On This Day in Working Class History

Mini-podcast about the general strike by Italian workers against Nazi occupation in Turin, 1945. Learn more about the Italian resistance in our podcast episodes 77-80: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/ This is the best book about the resistance:  A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance   by Claudio Pavone Check out our Working Class History  merch commemor...

Mini-podcast about a strike by oil workers in Kuwait in 2016. 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 patreon ....

Mini-podcast about a strike by Chrysler workers against the sacking of a Black worker in Detroit in 1970. Learn more about Black worker organising in Detroit in the 1960s and 70s in episodes 61-62 of the Working Class History podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e61-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers-in-detroit/ See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps o...

Mini-podcast about the formation of a union for domestic workers by the Industrial Workers of the World in Denver, Colorado, 1916. Learn more about women in the IWW in episode 16 of the Working Class History podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e16-women-in-the-early-iww/ Learn more about the IWW in these books: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/iww See all of our...

Mini-podcast about a general strike in Belgium demanding universal male suffrage 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 you...

Mini-podcast about the birth of highly influential Industrial Workers of the World union organiser, Ben Fletcher, in Philadelphia in 1890. Learn more about Fletcher's life and activism in episodes 73-74 of the Working Class History podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e73-ben-fletcher/ And get hold of this book from our online store:   Ben Fletcher: The Life And Times Of A Black Wobbly...

Mini-podcast about a successful general strike in Ireland against British colonial authorities in 1920. 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 su...

Mini-podcast about the events which precipitated the 1960 April revolution in South Korea. 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 yo...

Mini-podcast about a successful general strike in Lima, Peru, in 1910. 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 the general strike by workers in Palestine in 1946. 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 p...

Mini-podcast about protests by working-class students in Gabon against cuts in student grants. 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 the strike by Carlsberg workers in Denmark against an attack on their right to free beer at work. No Beer No Work historical merchandise 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.workingclasshisto...

Mini-podcast about the uprising by enslaved people in New York in 1712. 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 the sit-ins by disabled activists in the US in 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 Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on...

Mini-podcast about a Christian pastor in New Haven, Connecticut, who condemned strikes which were sweeping the city in 1886. 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 p...

Mini-podcast about an attempt to get scab workers across a picket line during a strike by builders at the Barbican in London in 1967. 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...

Mini-podcast about the food riot by women in Richmond, VA, in 1863. 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 pat...

Mini-podcast about the strike by New York brewery workers in 1949. 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 the bossnapping by Caterpillar workers in France demanding better severance pay in 2009. 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 general strike in Palestine and Israel in 1976 against land seizures. 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 mill workers in Eswatini in 1963. 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 patreo...

Mini-podcast about the ban on anarchism and communism in Arkansas 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...

Mini-podcast about a strike by Asian workers against racism on Christmas Island in 1974. 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,...

Mini-podcast about a successful free-speech fight by the Industrial Workers of the World union in Sioux City, Iowa, 1915. 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 poss...

Mini-podcast about a strike by Chinese workers in Equatorial Guinea in 2008. 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 listene...