Guerrilla History
174 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 478 ratingsGuerrilla 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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Episodes
Intelligence Briefing: The Beautiful Game w/ Alexander Aviña
July 30, 2021 10:08 - 1 hour - 72 MBGuerrilla 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. We have a fun intelligence briefing this time, with a special guest! For this conversation about football (soccer to some of you) and the politics surrounding it, we bring on fan favorite Professor Alexander Aviña. You can find Alex's web...
Intelligence Briefing: The Beautiful Game w/ Alexander Avinã
July 30, 2021 10:08 - 1 hour - 72 MBGuerrilla 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. We have a fun intelligence briefing this time, with a special guest! For this conversation about football (soccer to some of you) and the politics surrounding it, we bring on fan favorite Professor Alexander Aviña. You can find Alex's web...
Workers Movements in the Global South w/ Immanuel Ness
July 16, 2021 10:49 - 2 hours - 60.3 MBIn this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Professor Immanuel Ness to talk about his brand new book, Organizing Insurgency: Workers Movements in the Global South. The book combines theory of workers movements with case studies from India, South Africa, and the Philippines. A must listen conversation for an internationalist proletarian understanding of workers power! Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and Senior Re...
A Decolonial Feminism w/ Françoise Vergès
July 09, 2021 12:23 - 1 hour - 34.6 MBIn 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 o...
Intelligence Briefing: UFOs
July 02, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 77.3 MBGuerrilla 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...
Tea War w/ Andrew Liu
June 18, 2021 14:23 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBIn 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...
Intelligence Briefing: Vaccine Intellectual Property Rights
June 11, 2021 13:45 - 52 minutes - 37 MBGuerrilla 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, 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! ...
The History of Indigenous Resistance w/ Nick Estes
May 21, 2021 15:50 - 2 hours - 55.6 MBIn 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, ...
Intelligence Briefing: The One Kingdom Solution?
May 18, 2021 00:16 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBGuerrilla 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 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 Crusa...
Burma's History & Rohingya Tragedy w/ Carlos Sardiña Galache
April 23, 2021 16:00 - 2 hours - 60.8 MBIn 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....
*UNLOCKED* Intelligence Briefing: 1793 French Constitution
April 16, 2021 22:27 - 1 hour - 46.7 MBGuerrilla 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 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 docum...
Cold War Latin America w/ Alexander Aviña
March 26, 2021 14:45 - 1 hour - 52 MBIn 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 M...
*UNLOCKED* Intelligence Briefing: Right Wing Conspiracies
February 26, 2021 01:26 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBGuerrilla 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 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 epi...
BONUS: Malcolm X Assassination
February 26, 2021 01:26 - 1 hour - 50.9 MBThis bonus episode of Guerrilla History comes out on the 56th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, and also comes out less than 24 hours after the unsealing of a deathbed confession related to the assassination. We plan on doing several Malcolm X specific episodes in the future, but for the commemoration of this anniversary, we focus today primarily on the assassination. Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims...
The Counterrevolution of 1776 w/ Gerald Horne
February 26, 2021 01:17 - 2 hours - 49.1 MBIn this episode of Guerrilla History, we close out Black History Month with a very special guest, the great Professor Gerald Horne. In this episode, we talk about heroic creation myths of the United States, and the actual history in order to deconstruct these myths. This episode will be largely based on Gerald's books The Counterrevolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Coloniali...
Intro to African Revolutions and Decolonization w/ Leo Zeilig
February 05, 2021 16:42 - 1 hour - 77 MBIn this episode of Guerrilla History, we do a survey on African revolutions and decolonization movements so that we can dive deep into individual African movements/revolutions in the future, and call back to this episode for the broader regional/continental historical context. For this herculean task, we bring on Leo Zeilig, an editor of the Review of African Political Economy, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the School of Advanced Study University of Lo...
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs w/ Elizabeth Thompson
January 15, 2021 16:21 - 1 hour - 79.2 MBIn this episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by Professor Elizabeth F. Thompson to talk about her new book How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs, about the historic Syrian-Arab Congress of 1920. Professor Thompson is the Mohamed S. Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace and Professor of History at American University. Her book was published by Atlantic Monthly Press, and is available here: https://groveatlantic.com/book/how-the-west-stole-democracy-from-the-arabs/ Guerrilla H...
*Unlocked* Intelligence Briefing- MK Ultra ft. Michelle Shephard
January 08, 2021 15:06 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBGuerrilla 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 Vanguard tier and above will get instant access to all episodes. Half of the episodes will be made available to the public after a week or two, while the others will remain patreon-exclusives (though they will be opened up to members of the Comrade tier after a couple weeks). This Intelligence Briefing was a...
Women in Nepal’s Civil War w/ Hisila Yami
December 18, 2020 16:56 - 2 hours - 86.5 MBIn this episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by Hisila Yami to talk about The People's War in Nepal, and the role of women in it. Hisila Yami was a leader in The People's War, a three times minister of Nepal, a former member of the Constituent Assembly, and the author of People's War and Women's Liberation in Nepal. She can be followed on twitter @HisilaPost. Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use ...
John Brown: Cross-Over w/ RevLeft Radio
December 07, 2020 18:03 - 1 hour - 38.2 MBThis episode of Guerrilla History is a cross-over episode with Revolutionary Left Radio, hosted by our cohost Breht O'Shea. In this episode, we discuss the life, legacy, tactics, and lessons from the legendary John Brown. For background reading on one of the most famous and controversial abolitionists, we recommend starting with W.E.B. Du bois's "John Brown", published in 1909, and David Reynold's "John Brown, Abolitionist", published in 2005. Guerrilla History is the podcast that...
*UNLOCKED* Intelligence Briefing: A Brief History of Vaccine Flubs
November 27, 2020 16:10 - 41 minutes - 25.6 MBThis Intelligence Briefing has been unlocked from our Patreon. It was originally published on 13 November. 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 Vanguard tier and above will get instant access to all episodes. Half of the episodes will be made available to the public after a week or two, while the others will remain patreon-exclusives (though th...
Why Turkey Is Authoritarian w/ Halil Karaveli
November 20, 2020 15:29 - 1 hour - 51.9 MBIn this episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by Halil Karaveli to talk about Why Turkey Is Authoritarian. Halil M. Karaveli is a Senior Fellow with the Turkey Center of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center and editor of its publication The Turkey Analyst. His book Why Turkey Is Authoritarian: From Atatürk to Erdoğan is available from Pluto Books. Follow The Turkey Analyst's coverage at https://www.turkeyanalyst.org/. Why Turkey Is Authorita...
Washington Bullets w/ Vijay Prashad
November 07, 2020 03:19 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBIn this episode of Guerrilla History, the guys run through some of the long and sordid history of US interventions abroad, whether by the military, the CIA, the IMF, or other even less thought about methods. The very special guest is Vijay Prashad, Director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research and author of (among many other vital works) the new book Washington Bullets. Vijay can be followed on twitter @vijayprashad and the Tricontinental Institute can be followed @tri_con...
Guerrilla History Pilot
November 07, 2020 03:01 - 32 minutes - 14.7 MBWelcome to the Guerrilla History Podcast's pilot episode! 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. 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. In this pilot episode, the guys run through what the vision and goals of this pod...