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Ep 28 – Workplace Occupations and Sit-Down Strikes from 2021-01-05T17:32:29
Edd takes us through the history of the tactic of workplace occupations, and we discuss their re-emergence in Britain and Ireland in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash. We're very lucky to b...
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Ep 27: Strikes for Black Lives, with guest Robert Cuffy from 2020-09-04T16:10:17
What role has organised labour played in anti-racist and civil rights struggles, past and present? We look at recent actions by workers and unions as part of the Black Lives Matter movement, and th...
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Ep 26: 'Class Power on Zero Hours': an interview with the Angry Workers from 2020-05-23T12:12:46
This episode features an interview with two comrades from the Angry Workers, a revolutionary collective whose members have been involved in workplace and community organising activity in the superm...
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Ep 25: Three Strikes And Out from 2020-04-26T18:57:21
In a break from pandemic-related content, our hosts each pick a little-known, unusual, or otherwise distinctive strike from history, and briefly tell its story.
Daniel spoke about the art...
Ep 24: Coronavirus Pandemic - No Class Peace in the Crisis from 2020-03-29T17:55:48
A special episode produced in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, looking at how bosses are attempting to exploit the crisis, and what workers are doing to resist it.
In such a fast movin...
Ep 23: Discussing Yorkshire & Humber TUC's "Summer Patrols" from 2019-12-07T19:07:19
In our last episode of 2019, we speak to Caty and Chris, two activists involved in TUC Yorkshire and the Humber's "Summer Patrols" project. We discuss the aims of the project, and the broad horizon...
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Ep 22: Sex workers organising from 2019-08-22T20:00:33
In this episode, Edd speaks to Stacey Clare, author of the forthcoming book ‘The Ethical Stripper’, about her experiences as a stripper and sex workers’ rights activist with campaigns and unions su...
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Ep 21: Rank-and-file trade unionism (Live from Southampton Transformed) from 2019-08-08T20:00:25
This mini episode consists of a talk our co-host Daniel gave at the Southampton Transformed event on 8 June. He spoke on a panel entitled “how can the labour movement organise in a way that include...
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Ep 20: Animators and Games Workers from 2019-06-10T20:19:13
This month we discuss the 1941 Disney animators' strike before looking at workers' organisation in the contemporary video games industry.
Our guests were Jamie Woodcock (@Jamie_Woodcock on...
Ep 19: The Sheffield Workers' Committee 1914-1920 from 2019-05-02T08:05:37
In the midst of the First World War, engineering workers in Sheffield built a shopfloor organisation that confronted the bosses, the state, and the conservatism of their own union leaders. We discu...
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Ep 18: Rank-and-filism 101: What's "the bureaucracy"? What's "the rank and file"? from 2019-02-14T00:38:36
Trade union activists, particularly those on the left, will almost certainly be familiar with the terms “bureaucracy” and “rank and file”. But what do they mean?
In this episode, with Elli...
Ep 17: The Christmas (Island) Episode from 2018-12-23T14:31:40
In our first seasonal special, we tell the inspiring story of the Union of Christmas Island Workers (UCIW), a trade union on the Australian territory of Christmas Island, so named by an East India ...
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Ep 16: Education in the labour movement from 2018-11-29T15:13:01
In excerpts from panels at The World Transformed and the Ella Baker School of Transformative organising, we bring you Colin Waugh talking about the history of Ruskin College and the Plebs' League; ...
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Ep 15: The red-state walkouts: an interview with Lois Weiner from 2018-08-31T12:53:21
Returning to our secret North London bunker-studio following last month’s live cast, we turn our attention to the recent walkouts of teachers and other school workers in Republican-voting states in...
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Ep 14: Labour Days live: A new New Unionism? from 2018-07-24T11:53:42
This is our very first live podcast, recorded at Ideas for Freedom, a weekend of socialist debate and discussion hosted by Workers’ Liberty, on 23 June.
We were joined by Tom Kelly, a str...
Ep 13: Police vs Picket Lines from 2018-05-26T09:40:44
What attitude should the labour movement take to the police? Does the way strikes have been policed in the past give us some clues about the police’s fundamental role?
With the Labour Part...
Ep 12: We go full Dobbs - The Minneapolis Teamsters' strike of 1934 from 2018-04-11T13:13:53
It's our first birthday, and after a year of frankly unseemly pleading, cajoling, and tantrum-throwing from Daniel, the Labour Days crew has finally allowed him, as a special birthday treat, to giv...
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Ep 11: 'One Hand Tied Behind Us' - Women workers, trade unions, and the fight for suffrage from 2018-03-10T13:56:39
In the centenary year of the "Representation of the People Act", which extended the franchise to certain, propertied, women, Labour Days looks at the question of working-class and labour movement i...
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Ep 10: On New Terrain - an interview with Kim Moody from 2018-02-11T13:59:03
In this episode, we take a deep dive into questions of class composition and labour movement strategy via an interview with Kim Moody.
Kim is a labour movement writer and activist, who co...
Ep 9: Green Bans and Workers' Plans - How organised labour can save the planet from 2017-12-10T12:30:40
With Ellie out of action, wafflers-in-chief Daniel and Edd discuss whether trade unions have a particular role to play in the struggle to prevent the planet becoming a charred husk (spoiler: they d...
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Ep 8: Unions and the Russian Revolution from 2017-11-14T19:13:41
How did trade unionists, and the trade union movement, respond to the revolutions of 1917 in Russia? Edd The Brain takes us through a few examples, and we discuss what implications they have for co...
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Ep 7: Trade unions against fascism from 2017-10-21T08:59:57
With far-right and fascist movements growing across Europe and North America, how can trade unions resist?
We look back through history at some examples of how organised labour has confro...
Ep 6: The 2017 #McStrike and the 1912 New York waiters' strike from 2017-09-02T09:13:02
With McDonald's workers in two stores set to stage their first ever official strike in UK history, we interview striker and BFAWU activist Steve about the campaign, and discuss the issues it raises...
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Ep 6 preview: #McStrike! from 2017-08-28T12:46:57
As a teaser for our forthcoming sixth episode on food service workers' struggles past and present, we're sharing part of our interview with McDonald's worker and BFAWU activist Steve, who talks abo...
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Ep 5: Unions on screen from 2017-08-04T10:43:29
How have unions been portrayed in film and TV, and why aren't there more representations of unions and class struggle on screen? The Labour Days crew attempts to answer these questions, with (mostl...
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Ep 4: Industrial unionism from 2017-07-07T06:25:10
In this episode, Professor Edmund "the Brain" Mustill takes the gang through a potted history of industrial unionism, and discusses how it differs from craft-based models of trade unionism.
Ep 3: Trade unions and immigration from 2017-06-02T18:26:21
Daniel, Ellie, and Edd discuss migrant workers' struggles past and present, and explore debates in the historic and contemporary labour movement around immigration controls, arguing that trade unio...
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Ep 2: May Day from 2017-04-30T21:09:49
In this episode, Edd, Ellie, and Daniel take a look at the origins of International Workers’ Day and how it is still celebrated around the world.
Further reading on the radical origins of ...
Ep 1: Cinemas and Music Halls from 2017-04-07T23:32:22
In our first episode Edd, Daniel, and Ellie discuss their hopes for what the podcast might achieve.
We talk to Kelly Rogers, union rep at the Ritzy, about the growing Picturehouse Cinema w...