203 – The Winnipeg General Strike (w/ Maximillian Alvarez)

One hundred years ago, the biggest and longest general strike in Canadian history took place in Winnipeg. The Wrong Boys are joined by Maximillian Alvarez from Working People Pod to take a deep dive into the history of the strike and its violent, bloody finale.

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Additional links/info:

• Srsly Wrong website, Twitter page, and Patreon
• Alberta Advantage, “General Strike! Winnipeg 1919-2019“
• The Magnificast, “The Winnipeg General Strike“
• Dennis Lewycky, Fernwood Books, “Magnificent Fight The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike“
• Reinhold Kramer & Tom Mitchell, University of Toronto Press, “When the State Trembled:How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens’ Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike“
• Graphic History Collective & David Lester, Between the Lines, “1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike“
• Darren Bernhardt, CBC News, “The Wild Woman of the Winnipeg Strike“
• Mary Horodyski, Manitoba Historical Society, “Women and the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919“
• Tom Jokinen, The Walrus, “What the Winnipeg General Strike Can Teach Us About Class, Capitalism, and Greed“
• Meagan Day, Jacobin, “The Winnipeg General Strike Is Immortal“
• Ian Angus, Marxists.org, “What Socialists Learned from the Winnipeg General Strike“
• Isaac Wurmann, Luma, “Navigating History, Memory, and Mythology: The Challenges of Depicting the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike“

Attributions:

Lobo Loco, “Malte Junior – Hall” — from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org

Srsly Wrong theme by dope creature – https://soundcloud.com/dopecreature

Fast Talkin by Kevin MacLeod — from Incompetech: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100590