Reposted by Ben MabieQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 28/09/2026Me and @bentarnoff.com went long (is there any other way to go?) for @thedigradio.bsky.social with our friend @danieldenvir.bsky.social thedig.blubrry.net/podcast/musk... 55913
Reposted by Ben MabieNatalie Escobar @natalieescobar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Rose was an amazing colleague and fellow union steward. I am going to miss her so much. www.npr.org/2026/09/18/n...npr.orgEditor Rose Friedman, who helped shape NPR's cultural coverage, dies at 38Friedman was in her early 20s when she landed her first position as an editorial assistant at NPR. She became an editor and reporter, and a co-creator of the annual Books We Love reading guide. 1164
Reposted by Ben MabieNikos Vrantsis @nikosvrantsis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It’s no secret that entire sections of the economy, like the construction industry, would cease to exist without the labor of a workforce that is undocumented and made invisible. longhaulmag.com/nada-se-cons...longhaulmag.comNada Se Construye Sin Estas Manos (Nothing Is Built Without These Hands) | Long-Haul MagSUMMER 2026ISSUE 07 022
Reposted by Ben MabieLong-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"Miami stands at the nexus of immense capital investment, real estate development, and the labor of the Latino immigrants who make all of this building possible." longhaulmag.com/nada-se-cons... 121
Reposted by Ben MabieLong-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026In this moving essay, construction worker Alexandra Thyme introduces us to the work gangs building the fastest growing skyline in the United States: their culture of mutuality, the routine policy of wage theft, the stormcloud of deportation, and the various ways in which they are fighting back 011
Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Normally they wait until you win a prize or finish a book before getting posed questions like this. But happy to answer @danieldenvir.bsky.social's prompt: 'why are you like this?' 073
Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Before @danieldenvir.bsky.social helped sweep elections across Providence, we worked through the backlog of listener questions for the Dig, which mostly asked about the nuts and bolts of socialist transition. We - or at least I - dutifully ducked them, but hopefully in a way that's interesting 0115
Reposted by Ben MabieLong-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026How was the Chicago Teachers Union built amidst the tumult of the 1930s? longhaulmag.com/2026/09/02/1... 054
Reposted by Ben Mabiedillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 09/09/2026the opening paragraph of mike davis first essay in "prisoners of the american dream" is 🤌🤌 46411
Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"The staff at Highlander knew that the great need of the south was to develop more people to take leadership and responsibility for the causes in which they believed. It set out on a program designed to bring out leadership qualities in people from all walks of life." 110
Reposted by Ben MabieTej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 01/09/2026My new book is out this month! “Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II” — by Tejasvi Nagaraja Buy it! Get in touch with me — if you have any ideas?: * book review * book-tour event * assigning it to teach * interview or podcast Thanks — Stay tuned! 15123
Reposted by Ben MabieLong-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Some sage advice from the southern textile strike-wave of 1934: 174
Reposted by Ben MabieNYT Tech Guild @nytguildtech.bsky.social · 10/08/2026If you're not already reading @long-haul-mag.bsky.social - get in there! Organizing community at its best. 3134
Reposted by Ben MabieMinerva Archer @minervaarcher.bsky.social · 11/08/2026My union coworkers have been working for months on an exhaustive piece about our organizing drive, our contract campaign, our strike, our victories and our mistakes. It’s out in Long-Haul magazine this week. We hope it helps other union workers, current and future. longhaulmag.com/first-tech-w...longhaulmag.comSign of the Times: An Account of the First Tech Workers’ Strike | Long-Haul MagWorkers in the New York Times Tech Guild went on the first official tech workers’ strike in the United States, during the week of the presidential election in November, 2024. Following the strike, the... 033
Reposted by Ben MabieKait Hoehne @khoehne.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Brushed off my editorial skills for this one and couldn't be prouder. These movements aren't built in one moment, it's a series of messy, complicated collective decisions. longhaulmag.com/first-tech-w...longhaulmag.comSign of the Times: An Account of the First Tech Workers’ Strike | Long-Haul MagWorkers in the New York Times Tech Guild went on the first official tech workers’ strike in the United States, during the week of the presidential election in November, 2024. Following the strike, the... 1135
Reposted by Ben MabieBenjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 07/08/2026Proud to have contributed to this account of our historic 2024 NYT tech workers’ strike: longhaulmag.com/first-tech-w...longhaulmag.comSign of the Times: An Account of the First Tech Workers’ Strike | Long-Haul MagWorkers in the New York Times Tech Guild went on the first official tech workers’ strike in the United States, during the week of the presidential election in November, 2024. Following the strike, the... 0176
Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I love how easily these workers connect militancy and democracy. The latter isn't just a matter of values or principals! Deliberation amongst people well-placed to take action together is a practical orientation to socializing real militancy amongst the widest number of people. It's how we win. 021
Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 15/05/2026A 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...longhaulmag.comPresent 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... 053
Reposted by Ben MabieEli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026An 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... 1193
Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026More Long-Haul: a very practical guide to holding departmental meetings, and an argument for a more deliberative style of organizing 030
Reposted by Ben MabieSameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 06/05/2026“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 042
Reposted by Ben MabieLong-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Our 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/longhaulmag.comCommon Ruins | Long-Haul MagIn 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... 032
Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 21/04/2026There’s a good chance one of the Villanova Knicks took a Gabriel Rockhill class in undergrad right? 040
Reposted by Ben MabieTej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 15/04/2026My 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! 32211
Reposted by Ben Mabieandy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 05/03/2026mapping power is so hot right now longhaulmag.com/2026/02/27/a...longhaulmag.comA Guide to Power Mapping for Academic Workers | Long-Haul MagA GUIDE TO POWER MAPPING FOR ACADEMIC WORKERS 13012
Reposted by Ben MabieThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/03/2026How to end this war | Salar Mohandesi and Ben Mabietheguardian.comHow to end this war | Salar Mohandesi and Ben MabieA 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 02915
Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Last 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...theguardian.comAmericans don’t want this war. They can end it | Salar Mohandesi and Ben MabieA 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 010
Reposted by Ben MabieLong-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social · 25/02/2026"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...longhaulmag.comEddy Johnson’s American Dream | Long-Haul MagReading 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... 131
Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Got on the other side of the mic and talked anti-war movement, past and present, with Dan and Salar. 0134
Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Our 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? 010
Reposted by Ben MabieForest Gregg @bunkum.us · 24/09/2025finished 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!podcasts.apple.comHaymarket Originals: Fragile JuggernautHistory 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... 1205
Reposted by Ben MabieEric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Just 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/7IYXjCGLxXbspotify.link1. Why the American Working Class Is Different 1165
Reposted by Ben MabieLong-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Tonight in New York City 041
Reposted by Ben MabieWorking Mass @dsaworkingmass.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Worker 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...working-mass.comOn for Young and Old: How Boston University’s Resident Assistants Pulled Off a Double Strike - Working MassBy: 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... 052
Reposted by Ben MabieLong-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social · 16/09/2025From 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-... 022
Reposted by Ben MabieBen Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 12/08/2025"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." 153
Reposted by Ben MabieLong-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social · 18/08/2025In 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...longhaulmag.comClassified Staff Were Already Out: An Interview with Teachers of Jordan High School in Durham, North Carolina | Long-Haul MagSUMMER 2025 ISSUE 03 032
Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 13/08/2025We finally got a @long-haul-mag.bsky.social account up! Give it a follow :) 050
Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 12/08/2025"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." 153
Reposted by Ben MabieFeminist City @feministcity.bsky.social · 29/07/2025This 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!) 042
Reposted by Ben MabieBen Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · 21/06/2025Everyone should subscribe to Long Haul. Beautifully made magazine of worker writing. Feels like the spiritual successor to Viewpoint longhaulmag.com 19313
Reposted by Ben MabieTej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 27/05/2025👀📖 — a new issue of Long Haul magazine — #1u 053
Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Love 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.comFrom the Camp to the Picket: Reflections from the UC Strike for PalestineSPRING 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… 142
Reposted by Ben MabieDaniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 03/05/2025I'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...thedigradio.comRogue State w/ Aziz RanaFeaturing 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... 16727
Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 16/05/2025I think we put together a pretty cool second issue. Check it out: longhaulmag.comlonghaulmag.comLong-Haul MagVisit the post for more. 052
Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Last 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...longhaulmag.comAdvanced Detachments: Two Strikes Against Competition and Division at an Amazon Delivery StationSPRING 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 … 010
Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Really 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.comSetting an Agenda From the InsideI 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… 021
