

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Don't Cancel Sewer Socialism

The unknown story of how Victor Berger went from peddling race “science” to fighting lynching—and why this matters now.

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Remarkable new essay from @ericblanc.bsky.social. Victor Berger and the sewer socialists began the 20c as typical progressive eugenicists. But their rise to power entailed a strong shift to anti-racist municipal politics, long campaigns with (today ignored) Black socialists, and a war on lynching.

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Don't Cancel Sewer Socialism

The unknown story of how Victor Berger went from peddling race “science” to fighting lynching—and why this matters now.

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

What are the top 10 objections Americans have to socialism? I'm starting to write an airport book (Socialism for Skeptics) rebutting the main myths about/arguments against socialism, and I want to make sure to tackle the main ones believed by conservatives and liberals

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