Jonathan Rosenblum

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...

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

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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

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

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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...

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

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

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...

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-...

🗓️📕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

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...

Tell Democrats: Get a spine!

Sign here:

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.

Yes! @gothamist.com

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.

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...

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

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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.

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...

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...

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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 | Elliott Bay Book Company Full-service, general bookstore operating since 1973. Frequent author events, cafe, over 150,000 titles

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

Amazon Workers In B.C. Have Won Union Certification In many ways, however, the fight has only begun: the union must now secure a contract.

Important organizing step forward for Amazon workers!

www.readthemaple.com/amazon-worke...

Excited to be another published @thenwu.bsky.social author!

www.jonathanrosenblum.org

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...

.@kshamasawant.bsky.social "Here is the book that the political establishment doesn't want you to read"

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

The More They Press Us to be Quiet, the Louder We Are - Transnational Social Strike Platform Interview with Workers’ Initiative on the strike at Jeremias factory in Gniezno We are publishing this interview Laura Montanari (TSS) made with Bartek Kurzyca from the Inicjatywa Pracownicza (Workers...

"The More They Press Us to be Quiet, the Louder We Are" - solidarity with Polish factory workers on strike!

www.transnational-strike.info/2025/07/09/t...

If Katie Wilson wants to be like Zohran Mamdani, she should fight for $30/hour, free transit, free… By Jonathan Rosenblum

If @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social wants to be Seattle's Mamdani, as some of her supporters claim, she should support $30/hour, free transit, and free Palestine.

jonathanr4212.medium.com/if-katie-wil...

Amazon’s Prime Sweatshop Is Nothing to Celebrate While chairman Jeff Bezos enjoys his honeymoon, Amazon workers are in line for record injuries and hospitalizations over the four-day summer sale.

Huge sales for customers. Record profits for corporate execs. For workers? Sweat, grueling hours, exhaustion and injuries.

Welcome to #AmazonPrime Days.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

YouTube video by NBC News A life-size Jeff Bezos mannequin gripping an Amazon box was set afloat on Venice's Grand Canal

While Amazon workers labor away in the company’s global sweatshops, Jeff Bezos is enjoying a swanky Venice wedding. Nice gift here:

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