Ep 2: May Day
Labour Days: a labour movement podcast
English - April 30, 2017 21:09 - 34 minutes - 47 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Ep 1: Cinemas and Music Halls
Next Episode: Ep 3: Trade unions and immigration
In this episode, Edd, Ellie, and Daniel take a look at the origins of International Workers’ Day and how it is still celebrated around the world.
Further reading on the radical origins of May Day: https://www.marxists.org/subject/mayday/index.htm
Picturehouse cinema workers are striking again on May Day. Donate to their strike fund here: https://www.crowdpac.co.uk/campaigns/250/picturehousestrike
Intro music and audio motif taken from 'Labor' by Aesop Rock. We do not own this music, which is copyright Def Jux, 2001.
The outro music was ‘May Day 1894’ by Darren Hayman (based on a poem by William Morris). We do not own the rights to this music, which is copyright Darren Hayman and WIAIWYA Records, 2015.