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Long-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social · 23d

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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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · Aug 12

"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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Long-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social · Aug 18

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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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · Aug 13

We finally got a @long-haul-mag.bsky.social account up! Give it a follow :)

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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · Aug 12

Read Liam Cain's remarkable account of his working life and the principles of leadership he has learned throughout:
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At Least Three Layers | Long-Haul Mag

This piece is a distillation of a longer conversation with Liam Cain, whose eclectic itinerary includes various construction jobs on pipelines and in oil refineries and wildland firefighting. Liam’s a...

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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · Aug 12

"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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Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social · Jul 29

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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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thanks Ben!

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Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · Jun 21

Everyone should subscribe to Long Haul. Beautifully made magazine of worker writing. Feels like the spiritual successor to Viewpoint longhaulmag.com

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · May 27

👀📖 — a new issue of ⁦‪Long Haul magazine — #1u

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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · May 20

"Our experience suggests that cultures of bottom-up deliberation among groups of workers positioned to take action together and the accumulated experience of past collective labor actions remain the indispensable bedrock for broader political aspirations and possibilities in the labor movement."

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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · May 20

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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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · May 3

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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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · May 16

I think we put together a pretty cool second issue. Check it out: longhaulmag.com

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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · May 16

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&nbsp…

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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · Feb 2

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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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · Jan 28

"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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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · Jan 25

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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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · Jan 26

Really glad you’re liking it!

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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · Jan 23

And from the archive:

A poster for May 1, 1973 demonstration led by the Movement des travailleurs arabes in Marseille. The text reads in French and Arabic: “For our rights, for our dignity. For unity with all workers against racism. With the Palestinian people.”

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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · Jan 23

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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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · Jan 20

You're gonna love this one

Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · Jan 19

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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sanjay jolly @sanjayjahlee.bsky.social · Jan 17

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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Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social · Jan 17

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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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · Jan 15

If you peak inside, let me know what you think!

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