This is a great article Eric! We need more contributions like this.
Striking is a muscle that requires practice, participation and education. There's no short cuts around this work but sometimes once a critical mass of this work has occurred, action can develop an exponential momentum.
Thanks, Eric Blanc, for this excellent analysis, balancing the need for flexible responses to authoritarian violence and provocations with the long term work of organizing on multiple levels.
This analysis is not only excellent, is it applicable to other actions we might take, especially boycotts. I am pleasantly surprised people are even mentioning general strikes.
We need to boycott as a step towards a general strike.
Do you have any thoughts on organizing and boycotts?
Black Lives Matter apparently has no relevance? Am I missing something or did BLM get erased?
Outside of community fight-back/defenders, there is no opposition leadership. I see a parallel here with BLM, which got reduced to "defund the police". Where are the patriots and heroes who have been preparing for this crisis to fight for reform and liberation?
No one, esp the states rights leadership, has started to prosecute the traitors.
The riots in Minneapolis have nothing to do with immigration policy, as no one has offered a coherent alternate strategy to Trump's theatre. Open borders is not a strategy, it is at best another subsidy to the big corrporations who benefit from the cheap labor. They are being fomented by the Democratic Party in hopes they weaken Trump to their advantage, but he's doing a great job of weakening himself, while Democrats are also sliding in the polls.
The mass organizing and resistance to ICE in Minneapolis weren't riots, as you would know if you were paying attention. And our strategy isn't open borders, as you would know if you were trying to be part of the solution.
This is a great article Eric! We need more contributions like this.
Striking is a muscle that requires practice, participation and education. There's no short cuts around this work but sometimes once a critical mass of this work has occurred, action can develop an exponential momentum.
thanks Godfrey!!!!!
Thanks, Eric Blanc, for this excellent analysis, balancing the need for flexible responses to authoritarian violence and provocations with the long term work of organizing on multiple levels.
Thanks so much Mike!!!
This analysis is not only excellent, is it applicable to other actions we might take, especially boycotts. I am pleasantly surprised people are even mentioning general strikes.
We need to boycott as a step towards a general strike.
Do you have any thoughts on organizing and boycotts?
Really smart and sober stuff... with a large dose of reality and self-examination for the rest of us.
Excellent article, as always Eric!
It is a necessary corrective humbling experience for the left to realize we are a minority.
And you point the way to organizing workers beyond our grasp.
Thanks Paul!!
Black Lives Matter apparently has no relevance? Am I missing something or did BLM get erased?
Outside of community fight-back/defenders, there is no opposition leadership. I see a parallel here with BLM, which got reduced to "defund the police". Where are the patriots and heroes who have been preparing for this crisis to fight for reform and liberation?
No one, esp the states rights leadership, has started to prosecute the traitors.
Doesn't anyone see the vacuum Trump has filled?
The riots in Minneapolis have nothing to do with immigration policy, as no one has offered a coherent alternate strategy to Trump's theatre. Open borders is not a strategy, it is at best another subsidy to the big corrporations who benefit from the cheap labor. They are being fomented by the Democratic Party in hopes they weaken Trump to their advantage, but he's doing a great job of weakening himself, while Democrats are also sliding in the polls.
The mass organizing and resistance to ICE in Minneapolis weren't riots, as you would know if you were paying attention. And our strategy isn't open borders, as you would know if you were trying to be part of the solution.
Therefore, we must demand equal pay for equal work, including for migrants. Then it won’t be possible to undercut wages with cheaper labor.