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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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…

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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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...

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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 4d

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

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

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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 4d

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...

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

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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 9d

[email protected] 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...

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...

orbooks.com

Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 11d

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

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

Speech DHL Leipzig | Labournet TV

Anti-militaristic speech in Leipzig

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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 13d

A sane country would have given voters a choice besides the two corporate-controlled, profit-protecting, genocide-loving political parties.

Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 13d

The @nwu.org's Frances Madeson, reviewing my book, 'We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System' in @deceleration.news, calls it "a rousing how-to guide for fighting corporate greed."

Check out her incisive review below, then go to ORBooks.com and buy the book!

deceleration.news/review-were-...

REVIEW: 'We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System' Is a Rousing How-To Guide for Fighting Corporate Greed – Deceleration

Jonathan Rosenblum's new movement history—and valuable primer in municipalist solutions—delivers insight and inspiration from successes in Seattle, where people have forced local government to put the...

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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 14d

🗓️📕Mark your calendars!

Book launch Oct. 12th: "We're Coming For You And Your Rotten System" featuring Seattle author @jonathan4212.bsky.social and local organizers

Details and RSVP: www.copevancouver.ca/_book_launch

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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 16d

Tell Democrats: Get a spine!

Sign here:

Tell Democrats: Restore a humane government or shut it down

Federal employees are asking you to sign this petition, to be delivered to Democratic Congressional leadership. The petition urges them to stand up to stop funding ICE's kidnappings and to restore ess...

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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 18d

Yes! @gothamist.com

Federal agents in NY retreat in SUV with slashed tires as protesters shout 'Gestapo'

The confrontation in Rochester came the same day the top federal prosecutor in Albany said New Yorkers can “expect to see” more immigration enforcement.

gothamist.com

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ACLU @aclu.org · 18d

BREAKING: The Board of Immigration Appeals is trying to deport our client Mario Guevara, a journalist from El Salvador, despite his clear legal path to residency and an immigration judge's order to grant his release on bond.

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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 19d

The Democratic Party is not going to save us from Trump and his fascist minions. We have to build independent movements accountable to working people.

Like we did here:

@orbooks.bsky.social

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

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...

orbooks.com

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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 20d

yep, this is about 2 percent of Amazon's 2024 profits.

Amazon workers need to organize to win what we fully deserve.

@teamsters.bsky.social

www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/a...

Amazon invests over $1 billion to raise employee pay, lower health-care costs

Amazon said it is investing more than $1 billion to raise pay and lower health-care costs for U.S. fulfillment and transportation employees.

www.cnbc.com

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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 20d

How do we fight and win in the political arena?

My new book shows how and why the socialist movement led by Kshama Sawant won, where other progressive outsiders like Bernie and AOC have failed.

Buy it now @orbooks.bsky.social

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

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...

orbooks.com

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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 20d

Important tenant strike+victory here - solidarity with all renters facing off against corporate landlords!

@debtcollective.bsky.social
@lapublicpress.bsky.social

lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-t...

These LA tenants saw some utility fees double. So they went on strike

The controversial billing system their landlord uses was banned in West Hollywood three years ago.

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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 22d

Catch me being interviewed by @nwu.org's @pochohetman.bsky.social on Downtown Radio-Tucson, 99.1 FM, about my new book, *We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics* @orbooks.bsky.social
Podcast right here:
open.spotify.com/episode/2K4H...

Jonathan Rosenblum - NWU and author of We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · Sep 8

Frog was in his garden. Toad came walking by. “What a fine garden you have, Frog,” he said.

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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · Aug 14

Italian Amazon workers have shown what’s possible. Now the rest of the global labor movement must step up.

My article, w/Laura Montanari, in @truthout.org today:

truthout.org/articles/ita...

truthout.org

Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · Aug 8

Join me, @kshamasawant.bsky.social, & other troublemakers on Tuesday, Sept. 9 at Elliott Bay Books as we launch my new book,

"We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics."

Reserve your seat here: www.eventbrite.com/e/jonathan-r...

Jonathan Rosenblum w/ Kshama Sawant

A blueprint for 21st-century socialists, a counterpoint to the strategies favored by The Squad and other progressive activists.

www.eventbrite.com

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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · Jul 30

Join my book launch party at ⁦‪@ElliottBayBooks‬⁩ Sept. 9!

“We're Coming For You and Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics”

www.elliottbaybook.com/events/47681