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Posts by Jonathan Rosenblum

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“…to build socialist democracies worldwide” – Spectre Journal In this review of Rosenblum;'s We're Comning for You and Your Rotten System, John Clarke points to the successes of Sawant's tenure in Seattle, while critically appraising the movement's success at bu...

Excellent review in @journalspectre.bsky.social by @johncke.bsky.social of my book, "We're Coming For You and Your Rotten System." A thoughtful critique, as he points out both the strengths and limits of our historic socialist political work in Seattle.

spectrejournal.com/to-build-soc...

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“…to build socialist democracies worldwide” – Spectre Journal In this review of Rosenblum;'s We're Comning for You and Your Rotten System, John Clarke points to the successes of Sawant's tenure in Seattle, while critically appraising the movement's success at bu...

spectrejournal.com/to-build-soc...

@johncke.bsky.social reviews @jonathan4212.bsky.social 's "We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System" ( @orbooks.bsky.social ), reflecting on the wins, losses, and lessons from Kshama Sawant's tenure as a Seattle Council Member.

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On the Line on Instagram: "Amazon warehouse workers unionizing with @amazoncause are calling out the company's abuses and union busting – including racist divide and conquer tactics. Despite depending... 819 likes, 29 comments - laborontheline on April 6, 2026: "Amazon warehouse workers unionizing with @amazoncause are calling out the company's abuses and union busting – including racist divide and co...

Amazon workers fighting back!

www.instagram.com/reel/DWy7BB8...

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The Labor Movement Must Go All In on Organizing Amazon The CIO unionized General Motors in 1937 and saved the labor movement. Today's unions need to do the same to Amazon if there is any hope of stopping the slow death of American labor.

Must read from Ben Fong from @cwd-asu.bsky.social
on why labor must go all in to organize Amazon. @jacobinmag.bsky.social

jacobin.com/2026/03/orga...

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The Platypus Affiliated Society – On Mamdani

Is Mamdani the answer for the Left? My article this week in Platypus Review:

platypus1917.org/2026/02/01/o...

2 months ago 1 1 0 0
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Vigil for #AlexPretti at #Seattle VA Hospital. Song by Mike Frazer.

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Striking Spanish Workers Just Showed That Amazon Is Not Invincible The workers used creative, disruptive tactics to win. Their victory holds lessons for the global labor movement.

‘We have to dispel the notion that Amazon is invincible’ - my article in @truthout.org on the Spanish workers’ strike win:

truthout.org/articles/str...

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Not a killing. That was an assassination.

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Again. America.

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Solidarity with Amazon workers in Spain - on strike for better pay, safety, respect. Fighting for all of us!

#MakeAmazonPay

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Health Care Workers Spoke Out for Their Peers in Gaza. Then Came Backlash. Medical institutions are silencing their staff and impeding efforts to build solidarity with medical workers in Gaza.

Free speech.... unless you are a healthcare worker speaking out against Israeli genocide. @mariannedhe.bsky.social in @truthout.org

truthout.org/articles/the...

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Because his opposition was Democrats.

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Yo, Dems: Releasing the Epstein files won’t lower my rent, make transit free, give my coworkers a living wage or healthcare, or stop racist police killings.

Dems want to score political points, not address the material needs of working people.

Time for a new party.
@workersstrikeback.bsky.social

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Uh, no, we don’t believe you.

Pissed at Dems (again)?

Go to @workersstrikeback.bsky.social and let’s build a real fight for free healthcare, rent control, tax the rich, and end to funding genocide.

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Go to @workersstrikeback.bsky.social and fight alongside people with integrity.

5 months ago 4 1 0 0

….Then why do you counsel the movement to support these sellout Dems?

Time for a new party, by and for working people.

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After the hopescrolling, what comes next? One of our members has some ideas.

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For the Movement That Elected Zohran Mamdani, Now Comes the Hard Part Holding political office is not the same as wielding political power—especially for the left. To win bold demands, social movements must go on the offensive.

Mazel tov to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and the movement! Now, the hard part. I wrote in @thenation.com that today's social movement must go on the offensive, striking out independently to give us a fighting chance against big biz, Trump, & the political duopoly.

