Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
 
			NORMALLY I spend my time documenting and recording other people’s pickets for the website I co-founded a couple of years ago, www.strikemap.org.
We list every strike and picket that we can and then encourage people to send messages of solidarity or make a trip to visit a picket.
But on Wednesday last week the tables were turned and I found myself standing outside the school in which I have worked for eight years setting up my own picket line in the dark and drizzly rain.
 
               Since 2023, Strike Map has evolved from digital mapping at a national level to organising ‘mega pickets’ — we believe that mass solidarity with localised disputes prepares the ground for future national action, writes HENRY FOWLER
![Strike Map activists visit striking refuse workers in Birmingham, April 29, 2025 [Pic: Strike Map]]( https://dev.morningstaronline.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/low_resolution/public/2025-05/DSC_0753.JPG.webp?itok=UCYB6Qpj) 
               As Birmingham’s refuse workers fight brutal pay cuts, Strike Map rallies mass solidarity, with unions, activists, and workers converging to defy scab labour and police intimidation. The message to Labour? Back workers or face rebellion, writes HENRY FOWLER and ROBERT POOLE
 
                
               
 
               

