Resistant Communiqués Podcast

Today is the start of #BlackHistoryMonth in the US. It is also the anniversary of #OtD 1 Feb 1960 in Greensboro, NC, when four Black college students refused to move from a Woolworth's lunch counter after they were denied service stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1096...

#OtD 1 Feb 1922 British authorities in Hong Kong banned the striking Chinese Seamen's Union, raided its office, seized furniture, books and documents, and closed the premises. Workers declared a sympathy general strike, and next month the strike won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7700...

If Birthright Citizenship Is Conditional, No One Is Safe - Truthdig Revising the 14th Amendment would threaten the legal foundation that allows adopted children to become U.S. citizens.

An absolutely chilling read from my good friend @hyunniejoo.bsky.social on the threat posed to adoptees by the assault on birthright citizenship, and why it’s a dagger pointed at so many people. Read it, boost this message, and follow her.

On the new Resistant Communiqués, Prexy Nesbitt offers a comparative analysis of racism in the United States and apartheid-era Southern Africa, arguing that contemporary American racism mirrors earlier colonial systems of power. Listen: bit.ly/rc2025prexynesbitt

#OtD 2 Jan 1920 the start of the second Palmer Raids, an attempt by the US Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical workers and leftists, especially anarchists. Some 6000 were arrested and held without trial and over 500 deported stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9188...

#OtD 1 Jan 1974 the UK govt implemented the three-day week to save electricity, which had been restricted by overtime ban by coal miners. The miners ended up bringing down the government and winning their pay increase. Learn more in our podcast: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8072...

#OtD 1 Jan 1804 Haiti became an independent republic, the culmination of the Haitian revolution abolishing slavery and freeing itself from French rule. It began as a rebellion of the enslaved in 1791. Learn more about this and other Black revolts here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/a-h...

#OtD 1 Jan 1994 the Zapatista uprising began, when indigenous people in Chiapas, Mexico rose up and took control of their communities, redistributing power and organising new, directly democratic ways of running society. Learn more about the Zapatistas: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 1 Jan 1934 Nazi Germany enacted a law which forcibly sterilised more than 400,000 disabled people. Later they began murdering them, killing 250,000. Their rhetoric about disabled and ill people being a burden on workers is still widespread today stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8069...

In the new Resistant Communiqués, Prexy Nesbitt challenges dominant narratives of revolutionary struggle by centering on the ethical and political principles that guided liberation movements in Southern Africa. Listen: bit.ly/rc2025prexynesbitt

Special End-of-Season Episode! “Resistant Communiqués: Bringing Liberation Activism Home By Working Abroad with Prexy Nesbitt” Resistant Communiqués Podcast, S1, E7

A special end-of-year/end-of-season episode of the podcast I’ve been working on, and with a very good friend of mine: Prexy Nesbitt. Prexy’s been a labor organizer, teacher, and activist for decades; he was also heavily active in the anti-apartheid movement.

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New Resistant Communiqués: Prexy Nesbitt reflects on his work with Liberation Movements in Southern Africa, reshaping his understanding of struggle in the U.S. Liberation is transforming systems & building collective power through education, solidarity, & shared struggle. bit.ly/rc2025prexynesbitt

Dr. @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social shares the history of The Standing Rock Struggle, Obama sending militarized forces to attack Water Protectors, fighting for Indigenous rights and environmental justice. Smiles demonstrates why and urges to resist liberal nostalgia.
Listen: bit.ly/rc2025ndsmiles

Covid Year Six (12/15/25) | The Death Panel Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon

In our latest, we look back at 2025, a year where normalization slipped into naturalization, as a cadre of villains who rose to prominence on the back of covid denial took the reins of the federal government to play out their revenge fantasies.

It’s Covid Year Six.

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Dr. @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, director of @giflab.bsky.social, illustrates how tech billionaires are sold as climate saviors, yet they helped create it. Indigenous place-and-space-based wisdom points to land‑care, crisis coping, & real climate action. Listen to the episode: bit.ly/rc2025ndsmiles

Ep 288 - Talkin' General Strike With the world getting worse and worse, the cause of labor remains the hope of the world. With that in mind, we start with headlines from workers on another general strike in Italy, the nationwide Starbucks strike, nurses and Amazon drivers unionizing with the Teamsters, id software workers joining the CWA, and many more. AI is once again exposed as relying on the labor of low paid, highly exploited workers, this time at surveillance company Flock. The New School is the latest institution in higher education being actively dismantled by its administration, we discuss the student-faculty fightback. In These Times this week has an update on the fight by worker organizer Willian Giménez González against ICE attacks. Portuguese workers were the latest to launch a general strike this week, and we discuss the tactics and strategy that would be needed to actually pull one off here in the US. Join the discord: discord.gg/tDvmNzX Follow the pod at instagram.com/workstoppage, @WorkStoppagePod on Twitter, John @facebookvillain, and Lina @solidaritybee

Ep 288 - Talkin' General Strike

With the world getting worse and worse, the cause of labor remains the hope of the world. With that in mind, we start with headlines from workers on another general strike in Italy, the nationwide Starbucks strike, nurses and Amazon drivers unionizing with the Team

A new episode of the Labor and Energy Show goes on-air on WPHT 1210 AM in #Philly at 6:00 PM Eastern!

