Guerrilla History

Historian Alexander Aviña discusses Israel's role in Latin America, focusing on their involvement in selling weapons and providing counter-insurgency support to authoritarian regimes. The podcast explores the connections between the US-Mexico border and the Israel-Palestine conflict, delves into Israel's collaboration with anti-Semitic regimes, and highlights their influence in perpetuating walls and population controls. The speaker also shares reflections on the suffering in Gaza and the challenges of advocating for Palestinian liberation.

In this Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace get-together, also known as the Rev Left Family Annual Collab (Rev Left+Red Menace+Guerrilla History), Alyson, Henry, Adnan, and Breht sit down for a deep dive on South African Apartheid. Together they discuss its euro-colonialist origins, explain the significance of the Boer Wars, define and explicate the origins of apartheid, explore the political economy of apartheid and how brutal racism shaped it, examine the multi-faceted indigenous resistance to apartheid, analyze the end of formal apartheid as well as its ongoing legacy in post-apartheid South Africa, and try to extract important lessons from this history to apply to the ongoing struggle in Palestine. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

The Leninist Lawyer, an anonymous legal expert from Georgia specializing in tribal and worker's compensation law, discusses the implications of settler colonial law using the case of Sue the T. rex. The conversation reveals the legal complexities of fossil ownership on Indigenous land and the ethical dilemmas in paleontology. They dive into the struggles of Native American rights against capitalist exploitation, drawing parallels with current global injustices. The discussion offers a unique Marxist perspective on law and its intersection with Indigenous sovereignty.

Ali Kadri, author of 'A Theory of Forced Labour Migration: The Proletarianisation of the West Bank Under Occupation (1967-1992)', discusses themes including war as a method of capital accumulation, indigenous labor extirpation, calculating the value of human life, exploitation of labor, forced migration and dispossession, and the contradiction of profit. The episode explores the impact of politics on the region, changes in life expectancy and societal factors, and the destructive power of advanced weaponry. The hosts express gratitude and discuss future topics with Ali Kadri.

In this absolutely fabulous episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back on the one and only Dr. CBS, Charisse Burden-Stelly!  Here, we discuss her outstanding new book Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States.  This work focuses on how anti-radical repression (especially anti-communist repression) is infused and inseparable with anti-Black racial oppression, and vice versa.  This is a critical work by one of the most critical voices in our times, and we think that this conversation is a truly important one for everyone to hear! Charisse Burden-Stelly is associate professor of African American studies at Wayne State University. She is the coauthor (alongside Gerald Horne) of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History and the coeditor (alongside Jodi Dean) of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing.  Join the Black Alliance for Peace or BAP Solidarity Network, keep up with Dr. CBS's work by checking out her website www.charisseburdenstelly.com, and follow her on twitter @blackleftaf. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

In this crossover episode that we have done in collaboration with our sister podcast RevLeft Radio, we bring on Ashley Fataar to provide a primer into Apartheid in the South African context, and where we also begin to explore some of the parallels to the apartheid that the settler-colonial state of Israel is enforcing in occupied Palestine today.  This is a good introduction to the topic, and we plan on getting everyone in the RevLeft family (Breht, Henry, Adnan, & Alyson) together in the coming weeks to do a deep dive into apartheid in South Africa and where we can further explore these connections to what we are seeing today!  Be sure to listen to this conversation to prepare for that coming conversation, and be sure to subscribe to Guerrilla History, RevLeft, and Red Menace wherever you get your pods. 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 ash.fataar@gmail.com.   Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

In another vital episode of Guerrilla History, we close out our Sanctions As War miniseries while continuing to examine Palestine and the various components of the conflict in Occupied Palestine.  This time, we bring on Corinna Mullin to discuss sanctions from below, the BDS movement, and how what those in the West can do to support the Palestine liberation movement.  This is a really important conversation, so be sure to share with anyone you think would benefit from hearing it! Follow the The International People's Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism and CUNY for Palestine for more information on the organizations Corinna is involved with. Corinna Mullin is an anti-imperialist scholar teaching at John Jay and Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY). She researches, writes and teaches about: the politics and political economy of West Asia and North Africa, genealogies of global south security/carceral states, the politics of development, US imperialism, racial capitalism, anti-/decolonial theory and struggles, knowledge production, and popular education. Corinna has been involved in BDS struggles in the US, Tunisia and New York.  You can follow her on twitter @MullinCorinna Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

Guest Tara Alami discusses media misrepresentations and propaganda surrounding the ongoing bombardment of Gaza. The podcast explores the biased portrayal of the Israel-Gaza conflict in Western media, the suppression of Palestinian voices, the dehumanization of Palestinians, the historical conditions and resistance in Palestine, the repression of solidarity protests in Germany, and the importance of seeking alternative sources of information on Palestine.

In this important and wide-ranging episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on two esteemed guests, Professors Rabab Abdulhadi and Ariel Salzmann, to discuss the conflict in occupied Palestine, the bombardment in Gaza, attempts to legitimize the Zionist project that is the so-called State of Israel, and public activist movements.  This is another really crucial conversation that builds off of our previous episode with Max Ajl and Patrick Higgins on Palestinian Resistance vs. the Zionist Project.  If you find this conversation useful, please send it along to your comrades, friends, and family - we really need people to understand this! Our guests recommend you to check out the work done by Jadaliyya, the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Study Program/Teaching Palestine, the statement from the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, the statement from Birzeit University, and the work being done by Jewish Voice for Peace. Rabab Abdulhadi is the founding Director and Senior Scholar of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Study Program at San Francisco State University, co-founding Editorial Board Member of the Islamophobia Studies Journal, and Director/Principal Investigator of Teaching Palestine, as well as author of numerous scholarly works. Ariel Salzmann is a professor of Islamic and world history at Queen's University, and her research addresses theories of state formation, histories of Mediterranean communities and Muslim societies, the transformation of market systems and the making of global capitalism.  Her forthcoming book, The Exclusionary West: Medieval Minorities and the Making of Modern Europe, will be out in May 2024. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory 

Max Ajl and Patrick Higgins join the podcast to discuss Palestinian resistance against the Zionist project, including the ongoing bombardment on Gaza. Topics covered include the history of Gaza, the development of Palestinian resistance, media manipulation, the consequences of Hamas's attack, and the crisis of legitimacy faced by Israel. They also explore the influence of Marxist movements on the Palestinian resistance. Tune in for crucial information on this critical topic.