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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:

The Battle of Spioen Kop - From the Archives Dec 02, 2022

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Guerrilla History "From the Archives" is a new series of episodes, consisting of previously patreon-exclusive episodes that we are unlocking for the general public after one year. This From the Archives episode was originally released on Patreon on May 29, 2021, and is about the Battle of Spioen Kop, during the Second Boer War. This battle, which was an utter calamity for the British, was the last high water mark for the Boers during the Boer Wars, and ushered us into the 20th century of warfare.

You can support Guerrilla History by joining us at patreon.com/guerrillahistory, where you will also get bonus content!

The History of US Sanctions on Cuba w/ Helen Yaffe Nov 25, 2022

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This episode of Guerrilla History is a continuation of our Sanctions As War miniseries. In this excellent episode, we have a discussion with Professor Helen Yaffe on the history and the impacts of sanctions on Cuba, absolutely something that all anti-imperialists need to be fully aware of and engage with to act in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution. Help us spread the word by sharing with comrades, it will be of benefit to the show and to the left movement generally. Be sure to also stay turned for more installments of our Sanctions As War series!

Helen Yaffe is a lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow, specialising in Cuban and Latin American development. She is the author of We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World (Yale University Press, 2020) and Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). She can be found on Twitter @HelenYaffe

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!

The World Cup: Sport, Politics, History, and Propaganda w/ Alexander Aviña Nov 18, 2022

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This episode of Guerrilla History comes out just in time for the start of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar! In this episode, we bring back fan favorite Alexander Aviña to discuss the politics behind the World Cup, both historically and in this current edition. We hit on topics of human rights, sports washing, and propaganda in both cases. We also talk about the sport itself and the prospects on the field for this edition of the biggest prize within The Beautiful Game!

Alexander Aviña is historian at Arizona State University, and is author of the book Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrilla in the Cold War Mexican Countryside (Oxford University Press, 2014, https://alexanderavina.com/specters-of-revolution/ ). Find him on Twitter @Alexander_Avina, and listen to the episode we did with him on The Beautiful Game.

You can support Guerrilla History by joining us at patreon.com/guerrillahistory, where you will also get bonus content!

Haiti and Western Intervention w/ Pascal Robert - Dispatch Nov 11, 2022

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In this Dispatch episode, we provide a grounding on the history of Western intervention in Haiti in order to analyze the current situation taking place there, and the prospects for even expanded intervention. For this, we bring on Pascal Robert, who's writing on Haiti has been very useful in shedding light on a locality that the Western media tends to ignore unless convenient for them. W're also joined by our friend James Ray as a guest host for this episode. Enjoy, and share!

Pascal Robert is a writer, political commentator, contributor to Black Agenda Report (if you're not already reading BAR, you should start right now!) and Newsweek, and is cohost of the This Is Revolution Podcast. He can be followed on twitter @probert06

James Ray is a political commentator and a friend of the show. You can follow him on Twitter @GoodVibePolitik and on TikTok @JamesGetsPolitical

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 new (free!) newsletter you can sign up for!

Bring Anti-Imperialism to Young Comrades + Learn from the Global South w/ The Cadre Journal Nov 04, 2022

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A great conversation with three young comrades from The Cadre Journal! A fairly wide ranging conversation focused on why it's critical to push anti-imperialism for the youth, and why it's important that we learn from the Global South, its revolutionaries and theorists.

The Cadre Journal is a student-run podcast and journal on Marxism, Anti-Imperialism, and Communism. You can follow them on twitter @thecadrejournal.

Here's Joseph's article A Prologue to the Swazi Revolution - One Year in the Making.

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

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The 20th Communist Party of China National Congress - Dispatch w/ Sun Feiyang and Mirah Oct 28, 2022

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In this Dispatch episode on a very recent topic, we bring in both a great guest and a fabulous guest host - both of whom are our friends from the DSA International Committee. Mirah and Sun Feiyang. We discuss the recently wrapped up Communist Party of China National Congress, its implications for Chinese domestic and foreign policy, and what to expect in the next 5 years.

Mirah and Feiyang are both members of the DSA International Committee. Mirah can be followed on twitter @snackvampire, Feiyang can be followed @moghilemear13.

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 new (free!) newsletter you can sign up for!

The Rise of Fascism, Bolsonaro, & the Brazilian Elections w/ Michael Fox - Dispatch Oct 21, 2022

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In this outstanding conversation, we talk with journalist Michael Fox about the rise of Fascism in Brazil, Bolsonaro, the impending runoff elections, the rise of Evangelicalism, the role of the US in these processes, and much more! We make sure to give plenty of historical background on these current events, so whether you're listening for the history or for analysis of the present, we know you'll enjoy this conversation. We are also lucky to be joined by our friend and comrade Professor Stuart Davis, a researcher of and specialist in comparative media systems in Brazil, as a guest host. You can hear more from Stuart on our Sanctions As War introduction episode, where he was our guest alongside Immanuel Ness.

Michael Fox is a Brazil-based journalist, contributor to The World, former Editor of NACLA, and the host of the podcast series Brazil on Fire, a collaboration between NACLA and The Real News Network. Michael can be followed on Twitter @mfox_us

Stuart Davis is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Baruch College, the City University of New York he focuses on digital media advocacy, protest politics, and digital media and public health, particularly in the Latin American context

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 new (free!) newsletter you can sign up for!

The History and Impact of Sanctions on Iran w/ Muhammad Sahimi Oct 14, 2022

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This episode of Guerrilla History is a continuation of our Sanctions As War miniseries. In this fascinating episode, we have a discussion with Professor Muhammad Sahimi on the history and the impacts of sanctions on Iran, which is both an immensely enlightening and heartbreaking conversation. This episode is particularly timely given the current situation in Iran, which the last question of the interview addresses. Be sure to also stay turned for more installments of our Sanctions As War series!

Muhammad Sahimi is a Professor at the University of Southern California, where he analyses Iran's political development, its nuclear program, and its foreign policy. From 2008 to 2012 he was the lead political analyst at E0*/Frontline/Tehran Bureau website.

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!

Sanctions As Siege Warfare w/ Manu Karuka Oct 07, 2022

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This episode of Guerrilla History is a continuation of our Sanctions As War miniseries (check out our earlier episodes from the series if you've not already!). In this episode, we lay out some very interesting historical and analytical parallels between sieges throughout history and modern sanctions regimes. A fascinating conversation with a great scholar and committed anti-imperialist, you don't want to miss this! Be sure to also stay turned for more installments of our Sanctions As War series!

Manu Karuka is Assistant Professor of American Studies affiliated faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College. He is author of Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019).

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!

Part 2 - Why Political Education & Historical Knowledge is KEY for Activism/Organizing - Panel Sep 30, 2022

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In this Intelligence Briefing, we continue the conversation with our panel from last week by doing listener Q&As. Be sure to stay tuned for future Spaces, if you have questions you'd like to ask them, and sign up for our patreon to help keep the show up and running and to send us comments anytime! To follow each of the panelists on Twitter, just click on the link after their name:

James: @GoodVibePolitik, Ilima: @ItsIlima, Isa: @endsanctions, Matt: @MattxRed, Mikey: @karaokecomputer, Mirah: @snackvampire, Sam: @zukosmama, Shatha: @shathawho

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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