Guerrilla History

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 Afric...

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,  and the delusion of US air power !  We are also lucky to be joined by Nemanja Lukić as a guest host for this episode.  In addition to being a keen analyst ( and former guest of Guerrilla History ), Nemanja personally lived through th...

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 w...

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...

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 Univers...

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 Univers...

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 e pisode Indigenous Diamonds of Russia's Sakha Republic ), and bring on Dr. Masha Kardashevskaya for the first time.  They discuss the work they are doing on indigenous...

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 Fre...

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back two outstanding guests, Stuart Davis (whom you will remember from our episode Sanctions As War (alongside Manny Ness)), and Greg Shupak (whom you will remember from our episode  The History and Impact of Sanctions on Syria ).  Here, we discuss a topic that each of them has done a lot of work on - media narratives and hegemonic discourses.  This i...

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  The Congo - From Colonization Through Lumumba & Mobutu .  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 easte...

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Dr. Sardana Nikolaeva to discuss her brilliant study Indigenous Diamonds: Extractivism and Indigenous Politics in the Diamond Province of Russia .  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 sanc...

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 on...

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  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 t...

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, The Mau Mau Uprising w/ Nic...

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back our comrade Ju-Hyun Park (whom you will remember from our recent episodes  A History of American Imperialism in Korea and  Korea Dispatch - Martial Law, Impeachment, and More ) 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 posit...

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...

The following episode is from Adnan's new show, aptly titled The Adnan Husain Show .  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, D...

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 o...

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...

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 a...

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 ongoin...

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 fo...

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...

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back Pawel Wargan (whom you'll remember from our episode  Disarming Empire + the Elections in Pakistan ) as a guest host to help us interview Michael Galant about a new publication from the  Progressive International , a series of essays commemorating the New International Economic Order at its 50th anniversary, and updating it for today.  These essay...

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back our comrade Ju-Hyun Park (whom you will remember from our recent episode  A History of American Imperialism in Korea ) 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 dispat...