New Episodes, New Sister Shows, and YouTube!
We have been extremely busy in the last couple months, let's get caught up on what has been going on.
Dear Guerrilla History Listeners,
It has been a bit since we have had the chance to get the newsletter put together. Extremely busy times, but we hope you find what we have been putting together interesting. Let’s break down what we have been doing, but first, we want to let you know that our YouTube channel is officially up and running now! Nothing fancy, but we’ve been spending dozens of hours in getting some of our back-catalogue up on the channel, and we will continue to do so, as well as starting to get new episodes there as well. As a new channel though, we are at the VERY bottom of YouTube’s algorithms, so do us a favor, subscribe to the channel, like a few of the episodes we already have put up there, and (most importantly) send some of the links to comrades that you know are more likely to listen on YouTube than on a podcast app. Thanks in advance!
Now onto other bits of news. Remember that if you see something you want to check out, or share with comrades, just click the hyperlinks in the text below:
New Episodes!
As usual, we have been uploading more material every Friday on the Guerrilla History feed. Let’s run through some of the episodes since our last newsletter, from oldest to newest:
Media Narratives & Hegemonic Discourses w/ Greg Shupak & Stuart Davis
Here, 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). 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!
The Egyptian Revolution & Nasser's Era w/ Ahmad Shokr (AR&D Ep. 7)
This episode was a fascinating conversation, as we rolled 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 Prof. Ahmad Shokr!
Indigenous Methodologies w/ Sardana Nikolaeva & Masha Kardashevskaya
In this episode, we had 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 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 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!
Struggle Against Africa's Last Absolute Monarchy w/ Bafanabakhe Sacolo of the Communist Party of Swaziland (AR&D Ep. 8)
I cannot overstress the importance of this case study, as it is an ongoing struggle - this episode of African Revolutions and Decolonization is on the struggle against Africa's last absolute monarchy - Swaziland. We were 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 Communist Party of Swaziland 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!
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!
Cultural Revolution in Swaziland w/ Ruehl Muller & Bafanabakhe Sacolo of the Communist Party of Swaziland (AR&D Ep. 8)
We brought 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 Struggle Against Africa's Last Absolute Monarchy). This time, we discussed 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!
NATO's Campaign Against Yugoslavia, & Relevance to Today w/ Kit Klarenberg & Nemanja Lukić
We brought 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 were 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 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.
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.
After that, we have the 2023 Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace get-together, also known as the Rev Left Family Annual Collab (Rev Left+Red Menace+Guerrilla History), 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.
New Sister Shows!
Keen listeners of the show will certainly have heard that both Henry and Adnan have new shows (Adnan’s already started, Henry’s launching this upcoming week).
The Adnan Husain Show:
Adnan has a new podcast/YouTube show, which is currently running an outstanding series, Palestine and the World. Subscribe for that, and much more content coming down the pipeline! You can subscribe on podcast apps or on the YouTube channel.
Tsars and Commissars: From Rus to Modern Russia:
Henry’s new show is one he is cohosting with a Russian Doctor of Historical Sciences, and is a 25-part series on Russian history from essentially the Stone Age (pre-Rus foundation at least), and will go until the current day. At the time of sending this newsletter, nothing is on the show’s channel yet, but by next week, there will be! You will be able to subscribe on YouTube or also by podcast app (coming soon).
I had planned on letting you know about some other goings on, but seeing as this post has already gotten far too long, I will save those for the next newsletter.
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