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December 14 - Austerity No More! Workers Strike Back! On this day in labor history the year was 1990. That was the day that 20,000 workers in the city of Fez in the North African country of Morocco went out on strike. Austerity measures had hit the country’s working people hard during the 1980's. A drought had made the situation even worse.

December 14 - Austerity No More! Workers Strike Back!

On this day in labor history the year was 1990. That was the day that 20,000 workers in the city of Fez in the North African country of Morocco went out on strike. Austerity measures had hit the country’s working people hard during the 1980's.

Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

The new Resistant Communiqués Podcast: Dr. @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social breaks down Land Back. Land Back is about the renewal of relationships for Indigenous nations, cultures, and territories. It’s broad & multifaceted.

Listen to the episode: bit.ly/rc2025ndsmiles

11 December 1913: Leeds council workers strike Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/todayBrowse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/dateCheck out our Map of historical Stories: https://map.workingclasshistory.comCheck out books, posters, clothing and more in our online store, here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.comIf you enjoy this podcast, make sure to check out our flagship longform podcast, Working Class History

11 December 1913: Leeds council workers strike

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at

What Is Behind Trump’s Attacks on Venezuela? - Dame Magazine The polycrisis that is the Trump administration can be difficult to fully keep track of: As Steve Bannon once said, the goal is to “flood the zone with shit” and paralyze us from being able to respond...

Anyway, read my thoughts here

There's also some history at play here: there's a tradition of acting like the regional hegemon in Lat Am, we tolerated drone strikes elsewhere on innocent people so doing it closer to home might not feel that egregious, and maybe a little lingering fear of seeming anti-drug war.

Hey y'all! We're doing our launch for our twelfth issue in less than a week (12/9).

With @redprof.bsky.social and Clara Mattei. Moderated by Izzy Plowright. Thanks to @haymarketbooks.org for hosting with us.

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Ep 286 - Not In Our Name, Not With Our Work Workers have been pummeled by an overload of customers on Black Friday, so there's a lot to catch up on as we enter the final month of 2025. We start with headlines covering Amazon, Highlander Charter School, Brown University, the University of Maryland, Columbia University, the UFW, National Park Workers, Campbell's, Uber and Lyft, and Leonardo S.p.A. Our main stories start by checking in on the nationwide Starbucks strike, that has now grown to 85 cities across the US. Workers have taken serious fire for standing up for truth and justice in many fields, we take a round up to see how workers are facing attacks on anti-genocide speech and for standing up to ICE. Finally, as neo-liberalism turns life for workers in the West into a waking nightmare, more and more are standing up, so we take a tour around major strikes launched or announced this week in Belgium, Portugal, India, Australia, and of course, Italy. Join the discord: discord.gg/tDvmNzX Follow the pod at instagram.com/workstoppage, @WorkStoppagePod on Twitter, John @facebookvillain, and Lina @solidaritybee

Ep 286 - Not In Our Name, Not With Our Work

Workers have been pummeled by an overload of customers on Black Friday, so there's a lot to catch up on as we enter the final month of 2025. We start with headlines covering Amazon, Highlander Charter School, Brown University, the University of Maryland

#OtD 5 Dec 2019 French public sector workers began striking against pension cuts, successfully suspending the plans in January. 69% of citizens supported the strikes as massive protests shut down the Eiffel Tower and public services. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...

#OtD 5 Dec 1955 the Montgomery bus boycott began, four days after arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to vacate her seat in the "coloured" section of a segregated bus to a white passenger. The successful campaign helped spur the civil rights movement stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1050...

Military personnel: This is what following unlawful orders looks like. Don’t do it. You don’t have the president’s get out of jail free card from SCOTUS, and these losers will not protect you.

Throughout his presidency, Trump was often misperceived as being an opponent of the War on Terror. He owed that reputation to his vocal derision of "stupid" Mideast wars. Yet in office he escalated the war dramati-cally, intensifying aerial bombing campaigns across multiple war zones, particularly in Somalia, where the war had never been fought as intensely as under Trump. One study, in December 2020, found that Trump's accel- xii

Have any of the comments on Trump’s disgusting racist tirade about Somali Americans mentioned that he accelerated the bombing of Somalia in his first presidency?

From Ackerman’s Reign of Terror: