WCH Podcast and Patreon Update

WCH Podcast and Patreon Update

Author: Working Class History October 30, 2025 Duration: 4:30
An update for you on the Working Class History podcast and its future. 
In short, we began releasing much more frequent podcast episodes 18 months ago, in an effort to get more supporters on Patreon. While we were able to grow our support, it has not been sufficient to cover our increased costs, and we have now run out of episodes. So we will be taking an end of season break, to work on new episodes to release in the New Year.
Patreon is how listeners like you make our work possible, and enables us to cover the cost of making the podcast. Some series we work on take several years, hundreds of hours of work, and cost thousands of dollars, not to mention all of our other costs. Learn more and join us at https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
The price of our exclusive content on Patreon hasn't gone up since 2020, whereas inflation has gone up by 25% and costs have gone up even more.
So in the New Year we are going to have to increase the cost of our Patreon benefits to new members. However, if you join us on Patreon before then, you will be able to permanently lock in the 2020 price of $5 per month (or even cheaper if you subscribe annually). So please join us today to access great benefits like early access to all episodes without ads, and access to our exclusive bonus episodes every month. 
In 2026, the cost of a subscription to new members will increase to $6 per month, so don't delay, join us today to support the dissemination of people's history, at this time of attacks on the genuine teaching of factual history around the world.
Learn more and sign up at https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory

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…