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Guerrilla History

Guerrilla History

Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global history for the activist left, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. Your hosts are educators Henry Hakamaki and Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University. Follow us on social media! Our podcast can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/guerrilla_pod, and can be supported on patreon at https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory. Your

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02:38:59

Understanding Apartheid: South Africa, Settler...

Guerrilla History ·

2023/12/15

In this Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace get-together, also known as the Rev Left Family Annual Collab (Rev Left+Red Menace+Guerrilla History), Alyson, Henry, Adnan, and Breht sit down for a deep dive on South African Apartheid. Together they discuss its euro-colonialist origins, explain the significance of the Boer Wars, define and explicate the origins of apartheid, explore the political economy of apartheid and how brutal racism shaped it, examine the multi-faceted indigenous resistance to

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Understanding Apartheid: South Africa, Settler...

Guerrilla History ·

2023/12/15

In this Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace get-together, also known as the Rev Left Family Annual Collab (Rev Left+Red Menace+Guerrilla History), Alyson, Henry, Adnan, and Breht sit down for a deep dive on South African Apartheid. Together they discuss its euro-colonialist origins, explain the significance of the Boer Wars, define and explicate the origins of apartheid, explore the political economy of apartheid and how brutal racism shaped it, examine the multi-faceted indigenous resistance to

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Understanding Apartheid: South Africa, Settler...

Guerrilla History ·

2023/12/15

In this Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace get-together, also known as the Rev Left Family Annual Collab (Rev Left+Red Menace+Guerrilla History), Alyson, Henry, Adnan, and Breht sit down for a deep dive on South African Apartheid. Together they discuss its euro-colonialist origins, explain the significance of the Boer Wars, define and explicate the origins of apartheid, explore the political economy of apartheid and how brutal racism shaped it, examine the multi-faceted indigenous resistance to

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Understanding Apartheid: South Africa, Settler...

Guerrilla History ·

2023/12/15

In this Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace get-together, also known as the Rev Left Family Annual Collab (Rev Left+Red Menace+Guerrilla History), Alyson, Henry, Adnan, and Breht sit down for a deep dive on South African Apartheid. Together they discuss its euro-colonialist origins, explain the significance of the Boer Wars, define and explicate the origins of apartheid, explore the political economy of apartheid and how brutal racism shaped it, examine the multi-faceted indigenous resistance to

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Understanding Apartheid: South Africa, Settler...

Guerrilla History ·

2023/12/15

In this Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace get-together, also known as the Rev Left Family Annual Collab (Rev Left+Red Menace+Guerrilla History), Alyson, Henry, Adnan, and Breht sit down for a deep dive on South African Apartheid. Together they discuss its euro-colonialist origins, explain the significance of the Boer Wars, define and explicate the origins of apartheid, explore the political economy of apartheid and how brutal racism shaped it, examine the multi-faceted indigenous resistance to

en

Understanding Apartheid: South Africa, Settler...

Guerrilla History ·

2023/12/15

In this Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace get-together, also known as the Rev Left Family Annual Collab (Rev Left+Red Menace+Guerrilla History), Alyson, Henry, Adnan, and Breht sit down for a deep dive on South African Apartheid. Together they discuss its euro-colonialist origins, explain the significance of the Boer Wars, define and explicate the origins of apartheid, explore the political economy of apartheid and how brutal racism shaped it, examine the multi-faceted indigenous resistance to

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01:50:56

Settler Colonial Law & Sue the T. rex w/ the Leninist...

Guerrilla History ·

2023/12/08

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on The Leninist Lawyer to discuss settler colonial law, and use the case study of Sue the T. rex, which was extracted from native lands, to help demonstrate how this works. A really interesting conversation, and while we are using a dinosaur fossil as the case study, this conversation is much more about settler colonial law generally, and therefore should be relevant for all of you regardless of whether you find dinosaurs interesting or not! *Note,

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01:46:01

Palestine - War, Occupation, and Proletarianization...

Guerrilla History ·

2023/12/01

In this critical episode of Guerrilla History, we bring the esteemed and critically important Ali Kadri onto the show to discuss Palestine. This episode is largely based off of Ali's terrific book A Theory of Forced Labour Migration: The Proletarianisation of the West Bank Under Occupation (1967-1992). In this conversation, we discuss themes including war as a method of capital accumulation, indigenous labour extirpation, and much, much more. We want to thank friend of the show Max Ajl for

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01:33:05

Black Scare/Red Scare w/ Charisse Burden-Stelly

Guerrilla History ·

2023/11/24

In this absolutely fabulous episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back on the one and only Dr. CBS, Charisse Burden-Stelly! Here, we discuss her outstanding new book Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States. This work focuses on how anti-radical repression (especially anti-communist repression) is infused and inseparable with anti-Black racial oppression, and vice versa. This is a critical work by one of the most critical voices in our times, and we think that

