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Podcast episode about anti-fascist youth cultural movements in Nazi Germany before and during World War II. In particular we look at the German Edelweiss Pirates and Swing Kids, the French Zazous and the Austrian Schlurfs.
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Do you have a website or blog? If so, there is a super simple way you can generate dynamic content every day of the year: by embedding our On This Day in History widget.
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We are super excited to announce that after six years of work we have finally been able to complete building an interactive Stories web app containing all of our historical stories. On top of this, we have also built a Map, where you can browse our stories geographically, to connect with our collective people’s history where you live, work and travel.
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We chat with Pearson from the Coffee with Comrades podcast about our new web apps: the Working Class History Map and Stories app. This episode has been timed to coincide with the public launch of our web apps on January 31.
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With the takeover of Twitter by the world’s richest man, which has led to a surge in hate speech, the reinstatement of white supremacist, fascist and neo-Nazi accounts, and the bannings of numerous anti-fascist accounts, WCH has been prioritising expanding our presence on Mastodon, an alternative, open source social media platform. This is our quick guide on how you can get on Mastodon and follow us.
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In this two-part episode, Working Class Literature speak to DD Johnston about his new novel, Disnaeland, about a working-class Scottish community’s response to societal collapse. We also discuss his previous novels and his participation in McDonald’s Workers’ Resistance, a radical collective of angry employees at the world’s biggest fast food chain.
Continue reading “WCL 5-6: DD Johnston’s proletarian apocalypse”
Double podcast episode about the life and work of Howard Zinn, historian, World War II veteran and activist, in his own words, 100 years since his birth.
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Double podcast episode about the iconic strike of mostly East African Asian women workers at the Grunwick photo processing plant in London in 1976-8. Featuring Amrit Wilson, Jayaben Desai and Colum Maloney, who took part in the dispute, and Sujata, chair of the Grunwick 40 group.
Continue reading “E67-68: The Grunwick strike”
Double podcast episode on the 1972 building workers’ strike and subsequent backlash from employers and the state, which resulted in one of the biggest miscarriages of justice experienced by the labour movement in twentieth-century Britain. In conversation with two participants from the strike, Tony O’Brien and actor Ricky Tomlinson.
Continue reading “E65-66: Building workers’ strike w/ Ricky Tomlinson”
Double podcast episode about Mildred Fish-Harnack, the US-born woman at the centre of the underground resistance to Nazism in Berlin during World War II. In conversation with Rebecca Donner, Mildred’s great-grandniece and author of All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days.
Continue reading “E63-64: Mildred Fish-Harnack”