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July 30, 2024July 7, 2025 Working Class History Podcast

E90: Fireside chat – Q&A

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.

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July 17, 2024October 26, 2025 Working Class History Podcast

E88-89: Indigenous resistance since 1992

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.

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May 15, 2024March 30, 2026 Working Class History Podcast

E86-87: Class struggle in Palestine

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.

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May 1, 2024July 7, 2025 Working Class History Podcast

E85: May Day with Upstream

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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January 24, 2024July 7, 2025 Working Class History Blog, Podcast

New daily podcast: On This Day in Working Class History

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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November 29, 2023July 7, 2025 Working Class History Podcast

E83-84: Angry Brigade

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.

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October 19, 2023February 24, 2026 Working Class History Podcast

E82: Workmates collective

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.

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September 19, 2023July 7, 2025 Working Class History Podcast

E81: Miners’ strikes 1972-4

Podcast episode about the huge and successful strikes by miners in Britain in 1972 and 1974, in conversation with Dave Douglass.

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July 18, 2023March 30, 2026 Working Class History Podcast

E77-80: Italian resistance

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.

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June 26, 2023July 7, 2025 Working Class History Podcast

E75-76: Trinidad general strike

Double podcast episode about the Trinidad general strike of 1937, in conversation with Ryan Cecil Jobson.

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20 June 1967: Muhammad Ali refuses draft - On This Day in Working Class History

On this day, 20 June 1967, boxing legend Muhammad Ali was convicted for refusing the draft for the Vietnam war in Houston, Texas. Ali had been a vocal opponent of the US war, saying “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?” To try to quell the escalating resistance to the war, Ali was given the maximum sentence of five years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. But their efforts were unsuccessful, and the anti-war movement continued to grow. Despite the Nation of Islam beginning to distance themselves from Ali, demonstrations supporting him took place around the world, from Egypt to Guyana to London to Ghana. Four years later his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court. Ali had no regrets: "I wasn’t trying to be a leader. I just wanted to be free. And I made a stand all people, not just Black people, should have thought about making, because it wasn’t just Black people being drafted. The government had a system where the rich man’s son went to college, and the poor man’s son went to war. Then, after the rich man’s son got out of college, he did other things to keep him out of the Army until he was too old to be drafted."Learn more about the movement against the Vietnam war in our podcast episodes 43-46: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/09/23/e43-46-the-movement-against-the-vietnam-war-in-the-us/Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory.See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/todayBrowse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/dateCheck out our Map of historical Stories: https://map.workingclasshistory.comCheck out books, posters, clothing and more in our online store, here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.comIf you enjoy this podcast, make sure to check out our flagship longform podcast, Working Class History

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