E35: The 43 Group, part 1
Working Class History
Working Class History
5.0 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We speak with Daniel Sonabend, author of We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post-War Britain, as well as Jules Konopinski, who was a member of the group.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In the wake of World War II, Jewish ex-servicemen and women who served with the British Army came back after witnessing the horrors of the concentration camps in Auschwitz and elsewhere. |
| 0:09.0 | They returned to see fascists like the ones they fought, organizing openly on street corners in their hometowns and cities, so some of them decided to continue their fight against fascism and hatred by any means necessary. |
| 0:21.6 | This is working class history. |
| 0:23.6 | All the matina, |
| 0:27.6 | just upen alzata, |
| 0:32.6 | Oh, bella, bye, Bella, chow, bella, chow, bella, chow, bella, chow, chow, chow, all the matino. |
| 0:45.1 | Hi, everyone, and belated happy new year. |
| 0:48.0 | Sorry, it's been a while since our last episode, but we've been extremely busy working on numerous episodes behind the scenes, including |
| 0:54.3 | this one, and finishing a book, which should be coming out later this year. |
| 0:58.7 | Now, we don't normally do this, but today we'd just like to start this episode off with |
| 1:01.8 | a brief appeal. |
| 1:03.1 | A number of our core team took time off from their day jobs in 2019 to spend more time |
| 1:07.4 | working on WCH. |
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| 1:14.6 | With a thousand patrons, we'll be able to continue investing the same amount of time as we did in 2019. |
| 1:19.6 | Short of that, episodes may be a bit less regular. |
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| 1:33.9 | that out at patreon.com slash working class history a link in the show notes animals can't speak to drivers |
| 1:43.9 | but if they could they would be asking us telling us by the sound Animals can't speak to drivers. |
| 1:46.6 | But if they could, they would be asking us, |
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