E114: [TEASER] Fireside Chat – 2025 in review
Working Class History
Working Class History
5.0 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
We discuss a year of the podcast, sick leave, full kit wankers, the rise of the far right and social democratic responses to it in the US, UK and elsewhere, and more. We also let listeners know about projects in the works for 2026.
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- Edited by Jesse French
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome back to the Working Class History Podcast. |
| 0:03.6 | As you may know, we don't get any sort of funding from any wealthy benefactors, corporations, governments or political pies. |
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| 0:17.1 | In return, our supporters on Patreon get access to exclusive content and benefits, like ad-free episodes, bonus podcast episodes, and a couple of exclusive discussion podcast series, fireside chats, and radical reads. |
| 0:31.5 | So here is a little preview of our latest episode for our patrons. |
| 0:35.9 | You can join us, help support our work, |
| 0:38.2 | and listen to the whole thing today |
| 0:39.6 | at patreon.com slash working class history. |
| 0:43.7 | Link in the show notes. |
| 0:49.0 | As we come marching, marching in the beauty of the day, |
| 0:58.6 | a million darkened kitchens a thousand mill of screthridden by the beauty sun sun discloses and the people here are seeing bread and roses |
| 1:08.6 | bread and roses this was one sort of thing that I did want to talk about in terms of this year, |
| 1:18.0 | which is especially like you can see now how kind of liberals and centre-left people are |
| 1:25.6 | pushing for their own destruction in a way that is very reminiscent |
| 1:32.3 | of the 1920s and 30s from, yeah, all these kind of like social democrat and centre-left |
| 1:38.7 | and centre-right to some extent parties pushing to like rearm Europe and strengthened Europe's |
| 1:43.9 | defences against Russia, |
| 1:45.6 | especially in Germany, while at the same time the far right is growing so, so much. So they're |
| 1:53.8 | pushing for the government to be given all of these additional weapons and bigger militaries, France, |
| 1:59.6 | talking about potentially reintroducing military service and all that, while the far right is starting to take |
| 2:06.4 | little bits of state power in places and pushing towards getting state power nationally. |
| 2:12.0 | Obviously in some countries they have it already. |
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