Labour Days: a labour movement Podcast
1) Ep 31: The History of Anti-Strike Laws in the UK
Tony Blair once reassured a journalist that, even after New Labour’s moderate reforms to employment law, Britain would still have “the most restrictive union laws in the western world.” What do those...Show More
2) Ep 30: James Connolly's Industrial Unionism
Our own Liam McNulty has written a new political biography of the Irish revolutionary James Connolly, entitled ‘James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist & Internationalist.’ In this episode we discuss ...Show More
3) Ep 29: The 2022-3 Strike Wave in Britain
Yes, we're back... did you miss us? No, we didn't think so. But, we're back anyway. The promised episode on Liam's book about James Connolly, which we teased back in January, is still in the pipeline,...Show More
4) Ep 29 TEASER: James Connolly
It's been a while since our latest episode but we're back. Our producer Liam McNulty has just had a new book published which will be of interest to Labour Days listeners. James Connolly: Socialist, ...Show More
5) Ep 28 – Workplace Occupations and Sit-Down Strikes
Edd takes us through the history of the tactic of workplace occupations, and we discuss their re-emergence in Britain and Ireland in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash. We're very lucky to be j...Show More
6) Ep 27: Strikes for Black Lives, with guest Robert Cuffy
What role has organised labour played in anti-racist and civil rights struggles, past and present? We look at recent actions by workers and unions as part of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the h...Show More
7) Ep 26: 'Class Power on Zero Hours': an interview with the Angry Workers
This episode features an interview with two comrades from the Angry Workers, a revolutionary collective whose members have been involved in workplace and community organising activity in the supermark...Show More
8) Ep 25: Three Strikes And Out
In a break from pandemic-related content, our hosts each pick a little-known, unusual, or otherwise distinctive strike from history, and briefly tell its story. Daniel spoke about the artisan tomb b...Show More
9) Ep 24: Coronavirus Pandemic - No Class Peace in the Crisis
A special episode produced in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, looking at how bosses are attempting to exploit the crisis, and what workers are doing to resist it. In such a fast moving situation...Show More
10) Ep 23: Discussing Yorkshire & Humber TUC's "Summer Patrols"
In our last episode of 2019, we speak to Caty and Chris, two activists involved in TUC Yorkshire and the Humber's "Summer Patrols" project. We discuss the aims of the project, and the broad horizon of...Show More