Jonathan Rosenblum
@jonathan4212.bsky.social
Author of “We’re Coming For You And Your Rotten System:
How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics.”
Available now at https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-re-coming-for-you-and-your-rotten-system/
How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics.”
Available now at https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-re-coming-for-you-and-your-rotten-system/
Pinned
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
Dems want to score political points, not address the material needs of working people.
Time for a new party.
@workersstrikeback.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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
Dems want to score political points, not address the material needs of working people.
Time for a new party.
@workersstrikeback.bsky.social
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.
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.
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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.
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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After the hopescrolling, what comes next? One of our members has some ideas.
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...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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.
www.thenation.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
After the hopescrolling, what comes next? One of our members has some ideas.
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...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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.
www.thenation.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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.
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.
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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.
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.
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...
convergencemag.com/articles/mag...
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.
convergencemag.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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...
convergencemag.com/articles/mag...
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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...
Oct 27, 7pm. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/panit...
October 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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...
Oct 27, 7pm. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/panit...
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...
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...
Portland police defend use of informants at ICE protests: ‘This is nothing new’
The Oregonian/OregonLive first reported on the confidential tactic this week.
www.oregonlive.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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...
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...
I ❤️ Italy. First, the general strike, now this.
October 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I ❤️ Italy. First, the general strike, now this.
Reposted by Jonathan Rosenblum
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
- 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
October 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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
- 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
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...
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…
labourhub.org.uk
October 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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...
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...
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...
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...
jacobin.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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...
jacobin.com/2025/10/amaz...
Reposted by Jonathan Rosenblum
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
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
October 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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
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
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...
@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
risingupwithsonali.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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...
@orbooks.bsky.social
@kshamasawant.bsky.social
risingupwithsonali.com/socialists-a...
.@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...
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
September 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
.@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...
Buy: orbooks.com/catalog/we-r...
Speech DHL Leipzig | Labournet TV
Anti-militaristic speech in Leipzig
de.labournet.tv
September 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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-...
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...
deceleration.news
September 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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-...
Check out her incisive review below, then go to ORBooks.com and buy the book!
deceleration.news/review-were-...
Reposted by Jonathan Rosenblum
🗓️📕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
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
September 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
🗓️📕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
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: Get a spine!
Sign here:
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...
docs.google.com
September 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Tell Democrats: Get a spine!
Sign here:
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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
September 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Yes! @gothamist.com
Reposted by Jonathan Rosenblum
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.
September 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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.
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...
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
September 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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...
Like we did here:
@orbooks.bsky.social
orbooks.com/catalog/we-r...
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 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
September 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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 workers need to organize to win what we fully deserve.
@teamsters.bsky.social
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/a...
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...
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
September 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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...
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...
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...
@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.
lapublicpress.org
September 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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...
@debtcollective.bsky.social
@lapublicpress.bsky.social
lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-t...