Eric Blanc
@ericblanc.bsky.social
author We are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big
www.ucpress.edu/books/we-are-the-union/
Red State Revolt,
laborpolitics.substack.com;
EWOC, AAUP-AFT, 🌹
Pinned
Spoke on Brian Lehrer's show about how and why the Zohran movement is ramping up its organizing to win an affordable New York
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www.wnyc.org/story/mobili...
Mobilizing the Mamdani Volunteer Army | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC
Eric 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.
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January 13, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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...
www.wnyc.org/story/mobili...
Want to support frontline anti-ICE organizers in Minnesota? Please donate here
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Support frontline organizers demanding justice and shutting down ICE in Minnesota
ICE 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!
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January 10, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Want to support frontline anti-ICE organizers in Minnesota? Please donate here
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chuffed.org/project/supp...
People don't realize how much corporations are collaborating with—and making possible—ICE's deportation machine
January 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
People don't realize how much corporations are collaborating with—and making possible—ICE's deportation machine
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...
Here are our suggestions for corporate targets and campaign tactics
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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.
www.thenation.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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...
Here are our suggestions for corporate targets and campaign tactics
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
This is the video you need to show any of your friends, family, or coworkers who are confused by the regime's lies about Minnesota
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:09 PM
This is the video you need to show any of your friends, family, or coworkers who are confused by the regime's lies about Minnesota
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
NYC — tonight at 6pm, Foley Square
January 7, 2026 at 8:59 PM
NYC — tonight at 6pm, Foley Square
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 🧵
January 6, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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 🧵
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
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
January 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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
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
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...
jacobin.com/2025/12/berg...
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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December 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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...
jacobin.com/2025/12/berg...
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...
www.laborpolitics.com/p/from-white...
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.
www.laborpolitics.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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...
www.laborpolitics.com/p/from-white...
Reposted by Eric Blanc
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.
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.
www.laborpolitics.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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.
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
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
December 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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
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
Reposted by Eric Blanc
Great conversation
The radicalization of liberals is one of the past year's most overlooked stories
Talked about this—& what it means for defeating Trump—w/ @leahgreenberg.bsky.social, @waleedshahid.bsky.social, & @danieldenvir.bsky.social on the new @thedigradio.bsky.social episode
thedigradio.com/podcast/welc...
Talked about this—& what it means for defeating Trump—w/ @leahgreenberg.bsky.social, @waleedshahid.bsky.social, & @danieldenvir.bsky.social on the new @thedigradio.bsky.social episode
thedigradio.com/podcast/welc...
Welcome to the Resistance w/ Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, Waleed Shahid
Featuring Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, and Waleed Shahid on the liberal resistance’s sharp left turn since Trump returned to the White House. Libs are voting Zohran at the ballot box, fighting ICE in t...
thedigradio.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Great conversation
Cops have been called on the striking @sbworkersunited.org workers blocking the company's distribution centers today in Pennsylvania and Nevada
Solidarity with these fighters against American oligarchy
Solidarity with these fighters against American oligarchy
December 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Cops have been called on the striking @sbworkersunited.org workers blocking the company's distribution centers today in Pennsylvania and Nevada
Solidarity with these fighters against American oligarchy
Solidarity with these fighters against American oligarchy
Cultural-social events are crucial for building a mass socialist left. One lost example of this: Milwaukee's sewer socialists in 1925 organized a children's orchestra competition on a Friday evening at Lake Park, attended by 5,000 parents and community members
December 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Cultural-social events are crucial for building a mass socialist left. One lost example of this: Milwaukee's sewer socialists in 1925 organized a children's orchestra competition on a Friday evening at Lake Park, attended by 5,000 parents and community members
The radicalization of liberals is one of the past year's most overlooked stories
Talked about this—& what it means for defeating Trump—w/ @leahgreenberg.bsky.social, @waleedshahid.bsky.social, & @danieldenvir.bsky.social on the new @thedigradio.bsky.social episode
thedigradio.com/podcast/welc...
