Thirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of ‘the white working course,’ a strike wave-the initial in over four decades-rocked america. Inspired from the wildcat success in Western world Virginia, instructors in Oklahoma, Az, and across the country walked off their jobs and turn off their colleges to demand better purchase educators, more financing for students, and a finish to many years of austerity.

Confounding all expectations, these working-class rebellions erupted in regions with about Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics Republican electorates, weak unions, and bans on public sector hits. By mobilizing to consider their destinies into their very own hands, red state school workers posed a definite option to politics as normal. And with similar actions now getting steam in Los Angeles, Oakland, Denver, and Virginia, there is absolutely no sign that this upsurge will be short-lived.

Red State Revolt is a convincing analysis from the emergence and development of this historic strike wave, with an eye to extracting its primary tactical lessons for educators, labor organizer, and radicals across the country. A former senior high school instructor and longtime activist, Eric Blanc embedded himself in to the rank-and-file leaderships of the walkouts, where he was given access to inner organizing meetings and key Facebook groups inaccessible to most journalists.