Long-Haul Magazine

Computing for Class-Struggle Organizing a Semi-Automated Income Redistribution System for the 2024 Long-Haul Strike at Boston University Frederick Reiber27 October 2026 When graduate workers in Boston University’s (BU) computer science department walked off the job in 2024, they did so not knowing when they would next get a paycheck. Combined with Boston’s high rents and […]

WE PUT MONEY IN THE BANK Introducing a New Tool to Investigate Employer Financials Jeff Sisson 16 October 2026 We make money for our employers. Sometimes that money is used against us, with investments in new technology or consultants that reorganize our work by wresting away control over its direction; other times that money is […]

NO CONTRACT, NO CODELessons from the First Official Tech Worker Strikes The Editors 16 October 2026 Partway through autumn 2026, the official strikes of workers at The New York Times and Kickstarter still represent high watermarks of organizing and militancy in tech. As workers, our power begins in talking to each other, in reflecting together, […]

ON THE LINE, ONLINEHow Kickstarter Workers Organized a Fully Remote Strike Arleigh Atkinson 16 October 2026 Just days before our strike was set to begin, the Contract Action Team had to move quickly to figure out a format to accommodate our fully remote shop. There was no technical need to assemble together in order to […]

GRIEVE TO WIN AGAIN Chloe Asselin with introduction by Lois Weiner Posted with introduction on August 6 2026 Note from Lois Weiner: Regardless of where or what kind of work you do in education, I think Chloe’s post has valuable insights, so I’m sharing it again. Chloe captures the arc of resistance from the darkest […]

From the Basement to the Boycott: One Chicago Teacher’s Journey Anne Carlson September 2, 2026 When I began teaching in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in 1998, I did not think of myself as a union activist. I was a 20-something bilingual teacher with no formal training, trying to survive my first year in a classroom […]

Echo in My SoulSeptima Poinsette Clark1962 In chasing down an inter-library loan of Septima Poinsette Clark’s memoir, Echo in My Soul (1962), we were delighted to find a personal inscription (see below). Clark (1898–1987), born in Charleston, South Carolina, was a lifelong radical pedagogue, perhaps best known for developing the Citizenship Schools with the Highlander […]

“Let Us Be Communists a While Instead of Ladies”: 1930s Chicago Teacher Dispatches Riley Collins September 2, 2026 1 Lyons, John F. Teachers and Reform : Chicago Public Education, 1929-1970. University Of Illinois Press, 2008.  2 David, Rex. “Schools and the Crisis.” International Pamphlets, 1934.  In April 1931, the Chicago Board of Education announced that […]