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Revolutionary Papers w/ Mahish Ahmad, Koni Benson, & Sara Kazmi

Guerrilla History

Release Date: 03/14/2025

The Adnan Husain Show: The Longue Durée: Palestine in World History show art The Adnan Husain Show: The Longue Durée: Palestine in World History

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For the next two weeks, we will be introducing (or reintroducing) our new sister shows.  This week, we will be presenting Part 1 of a 7 part series on titled Palestine and the World.  Next week, we will present the introduction of a new 25 part series that Henry is cohosting with a Russian historian on Russian history titled Tsars and Commissars: From Rus to Modern Russia.  Be sure to subscribe to Adnan's show and to stay tuned for Tsars and Commissars updates from Henry on twitter (). Also, please note that as well, so do us a favor, subscribe to the show and share some links...

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The following episode of our African Revolutions and Decolonization series is a massive one, two former episodes on Apartheid edited together into a giant conversation.  Information on each of the episodes below: The first is a crossover episode that we had done in collaboration with our sister podcast RevLeft Radio, we brought on Ashley Fataar to provide a primer into Apartheid in the South African context, and where we also began to explore some of the parallels to the apartheid that the settler-colonial state of Israel is enforcing in occupied Palestine today.  Ashley...

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NATO's Campaign Against Yugoslavia, & Relevance to Today w/ Kit Klarenberg & Nemanja Lukić show art NATO's Campaign Against Yugoslavia, & Relevance to Today w/ Kit Klarenberg & Nemanja Lukić

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In this fascinating episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Kit Klarenberg of The Grayzone to discuss the NATO campaign against Yugoslavia, its relevance to today, !  We are also lucky to be joined by Nemanja Lukić as a guest host for this episode.  In addition to being a keen analyst (), Nemanja personally lived through the bombing campaign.  This is a terrific discussion with plenty of history, analysis, and connections being drawn between this event of the past and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.  This is an important one, you won't want to miss a minute! Kit...

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Cultural Revolution in Swaziland w/ Ruehl Muller & Bafanabakhe Sacolo of the Communist Party of Swaziland (AR&D Ep. 8) show art Cultural Revolution in Swaziland w/ Ruehl Muller & Bafanabakhe Sacolo of the Communist Party of Swaziland (AR&D Ep. 8)

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In this exceptional episode of Guerrilla History, we continue our series African Revolutions and Decolonization by bringing back guest host Ruehl Muller, senior lecturer/associate professor at the Institute of Creativity and Innovation at Xiamen University in China (who has been in contact with the CPS for quite some time) and guest Bafanabakhe Sacolo of the Communist Party of Swaziland (both of whom were with us in our previous AR&D episode ).  This time, we discuss the construction of a culture to uphold the monarchy in Swaziland, the importance of cultural revolution in fighting...

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Time with the Red Army Faction w/ Margrit Schiller [REMASTERED] show art Time with the Red Army Faction w/ Margrit Schiller [REMASTERED]

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In this remastered episode of Guerrilla History (originally released in June 2022), we bring on a very special guest, Margrit Schiller!  Margrit was associated early on with the Red Army Faction, before being imprisoned and tortured by the West German state, being forced into exile in Cuba and Uruguay, and then having to move back to Germany more or less against her will.  A fascinating life story from someone just as committed to the struggle as ever! Margrit Schiller is author of Remembering the Armed Struggle: My Time with the Red Army Faction.  We highly recommend...

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Struggle Against Africa's Last Absolute Monarchy w/ Bafanabakhe Sacolo of the Communist Party of Swaziland (AR&D Ep. 8) show art Struggle Against Africa's Last Absolute Monarchy w/ Bafanabakhe Sacolo of the Communist Party of Swaziland (AR&D Ep. 8)

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With this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring you another fascinating case study in our series African Revolutions and Decolonization.  This time, a contemporary struggle - the struggle against Africa's last absolute monarchy - Swaziland.  We are fortunate to be joined by guest host Ruehl Muller, senior lecturer/associate professor at the Institute of Creativity and Innovation at Xiamen University in China, who has been in contact with the CPS for quite some time.  We are also joined by guest Bafanabakhe Sacolo of the Communist Party of Swaziland.  A brilliant...

