Podcast Episodes

E54: Gwangju uprising, part 2

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 Do…

Published on 3 years, 7 months ago

E53: Gwangju uprising, part 1

Season 1 Episode 53

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…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

E52: The IWW in Canada

Season 1 Episode 52

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 log…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

WCL E2: Joseph Skipsey – poet and pitman

Season 2 Episode 2

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 natio…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

E51: Jeon Tae-il and Lee So-sun

Season 1 Episode 51

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 fr…

Published on 4 years ago

E50: Working Class History the book

Season 1 Episode 50

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 ou…

Published on 4 years, 3 months ago

E49: Anti-Racist Action in Minneapolis

Season 1 Episode 49

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…

Published on 4 years, 4 months ago

E48: The green bans, part 2

Season 2

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…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

E47: The green bans, part 1

Season 1 Episode 47

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 workin…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

E46: The movement against the Vietnam war, part 4

Season 2

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…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago