Ben Mabie

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?

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...

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!

1. Why the American Working Class Is Different

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!
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Tonight in New York City

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...

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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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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"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."

Classified Staff Were Already Out: An Interview with Teachers of Jordan High School in Durham, North Carolina | Long-Haul Mag SUMMER 2025 ISSUE 03

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 :)

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...

Read Liam Cain's remarkable account of his working life and the principles of leadership he has learned throughout:
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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."

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!)

Thanks Ben!

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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"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."

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…

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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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...

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

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…

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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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…

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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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…

"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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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...

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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Really glad you’re liking it!

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.”

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…

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

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...

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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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...

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::

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