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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This in the @washingtonpost.com today, says it all about why the Democrats will not save us from Trump.

Dem Party is seen as *more* out of touch than even Trump. Pathetic.

Time for a new party, accountable to working people, not the billionaires.

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Magic Numbers Are No Shortcut to Strategy We can no longer afford the convenient untruth that real-world resistance to tyranny can escalate solely through peaceable demonstrations.

Beating Trump is not a simple mobilizing numbers game; it's also about strategy and how that coalescing movement projects power. Ben Case in @convergencemag.com

convergencemag.com/articles/mag...

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Poster advertising the launch of We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System with author Jonathan Rosenblum at Octopus Books, 116 Third Ave, Ottawa, on October 27 at 7pm.

Poster advertising the launch of We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System with author Jonathan Rosenblum at Octopus Books, 116 Third Ave, Ottawa, on October 27 at 7pm.

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education welcomes @jonathan4212.bsky.social to Octopus Books for the launch of his new book, We’re Coming for You & Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon & Upended Big-City Politics.
Oct 27, 7pm. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/panit...

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Portland police defend use of informants at ICE protests: ‘This is nothing new’ The Oregonian/OregonLive first reported on the confidential tactic this week.

Cops admit using spies at ICE protests "is nothing new"

Your daily reminder that the problem isn't just Trump and his fascist sycophants, but also the full apparatus of state power....in a Dem-run city.

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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I ❤️ Italy. First, the general strike, now this.

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This Sunday! Join a timely discussion on organizing and building labour and community power. Featuring:

- Author and organizer @jonathan4212.bsky.social
- COPE City Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social
- CUPE Air Canada Workers VP Henly Larden

RSVP to: www.copevancouver.ca/_book_launch

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Scaling up Seattle Jonathan Rosenblum introduces his new book, published today. Anyone with a shred of humanity and a degree of political engagement must be wondering today, “What’s the way forward? How do we fight i…

My article in @labour-hub.bsky.social -
Political activists on both sides of the Atlantic must chart a new path forward: Break free of the establishment parties, and build new movements, ones that fight for our interests and are accountable to working people.

labourhub.org.uk/2025/10/07/s...

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Organizing Amazon Should Be a Priority for Labor Globally Whether workers can organize Amazon will be pivotal for the fate of the labor movement worldwide. Initial victories in Coventry, England, and elsewhere show that when unions put serious resources into...

Workers can build unions at Amazon, but to do so it will take a commitment by the global labor movement. My article co-written w/Tom Vickers in @jacobinmag.bsky.social

jacobin.com/2025/10/amaz...

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Book cover: 'We're coming for you and your rotten system'

Book cover: 'We're coming for you and your rotten system'

Labour Power Rising

Join us Oct. 12th for a special event featuring:

- City Cllr @seanorr.bsky.social

- VP CUPE4094 Air Canada Workers, Henly Larden

- Author/organizer @jonathan4212.bsky.social from Seattle

RSVP: www.copevancouver.ca/_book_launch

#vanpoli #canlab #Solidarity #organizing

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Socialists are Coming For You and Your Rotten System https://ia600208.us.archive.org/33/items/2025-09-30-RUWS/2025_09_30_Jonathan_Rosenblum.mp3

Great to discuss w @ruwithsonali.bsky.social how socialists took on Amazon and won social housing, breakthrough renters’ rights, and a min wage that now will top $21 in 3 months.

@orbooks.bsky.social
@kshamasawant.bsky.social

risingupwithsonali.com/socialists-a...

6 months ago 2 1 0 0
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We’re Coming For You And Your Rotten System From inside Kshama Sawant's historic tenure inside Seattle City Hall comes a blueprint for 21st-century socialists, a sharp counterpoint to the dead-end inside-the-party strategies favored by The Squa...

.@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls my book a “perceptive and detailed insider account how socialists in 2010s Seattle won major legislative victories that galvanized similar movements across the country. . . . an inspiring story and a useful tool for activists.”

Buy: orbooks.com/catalog/we-r...

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Speech DHL Leipzig | Labournet TV Anti-militaristic speech in Leipzig

German workers speaking out: “No transport for genocide!”

de.labournet.tv/en/videos/dh...

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