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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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Double podcast about the Angry Brigade, Britain’s first home-grown urban guerrilla group, in the 1960s and 70s, in conversation with John Barker, who was put on trial as part of the group.
Continue reading “E83-84: Angry Brigade”
Podcast episode about the Workmates collective, a rank-and-file initiative on the London Underground using unofficial direct action and workplace assemblies to fight privatisation in the late-1990s/early 2000s.
Continue reading “E82: Workmates collective”
Podcast episode about the huge and successful strikes by miners in Britain in 1972 and 1974, in conversation with Dave Douglass.
Continue reading “E81: Miners’ strikes 1972-4”
A four-part podcast series on the Italian resistance to fascism, both during World War Two and immediately after, in conversation with anti-fascist partisans themselves.
Continue reading “E77-80: Italian resistance”
Double podcast episode about the Trinidad general strike of 1937, in conversation with Ryan Cecil Jobson.
Continue reading “E75-76: Trinidad general strike”
Double podcast episode about Ben Fletcher, a very important but little-known dock worker and labour organiser in the US with the Industrial Workers of the World union.
Continue reading “E73-74: Ben Fletcher”
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.
Continue reading “E72: Swing Kids and Edelweiss Pirates”
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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