Introducing On This Day in Working Class History: A new daily podcast from WCH

Introducing On This Day in Working Class History: A new daily podcast from WCH

Author: Working Class History January 30, 2024 Duration: 2:32
Introducing a brand-new daily podcast from the team at WCH. On This Day in Working Class History will be a brief reminder each morning of our collective struggles for a better world which have taken place on this date in history.
Launching on 1 February on a trial basis, each episode will be just a couple of minutes long, highlighting one anniversary from our archive each day. It’s designed to fit into your morning schedule, alongside news headlines, and to be shared on social media with your friends, colleagues and families.
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Acknowledgements
Learn more at https://workingclasshistory.com/blog/new-podcast-coming-soon-on-this-day-in-working-class-history/
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Podcast Episodes
E82: Workmates collective [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:28
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.Our suppor…
E81: Miners' strikes 1972-4 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:08
Podcast episode about strikes by miners in Britain in 1972 and 1974, in conversation with Dave Douglass.Our podcast is brought to you by our patreon supporters. Our supporters fund our work, and in return get exclusive e…
E80: Italian resistance, part 4 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 36:45
The fourth and final episode of our podcast series on the Italian resistance to fascism in conversation with anti-fascist partisans themselves.In this episode, we look at the postwar anti-fascist resistance: from armed p…
E79: Italian resistance, part 3 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:02
Part 3 of our four-part podcast series on the Italian resistance to fascism in conversation with anti-fascist partisans themselves.In this episode, we look at the question of 'the resistance betrayed': the Togliatti amne…
E78: Italian resistance, part 2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 36:19
Part 2 of our four-part podcast series on the Italian resistance to fascism in conversation with anti-fascist partisans themselves.In this episode, we discuss the participation of migrant partisans in the resistance, wha…
E77: Italian resistance, part 1 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 38:07
The first of 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.In this episode, we look at the rise o…
E76: Trinidad general strike, part 2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:43
Second of a double podcast episode about the Trinidad general strike of 1937, in conversation with Ryan Cecil Jobson.Our podcast is brought to you by our patreon supporters. Our supporters fund our work, and in return ge…
E75: Trinidad general strike, part 1 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:33
First in a double podcast episode about the Trinidad general strike of 1937, in conversation with Ryan Cecil Jobson.Our podcast is brought to you by our patreon supporters. Our supporters fund our work, and in return get…
E74: Ben Fletcher, part 2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:36
Concluding part of a 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.In these episodes, we speak with…
E73: Ben Fletcher, part 1 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:46
First in a 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.In these episodes, we speak with historian…