Working Class History

E76: Trinidad general strike, part 2


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Second of a double podcast episode about the Trinidad general strike of 1937, in conversation with Ryan Cecil Jobson.
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Part 2 is about the general strike itself, the repression, the aftermath, its consequences and lessons for us today.
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