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Gabriel Winant

@gabrielwinant.bsky.social
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Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him.

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The Deutscher Prize @deutscherprize.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨🚨🚨 We are very happy to announce our 2026 shortlist for the Deutscher Prize! Free Gifts, @alybatt.bsky.social Coercive Commerce, Stacie A. Kent Beneath the Wage, @anniemcc.bsky.social Working Nature, @ueberdruss.bsky.social Capitalist Value Chains, Benjamin Selwyn and Christin Bernhold
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you're lucky, someone will eventually review your book in a way that almost makes you jealous of their insights into the material. It's fair to say that the historian Gabe Winant has just published that review of my book. dissentmagazine.org/article/muti...
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The Party of Baristas - Dissent Magazine
Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If someone says to you "but isn't DSA all professionals and gentrifiers" feel free to just send them this piece by me dissentmagazine.org/article/muti...
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The Party of Baristas - Dissent Magazine
Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.
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William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸 @marxinhell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@gabrielwinant.bsky.social is saying true things again! "If the center and the right think the working class and professionals don’t belong together, they should make an offer to one group or the other about a better affiliation." dissentmagazine.org/article/muti...
The question of whether or not these groups-auto workers and grad students, screenwriters and teamsters-belong together is not one that has a self-evident or objective answer. It is an eminently political question. [...] Certainly, classes cannot be made from just anything: there must be some material substrate that is shared or at least comparable. But no two workers, much less groups of workers, are identical. Rather, all workers must decide to affiliate with each other, see themselves in each other, and become something together. That is true at every scale, from two workmates to whole sectors of the economy. Classes are made politically. Indeed, the political work of deciding what to bring to the fore, of how to make experiences commensurable, is what organizing is. The necessity of the activity itself reveals the lack of the guarantee. When someone says that grad students have hijacked the UAW, or that gentrifiers are taking over the Democratic Party, they are not making a descriptive observation, but a normative one. Let them make their case.
It's easy to blow hot air about who doesn't belong with whom. But it's not a serious idea if it has no stakes: it's the reaction of a child who thinks peas and ketchup shouldn't touch on the plate. If the center and the right think the working class and professionals don't belong together, they should make an offer to one group or the other about a better affiliation. Their failure to do so in any serious way is the condition for today's growing socialist coalition. What Mutiny shows is how this alternative proposition has, over a decade and more, been painstakingly turned into something concrete. It has limits and contradictions of its own. But it is on the table now, people can see it, and some of them like it. If the incumbent political order is anything other than historically exhausted, it will have to produce an answer that is more than a temper tantrum.
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Maybe you want to cover it
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
yeah I need to figure out how to publicize it so that students' parents learn about it and tell their kids to take the class so that I get enough enrollment to actually do it
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Time requirements:
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here is the public description: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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PUBLIC BRIEFING, DURBAN 1973
Durban, January 1973 — Public Briefing But is there not a gross contradiction in the picture we have drawn? On the one hand it means that in an eventual future period of political mass action the mo...
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One (1) spot opened up in my virtual mass strike simulation test-run for the end of this week. It's a really good character too. Anyone interested?
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
First come first serve :)
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Time requirements:
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here is the public description: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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PUBLIC BRIEFING, DURBAN 1973
Durban, January 1973 — Public Briefing But is there not a gross contradiction in the picture we have drawn? On the one hand it means that in an eventual future period of political mass action the mo...
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One (1) spot opened up in my virtual mass strike simulation test-run for the end of this week. It's a really good character too. Anyone interested?
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Here are time requirements
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
OK I am for the last time opening up sign-ups for this mass strike simulation: Durban 1973, strike action across the barriers of apartheid, in the teeth of brutal repression. I'm developing a simulation for students and testing it virtually with volunteers 8/28-8/30: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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PUBLIC BRIEFING, DURBAN 1973
Durban, January 1973 — Public Briefing But is there not a gross contradiction in the picture we have drawn? On the one hand it means that in an eventual future period of political mass action the mo...
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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The historic defeat of the global workers’ movement looks like it might be permanent. But hope lies in one of Marx’s most fundamental — and most ambiguous — concepts. @gabrielwinant.bsky.social writes for Tribune on the pathways for the new working class.
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Is It Over?
The historic defeat of the global workers’ movement looks like it might be permanent. But hope lies in one of Marx’s most fundamental — and most ambiguous — concepts.
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I haven't but I have heard a lot about it
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Here is a sense of the time commitment:
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Here is the sign-up form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Help me test a labor history simulation: Durban, South Africa, 1973. Test-run: Aug 28-Aug 30
Please answer the questionnaire if you're game to try this out. We'll do the whole thing virtually using Discord, Zoom, and Google Forms. It's meant to be fairly absorbing, so I put it on a weekend, 8...
