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.
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The Adnan Husain Show: The Longue Durée: Palestine in World History
06/06/2025
The Adnan Husain Show: The Longue Durée: Palestine in World History
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 from there so we can get helped out in the algorithms! Part 1 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial) examines the premodern paradigms of Latin Christendom's relationship to Jews and Muslims, Judaism and Islam, over centuries since the time of the Crusades and the establishment of the Latin Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Dr. Ariel Salzmann and Adnan discuss a Mediterranean history from the medieval crusades to the "Reconquista" in Iberia into the early modern period and reflect on the transformation in the Latin West from religious difference between Christian and non-Christian as predominant to the elaboration of new ethno-racial forms of exclusion in the shared roots of antisemitism, Islamophobia and other forms of racism.
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Apartheid (AR&D Ep. 9)
05/30/2025
Apartheid (AR&D Ep. 9)
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 Fataar is a long time socialist activist and writer based in South Africa. If you would like to get in touch with Ashley, you can reach him via email at . After that, we have the 2023 Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace get-together, also known as the Rev Left Family Annual Collab (++), where Alyson, Henry, Adnan, and Breht sat down for a deep dive on South African Apartheid. Together they discussed its euro-colonialist origins, explained the significance of the Boer Wars, defined and explicated the origins of apartheid, explored the political economy of apartheid and how brutal racism shaped it, examined the multi-faceted indigenous resistance to apartheid, analyzed the end of formal apartheid as well as its ongoing legacy in post-apartheid South Africa, and tried to extract important lessons from this history to apply to the ongoing struggle in Palestine. Subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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NATO's Campaign Against Yugoslavia, & Relevance to Today w/ Kit Klarenberg & Nemanja Lukić
05/23/2025
NATO's Campaign Against Yugoslavia, & Relevance to Today w/ Kit Klarenberg & Nemanja Lukić
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 Klarenberg is an investigative journalist and the UK Lead at The Grayzone. He also runs his personal site and can be found on twitter . Nemanja Lukić is a Yugoslav anti-imperialist activist who runs the . You can also follow Anti-Imp Net on twitter . Additionally, you should check out the article that Nemanja mentioned that he coauthored with our friend () Alejandro Pedregal here. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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Cultural Revolution in Swaziland w/ Ruehl Muller & Bafanabakhe Sacolo of the Communist Party of Swaziland (AR&D Ep. 8)
05/16/2025
Cultural Revolution in Swaziland w/ Ruehl Muller & Bafanabakhe Sacolo of the Communist Party of Swaziland (AR&D Ep. 8)
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 against the monarchy, and the CPS's efforts on this front. A massive and important conversation, you'll definitely want to share this with comrades! Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. Bafanabakhe Sacolo is National Organizing Secretary of the Communist Party of Swaziland. You can keep up to date with the CPS by following them , , or by checking out . Ruehl Muller is senior lecturer/associate professor at the Institute of Creativity and Innovation at Xiamen University in China, and the editor of the fantastic (buy a physical copy or download the free PDF from ). Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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Time with the Red Army Faction w/ Margrit Schiller [REMASTERED]
05/09/2025
Time with the Red Army Faction w/ Margrit Schiller [REMASTERED]
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 picking yourself up a copy from PM Press (). Margrit's struggles within and against this system continue, and grabbing a copy of her book is a good way to help while we are still forced to operate within capitalism. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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Struggle Against Africa's Last Absolute Monarchy w/ Bafanabakhe Sacolo of the Communist Party of Swaziland (AR&D Ep. 8)
05/02/2025
Struggle Against Africa's Last Absolute Monarchy w/ Bafanabakhe Sacolo of the Communist Party of Swaziland (AR&D Ep. 8)
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 discussion, and one which you will certainly want to listen to, as our next episode in the AR&D series is on cultural revolution in Swaziland! Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. Bafanabakhe Sacolo is National Organizing Secretary of the Communist Party of Swaziland. You can keep up to date with the CPS by following them , , or by checking out . Ruehl Muller is senior lecturer/associate professor at the Institute of Creativity and Innovation at Xiamen University in China, and the editor of the fantastic (buy a physical copy or download the free PDF from ). Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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Struggle Against Africa's Last Absolute Monarchy w/ Bafanabakhe Sacolo of the Communist Party of Swaziland (AR&D Ep. 8)
05/02/2025
Struggle Against Africa's Last Absolute Monarchy w/ Bafanabakhe Sacolo of the Communist Party of Swaziland (AR&D Ep. 8)
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 discussion, and one which you will certainly want to listen to, as our next episode in the AR&D series is on cultural revolution in Swaziland! Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. Bafanabakhe Sacolo is National Organizing Secretary of the Communist Party of Swaziland. You can keep up to date with the CPS by following them , , or by checking out . Ruehl Muller is senior lecturer/associate professor at the Institute of Creativity and Innovation at Xiamen University in China, and the editor of the fantastic (buy a physical copy or download the free PDF from ). Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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Indigenous Methodologies w/ Sardana Nikolaeva & Masha Kardashevskaya
04/25/2025
Indigenous Methodologies w/ Sardana Nikolaeva & Masha Kardashevskaya
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 post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, where she is an indigenous anthropologist studying indigeneity, indigenous methodologies, extractivism, and more. She cowrote the wonderful paper we discussed in our previous episode with her, which you should read here: Masha Kardashevskaya is a scholar of peace and conflict studies who has been studying indigenous groups across multiple continents. While Masha doesn't use social media, she and Sardana are starting a podcast imminently, which we will share the information about on our various social media platforms when it is up, so stay tuned! Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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The Egyptian Revolution & Nasser's Era w/ Ahmad Shokr (AR&D Ep. 7)
04/18/2025
The Egyptian Revolution & Nasser's Era w/ Ahmad Shokr (AR&D Ep. 7)
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 next episode of our AR&D series, which is a deep examination of Nasserism both domestically and regionally! Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. Ahmad Shokr is a professor at Swarthmore College, and is a historian of the modern Middle East who researches (among other things) the history of capitalism, empire, and decolonization. He is author of the soon-to-be-released (out in May). Follow him on twitter to keep up with his work Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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Media Narratives & Hegemonic Discourses w/ Greg Shupak & Stuart Davis
04/11/2025
Media Narratives & Hegemonic Discourses w/ Greg Shupak & Stuart Davis
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, but who understand that the media may be manipulating them! Greg Shupak is a professor of English and Media Studies and is the author of the book, . You can follow him on twitter , and you should definitely check out the writing he does at . 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. You can find more of Stuart's work on his , or on his . Additionally, pick up , the outstanding book he coedited alongside Manny Ness. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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The Situation in Congo - From Mobutu to M23 Rebels Today w/ Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja (AR&D Ep. 6)
04/04/2025
The Situation in Congo - From Mobutu to M23 Rebels Today w/ Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja (AR&D Ep. 6)
With this episode of Guerrilla History, were follow up on our last episode of African Revolutions and Decolonization with another discussion with Prof. Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, who joined us last time for . Here, we pick up where we left off, with Mobutu's regime, and come to the present. Particular focus is given to the situation in eastern Congo with the 23 rebels today and their foreign backers. This is an extremely important conversation, so be sure to share this series with comrades! We are still in the very early phases of the planned ~40 parts, so it is a great time for them to start listening in as well! Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja is Professor Emeritus of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and previously served as the DRC's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Additionally, he is the author of numerous brilliant books, including and Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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Indigenous Diamonds of Russia's Sakha Republic w/ Sardana Nikolaeva
03/28/2025
Indigenous Diamonds of Russia's Sakha Republic w/ Sardana Nikolaeva
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Dr. Sardana Nikolaeva to discuss her brilliant study . We go over Sakha and the Sakha people, the history of diamond extraction in Sakha, and then went over the politics of indigeneity in Russia, how these diamonds were branded as "indigenous", and how sanctions on Russia impact the indigenous Sakha people. With so much in this conversation, you are sure to learn a lot, and we hope you will help by sharing this with your comrades! Sardana Nikolaeva is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, where she is an indigenous anthropologist studying indigeneity, indigenous methodologies, extractivism, and more. She cowrote the wonderful paper we discussed today, which you should read here: Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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The Congo - From Colonization Through Lumumba & Mobutu w/ Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja (AR&D Ep. 5)
