E320: This Angry Wreckage w/ Angry Workers of the World
This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Sean and Andy are joined by Marco and Luke of the UK collective Angry Workers of the World, here to discuss their practical activity and intellectual output since the publication of Class Power on Zero Hours several years ago. They also present their relatively new healthcare industry project whose publication Vital Signs seeks to analyze how medical labor, in all its industrial diversity and its day-to-day struggles, might prefigure a world where our class has taken responsibility for production and reproduction of society.
This is a wide-ranging and fascinating discussion with fellow workers who are grappling with the biggest questions facing our class at the moment. If you're interested in their project or starting something similar where you live and work they have asked especially healthcare workers in the US to reach out to collaborate with them at Vital Signs.
To become a patron and support our work go to www.patreon.com/thiswreckage
Song: Megadeath - Angry Again
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| 0:00.0 | where do you live luke i'm in bristol |
| 0:08.0 | in bristol we're both in bristol now |
| 0:12.0 | my uh my geography is failing me it's in the southwest you know where the sort of the ukicke kicks out uh-huh yeah a bit It's in the southwest. You know where the sort of the UK kicks out. |
| 0:22.4 | Uh-huh. |
| 0:23.1 | Yeah, a bit. |
| 0:24.0 | It's like the sort of elbow there, just under Wales. |
| 0:29.9 | Just under whale. |
| 0:30.8 | Okay, so not quite out, like Pirates of Penzance territory. |
| 0:35.1 | It's not quite. |
| 0:36.6 | No, but when you go deep Bristol, they sound like that. A little bit, you know, they got the sort of that West Country drawl. West Country drawl. Oh, I see it now on a map. Okay. So you're not like mining tin there? No, not quite. It's not Exeter. No, not quite. |
| 0:55.2 | I mean, I'm really, no, it used to be a big sort of like maritime city that it's on that, |
| 1:02.2 | that estuary rolls out. |
| 1:04.5 | So it's like, I think Eric Robinson has this line in slavery and capitalism that there's |
| 1:08.5 | not a brick in Bristol that wasn't laid with the blood of slaves. |
| 1:12.0 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:12.3 | So I'm very much, like, ingrained in the tobacco trade through the sort of 17th century, 16, 17th, 18th century. |
| 1:21.4 | Um, your city bears the imprint of like the transatlantic trade. |
| 1:25.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.7 | All of the evils and goods of that. |
| 1:29.3 | Marco, how are we doing? |
| 1:30.8 | Yeah, not too bad. |
| 1:31.6 | Thank you. |
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