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.
Continue reading “E95-96: Bootleg miners”
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.
Continue reading “E94: Radical Reads w/ Jasper Bernes – ‘If We Burn’”
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”
Patreon-exclusive Fireside Chat podcast, where we sat down with Annie Powers from NOlympics LA to chat about the problematic history of the Olympic Games, the negative consequences it has on host cities, and the ongoing campaign against the hosting of the Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028.
Continue reading “E93: Fireside chat – NOlympics LA”
Double podcast episode about the South Korean movements of 1987 which overthrew the US-backed military dictatorship and won big improvements for workers. In these episodes we speak with Kim Jin-sook and Hong Seung Ha about their experiences of the June Democratic Struggle, and the Great Workers’ Struggle which immediately followed it.
Continue reading “E91-92: South Korea 1987”
For our 10th birthday, we are launching a new series of discussion podcasts, exclusively for our patreon supporters, who make our work possible. In this first Fireside chat, we answer questions from patreon supporters, readers and listeners.
Continue reading “E90: Fireside chat – Q&A”
Following on from his excellent book, 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance, Gord Hill of the Kwakwaka’wakw nation gives us an overview of over three decades of Indigenous resistance in the Americas since 1992.
Continue reading “E88-89: Indigenous resistance since 1992”
Double podcast episode about the class struggle in Palestine during the British Mandate (1920-48). We discuss the organisations built by Palestinian workers, the 1936-39 revolt, and a number of joint strikes by Arabs and Jews which happened against the backdrop of rising tensions which culminated in the ethnic cleansing of the Nakba.
Continue reading “E86-87: Class struggle in Palestine”
Podcast produced by Upstream in conversation with John from Working Class History talking about the history of May Day, International Workers’ Day, from its modern origins in Chicago in 1886, to its mediaeval roots, and its relevance today.
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Introducing a brand-new daily podcast from the team at WCH. On This Day in Working Class History is a brief reminder each morning of our collective struggles for a better world which have taken place on this date in history.
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