Eric Blanc

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

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...

Minneapolis Fight Back w/ Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, JaNaé Bates Imari Featuring 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...

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...

How we beat ICE👇

Ready to fight ICE at work? We can help.

Here's @ericblanc.bsky.social on Brian Lehrer today with how.

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

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...

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

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...

Tech demands ICE out of our cities

Do you work in tech and oppose ICE?

Sign this open letter here to demand tech companies stop collaborating with ICE

iceout.tech

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 👀

French unions are raising hell about Capgemini's contract with ICE, demanding it immediately sever ties

Need that type of union energy here

Thanks I hadn't been aware of those! Good correction!

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

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

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

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 🧵

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.

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...

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

How 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

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...

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.

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...

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.laborpolitics.com/p/want-to-st...

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!

Want to support frontline anti-ICE organizers in Minnesota? Please donate here

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Ultra-Leftism Won't Help Free Palestine My interview with Bashir Abu-Manneh & Hoda Mitwally on how US activists can more effectively support Palestinians

Evergreen, unfortunately

www.laborpolitics.com/p/ultra-left...

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.

Check out our research on ICE's corporate collaborators — and how we can stop them

www.laborpolitics.com/p/want-to-st...

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

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.

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...

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.

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...

NYC — tonight at 6pm, Foley Square

Obviously, there are also all sorts of drawbacks to working within the two party system (somewhat muddies our independent profile, etc.), but we should be clear-eyed about the benefits

It was harder for Cuomo to generate voter support in the general because he wasn't the official Democratic candidate — and that also made it impossible for even the worst establishment Democratic leaders to openly endorse him against Zohran in the general

A century ago, one of the major techniques to defeat viable or elected Socialists was for the Dems and Reps to unite to run one joint anti-Socialist candidate. Doing that today is much more difficult when Socialists win the official Democratic nomination

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 🧵