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I've had a couple drop-outs so a couple spots are open again in the Durban mass strike simulation test run (virtual) I'm running 8/28-8/30. Description here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Today, @gabrielwinant.bsky.social explains why a clear picture of how age mediates class would reveal not gerontocracy, but capitalism and the fractionated class system it produces.
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Cradle to the Grave
As Sam Moyn has recently argued, "class reductionism" fails to explain differentiation along the generational gradient — a pattern clearly visible in economics, politics, and ideology.
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Last call on this
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
More info here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Durban, January 1973 — Public Briefing
Durban, January 1973 — Public Briefing The world you are standing in Durban is South Africa’s industrial port — textile mills, factories, docks — and its African workers’ wages have been eaten aliv...
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It's intended as a classroom simulation, but the virtual test run with volunteers will be 8/28-8/30. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Help me test a labor history simulation: Durban, South Africa, 1973. Test-run: Aug 28-Aug 30
Please answer the questionnaire if you're game to try this out. We'll do the whole thing virtually using Discord, Zoom, and Google Forms. It's meant to be fairly absorbing, so I put it on a weekend, 8...
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Once again beating the drum for recruits to test out (virtually) my ultra-elaborate simulation, Durban mass strikes of 1973. Just worked out the rules by which the Zulu chief figure can bring scabs on the train from the homeland, and the strikers can meet them with bread or fists
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
No, Chicago time
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Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 14/07/2026
NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.
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Man dies during immigration encounter in Florida, the third ICE-involved death in a week
Third ICE-involved death in a week confirmed after fatal St. Augustine crash during joint agency operation. National outrage grows over enforcement and deaths
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
More info here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Durban, January 1973 — Public Briefing
Durban, January 1973 — Public Briefing The world you are standing in Durban is South Africa’s industrial port — textile mills, factories, docks — and its African workers’ wages have been eaten aliv...
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It's intended as a classroom simulation, but the virtual test run with volunteers will be 8/28-8/30. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com
Help me test a labor history simulation: Durban, South Africa, 1973. Test-run: Aug 28-Aug 30
Please answer the questionnaire if you're game to try this out. We'll do the whole thing virtually using Discord, Zoom, and Google Forms. It's meant to be fairly absorbing, so I put it on a weekend, 8...
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Once again beating the drum for recruits to test out (virtually) my ultra-elaborate simulation, Durban mass strikes of 1973. Just worked out the rules by which the Zulu chief figure can bring scabs on the train from the homeland, and the strikers can meet them with bread or fists
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Yeah exactly why I did this. The students will have to write but to try to understand what happened in the simulation. For what it's worth, I used AI to design it: not the substance, but to keep track of the characters and rules as I came up with them, and notice how they'd interact with each other
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
That's right, and playable by 50 people at once
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Get back in touch with your inner sicko child
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
That's literally what it's like
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Let me say also, once I have it tested running smoothly, I will give it to you if you want it for your own class, or other sicko reasons
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
But now?
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
You can go underground, punish informants (or become one), break through the craft union and color bar structures of segregation...
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Some of the things you can do in this simulation include: litigate the role of white, middle-class leftists in the movement; decide how much to depend on ethnic patronage machinery in waging class struggle; figure out which workers have the most leverage in the labor process
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I'll post this again in coming days, get ready to be annoyed
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Intake: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Help me test a labor history simulation: Durban, South Africa, 1973. Test-run: Aug 28-Aug 30
Please answer the questionnaire if you're game to try this out. We'll do the whole thing virtually using Discord, Zoom, and Google Forms. It's meant to be fairly absorbing, so I put it on a weekend, 8...
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Intro doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Durban, January 1973 — Public Briefing
Durban, January 1973 — Public Briefing The world you are standing in Durban is South Africa’s industrial port — textile mills, factories, docks — and its African workers’ wages have been eaten alive...
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
OK I decided to test-run this ultra-elaborate labor history simulation if I can recruit enough people. It's for sickos. 8/28-30, all virtual (some synchronous). Based on Durban mass strike of 1973, demanding of time within that window. Below are intro doc and intake questionnaire if you want to join
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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workers_of_the_world_public_briefing
Durban, January 1973—Public Briefing The world you are standing in Durban is South Africa's industrial port—textile mills, factories, docks—and its African workers' wages have been eaten alive by in...
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
How do I send it to you?
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
For sure! I’m still finalizing but will be ready to share soon
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Ideally some knowledge of the workers movement and its basic issues and debates; it will come 2/3 of the way through a global labor history class for me
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Ok I have made this very elaborate strike and workers’ movement simulation, close to complete: Durban mass strikes of 1973–>COSATU founding in 1985. But I can’t actually run it until April. Does anyone want to try it first? I think you need a minimum 40 participants
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I was surprised to see fiddleheads at the market this late so I bought them. But I can’t really get them cleaner than this and haven’t cooked them in over a decade so can’t judge if this is normal gunk or unacceptable gunk
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