03/21/2025
The Congo - From Colonization Through Lumumba & Mobutu w/ Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja (AR&D Ep. 5)
With this episode of Guerrilla History, were continuing our series on African Revolutions and Decolonization with an outstanding case study on the Congo, looking at the process of colonization, how decolonization unfolded, Lumumba's short time as Prime Minister, and the transition to the Mobutu regime. We really could not ask for a much better guest than Prof. Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, who not only is one of the foremost experts in not only this history, but also served as a diplomat for the DRC. We're also fortunate that the professor will be rejoining us for the next installment of the series, a dispatch on what is going on in the Eastern Congo and the roots of the ongoing conflict there. Be sure to share this series with comrades, we are still in the very early phases of the planned ~40 parts, so it is a great time for them to start listening in as well! Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja is Professor Emeritus of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and previously served as the DRC's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Additionally, he is the author of numerous brilliant books, including and Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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Revolutionary Papers w/ Mahish Ahmad, Koni Benson, & Sara Kazmi
03/14/2025
Revolutionary Papers w/ Mahish Ahmad, Koni Benson, & Sara Kazmi
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we discuss a wonderful resource for revolutionary scholars and activists - . Revolutionary Papers is a transnational research collaboration exploring 20th century periodicals of Left, anti-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 , as well as 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 . 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 and find her Revolutionary Papers . 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 and find her Revolutionary Papers . Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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Reflections on Mau Mau w/ Shiraz Durrani (AR&D Ep. 4)
03/07/2025
Reflections on Mau Mau w/ Shiraz Durrani (AR&D Ep. 4)
With this episode of Guerrilla History, we continue our series on African Revolutions and Decolonization with a brilliant supplement reflecting on the Mau Mau Uprising. Here, Shiraz Durrani goes through the history and its implications of the uprising, in a really fascinating and useful conversation! This is a brilliant companion to our previous episode in the series, , which you should also check out if you have not done so. Be sure to share this series with comrades, we are still in the very early phases of the planned ~40 parts, so it is a great time for them to start listening in as well! Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. Shiraz Durrani is a Kenyan writer who has written expensively on Mau Mau, as well as other aspects of Kenyan history. You can follow him on twitter , and check out many of his , as well as . Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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Korea War Games, Trump's Rhetoric on the DPRK, & More w/ Ju-Hyun Park of Nodutdol
02/28/2025
Korea War Games, Trump's Rhetoric on the DPRK, & More w/ Ju-Hyun Park of Nodutdol
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back our comrade Ju-Hyun Park (whom you will remember from our recent episodes and ) to discuss the upcoming US led war games taking place in the Peninsula, some interesting rhetoric coming from the Trump administration regarding the DPRK, Nodutdol's positions on each of these topics, and a brief rundown of the latest in the martial law and impeachment story that we covered last time with Ju-Hyun. For more information on these topics and more, be sure to follow the material posted on both and . Also, check out some of Nodutdol's recent instagram posts here: , Ju-Hyun Park is a writer and activist with Nodutdol for Korean Community Development. Their writing has appeared in a variety of outlets, and they can be followed on Twitter . Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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The Mau Mau Uprising w/ Nicholas Mwangi (AR&D Ep. 3)
02/21/2025
The Mau Mau Uprising w/ Nicholas Mwangi (AR&D Ep. 3)
With this episode of Guerrilla History, we get into our first case study of our series on African Revolutions and Decolonization. Here, Nicholas Mwangi comes on to discuss the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya - what led to it, how it unfolded, and its legacies. Absolutely critical historical case study, you certainly want to hear it, and share with comrades! Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. Nicholas Mwangi is a writer and member of the in Kenya. Additionally, he cohosts the , which you can also support on their . Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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Introducing Our New Sister Show - The Adnan Husain Show!
