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Working Class History

Holiday greetings

Working Class History

Working Class History

Society & Culture, Education, History

5.0813 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

A festive and New Year message from WCH. You can support our work on patreon at https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Pictured is the Christmas tree outside the Athens Parliament, which was burned by people in 2008 protesting against the police murder of a teenager.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone. We're not releasing an episode this week, but we just wanted to send festive greetings to all of our listeners and let you know about some things we've got coming up. So happy holidays to all of you who are taking some time off.

0:12.5

Right now, we're working on putting together a few episodes that we spent a lot of time on. These include episodes on lesbians and gays support the minors, which was an inspiring LGBT support group for British miners in 1984-5.

0:26.6

On the USS Columbia Eagle Mutiny, when two sailors hijacked a ship full of napalm to prevent it being used in the Vietnam War,

0:34.8

revolutionary workers organising in Australia, the Reichstag fire,

0:39.5

and the massive protest movement against the Vietnam War in the US and more. The first of these

0:44.6

will be out early in the new year, and as always, our Patreon supporters will get first listened.

0:49.8

We'd also like to take a moment to say special thanks to our patrons for whose support we are

0:53.6

extremely grateful. Since starting a Patreon just over a year ago, your support has enabled us to do so much

0:59.1

more. We've grown from being just a Facebook page to having a podcast, a decent Twitter account,

1:04.9

an Instagram and a YouTube channel, and a website, and we've got our information about our

1:09.9

collective struggles for a better world,

1:11.5

out to millions more people over the past year. So thanks again for that. We've got some

1:16.6

big plans for the future, including really working on making the podcast better, better quality

1:22.2

and better researched. And behind the scenes, we're also working on building an interactive

1:27.1

website with timelines and maps, mapping class struggle globally, we're also working on building an interactive website with timelines

1:28.6

and maps mapping class struggle globally.

1:31.1

We're also working on getting our information translated into other languages, including

1:36.1

French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian and Arabic, and doing more research to try to uncover

1:41.6

and publicise more of our hidden history.

1:44.5

So if you support us on Patreon already, thank you so much.

1:47.4

If you don't yet and you can spare the cash, please consider supporting us.

1:51.6

As the more supporters we have, basically the more time we can spend on WCH and then the better

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