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
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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
E54: Gwangju uprising, part 2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:58
Part 2 of our four-part podcast miniseries about the May 18 uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1980 against the US-backed military dictatorship of Chun Doo Hwan. We speak with Kim Yong Ho, David Dolinger and Jeon Yong…
E53: Gwangju uprising, part 1 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:28
First part of our podcast miniseries about the May 18 uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1980 against the US-backed military dictatorship of Chun Doo Hwan. We speak with Kim Yong Ho, David Dolinger and Jeon Yong Ho, wh…
E52: The IWW in Canada [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:33
Podcast episode about the history of the revolutionary union the Industrial Workers of the World in Canada. We speak with historian and author Mark Leier about the union’s organising work amongst loggers, miners, road an…
WCL E2: Joseph Skipsey – poet and pitman [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:59
Episode two of the Working Class Literature podcast about Joseph Skipsey, a poet and coal miner from the North East of England. After entering the mines as a child, he would grow up to become a nationally-renowned poet,…
E51: Jeon Tae-il and Lee So-sun [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:12
Podcast episode about two extremely influential South Korean worker organisers, Jeon Tae-il and Lee So-sun, and the autonomous self-organisation of women textile and garment workers in the country from the 1960s to the 1…
E50: Working Class History the book [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:07:02
Podcast episode in which we talk about our new book, Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion, with our friends at the Coffee with Comrades podcast, which they edited and put out as their episode 11…
E49: Anti-Racist Action in Minneapolis [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:23
As a far-right mob storms the Capitol in Washington DC, learn more about the history of opposition to white supremacy in the US. This podcast episode tells the story of Anti-Racist Action, a militant anti-fascist organis…
E48: The green bans, part 2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:53
Concluding part of our double podcast episode about green bans by building workers in Australia from 1970 to 1975 which held up billions of dollars of development which would have been harmful to the environment, or work…
E47: The green bans, part 1 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:17
Double podcast episode about green bans by building workers in Australia from 1970 to 1975 which held up billions of dollars of development which would have been harmful to the environment, or working class and Aborigina…
E46: The movement against the Vietnam war, part 4 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:41
Third of our four-part miniseries on opposition to the Vietnam war in the US, in conversation with five former participants in the movement. This week we look at anti-war organising with US prisoners of war, labour organ…

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