E76: Trinidad general strike, part 2
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🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Part 2 is about the general strike itself, the repression, the aftermath, its consequences and lessons for us today.
Acknowledgements
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome back to part two of our double podcast episode about the Trinidad General Strike of |
| 0:05.0 | 1937. If you haven't heard part one yet, I'd go back and listen to that first. |
| 0:11.4 | At the matina, |
| 0:16.5 | apennelzaata, |
| 0:21.5 | oh, Bella, chow, bella, chow, la maternity |
| 0:27.5 | Before we get started, just a reminder that our podcast is brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:37.0 | Our supporters find our work and in return get exclusive early access to podcast episodes without ads, |
| 0:41.3 | bonus episodes, free and discounted merch and other content. |
| 0:45.3 | Join us and find out more at patreon.com slash working class history. |
| 0:49.3 | Link in the show notes. |
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| 1:47.0 | Where we left off last time, Ryan Jobson had told us about several years of agitation in Trinidad by employed and unemployed workers and landless peasants. |
| 1:56.0 | Over this time, strikes and protests escalated, many of them by supporters of Uriah Butler, a disabled |
| 2:02.9 | former oil worker and union leader, who also advocated the end of direct British colonial |
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