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01:07:54

Apartheid: An Introduction w/ Ashley Fataar

Guerrilla History ·

2023/11/17

In this crossover episode that we have done in collaboration with our sister podcast RevLeft Radio, we bring on Ashley Fataar to provide a primer into Apartheid in the South African context, and where we also begin to explore some of the parallels to the apartheid that the settler-colonial state of Israel is enforcing in occupied Palestine today. This is a good introduction to the topic, and we plan on getting everyone in the RevLeft family (Breht, Henry, Adnan, & Alyson) together in the coming

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01:19:47

Palestine & the BDS Movement w/ Corinna Mullin

Guerrilla History ·

2023/11/10

In another vital episode of Guerrilla History, we close out our Sanctions As War miniseries while continuing to examine Palestine and the various components of the conflict in Occupied Palestine. This time, we bring on Corinna Mullin to discuss sanctions from below, the BDS movement, and how what those in the West can do to support the Palestine liberation movement. This is a really important conversation, so be sure to share with anyone you think would benefit from hearing it! Follow the The

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01:46:33

Palestine and the Media w/ Tara Alami

Guerrilla History ·

2023/11/03

In another crucial episode of Guerrilla History, we continue to examine Palestine and the various components of the conflict in Occupied Palestine. This time, we bring on Tara Alami to discuss the ongoing bombardment of Gaza and media misrepresentations/propaganda surrounding it. This is a really critically important conversation, and we hope that you will share it next week when it comes out on our general feed - this is something that we need as many people to hear as possible! Tara Alami is a

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01:37:48

Understanding the Conflict in Occupied Palestine -...

Guerrilla History ·

2023/10/27

In this important and wide-ranging episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on two esteemed guests, Professors Rabab Abdulhadi and Ariel Salzmann, to discuss the conflict in occupied Palestine, the bombardment in Gaza, attempts to legitimize the Zionist project that is the so-called State of Israel, and public activist movements. This is another really crucial conversation that builds off of our previous episode with Max Ajl and Patrick Higgins on Palestinian Resistance vs. the Zionist Project. If

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01:55:48

Palestinian Resistance vs. The Zionist Project w/ Max...

Guerrilla History ·

2023/10/20

In this critical episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Max Ajl and Patrick Higgins to discuss some recent history and the ongoing situation regarding Palestinian resistance to the Zionist project and the ongoing bombardment on Gaza. Max and Patrick provide some absolutely crucial information here, so be sure to tune in, and forward the episode along to anyone you think would benefit from it. Our guests recommend you to donate to the Middle East Children's Alliance, read the work of Electronic

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01:58:27

How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs w/...

Guerrilla History ·

2023/10/13

In this remastered episode of Guerrilla History (originally released in January, 2021), we were joined by Professor Elizabeth F. Thompson to talk about her book How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs, about the historic Syrian-Arab Congress of 1920. Elizabeth Thompson is the Mohamed S. Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace and Professor of History at American University. Her book was published by Atlantic Monthly Press, and is available here:

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01:20:12

The Mexican Dirty War: A War to the Death w/...

Guerrilla History ·

2023/10/06

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Benjamin T. Smith and his coauthor, returning fan favorite Alexander Aviña, to talk about an article that they just cowrote about the (ongoing) Mexican Dirty War for NACLA titled A War to the Death! This short article condenses the decades history of the Mexican Dirty War in advance of an upcoming Truth Commission report on state terrorism within Cold War era Mexico. As our guests highlight though, this dirty war never really ended. A great

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The Mexican Dirty War: A War to the Death w/...

Guerrilla History ·

2023/10/06

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Benjamin T. Smith and his coauthor, returning fan favorite Alexander Aviña, to talk about an article that they just cowrote about the (ongoing) Mexican Dirty War for NACLA titled A War to the Death! This short article condenses the decades history of the Mexican Dirty War in advance of an upcoming Truth Commission report on state terrorism within Cold War era Mexico. As our guests highlight though, this dirty war never really ended. A great

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01:41:46

China’s Revolution & the Quest for a Socialist Future...

Guerrilla History ·

2023/09/29

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Ken Hammond to talk about his new book China’s Revolution & the Quest for a Socialist Future! Here, we provide an overview of modern Chinese history, and Ken makes his case that China is still on the path to a socialist future. This was a fantastic survey of this history, and will serve as a great introduction to a forthcoming mini-series we will be doing with Ken on some specific events in modern Chinese History! Ken Hammond is Professor of East

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01:40:29

Organizing, Militant Unionism, & the Class War: The...

Guerrilla History ·

2023/09/22

In this outstanding episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Jon Melrod to discuss his new book Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War (use code FIGHTING to get 40% off)! In this episode, we discuss the life and times of Jon, who in many ways is a real working class hero. We talk about his early embrace of radical political ideology, his radical campus organizing, his 13 years fighting in and organizing within industrial factories in Wisconsin, his rise within the UAW, and

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01:59:46

Dinosaurs and Decolonizing Paleontology w/ Aline...

Guerrilla History ·

2023/09/15

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we have a fascinating discussion alongside three wonderful paleontologists based in Brazil about efforts to decolonize paleontology and restitute stolen fossils. These three have written some great articles on this topic, such as The moral and legal imperative to return illegally exported fossils, Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity, and Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern

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