Guerrilla History

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A Decolonial Feminism w/ Françoise Vergès Jul 09, 2021

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In this special crossover episode of Guerrilla History with The Red Menace Podcast, we bring on Dr. Françoise Vergès to talk about her new book A Decolonial Feminism. An incredible conversation with a tremendous guest, you're definitely going to want to pick up this short but powerful work and form reading groups with it!

Françoise Vergès is an activist, public educator, and is the author of many books including Resolutely Black: Conversations with Aime Cesaire (Polity, 2019), The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism and Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Metissage (Duke University Press, 2020, 1999). Her newest book, A Decolonial Feminism, is available from Pluto Press (https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341125/a-decolonial-feminism/).

You can find The Red Menace Podcast wherever you get your pods, or directly at https://redmenace.libsyn.com/. You can follow the show on twitter @Red_Menace_Pod.

Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. If you have any questions or guest/topic suggestions, email them to us at guerrillahistorypod@gmail.com.

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

Follow us on social media! Our podcast can be found on twitter @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!

To follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter @huck1995, and also has a patreon to help support himself through the pandemic where he breaks down science and public health research and news at https://www.patreon.com/huck1995. Adnan can be followed on twitter @adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/the-majlis, and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/. Breht is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, which can be followed on twitter @RevLeftRadio and cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter @Red_Menace_Pod. Follow and support these shows on patreon, and find them at https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/.

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

Intelligence Briefing: UFOs Jul 02, 2021

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Guerrilla History- Intelligence Briefings will be roughly a twice monthly series of shorter, more informal discussions between the hosts about topics of their choice. Patrons at the Comrade tier and above will have access to all Intelligence Briefings.

This Intelligence Briefing will be a patreon-early access episode, all about UFOs! We talk about the prospects for extraterrestrial life, what is actually on the government's UFO tapes, and what UFOs would want if they were indeed real. A thought provoking and fun discussion all around!

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

Follow us on social media! Our podcast can be found on twitter @guerrilla_pod. Your contributions make the show possible to continue and succeed! Please encourage your comrades to join us, which will help our show grow.

To follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter @huck1995, and also has a patreon to help support himself through the pandemic where he breaks down science and public health research and news at https://www.patreon.com/huck1995. Adnan can be followed on twitter at @adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/the-majlis and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/. Breht is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, which can be followed on twitter @RevLeftRadio cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter at @Red_Menace_Pod. You can find and support these shows by visiting https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/.

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

Tea War w/ Andrew Liu Jun 18, 2021

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Professor Andrew Liu to talk about his book Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India. A fascinating discussion about capitalist development in the periphery through the story of a commodity, be sure to get the word out!

Andrew Liu is an assistant professor of history at Villanova University, where his research focuses on China, transnational Asia, and the history of Capitalism. His book Tea War is available from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300243734/tea-war. The discount code he mentions during the interview is YAB99. You can find Andrew's podcast Time to Say Goodbye wherever you get your pods, or at https://goodbye.substack.com/ and on twitter @ttsgpod. Andrew himself can be found on twitter @andybliu.

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

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

Intelligence Briefing: Vaccine Intellectual Property Rights Jun 11, 2021

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This Intelligence Briefing will be a patreon-early access episode, about vaccine intellectual property rights. Here we talk some history, some current events, and overall just rant back and forth. A very fun conversation for each of us!

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

To follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter @huck1995, and also has a patreon to help support himself through the pandemic where he breaks down science and public health research and news at https://www.patreon.com/huck1995. Adnan can be followed on twitter at @adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/the-majlis and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/. Breht is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, which can be followed on twitter @RevLeftRadio cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter at @Red_Menace_Pod. You can find and support these shows by visiting https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/.

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

The History of Indigenous Resistance w/ Nick Estes May 21, 2021

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on professor, activist, and author Nick Estes to talk to us about the long history of American indigenous resistance. The conversation is structured around Nick's brilliant book Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance.

Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He's also an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, an organizer with The Red Nation, and author of the aforementioned Our History Is the Future, which is available from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2953-our-history-is-the-future. You can find The Red Nation via their website http://therednation.org/ and on twitter @The_Red_Nation. Nick can be found on twitter @nickwestes.

Breht has previously recorded a couple of episodes of Revolutionary Left Radio with Nick as well. You can find those on your podcast app of choice, or via the following links:

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/lakota-and-dakota-history

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/aim

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

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

Intelligence Briefing: The One Kingdom Solution? May 18, 2021

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This Intelligence Briefing will be an early-release episode for our patreon members, about a fantastic essay by Adnan and Professor Margaret Pappano titled "The One Kingdom Solution?: Diplomacy, Marriage, and Sovereignty In The Third Crusade". Here, we talk about the story of a proposed cross-confessional marriage during the Third Crusade as a diplomatic tool, and weave in the current situation in Palestine using this information.