02/14/2025
Introducing Our New Sister Show - The Adnan Husain Show!
The following episode is from Adnan's new show, aptly titled . Don't worry, Adnan is still continuing with Guerrilla History, and we will be back with our next regular episode next week! We just wanted to let you know about this exciting new project so that you can subscribe to it. In this episode, Professor Adnan Husain is joined by two outstanding scholars and thinkers, Drs. Peter Beattie and Karim Bettache of BettBeatMedia ( ) .They discuss a number of interrelated topics based on BettBeatMedia newsletters on substack: the current geopolitical order, China’s role in it, BRICS and political economy, anti-imperialist politics in the Trump era, the media, as well as the politics of race and Islamophobia beyond “left” and right in “the West”. Check out BettBeat's Substack Subscribe to the channel here: Please subscribe, share, and support this channel:
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Pan-Africanism: A Primer w/ Layla Brown & Jacquie Luqman (AR&D Ep.2)
02/07/2025
Pan-Africanism: A Primer w/ Layla Brown & Jacquie Luqman (AR&D Ep.2)
With this episode of Guerrilla History, we launch into Pan-Africanism as a great additional starting point to our series on African Revolutions and Decolonization. We bring on two marvelous guests, Prof. Layla Brown and Jacquie Luqman, to discuss the history, theoretical currents, and modern expressions of Pan-Africanism. This is a 2+ hour masterclass, you certainly won't want to miss a moment of it! Be sure to share this episode with comrades as well, we KNOW they will benefit from listening! Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. Layla Brown is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies and affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Brown’s research focuses on Pan-African, Socialist, and Feminist social movements in Venezuela, the US, and the broader African Diaspora. She is a member of the , and can be found on twitter . She also cohosts the alongside Charisse Burden-Stelly. Jacquie Luqman is a radical activist, journalist, and is a coordinator with . You can follow some (but not all!) of her writings , and watch her show . She is on twitter . Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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BRICS - A View from South Africa w/ Prof. Narnia Bohler-Muller
01/31/2025
BRICS - A View from South Africa w/ Prof. Narnia Bohler-Muller
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we have a fascinating discussion on South Africa's role in BRICS, the view of BRICS in South Africa, South Africa's case against Israel at the ICJ, a new National Health Insurance law in SA, and more. For this, we bring on someone ideally placed to discussed all of this and more - Prof. Narnia Bohler-Muller, a South African law professor and policy specialist who has been intimately involved in each of these topics. This is really a great conversation, and hopefully helps you in thinking more about South Africa's role in BRICS when you have discussions about that grouping. Don't forget to subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. We have a LOT of interesting things coming your way (not least of which, our African Revolutions and Decolonization series which began last week and continues with episode 2 next week), and you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. Narnia Bohler-Muller is a divisional executive in the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa's Developmental, Capable and Ethical State research division and acting Group Executive: Shared Services. She is a lawyer and former Professor at Nelson Mandela University, and was one of the individuals involved in South Africa's admission to BRICS and many of the discussions since then surrounding SA's place in the grouping. You can find more of her work Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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African Revolutions and Decolonization (AR&D) - Ep. 1: Introduction w/ Momodou Taal
01/24/2025
African Revolutions and Decolonization (AR&D) - Ep. 1: Introduction w/ Momodou Taal
With this episode of Guerrilla History, we officially launch our long awaited series on African Revolutions and Decolonization! Every other week (between other, non-thematic episodes) for roughly the next year and a half, we will be turning a spotlight on struggles across the African continent, with both case studies as well as more theoretical or conceptual episodes present. We could scarcely ask for a better guest to help us launch this series than our comrade Momodou Taal. In this episode, we discuss the importance of studying African revolutionary history, and what we should be doing with this series. Get excited, we certainly are! In addition, if you want to read Adnan and Henry's thoughts on this series, they introduced the series . Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. Momodou Taal is a British-Gambian PhD student at Cornell University studying African Political Economy. He is host of the outstanding podcast , and has a forthcoming book , which preorders are open for. Be sure to also follow him on twitter . Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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Post-Soviet Georgia History, and Today's Events w/ Sopo Japaridze
01/17/2025
Post-Soviet Georgia History, and Today's Events w/ Sopo Japaridze
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Georgian labor union leader and writer Sopo Japaridze to run through post-Soviet Georgia's history to help us understand the events that are unfolding today! This is a critical discussion that hopefully will be of use to many of you who find yourself not knowing as much about Georgia as you wish you did, and will allow you to understand the ongoing events much better. We certainly found quite a bit of value in this episode, and look forward to bringing Sopo back to discuss the history of Soviet Georgia in the future! Sopo Japaridze is a Georgian labor union leader and writer. You can follow her on twitter , and keep up to date with many of her writings on her . Also subscribe to her podcast Reimagining Soviet Georgia wherever you get your pods, and follow the show on twitter Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing.
