On This Day in Working Class History

Mini-podcast about a strike by indentured Chinese phosphate miners in Nauru, 1948. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today Browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Check out our Map of historical Stories:  Browse all Stories by...

Mini-podcast about a general strike by Black workers in South Africa in protest against apartheid in 1988. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Check out books, posters, clothing a...

Mini-podcast about a riot against police in Leeds, England, in 2001. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Check out books, posters, clothing and more in our online store, here: htt...

Mini-podcast about a victorious strike by workers in the Faroe Islands in 2003. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our list...

Mini-podcast about a massacre of striking steelworkers in India 1977. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Check out books, posters, clothing and more in our online store, here: ht...

Mini-podcast about the occupation of a church by sex workers in Lyon, France in 1975. Books and more on sex workers and their struggles here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/sex-workers See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here o...

Mini-podcast about a strike by Schlitz brewery workers in the walkie in 1981. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listen...

Mini-podcast about the death of Trinidadian socialist, writer and journalist, CLR James, in London in 1989. Books by and about James here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/c-l-r-james See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on t...

Mini-podcast about a general strike of workers in Senegal in May 1968. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on...

Mini-podcast about a strike by animators working for Disney in Los Angeles, 1941. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our li...

Mini-podcast about a hugely successful mass strike of workers in France under the Popular Front government in 1936. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible b...

Mini-podcast about a lockout of dockworkers in Vancouver, Canada in 1935. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners...

Mini-podcast about the strike by women and girls working at the Slater Mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1824. Learn more about the dispute in episode 32 of the Working Class History podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e28-the-pawtucket-mill-strike/ See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshi...

Mini-podcast about the founding of the Argentina Regional Workers' Federation union, FORA, in 1901. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of suppor...

Mini-podcast about a strike by miners in Alberta, Canada, in 1919. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patr...

Mini-podcast about a strike by miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a Covid-19 bonus in 2020. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because o...

Mini-podcast about the lockout of miners at the Royal Oak mine in Canada in 1992. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our li...

Mini-podcast about the bombing of the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh by suffragettes in 1913. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from...

Mini-podcast about a strike by miners in Eswatini in 1963. Support our colleagues in Gaza on their crowdfunder: https://www.gofundme.com/f/9qf6nz-hope-beyond-borders-yallas-gaza-crisis-fund See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index...

Mini-podcast about a shootout between striking miners and bosses' thugs in Matewan, West Virginia in 1920. Learn more in episodes 57-58 of the Working Class History podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e57-west-virginia-mine-wars-1902-1922/ See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/d...

Mini-podcast about an uprising against the US-backed dictatorship in Gwangju, South Korea in 1980. Learn more in episodes 53-56 of the Working Class History podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e53-the-gwangju-uprising-1980/ See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And br...

Mini-podcast about the Catonsville 9 – Catholic activists against the Vietnam War in 1968. Learn more about opposition to the Vietnam war in episodes 43-46 of the Working Class History podcast, here. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the...

Mini-podcast about the forming of a key committee during a wave of riots and rebellions against British colonial rule in Hong Kong in 1967. Learn more in episodes 30-31 of the Working Class History podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e30-31-the-hong-kong-riots-1967/ See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  storie...

Mini-podcast about the death of Industrial Workers of the World union songwriter and columnist, T-Bone Slim, in 1942. Learn more in episode 1 of the Working Class Literature podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/wcl-e01-t-bone-slim-the-laureate-of-the-logging-camps/ See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories....

Mini-podcast about a boycott of a ship carrying military equipment for Israel for use in Gaza by dockers in Livorno, Italy. Support our colleagues in Gaza on their crowdfunder: https://www.gofundme.com/f/9qf6nz-hope-beyond-borders-yallas-gaza-crisis-fund See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com...