سنأتي إليك وإلى نظامك الفاسد

Seattle was the first major city to impose a $15 minimum wage; the first city to implement an Amazon payroll tax to build affordable housing; It is the first city to include a set of tenant rights laws, fulfilling the slogan “Housing is a human right.” Behind these remarkable achievements in the 2010s has emerged a small but vibrant Marxist movement, Socialist Alternative, and the city councilwoman who helped elect her, Kshama Sawant. Under a municipal government dominated by pro-business Democrats, Sawant and the grassroots movements she led against major corporations based in the area — including Amazon, Boeing, Microsoft and Starbucks — won victories that changed the course of the city for years to come. “We Will Come to You and Your Corrupt Regime” tells this extraordinary story from the inside. Rosenblum, who worked in Sawant's office and with community activists throughout this eventful decade, weaves together personal narrative and political analysis to show how and why the movement succeeded where others from outside the progressive mainstream, such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, failed. For political activists striving to understand the world after Donald Trump's re-election, the Seattle experience offers a vital framework for the struggle to emerge from the morass of despair that looms over twenty-first-century capitalism.