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Daily briefings of On This Day people's history anniversaries every day of the year. From the Working Class History team. Help support our work by joining us on patreon and accessing exclusive content and benefits: patreon.com/workingclasshistory
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28 November 2006: Aruba oil workers strike
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During the Great Depression in the US, facing mass job losses and abject poverty, thousands of coal miners in Pennsylvania took direct action and began digging their own mines on company property. We tell their story in this two-part podcast. Our podcast is brought to you by our patreon supporters. Our supporters fund our work, and in return get ex…
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24 November 1995: France pension strike
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18 November 1998: Lufthansa Skychef strike
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17 November 1915: Glasgow rent strike women protest
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16 November 1984: Johannesburg rent strikers arrested
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15 November 2005: Tahiti social workers strike
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14 November 1973: Athens Polytechnic student strike
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E94: [TEASER] E94: Radical Reads w/ Jasper Bernes – ‘If We Burn’
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This is a teaser preview of our first Radical Read, made exclusively for our supporters on patreon. You can listen to the full 68-minute episode without ads and support our work at https://www.patreon.com/posts/e94-radical-w-if-113750155 First of our new series, Radical Reads, in which we team up with Jasper Bernes to discuss Vincent Bevins’ 2023 b…
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11 November 1918: Switzerland general strike
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8 November 2004: New Caledonia nickel strike
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5 November 1811: Saint-Leu enslaved revolt
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4 November 1910: Champagne tax strike
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3 November 2017: Marshall Islands fish strike
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Mini-podcast about the Balfour declaration by the UK government which eventually led to the creation of Israel. Learn about class struggle in Palestine under the British mandate in episodes 86-7 of the Working Class History podcast here: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-87-class-struggle-in-palestine/ Learn more about the Balfour declara…
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1 November 2008: Boeing workers win strike
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31 October 1979: Iran oil workers strike
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30 October 1919: Pennsylvania blind workers strike
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29 October 1831: Bristol reform riots
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28 October 1916: Conscription defeated in Australia
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27 October 1948: NYC brewery strike grows
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26 October 1983: Northwood and Pinner occupation
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25 October 1983: Hayes Cottage Hospital occupied
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WCL9: Chinese migrant worker poetry, part 3
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The final episode of our three-part series about migrant worker poetry in China. We speak to Maghiel van Crevel, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Leiden University. Maghiel has travelled extensively in China, meeting with and writing about the work of Chinese migrant worker poets. In this episode, we look at questions of censorship i…
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23 October 1913: Bristol University Suffragette arson
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22 October 1921: Castleconnell fisheries strike
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21 October 1935: St Vincent Labour rebellion
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20 October 1901: Rosario sugar strike
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19 October 1945: Chinese seamen deported
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WCL8: Chinese migrant worker poetry, part 2
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Part 2 of our three-part series about migrant worker poetry in China. We speak to Maghiel van Crevel, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Leiden University. Maghiel has travelled extensively in China, meeting with and writing about the work of Chinese migrant worker poets. In this episode, we look at the work of the Migrant Worker Home,…
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17 October 1950: Salt of the Earth strike
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16 October 1951: Spit and polish action
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15 October 1913: Indian miners protest indenture tax
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