Talked about this—& what it means for defeating Trump—w/ @leahgreenberg.bsky.social, @waleedshahid.bsky.social, & @danieldenvir.bsky.social on the new @thedigradio.bsky.social episode
thedigradio.com/podcast/welc...
Welcome to the Resistance w/ Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, Waleed Shahid
Featuring Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, and Waleed Shahid on the liberal resistance’s sharp left turn since Trump returned to the White House. Libs are voting Zohran at the ballot box, fighting ICE in t...
thedigradio.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The radicalization of liberals is one of the past year's most overlooked stories
Talked about this—& what it means for defeating Trump—w/ @leahgreenberg.bsky.social, @waleedshahid.bsky.social, & @danieldenvir.bsky.social on the new @thedigradio.bsky.social episode
thedigradio.com/podcast/welc...
Talked about this—& what it means for defeating Trump—w/ @leahgreenberg.bsky.social, @waleedshahid.bsky.social, & @danieldenvir.bsky.social on the new @thedigradio.bsky.social episode
thedigradio.com/podcast/welc...
The way to help Zohran overcome establishment, billionaire, and NYPD opposition is mostly “organize bigger and deeper” rather than “criticize harder”
www.laborpolitics.com/p/should-the...
www.laborpolitics.com/p/should-the...
Should the Left Criticize Zohran?
Yes—but critique is easy. What’s our plan for power?
www.laborpolitics.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The way to help Zohran overcome establishment, billionaire, and NYPD opposition is mostly “organize bigger and deeper” rather than “criticize harder”
www.laborpolitics.com/p/should-the...
www.laborpolitics.com/p/should-the...
The proof of concept for @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social wasn't just that over 700 people joined the last organizing call, but that many were asking questions like "What's the DSA?"
December 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The proof of concept for @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social wasn't just that over 700 people joined the last organizing call, but that many were asking questions like "What's the DSA?"
Instead of asking for more donations, would love to see Zohran start asking supporters to join mass organizing fightbacks
Even the savviest governance and comms strategy can't get far without more people power on the ground
Even the savviest governance and comms strategy can't get far without more people power on the ground
December 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Instead of asking for more donations, would love to see Zohran start asking supporters to join mass organizing fightbacks
Even the savviest governance and comms strategy can't get far without more people power on the ground
Even the savviest governance and comms strategy can't get far without more people power on the ground
Critics of Zohran's decision to keep Tisch haven't yet provided compelling counters to the points made in this piece 🧵
December 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Critics of Zohran's decision to keep Tisch haven't yet provided compelling counters to the points made in this piece 🧵
Like Zohran, Bobby Seale campaigned in a suit when he ran for mayor in 1973. He ran to win — and did his best to counteract smears from the establishment that he and the Black Panthers were impractical radicals
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Like Zohran, Bobby Seale campaigned in a suit when he ran for mayor in 1973. He ran to win — and did his best to counteract smears from the establishment that he and the Black Panthers were impractical radicals
Love to see it: Lina Khan on tonight's @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social mass call with over 650 organizers to win Zohran's affordability agenda
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Love to see it: Lina Khan on tonight's @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social mass call with over 650 organizers to win Zohran's affordability agenda
It's good to pressure Zohran (& all electeds), the question is over what & how
Is our main approach to speak truth to power? Or to organize around strategic mass-based fights?
Lots to learn from Jane McAlevey on this 🧵
Is our main approach to speak truth to power? Or to organize around strategic mass-based fights?
Lots to learn from Jane McAlevey on this 🧵
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's good to pressure Zohran (& all electeds), the question is over what & how
Is our main approach to speak truth to power? Or to organize around strategic mass-based fights?
Lots to learn from Jane McAlevey on this 🧵
Is our main approach to speak truth to power? Or to organize around strategic mass-based fights?
Lots to learn from Jane McAlevey on this 🧵