There’s a good chance one of the Villanova Knicks took a Gabriel Rockhill class in undergrad right?
Posts by Ben Mabie
An amazing book
My 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!
mapping power is so hot right now
longhaulmag.com/2026/02/27/a...
Last 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...
"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...
Got on the other side of the mic and talked anti-war movement, past and present, with Dan and Salar.
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?
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!
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
Tonight in New York City
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
working-mass.com/2025/10/02/o...
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-...
"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."
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 :)
Read Liam Cain's remarkable account of his working life and the principles of leadership he has learned throughout:
longhaulmag.com/cain-at-leas...
"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
👀📖 — a new issue of Long Haul magazine — #1u
"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."
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...
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
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
longhaulmag.com/advanced-det...