Short of the Long Haul (Part 1) // Notes From Below

The strike at the University of California, the largest strike in the history of US higher education, contains many key lessons for militants working inside universities today. Its advances should be evaluated not primarily in what it gained or lost at the negotiating table, but in the organization it built and the capacities it developed within the wide layer of workers who led it. This latter claim, undoubtedly contested today, will be our focus here. Since the strike’s conclusion in December of 2022, several retrospectives have been featured in publications like Jewish Currents, Brooklyn Rail, and The Real News. Such reflections are important, as organizers and observers try to make sense of a massive, complex, and diffuse action. However, the focus of these articles tends to center on the errors or the achievements of union leadership at the bargaining table.1 We think our movement is better served by an analysis that takes stock of the strike’s many lessons and evaluates whether o

Short of the Long Haul (Part 1) by Jack Davies , Sarah Mason July 11, 2023 Featured in Correspondences from the Upsurge (Book) Inquiry Education Higher Education Inquiry An Account of the Largest Strike in US Higher Education (Part 1) inquiry Short of the Long Haul (Part 1) by Jack Davies , Sarah Mason / July 11, 2023 in Correspondences from the Upsurge (Book) An Account of the Largest Strike in US Higher Education (Part 1) Part 1 The strike at the University of California, the largest strike in the history of US higher education, contains many key lessons for militants working inside universi

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