Ben Mabie
@yesnomabie.bsky.social
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?
From 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.
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We Will Not Retreat to the Shadows | Long-Haul Mag
FALL 2025 ISSUE 04
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November 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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?
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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!
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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September 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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!
i commend it you.
hope to see more programming like this from @haymarketbooks.org!
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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
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1. Why the American Working Class Is Different
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October 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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
spotify.link/7IYXjCGLxXb
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Tonight in New York City
October 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Tonight in New York City
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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
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Originally from @long-haul-mag.bsky.social
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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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October 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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
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Originally from @long-haul-mag.bsky.social
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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"
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September 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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-...
longhaulmag.com/when-scythe-...
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"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."
August 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"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."
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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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August 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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...
We finally got a @long-haul-mag.bsky.social account up! Give it a follow :)
August 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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."
August 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"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."
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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!)
July 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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!)
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Everyone should subscribe to Long Haul. Beautifully made magazine of worker writing. Feels like the spiritual successor to Viewpoint longhaulmag.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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?
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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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May 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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...
longhaulmag.com/uc-strike-fo...
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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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May 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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...
I think we put together a pretty cool second issue. Check it out: longhaulmag.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I think we put together a pretty cool second issue. Check it out: longhaulmag.com
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
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Advanced Detachments: Two Strikes Against Competition and Division at an Amazon Delivery Station
SPRING 2025 ISSUE 02 Advanced Detachments:Two Strikes Against Competition and Division at an Amazon Delivery Station ALVIN GAINE, BRENDAN RADTKE, DYLAN D. MARAJ, IRA POLLOCK, AND LUC RENE …
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May 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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
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longhaulmag.com/advanced-det...
Really great reflections from Eddie Campbell on decades of shopfloor antiwar organizing within arms manufacturing plants in the UK, from the First Gulf War to recent Palestine solidarity organizing.
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Setting an Agenda From the Inside
I see the Palestine question right now as providing an opportunity to rebuild a rank-and-file approach to trade unionism today. In any workplace, but especially in the arms industry, this fight can…
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February 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Really great reflections from Eddie Campbell on decades of shopfloor antiwar organizing within arms manufacturing plants in the UK, from the First Gulf War to recent Palestine solidarity organizing.
longhaulmag.com/setting-an-a...
longhaulmag.com/setting-an-a...
"If there’s going to be a political line to march from inside the workplace to the wider world without, it will develop out of these informal relationships and collective actions on the shop floor, not from allegiance to one or another leader."
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The Spectacle and the Shop Floor
At a post-breaktime meeting called by management at an Amazon delivery station on the outskirts of Seattle during the height of the 2023 holiday season, a site leader berates the roughly 75 “associ…
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January 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"If there’s going to be a political line to march from inside the workplace to the wider world without, it will develop out of these informal relationships and collective actions on the shop floor, not from allegiance to one or another leader."
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As someone who generally hates podcasts, @haymarketbooks.org’s FRAGILE JUGGERNAUT is an extremely good (and timely) deep dive into the early development of American labor through the history of the CIO.
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Introducing: Haymarket Originals
Haymarket Books is thrilled to announce the launch of a new project: Haymarket Originals. Haymarket Originals will bring in depth, series-length audio treatments of a wide range of historical and cont...
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January 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
As someone who generally hates podcasts, @haymarketbooks.org’s FRAGILE JUGGERNAUT is an extremely good (and timely) deep dive into the early development of American labor through the history of the CIO.
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/505-in...
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/505-in...
My buddy Patrick King on what anti-imperialism looked like in the immigrant neighborhoods and workplaces of post-68 France. Building on the basics of collective action, and working across ethnic and social differences, they helped build a new internationalism.
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Underneath the Banners and Flags
Few phenomena have proved as vexing for the labor movement as constructing effective channels of internationalism in the face of repeated waves of nativist reaction. The barriers to achieving worki…
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January 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
My buddy Patrick King on what anti-imperialism looked like in the immigrant neighborhoods and workplaces of post-68 France. Building on the basics of collective action, and working across ethnic and social differences, they helped build a new internationalism.
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You're gonna love this one
New Dig: it's Michael Denning on Stuart Hall and co's Policing the Crisis. Marxist conjunctural analysis of generalized crisis that paved way for neoliberalism's rise; a model for asking questions about our world that provide us w/ knowledge we need to change it. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/poli...
Policing the Crisis w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order, collectively authored by Stuart Hall and his colleagues at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the U...
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January 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
You're gonna love this one
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I don't know how the folks @thedigradio.bsky.social manage to continually outdo themselves. This first episode of a two-parter on Stuart Hall is among the finest artifacts of theory-focused political education I've ever enountered. Just superb.
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Stuart Hall’s Marxism w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Stuart Hall’s Marxism—a Marxism without guarantees. This is a comprehensive introduction to Marxism as a method to analyze historically specific, complex and contradictory...
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January 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I don't know how the folks @thedigradio.bsky.social manage to continually outdo themselves. This first episode of a two-parter on Stuart Hall is among the finest artifacts of theory-focused political education I've ever enountered. Just superb.
thedigradio.com/podcast/stua...
thedigradio.com/podcast/stua...
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Great essay from @amnaakbar.bsky.social insisting on the urgency of figuring out of what it will take for mass mobilizations & organizations of USians around the slower deaths from climate crisis, unaffordable health care & other capitalist horrors. Highly recommended::
Malm and Mangione | Amna A. Akbar
You can almost hear the chattering class’s chattering teeth as they balance the need to generate clicks with their sanctimonious shock at the public’s hatred for Brian Thompson, the company he ran, an...
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January 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Great essay from @amnaakbar.bsky.social insisting on the urgency of figuring out of what it will take for mass mobilizations & organizations of USians around the slower deaths from climate crisis, unaffordable health care & other capitalist horrors. Highly recommended::
Our inaugural issue of Long-Haul magazine appears online today, featuring a trouble-maker inside an arms factory, a Chicago warehouse worker on Trump & the Teamsters, and an account of back to back strikes at Boston University.
I think you guys will be into it!
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I think you guys will be into it!
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January 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Our inaugural issue of Long-Haul magazine appears online today, featuring a trouble-maker inside an arms factory, a Chicago warehouse worker on Trump & the Teamsters, and an account of back to back strikes at Boston University.
I think you guys will be into it!
longhaulmag.com
I think you guys will be into it!
longhaulmag.com