Working Class History

Apologies but this episode about the women in the miners' strike of 1984-5 has now moved. We have re-edited, partially rerecorded, improved and rereleased this episode as our episodes 108-109. So please scroll along to those episodes to give it a listen.
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This episode about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit has been partially recorded, re-edited, improved and re-released as episodes 61-62, so please listen to them instead: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e61-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers-in-detroit/

Concluding part of our two-part episode on the GI resistance to the Vietnam war, in conversation with Jerry Lembcke, a Vietnam army veteran, now sociologist and author. Most further reading is linked to in the show notes of part 1.
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This article gives a good general overview of the GI resistance movement: https://libcom.org/history/1961-1973-gi-resistance-in-the-vietnam-war
This is our GI resistance merchandise in our online store: https://working-class-history.myshopify.com/collections/vietnam-gi-resistance
This is our short video history of the movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzhM9eDoM80
This is our playlist of Vietnam war protest music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pj9AucSc9Y&list=PL71HxBMvC6bxaaxqKun66juixXqPZFjCN
You can get Jerry Lembcke's books here: https://www.amazon.com/Jerry-Lembcke/e/B001HCZKCS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1533499864&sr=1-1
FOOTNOTES
– Here you can get the excellent documentary, Sir, No Sir!: https://www.amazon.com/Sir-No-Suppressed-Movement-Vietnam/dp/B000IB0DE4
– This is an article Jerry wrote on the "spitting" myth: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/opinion/myth-spitting-vietnam-protester.html
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
– This episode was edited by Stephanie Hydal: http://www.stephaniehydal.com/portfolio/
– Music used this episode was "Ain't Going to Study War no more" by Leon Lishner and Friends – http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Leon_Lishner_and_Friends/Songs_For_The_Dawn_Of_Peace/26_-_Aint_Gonna_Study_War_No_More_Down_by_the_Riverside_USA – licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike License – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode

During the later years of the Vietnam war, a little-known but powerful rebellion developed within the ranks of the US forces. In this two-part episode, we talk about the GI resistance to the war with Jerry Lembcke, a Vietnam army veteran, now sociologist and author, and Bart, a navy veteran about their experiences.
This article gives a good general overview of the GI resistance movement: https://libcom.org/history/1961-1973-gi-resistance-in-the-vietnam-war
Support our work and get access to other exclusive audio and other benefits on patreon: https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
This is our GI resistance merchandise in our online store: https://working-class-history.myshopify.com/collections/vietnam-gi-resistance
This is our short video history of the movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzhM9eDoM80
This is our playlist of Vietnam war protest music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pj9AucSc9Y&list=PL71HxBMvC6bxaaxqKun66juixXqPZFjCN
You can get Jerry Lembcke's books here: https://www.amazon.com/Jerry-Lembcke/e/B001HCZKCS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1533499864&sr=1-1
FOOTNOTES
– Vietnam: the collapse of the armed forces by Marine Colonel Robert D Heinl Jr: https://libcom.org/history/vietnam-collapse-armed-forces
– USS Constellation mutiny: more information about that in this article https://libcom.org/history/1961-1973-gi-resistance-in-the-vietnam-war
– USS Columbia Eagle mutiny: https://libcom.org/history/ss-columbia-eagle-mutiny-1970-steven-johns
– The class war at home: check out our episode 8 (currently a patreon exclusive at time of publishing) for more about class struggle in the US at the time: https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
– This is a workers' whistleblowing guide: https://libcom.org/organise/workplace/articles/whistle-blowing.php
– This is a workers' working to rule guide: https://libcom.org/organise/workplace/articles/work-to-rule.php
– This personal account of the movement has info about "search and avoid": https://libcom.org/history/aint-marchin-anymore-gis-revolt-vietnam-dave-blalock
– The Bravo Company mutiny: https://libcom.org/history/gi-revolts-breakdown-us-army-vietnam
– The Presidio mutiny: https://libcom.org/history/presidio-mutiny-1968-randy-rowland
MORE INFORMATION
– This is a short history of the war by Howard Zinn: https://libcom.org/history/articles/vietnam-war
– GI resistance photo gallery: https://libcom.org/gallery/gi-resistance-vietnam-war
– Check out the excellent documentary, Sir, No Sir!: https://www.amazon.com/Sir-No-Suppressed-Movement-Vietnam/dp/B000IB0DE4
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
– This episode was edited by Stephanie Hydal for editing this episode: http://www.stephaniehydal.com/portfolio/
Full acknowledgements including music and sound effects here on our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e10-the-gi-resistance-in-vietnam-part-1/

This episode about later history of the IWW union was one of our earliest episodes, which wasn't great quality. So for the moment it has been taken off-line while we work on improving it and rereleasing it.
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Preview of our latest episode, on the little-known later period of the IWW's history. We head to Chicago, historic home of the union, to find out about this time, when the IWW continued to play an important role in organising workers in Cleveland, Detroit, Nevada and amongst Finnish communities in Minnesota. Get the full episode now through our patreon, here: https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory

This episode will be made available publicly later in the year.

Apologies but this episode about the strike wave in the US during the Vietnam war has now moved. We have re-edited, partially rerecorded, improved and rereleased this episode as our episodes 99-100. So please scroll along to those episodes to give it a listen, or go to our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/blog/e99-vietnam-war-strike-wave/
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This episode about the strike wave in the US during the Vietnam War was one of our earliest episodes, which wasn't great quality. So for the moment it has been taken off-line while we work on improving it and rereleasing it.
The original, old episode, is available exclusively for our patreon supporters, here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/wch-e8-vietnam-19994520
You can join us and help fund our work improving our old episodes and producing new ones on patreon at https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory

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Apologies but this episode about the West Virginia mine wars has now moved. We have re-edited, partially rerecorded, improved and rereleased this episode as our episodes 57-58. So please scroll along to those episodes to give it a listen, or go to our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e57-west-virginia-mine-wars-1902-1922/
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In this episode we head to Matewan, West Virginia to speak with Catherine Moore and others from the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, as well as some striking West Virginia teachers about the conflicts, and how they are remembered today.

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This is a short overview of the mine wars: https://libcom.org/history/west-virginias-mine-wars-1920-1921

Find out more about the museum here: https://www.wvminewars.com/

We have some video and photographs from the re-enactment and museum in our Instagram story highlights. Follow us and find them here: https://instagram.com/workingclasshistory

FOOTNOTES

– Mother Jones – you can read her autobiography here: https://libcom.org/library/autobiography-mother-jones

– Matewan (1987 film) – you can purchase it here: https://amzn.to/2JrLxIG

– The battle of Blair mountain: this is a photo gallery of the conflict – https://libcom.org/gallery/battle-blair-mountain-1921-photo-gallery

– West Virginia teachers strikes – this is a short overview of what happened: https://libcom.org/library/no-promises-insurgent-teachers-strike-west-virginia

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Music used in the episode under Fair Use includes:

– Solidarity forever – Pete Seeger – buy it online here: https://amzn.to/2x63dYE

– Music from the film Matewan, buy the soundtrack here: https://amzn.to/2Jz3XHp

Edited by Tyler Hill of the Gods & Ghosts podcast: https://tylerkenthill.podbean.com/