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[Unlocked] Conferences, What We're Reading, and More (October 30 on Patreon)
01/10/2025
[Unlocked] Conferences, What We're Reading, and More (October 30 on Patreon)
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we're unlocking a conversation that we recorded for Patreon on October 30. Here we had an impromptu chat when a guest had to reschedule last minute, but despite not planning in advance, we had a marvelous conversation on a pretty wide variety of topics. We put out the call to our patrons on whether they thought anything in the conversation would be useful for our non-patreon audience, and some of the responses we heard included: "I especially enjoyed Adnan's continuation of the Crusades theme he discussed with Sina a couple weeks ago." "I really liked the Cyprus Isnotrael connection and the reminder that the histories in the region are intertwined going back a very long way." Be sure to listen and let us know on social media if you found anything interesting or useful! You can @ us on Twitter at and on IG at . Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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Reviewing 2024 and Looking Forward to 2025 & Beyond w/ Breht O'Shea & Alyson Escalante
01/03/2025
Reviewing 2024 and Looking Forward to 2025 & Beyond w/ Breht O'Shea & Alyson Escalante
It's time for our annual Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace episode, where we crossover with Rev Left and the Red Menace in order to review the past year in world events and look forward to what we think will be coming in the next year. Breht, Alyson, Adnan, and Henry discuss Palestine, BRICS, the Alliance of Sahel States, global capitalism, and much more, so be sure to tune in and share widely! This episode will also be available through and . Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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The New International Economic Order at 50 w/ Michael Galant & Pawel Wargan
12/27/2024
The New International Economic Order at 50 w/ Michael Galant & Pawel Wargan
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back Pawel Wargan (whom you'll remember from our episode ) as a guest host to help us interview Michael Galant about a new publication from the , a series of essays commemorating the New International Economic Order at its 50th anniversary, and updating it for today. These essays are available in , and in . These essays include historical entries from people like Allende, Nyerere, and Sankara, as well as new essays from comrades including Max Ajl, Cheng Enfu, and Miguel Díaz-Canel. You will certainly find some essays of great value to you in this collection, so be sure to check it out! Michael Galant is a member of the Secretariat at the Progressive International and is a member of their coordinating team for the New International Economic Order. You can follow Michael and keep up with his work by following him on twitter . Pawel Wargan is an activist, researcher, organizer, and coordinator of the Secretariat of the Progressive International, and has been published in many places. You can follow Pawel on twitter to keep up with his latest work Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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Korea Dispatch - Martial Law, Impeachment, and More w/ Ju-Hyun Park of Nodutdol
12/20/2024
Korea Dispatch - Martial Law, Impeachment, and More w/ Ju-Hyun Park of Nodutdol
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back our comrade Ju-Hyun Park (whom you will remember from our recent episode ) to discuss all the latest in South Korea, with the recent martial law/coup attempt, impeachment, attempts to restart a hot phase of the Korean War, and more as topics of discussion. This is not only an extremely important dispatch, but also a dynamic situation with new information coming out all the time, so be sure to listen to this conversation to get grounded in what happened so that you can better make sense out of new developments in the situation. Be sure to read Ju-Hyun's recent pieces related to this discussion, , and , and also be sure to check out ! Ju-Hyun Park is a writer and activist with Nodutdol for Korean Community Development. Their writing has appeared in a variety of outlets, and they can be followed on Twitter . Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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Tricontinental's Early (1967-71) Socio-Ecological Dimensions w/ Alejandro Pedregal
12/13/2024
Tricontinental's Early (1967-71) Socio-Ecological Dimensions w/ Alejandro Pedregal
