Before the current wave of organising at Starbucks, another group of workers in the early 2000s got together and formed a union at one of the most anti-union corporations on earth. They won better pay and conditions, and laid the groundwork for the unionisation campaign today. Learn their story in this three-part podcast series in conversation with Daniel Gross, one of the key organisers.
Discussion episode looking at the literary texts that were produced in response to the 1926 general strike, both from established authors of the middle/upper classes and emerging working-class writers. In conversation with Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill, authors of the excellent book, Writing the 1926 General Strike: Literature, Culture, Politics.
Continue reading “WCL15: Literature of the 1926 General Strike”
Three-part miniseries about the UK’s 1926 general strike, which saw one and three-quarter million workers walk out in the biggest single work stoppage in British history. In collaboration with the General Strike 100 project and told using interviews with striking workers themselves.
Continue reading “E118-120: 1926 general strike”
Fireside Chat podcast available exclusively for our Patreon supporters where we make fun of Trump’s absurd letter to the Norwegian Prime Minister, and what it means for the rest of the world that the US President is a half-witted narcissist.
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Double podcast episode about the 2001 uprising in Argentina, which toppled the government, and saw the spread of neighbourhood assemblies and factories taken over by workers. In conversation with Tomas Rothaus, a participant in the uprising and author of Argentina, a Tale of Two Utopias.
Continue reading “E115-116: Argentina uprising 2001”
Fireside Chat podcast available exclusively for our Patreon supporters in which we sit down for a bit of a chat about the year past, for WCH and the world, and plans we have for the year ahead.
Continue reading “E114: Fireside Chat – 2025 in review”
The latest in our Radical Reads series, we discuss Beverly Silver’s pioneering work, Forces of Labour: Workers’ Movements and Globalisation Since 1870, a book which was hugely influential on many of us at Working Class History.
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As part of our Radical Reads series, we speak about our latest book, Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion, with editors Zane McNeill, Blu Buchanan and Riley Clare Valentine.
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Double podcast episode about the successful mass direct action campaign against the UK poll tax in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In conversation with Dave Morris from the Tottenham Anti-Poll Tax campaign and Haringey Solidarity Group.
Continue reading “E110-111: Poll tax revolt”
Following our double-episode on the Florence Working-Class Literature Festival back in February, our co-host Matt was invited to this year’s festival, recording this episode on-site at the ex-GKN factory in Florence. Featuring the various writers, researchers, organisers, and activists in attendance, this episode captures the atmosphere of the festival at this critical time for the GKN struggle.
Continue reading “WCL 14: Live from the Working-Class Literature Festival”