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Ben Mabie@yesnomabie.bsky.social · 3mo agoA brilliant essay from Noel Ignatiev, reflecting on two decades of work and struggle in heavy industry. In every workplace, anywhere, there are "thousands, millions" of daily skirmishes that shape the field of political possibility. Can we see them? longhaulmag.com/present-dept...
A brilliant essay from Noel Ignatiev, reflecting on two decades of work and struggle in heavy industry. In every workplace, anywhere, there are "thousands, millions" of daily skirmishes that shape the field of political possibility. Can we see them? longhaulmag.com/present-dept...
Present Depths | Long-Haul Mag
“Present Depths” was an essay submitted by Noel Ignatiev for a doctoral independent study at Harvard University in fall 1984. It was unearthed by Dylan Davis, a member of the Long-Haul editorial colle...
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An interview with my mom reflecting on decades of labor and political organizing. I'm biased but it's great. Includes discussion of her role with Jesse's campaigns in the 80s longhaulmag.com/long-talk-fr...
More Long-Haul: a very practical guide to holding departmental meetings, and an argument for a more deliberative style of organizing
Long-Haul Magazine@long-haul-mag.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew higher ed dispatch presenting a concrete guide to holding meetings with immediate coworkers in departments, labs, and other work groups which make up the university. longhaulmag.com/2026/04/27/a...
“Teachers, nurses, hospitality and sanitation workers, and above all the networks formed by immigrant workers across these sectors, shape our present landscape of political possibility.“ This is thoughtful and important
Long-Haul Magazine@long-haul-mag.bsky.social · 3mo agoOur editorial for issue 6 is live! "Where, in this reconfigured landscape of class forces, in the ruins of the industrial heyday, should we look for politics?" longhaulmag.com/common-ruins/
Our editorial for issue 6 is live! "Where, in this reconfigured landscape of class forces, in the ruins of the industrial heyday, should we look for politics?" longhaulmag.com/common-ruins/
Common Ruins | Long-Haul Mag
In the fall of 1984, when he was a new doctoral student at Harvard, Noel Ignatiev submitted an essay for an independent study. Entitled “Present Depths,” the paper surveyed the rapid and cataclysmic c...
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There’s a good chance one of the Villanova Knicks took a Gabriel Rockhill class in undergrad right?
An amazing book
Tej Nagaraja@tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 4mo agoMy book TROOP MOVEMENTS is coming soon. Check it out? It’s about political struggles over fascism & war, the imperial & the carceral, class & race & global freedom. www.pennpress.org/978151282990... If you might want to assign it, or review it, or preorder it — please stay tuned, or get in touch!
My book TROOP MOVEMENTS is coming soon. Check it out? It’s about political struggles over fascism & war, the imperial & the carceral, class & race & global freedom. www.pennpress.org/978151282990... If you might want to assign it, or review it, or preorder it — please stay tuned, or get in touch!
mapping power is so hot right now longhaulmag.com/2026/02/27/a...
A Guide to Power Mapping for Academic Workers | Long-Haul Mag
A GUIDE TO POWER MAPPING FOR ACADEMIC WORKERS
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Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · 5mo agoTried power mapping with my big lecture class and was pleased with the way it went. The assignment is here if you're interested in the logistics of it. docs.google.com/presentation...
Last weekend Salar and published an long-read in the Guardian discussing the prospects for a new anti-war movement, and how movements might raise the costs of war-making for the United States in conditions distinct from the mid-20th century www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Americans don’t want this war. They can end it | Salar Mohandesi and Ben Mabie
A once robust American anti-war movement is significantly weaker than it was in its heyday. The immensely unpopular war on Iran offers a real opportunity to rebuild it
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"It’s that feeling of resignation and the blocked paths to a better life, at the heart of Boggs’s poems and my dad’s whole worldview, that above all else, as socialists, we have to overcome." Read Connor Cameron’s introduction to Eddy Johnson’s American Dream. longhaulmag.com/eddy-johnson...
Eddy Johnson’s American Dream | Long-Haul Mag
Reading workers’ inquiries, I often recognize the experience of myself or my friends. Socialists embedded in some workplace or another: defiant, triumphant, the day-to-day indignity redeemed by a beli...
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Got on the other side of the mic and talked anti-war movement, past and present, with Dan and Salar.
Daniel Denvir@danieldenvir.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew Dig ep: Ben Mabie and Salar Mohandesi on what war on Iran tells us about US imperialism, and why US doesn’t have a massive anti-war movement even amid high anti-war public sentiment. We must make movements that can thrive and win under new conditions. thedigradio.com/podcast/anti...