In this wonderfully esoteric yet very important episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Alejandro Pedregal to discuss his marvelous co-authored historical article . This piece was published in one of our favorite journals, a resource that you really should all be utilizing, . In this discussion, we talk about OSPAAAL, the Cuban Third World solidarity institution and in particular its magazine Tricontinental, the way it framed sovereignty and the implicit ecological messaging within. A fascinating conversation, and one which we think you will find a lot of use in! Alejandro Pedregal is a Research Council of Finland Fellow, and is based at Aalto University. You can keep up to date with Alejandro's work by checking out his , and by following him on twitter Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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The Lost & Early Writings of James Connolly w/ Conor McCabe
12/06/2024
The Lost & Early Writings of James Connolly w/ Conor McCabe
In this exciting episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on the editor of the newly released , a groundbreaking work that fits wonderfully within our Sources and Methods series of episodes. Dr. Conor McCabe has done an incredible job of piecing together part of the lost James Connolly writings, and showing Connolly's engagement and adherence with Marxism, applied within the Irish national context. You won't want to miss this conversation! This book was published by Iskra Books, which means that in addition to the book being available as a beautiful print edition, the PDF is also available for free at . Of course download the PDF, but do also consider picking up a physical copy to support Iskra in their project of publishing revolutionary works and making them as accessible and freely available as possible! Conor McCabe is a historian, author, and scholar specializing in labor history, Irish socialism, and radical political movements. His extensive research has brought new insights into the intersections of class, colonialism, and economic power in Ireland. In addition to the Connolly book discussed today, he also has written and has multiple projects ongoing. Keep up to date with him , and be sure to follow him on twitter Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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New Translation of Marx's Capital, Vol. 1 w/ Paul North & Paul Reitter
11/29/2024
New Translation of Marx's Capital, Vol. 1 w/ Paul North & Paul Reitter
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on the translator/editors of the new translation of . We discuss, in addition to other things, the reasons why it was decided that this new translation was needed, the political background to making that decision, why the 2nd German Edition was used for making the translation from, why these introductions were used, whether there will be translations of the subsequent volumes of Capital and if a paperback edition will come out, and more! An enlightening discussion, lots of food for thought, and plenty of room for constructive dialogue and critique - let us know what you think of the conversation! Paul North is the Maurice Natanson Professor of German at Yale University. His books include . Paul Reitter is professor of Germanic languages and literatures and former director of the Humanities Institute at the Ohio State University. His translations include . Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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Zionist Rampage & Narrative Distortion in Amsterdam [Dispatch] w/ Jazie Veldhuyzen
11/22/2024
Zionist Rampage & Narrative Distortion in Amsterdam [Dispatch] w/ Jazie Veldhuyzen
In this dispatch episode of Guerrilla History, bring on left-wing Amsterdam City Council member Jazie Veldhuyzen to discuss the recent events that took place in Amsterdam surrounding an Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv football match, where violent Zionist hooligans went on a rampage through the city, but the media and major Dutch politicians instead characterized the event as a "modern pogrom" until the facts became too clear to ignore. This is a really important discussion that not only clarifies that specific situation, but also examines how Zionism influences narratives in mainstream discourse, why to remain vigilant in the face of these distortions and lies, and how to build movements in the face of these narratives and distortions. Recommendations that were mentioned in this episode were the article by Asa Winstanley, our comrade from Electronic Intifada, titled , as well as discussions on The Majlis around the IHRA "definition" of antisemitism. Check out as well as . Jazie Veldhuyzen is an activist, social worker, and Amsterdam City Council member and party chairman for . Follow him or on twitter . You can also follow De Vonk . Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content:
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