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New Fireside Chat available exclusively for our Patreon supporters about the true history of the weekend, struggles over time off from work, and what is missing from mainstream accounts.
Continue reading “E126: Fireside Chat – How we won the weekend”
Discussion episode looking at the literary texts that were produced in response to the 1926 general strike, both from established authors of the middle/upper classes and emerging working-class writers. In conversation with Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill, authors of the excellent book, Writing the 1926 General Strike: Literature, Culture, Politics.
Continue reading “WCL15: Literature of the 1926 General Strike”
In various countries around the world, as movements against exploitation and inequality exploded, protesters found some unlikely allies – street dogs. In these episodes, we look at movements and riot dogs in two countries: Chile and Greece, and Negro Matapacos and Loukanikos, respectively.
Continue reading “E125: Riot dogs”
New Fireside Chat available exclusively for our Patreon supporters where we discuss football, politics, and the madness of hosting the World Cup in Trump’s USA.
Continue reading “E124: Fireside Chat – World Cup of Chaos”
Before the current wave of organising at Starbucks, another group of workers in the early 2000s got together and formed a union at one of the most anti-union corporations on earth. They won better pay and conditions, and laid the groundwork for the unionisation campaign today. Learn their story in this three-part podcast series in conversation with Daniel Gross, one of the key organisers.
Three-part miniseries about the UK’s 1926 general strike, which saw one and three-quarter million workers walk out in the biggest single work stoppage in British history. In collaboration with the General Strike 100 project and told using interviews with striking workers themselves.
Continue reading “E118-120: 1926 general strike”
Fireside Chat podcast available exclusively for our Patreon supporters where we make fun of Trump’s absurd letter to the Norwegian Prime Minister, and what it means for the rest of the world that the US President is a half-witted narcissist.
Continue reading “E117: Fireside Chat – Trump’s Letter to Norway”
Double podcast episode about the 2001 uprising in Argentina, which toppled the government, and saw the spread of neighbourhood assemblies and factories taken over by workers. In conversation with Tomas Rothaus, a participant in the uprising and author of Argentina, a Tale of Two Utopias.
Continue reading “E115-116: Argentina uprising 2001”
Fireside Chat podcast available exclusively for our Patreon supporters in which we sit down for a bit of a chat about the year past, for WCH and the world, and plans we have for the year ahead.
Continue reading “E114: Fireside Chat – 2025 in review”
The latest in our Radical Reads series, we discuss Beverly Silver’s pioneering work, Forces of Labour: Workers’ Movements and Globalisation Since 1870, a book which was hugely influential on many of us at Working Class History.
Continue reading “E113: Radical Reads – Forces of Labour”