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24 Jun 2026
Sounds Of Resistance: Workers of the World Unite - Songs of Labour and Union
This episode explores songs of labour, union organising, industrial struggle and working-class resistance, tracing a lineage through American folk, protest song, country, blues and beyond.
Across the show, miners, farm workers, factory workers and organisers sing against exploitation, poverty, unsafe conditions, strike-breaking, deportation, automation and war.
Music in the show includes union songs by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, The Almanac Singers and Billy Bragg, alongside mining laments from Sarah Ogan Gunning and Hazel Dickens, political folk from Phil Ochs and Malvina Reynolds, and working-class blues, country and soul from Lead Belly, Johnny Cash, Neil Young and Gil Scott-Heron.
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Tracklist
- Sarah Ogan GunningDown On The Picket Line
- Strange Creek SingersBlack Lung
- Pete Seeger & Chorus, The Almanac SingersTalking Union
- Gene AutryThe Death Of Jimmie Rodgers
- Woody GuthrieFarmer-Labor Train
- Pete SeegerDeportees (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
- Woody GuthrieUnion Burying Ground
- Malvina ReynoldsIt Isn't Nice
- Woody GuthrieI’m Gonna Join That One Big Union (You Gotta Go Down And Join The Union)
- George DavisWhen Kentucky Had No Union Men
- Lead BellyThe Boll Weevil
- Gil Scott-HeronWhitey On The Moon
- Woody GuthrieYou Gotta Go Down And Join The Union
- Phil OchsI Ain't Marching Anymore
- Woody Guthrie1913 Massacre
- LeadBellyThe Bourgeois Blues
- Hazel DickensMannington Mine Disaster
- Phil OchsAutomation Song
- Johnny Cash And The Tennessee ThreeOne Piece At A Time
- Billy BraggThere Is Power In The Union
- Neil YoungUnion Man