Eric Blanc

26 Nov 2024

I'll never get a better book blurb than this

nytimes.comOpinion | 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.

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...

laborpolitics.comWhy 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

28 Apr

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-...

1 Apr

Don't underestimate AOC

laborpolitics.comWhat'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.

31 Mar

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-...

24 Mar

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)

13 Mar

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

11 Mar

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...

9 Mar

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

5 Mar

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

laborpolitics.comWe 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

4 Mar

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...

26 Feb

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

24 Feb

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...

laborpolitics.comShopping Isn’t a StrategyThe goal of a boycott is not to make ourselves feel better. The goal is to make society better.

23 Feb

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...

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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“A permanent political party must be formed to supply encouragement and active assistance to the current executive and his administration and to ensure that successive executives carry on the desired policies” — Daniel Hoan, Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor

Without an organized force outside the state capable of shifting the balance of class forces, even the best socialist or progressive politician will be hemmed in by capital

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

Daniel Hoan, Milwaukee's Socialist mayor from 1916 through 1940, underscored in his book "City Government" that if other cities wanted to emulate Milwaukee’s success, electing “honest and competent men” was insufficient

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Robin for Ward 2

@robin4mpls.bsky.social

18 Feb

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

18 Feb

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

mobilize.usSchools: Drop ICE Mass Call · AFTWe will cut off ICE’s corporate enablers — starting on our campuses. Donald Trump’s deportation machine depends on private corporations for technology to track, places to sleep, cars to drive, planes...

15 Feb

This is tonight! See you then! www.mobilize.us/aft/event/89...

14 Feb

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 🙏

14 Feb

See you tomorrow night! www.mobilize.us/aft/event/89...

11 Feb

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

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10 Feb

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.

laborpolitics.comWe’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

9 Feb

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...

5 Feb

"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

4 Feb

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

laborpolitics.comHow to Build a Real General Strike Against ICEMinnesota shows what’s possible—here’s how we turn that spark into the kind of disruptive power that can actually stop ICE

4 Feb

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...

laborpolitics.comHow to Build a Real General Strike Against ICEMinnesota shows what’s possible—here’s how we turn that spark into the kind of disruptive power that can actually stop ICE

2 Feb

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...

thedigradio.comMinneapolis Fight Back w/ Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, JaNaé Bates ImariFeaturing Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, and JaNaé Bates Imari on how Minneapolis achieved its fight back against ICE/Border Patrol occupation. A decade building aligned mass movements has ma...

31 Jan

Anybody looking to defeat ICE needs to listen to the extremely good new @thedigradio.bsky.social episode on lessons from Minnesota's key organizers thedigradio.com/podcast/minn...

Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)

31 Jan

How we beat ICE👇

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@organizeworkers.bsky.social

30 Jan

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

wnyc.orgA History of General Strikes | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYCLabor Politics author Eric Blanc talks about the history of general strikes, and what makes them effective.

30 Jan

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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The Brian Lehrer Show

@thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social

30 Jan

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...

wnyc.orgA History of General Strikes | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYCLabor Politics author Eric Blanc talks about the history of general strikes, and what makes them effective.

29 Jan

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 👀

iceout.techTech demands ICE out of our cities

29 Jan

Do you work in tech and oppose ICE? Sign this open letter here to demand tech companies stop collaborating with ICE iceout.tech

29 Jan

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

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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The @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social Twin Cities hub has succeeded in getting multiple hotels in Minneapolis to stop housing ICE — now it's up to us to spread this tactic nationwide

Late-night protests at ICE's hotels can be extremely effective — but not if they damage property or harass staff. Doing so only plays into the hands of corporate leaders, ICE, and Trump

If you make noise outside hotels ICE is staying at, these agents won’t want to stay there and hotels won’t want to house them If enough hotels don’t want to house ICE, then they don’t have somewhere to stay

24 Jan

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

laborpolitics.comWant to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate CollaboratorsICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.

24 Jan

We don't need vague calls to stop shopping at ICE's corporate collaborators—we need sit-ins, pressure campaigns, organized boycotts, employee/consumer petitions, sickouts, & demands from elected officials to force these companies to immediately break from ICE www.laborpolitics.com/p/want-to-st...

laborpolitics.comHow 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

19 Jan

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...

wnyc.orgMobilizing the Mamdani Volunteer Army | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYCEric Blanc talks about how the thousands of volunteers who canvassed during Mayor Mamdani's campaign could be mobilized to help the new mayor achieve his policy goals.

13 Jan

Spoke on Brian Lehrer's show about how and why the Zohran movement is ramping up its organizing to win an affordable New York www.wnyc.org/story/mobili...

chuffed.orgSupport frontline organizers demanding justice and shutting down ICE in MinnesotaICE killed a mother and legal observer during a raid in Minneapolis. Community organizers are rising up to demand justice and shut ICE down. Join us in our fight!

10 Jan

Want to support frontline anti-ICE organizers in Minnesota? Please donate here chuffed.org/project/supp...

laborpolitics.comUltra-Leftism Won't Help Free PalestineMy interview with Bashir Abu-Manneh & Hoda Mitwally on how US activists can more effectively support Palestinians

10 Jan

Evergreen, unfortunately www.laborpolitics.com/p/ultra-left...

9 Jan

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

laborpolitics.comWant to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate CollaboratorsICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.

9 Jan

Check out our research on ICE's corporate collaborators — and how we can stop them www.laborpolitics.com/p/want-to-st...