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
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…