Patreon-exclusive Fireside Chat podcast about the case of Luigi Mangione, accused of assassinating a healthcare CEO. In this episode we discuss the US healthcare system, about Mangione and his past, about media and public reactions to the killing, and about historical parallels and differences with past assassinations.
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Two-part podcast episode about the Working-Class Literature Festival held every year in Florence, at the former GKN car parts factory, which was taken over by the workers after they were made redundant in 2021.
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As part of our Radical Reads series, we speak to Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond about their book, Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics.
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With the background of the Vietnam war, rising prices and stagnant wages, workers in the US began to ignore calls to support the war effort and keep working, and instead launch a wave of wildcat strikes in key industries, while women homeworkers fought for lower prices. We tell the story of these struggles in this double podcast episode.
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In the latest addition to our Radical Reads series, we invited Michael Richmond to talk to us about David Baddiel’s ridiculous book, Jews Don’t Count.
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Our work is only made possible through our supporters’ donations. And now, with the help of our friends in the labour movement, those active in their unions can support us through their union branches and locals!
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During the Great Depression in the US, facing mass job losses and abject poverty, thousands of coal miners in Pennsylvania took direct action and began digging their own mines on company property. We tell their story in this two-part podcast.
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First of our new series, Radical Reads, in which we team up with Jasper Bernes to discuss Vincent Bevins’ 2023 book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution.
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Three-part podcast series on the migrant worker poetry scene in China, the precarious social conditions in which these poets live and, of course, the poetry they produce.
Continue reading “WCL 7-9: Chinese migrant worker poetry”