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News Brief: Trump's Hollow Working-Class Aesthetics and How Unions Can Lead a Real Resistance

Added 2025-03-19 17:17:04 +0000 UTC

In this Citations Needed News Brief interview, we're joined by Rutgers professor Eric Blanc to discuss his new book "We Are The Union," and lay out how any meaningful resistance to Trump and Trumpism has to be grounded in a growing, strong, confrontational labor movement.

Guest

Eric Blanc (@ericblanc.bsky.social) is Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at Rutgers University and author of the books "Revolutionary Social Democracy" (Haymarket Books, 2022) and "Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics” (Verso Books, 2019). His latest book, published in February 2025 by University of California Press, is “We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big.” You can also find his writing at laborpolitics.substack.com.

Show Notes

Where is the Heat and Where is the Hammer?

Peter Olney | March 12, 205 | Convergence Magazine

Worker-to-Worker Organizing Can Save the Labor Movement

Hamilton Nolan with Eric Blanc | March 3, 2025 | How Things Work

If Trump Crushes Federal Workers, We’re All Next

Eric Blanc | February 19, 2025 | The Nation

Want to defeat Trump? Support unions

Eric Blanc | February 14, 2025 | The Guardian

Federal Workers Can Defeat Elon Musk’s Coup. Here’s How.

Eric Blanc | February 10, 2025 | Jacobin

Donald Trump’s Anti-Union Offensive and How We Stop It

Eric Blanc | January 29, 2025 | Jacobin

From the Ground Up: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Transforming the American Labor Movement

Eric Blanc | July 28 29, 2025 | Power At Work

Jane McAlevey Believed Workers Can Win Everything

Eric Blanc | July 9, 2025 | Jacobin

The Labor Day Graph That Says It All

David Sirota | September 6, 2021 | Jacobin

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Transcript

For a full transcript of this episode, go here. You can also find transcripts of past episodes, live shows, Beg-a-Thons, Interviews and News Briefs here.

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