Our editorial in this issue dives into the history of the El Gran Paro Estadounidense of 2006, the Day Without an Immigrant strikes. As calls for a general strike grow louder, and as the deportation regime escalates, what does this history teach us about what we might do today?
Long-Haul Magazine@long-haul-mag.bsky.social · 9mo agoFrom our fourth issue, which is shipping out to print subscribers, our editorial collective looks at the prospects for solidarity in the face of anti-immigrant populism. longhaulmag.com/we-will-not-...
finished the last episode of the powerful "fragile juggernaut" limited series on the history of the CIO and how we can make use of that history. i commend it you. hope to see more programming like this from @haymarketbooks.org!
Haymarket Originals: Fragile Juggernaut
History Podcast · Biweekly Series · Haymarket Originals is a new home for audio deep dives, by and for the left—brought to you by Haymarket Books. The first Haymarket Originals project is FRAGILE JU...
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Just listened to the last ep of Fragile Juggernaut about the CIO, what an amazing series, congrats to @haymarketbooks.org and the folks who worked on this, I'll miss it! spotify.link/7IYXjCGLxXb
1. Why the American Working Class Is Different
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Worker reflections on BU ResLife's 2024 double strike, targeting strategic moments of the calendar through mass participation, cross-neighborhood stewards, and coworker conversations as BUGWU's strike raged on campus. Originally from @long-haul-mag.bsky.social working-mass.com/2025/10/02/o...
On for Young and Old: How Boston University’s Resident Assistants Pulled Off a Double Strike - Working Mass
By: Stacey Yuen and Alana Edwards, with contributions from Thomas Baker This article was originally published in Long-Haul Magazine in its Winter 2025 Issue. In Fall 2024, Boston University’s Resident...
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From our third issue: a remarkable document that issues a serious challenge to the emerging orthodoxies of October, which now tend to "dissolve the revolutionary creativity of these workers into a broader story of European social democracy" longhaulmag.com/when-scythe-...
"My experience and perspective coming into all this is you never look to the top for solutions. You gotta look at least three layers down to find somebody that’s doing something real."
In this interview with Joe and Carlos, we encounter a model for how small groups of workplace organizers can proactively respond to the militant self-activity of their coworkers, and how this can contribute to wider democratic transformations of union culture. longhaulmag.com/classified-s...
Classified Staff Were Already Out: An Interview with Teachers of Jordan High School in Durham, North Carolina | Long-Haul Mag
SUMMER 2025 ISSUE 03
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We finally got a @long-haul-mag.bsky.social account up! Give it a follow :)
"My experience and perspective coming into all this is you never look to the top for solutions. You gotta look at least three layers down to find somebody that’s doing something real."
This iconic issue from Viewpoint Magazine is 10 years old this year ! Still so much to learn & appreciate in these many articles: viewpointmag.com/2015/11/02/i... (Would love to have some kind of collective reading/reflection event or discussion on publishing/political lineages if there's interest!)
Everyone should subscribe to Long Haul. Beautifully made magazine of worker writing. Feels like the spiritual successor to Viewpoint longhaulmag.com
Love this supremely insightful account of a dramatic, remarkable leap taken by the labor movement last year. What made a large and disruptive strike for Palestine possible? longhaulmag.com/uc-strike-fo...
From the Camp to the Picket: Reflections from the UC Strike for Palestine
SPRING 2025 ISSUE 02 From the Camp to the Picket:Reflections from the UC Strike for Palestine CURRENT AND FORMER GRAD WORKERSAT UC SANTA CRUZ Image from the main entrance to UC Santa Cruz, May 2024…
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I've completed my four-part @thedigradio.bsky.social series w Aziz Rana reexamining the entirety of US history through the politics of Americanism and constitutional fetish. This ep traces great unraveling of American empire from 1970s to our present MAGA 2.0 moment. thedigradio.com/podcast/rogu...
Rogue State w/ Aziz Rana
Featuring Aziz Rana on the making of the American project and its legitimation through popular worship of the US Constitution. This episode, the final in a four-part series, traces the great unravelin...
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I think we put together a pretty cool second issue. Check it out: longhaulmag.com
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Ben Mabie@yesnomabie.bsky.social · last yr.Last year workers launched a strike against Amazon. 5 of them discuss how work is organized and their union is being built – talking lean production & boss-police collusion, race & informal workgroups on the job, how they've overcome division & what action can teach longhaulmag.com/advanced-det...
