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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 contributions will make the show possible to continue and succeed!

Follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/huck1995. Adnan can be followed on twitter at https://twitter.com/adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/msgp-queens, and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/. The other shows of the Revolutionary Left Radio family can be found at revolutionaryleftradio.com.

Thanks to Ryan Hakamaki, who designed and created the podcast’s artwork, and Kevin MacLeod, who creates royalty-free music.

Latest Episodes:

History as Propaganda, & Moving Beyond Capitalism w/ Lee Camp Feb 03, 2023

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we present something a bit different than usual! We recently appeared on Lee Camp's program Behind the Headlines to discuss history as propaganda, moving beyond capitalism, and much more. Here, we provide a roughly 50 minute introduction to the topics and reflection on what we discussed with Lee before we include our interview on Lee's show in its entirety. A very fun interview, be sure to check out Behind the Headlines if you enjoyed how it went! You can also watch the interview portion (though not the reflection/intro) on YouTube.

Lee Camp is a writer, comedian, podcaster, news journalist and news commentator. Among other things, he was noted for hosting RT America's weekly comedy news show Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp before RT America was shut down last year. You can keep up with his latest work, including new episodes of Behind the Headlines at his website leecamp.com. You can also follow him on twitter @LeeCamp.

Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

National Liberation Struggles & the Agrarian Question w/ Max Ajl Jan 27, 2023

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on a good comrade of ours, Max Ajl (much overdue, we might add)! Here, we get a primer on the agrarian question and discuss its importance to national liberation struggles globally! Max is the perfect guest for this conversation, and we know you'll get a lot out of it.

Max Ajl is is an associated researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment, a researcher on decolonization, post-colonial planning, Arab dependency theory and food sovereignty at Ghent University, and the author of the outstanding A People's Green New Deal. You can follow Max on twitter @maxajl.

Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

Sanctions Against China & Their Political Economy w/ Zhun Xu Jan 20, 2023

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This episode of Guerrilla History is a continuation of our Sanctions As War miniseries. In this fantastic episode, we have a discussion with Professor Zhun Xu on the political economy of US sanctions on China, both from a historical perspective as well as analyzing current developments. We're sure that this will be of great interest to many of you and your comrades. Help us get the word out by sending it along!

Zhun Xu is Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York. He is on the editorial boards of Science and Society and the Journal of Labor and Society. His recent book is From Commune to Capitalism: How China's Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty.

Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

World-Ecology and the Capitalocene w/ Jason Moore Jan 13, 2023

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on a good friend and comrade of ours, Professor Jason W. Moore! In this fabulous conversation, we discuss world-ecology, the capitalocene, and how to view/analyze history through these lenses. We intend on getting into much further discussion with Jason in a couple of upcoming episodes that we already have planned, so be sure to check this one out to prepare yourself for those!

Jason W. Moore is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University, and has authored multiple outstanding books that you should check out. Among these are Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital, and (with Raj Patel) A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet, the last of which we already have an upcoming episode planned for. You can follow Jason on twitter @oikeios.

Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

We also have a (free!) newsletter you can sign up for, a great resource for political education!

Texas and the Roots of U.S. Fascism w/ Gerald Horne Jan 06, 2023

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back returning fan favorite Professor Gerald Horne to discuss his latest book The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U. S. Fascism. As always, the conversation with Prof Horne is incredibly enlightening and very entertaining. We hope you get some use from it!

Gerald Horne is the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His research interests are unbelievably varied, encompassing biographies of W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson, to The Haitian Revolution, to Hollywood in the '30s-'50s, to Jazz and Justice. Be sure to check out his bibliography, you're certain to find something that interests you!

Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

We also have a (free!) newsletter you can sign up for, a great resource for political education!

Rev Left/Red Menace/Guerrilla History Livestream Q&A Dec 30, 2022

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We close out 2022 with a livestream! All the members of the Revolutionary Left Radio family of podcasts came together for a two hour live Q&A that we had a ton of fun doing. We hope you enjoy as we look ahead to 2023!

P.S. If you're on twitter, let us know what your favorite episode of the show was during 2022 - tag us @guerrilla_pod with your pick and we'll hopefully encourage some new people to check that episode out!

Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

Rev Left Family Livestream Announcement! Dec 27, 2022

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Join the Livestream on December 28th at 9pm EST (8pm CST) here: https://www.youtube.com/live/m2KrBF5xW6c?feature=share

The British Marxist Historians w/ Harvey J. Kaye Dec 23, 2022

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This episode of Guerrilla History is with Professor Harvey J. Kaye about his book The British Marxist Historians, the first and most complete study of the work of the British Marxist intellectuals Maurice Dobb, Rodney Hilton, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, and E.P. Thompson, and has just gotten released as a new edition from Zer0 Books. A fascinating conversation about a fascinating group of characters!

Harvey J. Kaye is Professor Emeritus of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. In addition to The British Marxist Historians, he written numerous other books including Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again, Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, and The Fight for the Four Freedoms. He can be followed on twitter @harveyjkaye

Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

We also have a (free!) newsletter you can sign up for, a great resource for political education!

People's History of Europe (Part 2 - Post-WWII) w/ Raquel Varela Dec 16, 2022

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This episode of Guerrilla History is Part 2 of a two-part conversation with Professor Raquel Varela on the history of modern Europe. In this installment, we carry on from last time, where we left off at the end of WWII. If you haven't already checked out part 1, be sure to do so! This work necessitates critical engagement!

Raquel Varela is a labour historian, researcher and Professor at New University of Lisbon, and Honorary Fellow at the International Institute for Social History. She is the author of A People's History of Europe: From WWI to Today.

Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

We also have a (free!) newsletter you can sign up for, a great resource for political education!

People's History of Europe (Part 1 - WWI through WWII) w/ Raquel Varela Dec 09, 2022

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This episode of Guerrilla History is Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Professor Raquel Varela on the history of modern Europe. In this installment, we cover the period from WWI through WWII, and it was a great conversation! The next part will come out next week and will bring us from the end of WWII to today.

Raquel Varela is a labour historian, researcher and Professor at New University of Lisbon, and Honorary Fellow at the International Institute for Social History. She is the author of A People's History of Europe: From WWI to Today.

Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

We also have a (free!) newsletter you can sign up for, a great resource for political education!

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