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Guerrilla History

With this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring you another fascinating case study in our series African Revolutions and Decolonization.  This time, a contemporary struggle - the struggle against Africa's last absolute monarchy - Swaziland.  We are fortunate to be joined by guest host Ruehl Muller, senior lecturer/associate professor at the Institute of Creativity and Innovation at Xiamen University in China, who has been in contact with the CPS for quite some time.  We are also joined by guest Bafanabakhe Sacolo of the Communist Party of Swaziland.  A brilliant...

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Indigenous Methodologies w/ Sardana Nikolaeva & Masha Kardashevskaya show art Indigenous Methodologies w/ Sardana Nikolaeva & Masha Kardashevskaya

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we have two fantastic guests, and a continuation of our sporadic Sources and Methods series of episodes!  This time, we bring back Dr. Sardana Nikolaeva (whom you will remember from our recent episode ), and bring on Dr. Masha Kardashevskaya for the first time.  They discuss the work they are doing on indigenous methodologies, which is based off of their studies of indigenous populations in Russia's Sakha Republic, in Indonesia, and in Canada. A really fascinating conversation, and much to learn, we hope you find it useful! Sardana Nikolaeva is a...

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With this episode of Guerrilla History, we roll into our next case study in our series African Revolutions and Decolonization.  Here, we turn our focus to Egypt, and particularly the 23 July Revolution in 1952 and the rise of Nasser.  However, to tell this story, we turn back to the pre-colonial era, discuss the British colonial period, and the post-independence monarchy before getting to the Free Officers Movement.  A LOT of history covered here, and a really fascinating conversation with the terrific !  We're sure you'll learn a lot here, and be sure to stay tuned for the...

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Media Narratives & Hegemonic Discourses w/ Greg Shupak & Stuart Davis show art Media Narratives & Hegemonic Discourses w/ Greg Shupak & Stuart Davis

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back two outstanding guests, Stuart Davis (whom you will remember from our episode (alongside Manny Ness)), and Greg Shupak (whom you will remember from our episode ).  Here, we discuss a topic that each of them has done a lot of work on - media narratives and hegemonic discourses.  This is an incredibly important conversation, and a very interesting discussion as well.  As we say in the episode, this is one that is perfect for sharing with friends and family members who may not already be highly tuned in to political affairs,...

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we discuss a wonderful resource for revolutionary scholars and activists - Revolutionary Papers.  Revolutionary Papers is a transnational research collaboration exploring 20th century periodicals of Leftanti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production, and in this discussion, we talk about the goals of the project, the intended audience, and forms that this project has taken.  You'll want to be sure to check out their fantastic work!
Some additional resources for you are the South Asian Research & Resource Center, as well as https://www.jamhoor.org which is a Left media platform focusing on South Asia and its diasporas.
 
Koni Benson is a historian at the University of the Western Cape. Her research focuses on collective interventions in histories of contested development and the mobilization, demobilization, and remobilization of struggle history in southern Africa’s past and present.  You can find her Revolutionary Papers page here.
 
Sara Kazmi is a scholar, translator, and protest singer, a professor of Literature and Culture of the Global South whose research looks at poetry and drama from 1970s Punjab, in particular focusing on the re-working of oral, folk genres as a literary mode for subverting the bordering logics of the Indian and Pakistani state, and for critiquing the boundaries drawn by caste, patriarchy and institutional religion in the region.  Follow her on instagram and find her Revolutionary Papers page here.
 
Mahvish Ahmad is an educator, scholar and organiser. She is an Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Politics at the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics, where she studies state violence and the intellectual and political labour of movements targeted in repression. Follow her on twitter @mahvishahmad and find her Revolutionary Papers page here.

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