Casualties of History: When We Burn Down Your Barn
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
We're on to Part II of The Making of the English Working Class. We cover chapter six and seven--"Exploitation" and "The Field Labourers," plus discuss the 1986 film Comrades, which follows the Tolpuddle Martyrs, a group of laborers who were transported to Australia for organizing an early trade union.
No secondary reading this week, though if you can find Comrades online, watch it! In the United States at least, it's available on Vimeo.
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| 0:00.0 | So just a bit of background for our listeners a couple of weeks ago the |
| 0:07.2 | casualties of history Twitter account by the way you're listening to casualties of history in case you didn't know a podcast from |
| 0:13.5 | Jackman magazine the casualties of history Twitter account posted a |
| 0:20.1 | kind of legendary image from it would appear to be what maybe the mid-19 early to mid |
| 0:26.2 | 1960s somewhere in there of of the so-called new left Review Battle Bus, which existed why. |
| 0:35.0 | Explain to the listeners. |
| 0:37.2 | I don't know. |
| 0:38.5 | I don't know why it existed. |
| 0:40.9 | No, I mean, there were new left clubs around the country. |
| 0:45.0 | And so I imagine that there was some kind of loose, I think, affiliation between the journal and the clubs. |
| 0:55.1 | So you know maybe they were kind of touring and campaigning. |
| 0:58.0 | I sort of imagine it probably had to do with the anti-nuclear campaign, but I'm very much making. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah, okay, fair enough. |
| 1:04.4 | You don't have any secret knowledge that I don't have. |
| 1:07.0 | No. |
| 1:07.4 | I figured I just meant it had something to do with the clubs, |
| 1:09.8 | I would have to assume. |
| 1:12.2 | But it says review, not clubs, on the side of the bus, right? So look up a new |
| 1:19.9 | left review battle bus in Google Image Search, you'll see the image. |
| 1:23.0 | It's a, I think it's a VW Mini Bus. |
| 1:27.4 | It's a very 60s image, it's black and white. |
| 1:30.7 | And you just, like you look at it and you feel the vibe of this milieu and we want to you you want to be there |
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