Are mass protests and elections enough to block the slide toward authoritarianism? Labor scholar and organizer <a href="https://www.laborpolitics.com/" target="_blank">Eric Blanc</a> argues that neither will suffice without exerting leverage on the key pillars of Trump’s support. He discusses how a multi-level campaign against the corporations and other entities that back the administration could be organized, as well as the state of the labor movement and the Supreme Court, the victory of Zohran Mamdani, and what it might take to build to a general strike. 
<a href="https://www.laborpolitics.com/" target="_blank">Labor Politics</a> 
Eric Blanc, <a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/books/we-are-the-union/paper" target="_blank">We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big</a> UC Press, 2025
Photo credit: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=159074650" target="_blank">By Jessica Bolanos</a> CC BY-SA 4.0
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