E125.1: [TEASER] Riot Dogs - Greece bonus episode

E125.1: [TEASER] Riot Dogs - Greece bonus episode

Author: Working Class History August 12, 2026 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 riot dogs in two countries: Chile and Greece, and Negro Matapacos and Loukanikos, respectively.
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In this bonus episode, we look at a street dog named Loukanikos, and protests against police violence in 2009, and against austerity in 2011. Listen to the whole thing exclusively by joining us on Patreon.
More info
  • Check out the Riot dog merch in our online shop.
  • Check out sources, more information, and eventually a transcript on the webpage for this episode: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e125-riot-dogs/ 
Acknowledgements
  • Thanks to our Patreon supporters for making this podcast possible. Special thanks to Jazz Hands.
  • Episode graphic: Loukanikos poster, designed for WCH by Jeff Mooridian Jr
  • Our theme tune is Loukanikos, by Ricardo Araya, as The Sunfall. Get it here on Bandcamp.
  • Written by Audrey Kemp and Tyler Hill.
  • Produced by Tyler Hill.

Podcast Episodes
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…
E118: 1926 general strike, part 1 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:33
First 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 St…