E114: [TEASER] Fireside Chat – 2025 in review

E114: [TEASER] Fireside Chat – 2025 in review

Author: Working Class History January 8, 2026 Duration: 11:52
Teaser extract of our latest 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.
We discuss a year of the podcast, sick leave, full kit wankers, the rise of the far right and social democratic responses to it in the US, UK and elsewhere, and more. We also let listeners know about projects in the works for 2026.
Listen to the complete episode here by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/146576665
Our podcast is brought to you by our Patreon supporters. Our supporters fund our work, and in return get exclusive early access to podcast episodes, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, free and discounted merchandise and other content. Join us or find out more at patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Acknowledgements
  • Thanks to our Patreon supporters for making this podcast possible. Special thanks to Jazz Hands.
  • Edited by Jesse French
  • Our theme tune is Montaigne’s version of the classic labour movement anthem, ‘Bread and Roses’, performed by Montaigne and Nick Harriott, and mixed by Wave Racer. Download the song here, with all proceeds going to Medical Aid for Palestinians. More from Montaigne: website, Instagram, YouTube.

Podcast Episodes
E125.1: [TEASER] Riot Dogs - Greece bonus episode [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:25
Free preview extract ofIn various countries around the world, as movements against exploitation and inequality exploded, protesters found some unlikely allies – street dogs. In these episodes, we look at movements and ri…
E125: Riot dogs - Negro Matapacos [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:35
In various countries around the world, as movements against exploitation and inequality exploded, protesters found some unlikely allies – street dogs. In these episodes, we look at movements and riot dogs in two countrie…
E124: [TEASER] Fireside Chat - World Cup of Chaos [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 25:09
Fireside Chat podcast available exclusively for our Patreon supporters we invited back Tomas Rothaus (from our Argentina 2001 episodes) to discuss football, politics, and the chaotic mess of the World Cup in Donald Trump…
E123.1 [TEASER]: IWW Starbucks Workers Union, bonus episode [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:10
Free preview of the bonus episode to our three-part podcast series about the organising campaign by the Industrial Workers of the World union at Starbucks in the 2000s, in conversation with Daniel Gross, one of the key o…
E123: IWW Starbucks Workers Union, part 3 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:40
Final part of our three-part podcast series about the organising campaign by the Industrial Workers of the World union at Starbucks in the 2000s, in conversation with Daniel Gross, one of the key organisers.This part cov…
E122: IWW Starbucks Workers Union, part 2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:33
Part 2 of our three-part podcast series about the organising campaign by the Industrial Workers of the World union at Starbucks in the 2000s, in conversation with Daniel Gross, one of the key organisers.This part covers…
E121: IWW Starbucks Workers Union, part 1 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 47:46
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…
E120.1: [TEASER] 1926 general strike, bonus episode [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:44
Bonus episode for our three-part miniseries about the UK’s 1926 general strike, in collaboration with the General Strike 100 project and told using interviews with striking workers themselves.In this episode, East London…
E120: 1926 general strike, part 3 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:37
The final of our 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 Genera…
E119: 1926 general strike, part 2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:53
Part 2 of our 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 S…