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

To follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter @huck1995, and also has a patreon to help support himself through the pandemic where he breaks down science and public health research and news at https://www.patreon.com/huck1995. Adnan can be followed on twitter at @adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/the-majlis and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/. Breht is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, which can be followed on twitter @RevLeftRadio cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter at @Red_Menace_Pod. You can find and support these shows by visiting https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/.

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

Burma's History & Rohingya Tragedy w/ Carlos Sardiña Galache Apr 23, 2021

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on journalist Carlos Sardiña Galache to discuss the history of Burma/Myanmar and the tragedy of the Rohingya people. Given the recent coup and subsequent violence perpetuated against protestors, we feel that this is a vitally important interview to orient the events within the overall flow of Burmese History.

Carlos Sardiña Galache is the author of The Burmese Labyrinth: A History of the Rohingya Tragedy (Verso Books, https://www.versobooks.com/books/3152-the-burmese-labyrinth). He has also published articles in a variety of outlets focusing on Myanmar, including New Left Review, Jacobin, Time Magazine, the Intercept, and the Asia Times. All of his articles can be found on his website (http://carlossardina.pressfolios.com/) You can follow him on twitter @CSGalache.

Henry has also conducted two interviews with Carlos on the David Feldman Show, focusing on the recent events in Myanmar. You can find those interviews (which should make good supplementary material) here:

Interview 1 (starts at 4:04:30): https://youtu.be/jwgygIWJyV0?t=14670

Interview 2 (starts at 1:16:40): https://youtu.be/-1n4KjXIeHU?t=4600

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

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

*UNLOCKED* Intelligence Briefing: 1793 French Constitution Apr 16, 2021

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This Intelligence Briefing will be an early-release episode for our patreon members, about the radical French Constitution of 1793, which was never implemented despite being ratified. The guys discuss the historical context for this document, how it compares to US documents of the same period, and how it compares to the much more conservative French Constitution of 1795, which was implemented. Here are links to read the French Constitutions of 1793 and 1795, in english:

1793- https://oll.libertyfund.org/page/1793-french-republic-constitution-of-1793

1795- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Constitutions_and_Other_Select_Documents_Illustrative_of_the_History_of_France,_1789%E2%80%931907/50

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

To follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter @huck1995, and also has a patreon to help support himself through the pandemic where he breaks down science and public health research and news at https://www.patreon.com/huck1995. Adnan can be followed on twitter at @adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/the-majlis and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/. Breht is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, which can be followed on twitter @RevLeftRadio cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter at @Red_Menace_Pod. You can find and support these shows by visiting https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/.

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

Cold War Latin America w/ Alexander Aviña Mar 26, 2021

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Rev Left Radio fan favorite Professor Alexander Aviña to talk about Latin America in the Cold War period. While we in the global north tend to think of the Cold War period as being typified by tensions in Eastern Europe, Latin America was the playground for much of the US's conflicts of the era.

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/ ). He has also had articles published in places like NACLA Report of the Americas and the Journal of Iberian and Latin America Research, and has made numerous interview appearances, including several episodes of Revolutionary Left Radio. You can follow him on twitter @Alexander_Avina.

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

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

*UNLOCKED* Intelligence Briefing: Right Wing Conspiracies Feb 26, 2021

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This Intelligence Briefing will be an patreon early access episode, about the psychological, historical, and material underpinnings of right wing conspiracies. While the majority of the references specifically are regarding QAnon, this episode tackles right wing conspiracies more generally.

Lewandowski's Conspiracy Theory Handbook https://www.climatechangecommunication.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ConspiracyTheoryHandbook.pdf

Altemeyer's The Authoritarians: https://theauthoritarians.org/

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

Follow us on social media! Our podcast can be found on twitter @guerrilla_pod and can be supported on patreon at https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory. Your contributions make the show possible to continue and succeed! Please encourage your comrades to join us, which will help our show grow.

To follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter @huck1995, and also has a patreon to help support himself through the pandemic where he breaks down science and public health research and news at https://www.patreon.com/huck1995. Adnan can be followed on twitter at @adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/the-majlis and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/. Breht is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, which can be followed on twitter @RevLeftRadio cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter at @Red_Menace_Pod. You can find and support these shows by visiting https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/.

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

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