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.
Episodes
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we have an extensive and fascinating conversation on football with Robert Wilson! This was a great conversation, not only if you are a fan of the sport. We highly recommend you also check out the interview Robert did on Rev Left Radio.
Be sure to also check out our past episodes on football, each of which featured Alexander Aviña: Football! Palestine, Copa América, & the Euros, The World Cu...
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by two fan favorites of the show - Alexander Aviña and Michael Fox! Here, we discuss the escalating imperialist war that is being waged on Venezuela. With such a rapidly evolving situation, you will want to make sure that you listen to this to know the background!
Also, be sure to check out the past episodes Alex and Michael have been on the show for. Alex has appeared on: Do...
In this collaboration between Guerrilla History and the Adnan Husain Show, Adnan has a wonderful conversation with a remarkable radical activist, Elaine Mokhtefi, as part of our ongoing series of interviews with living historical revolutionaries. Elaine Mokhtefi is author of "Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers." This fascinating discussion retraces Elaine's early political engagement wit...
This episode is a release of our sister program The Adnan Husain Show.
Adnan discusses a crucial history of US subversion of Syria's sovereignty even before the conclusion of WW2 starting with interference and covert operations by the OSS precursor to the CIA and then through the entire Cold War with Dr. Patrick Higgins, a Middle East historian, co-editor of Liberated Texts and member of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collect...
In this episode of Guerrilla History, Ali Kadri is back for another installment of our new mini-series with him! This time, a fascinating discussion on The Future of Resistance. If you missed our previous episode with him, Surplus Populations and the Political Economy of Waste, be sure to check that out! Also, stay tuned for more installments of this series!
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by returning guest Michael Fox (whom you may remember from our episodes The Rise of Fascism, Bolsonaro, & the Brazilian Elections and American Imperialism's Shadow on Latin America w/ Michael Fox) to discuss his fantastic new series Stories of Resistance, a collaboration with The Real News Network and provides short surveys of resistance throughout history and in the contempora...
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we kick off a brilliant new mini-series with our friend, Dr. Ali Kadri! Here, we discuss surplus populations and the political economy of waste. We always hear terrific things about our conversations with Ali, and we are sure you will similarly love this one. Be sure to stay tuned for the next installment of this mini-series, which will be on The Future of Resistance!
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on a good comrade of ours, Max Ajl (much overdue, we might add)! Here, we get a primer on the agrarian question and discuss its importance to national liberation struggles globally! Max is the perfect guest for this conversation, and we know you'll get a lot out of it.
Max Ajl is is an associated researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment, a res...
This week, we bring you an episode from our sister program The Adnan Husain Show. Enjoy!
In this first part of a two part series, Adnan has an epic conversation with Dr. Isa Blumi, historian and Professor of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University, about Yemen's modern history of resisting colonialism geopolitically and global capitalism. Author of Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arab...
In this blockbuster episode of Guerrilla History (originally released Mar 1, 2024), we bring on two outstanding guests to discuss the modern history of Yemen, as well as their ongoing struggle against Zionist imperialism and opposition to the genocide in Gaza. Shireen and Rune bring fantastic insight and analysis, making this complicated history accessible and utilizable for individuals in our movement against imperialism in all ...
In this fascinating remastered episode (originally released Jul 8, 2022), we talk with Professor Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt about the numerous coups of Iraq from 1953-1968 (and the CIA/State Department role in these) amidst the background of rising Arab nationalist politics and pushes by several groups for nationalization of Iraqi oil. A fantastic discussion based off of Brandon's equally fabulous book The Paranoid Style in American ...
In this excellent conversation (originally released Apr 14, 2023), we talk with Comrade Booker Omole of the Communist Party of Kenya about their book release - The Building of the Communist Party of Kenya! A great conversation about building a Communist Party, the book is a tremendous resource, and all proceeds of it go towards supporting the CPK!
Booker Omole is the National Vice Chairperson and National Organizing Secretary of t...
In this remastered episode (originally aired 18 December 2020) 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.
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back fan favorite Ali Kadri to discuss a very important topic - Sanctions as Genocide! Long time listeners will remember that we previously had a series on Sanctions As War, and this episode is a great accompaniment to those past conversations. Similarly, this goes very well with our other conversations with Ali (Lebanon vs. Zioimperialism and Palestine - War, Occupation, and Prolet...
In this episode, we present a crossover of Guerrilla History and the Adnan Husain Show. Here, Dr. Gerald Horne joins Adnan and Henry to discuss his recent book, Armed Struggle?: Panthers and Communists, black Nationalists and Liberals in Southern California, Through the Sixties and Seventies. As ever, Professor Horne connects the histories of organizing and resistance against racial capitalism to the contemporary situation, includ...
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back fan favorite Ali Kadri to discuss a very important topic - Sanctions as Genocide! Long time listeners will remember that we previously had a series on Sanctions As War, and this episode is a great accompaniment to those past conversations. Similarly, this goes very well with our other conversations with Ali (Lebanon vs. Zioimperialism and Palestine - War, Occupation, and Prolet...
In this great episode of Guerrilla History, we have a discussion with Linda Quiquivix about her study and book Palestine 1492: A Report Back, which is a study of 500 years of the struggle for life in words, maps, and images in the seven cardinal directions in Mayan philosophy and in the spiral that is time. This was such an interesting conversation, and one which we think you will find really useful!
This remastered episode of Guerrilla History was a continuation of our Sanctions As War miniseries. In this fascinating episode, we had a discussion with Professor Muhammad Sahimi on the history and the impacts of sanctions on Iran, which is both an immensely enlightening and heartbreaking conversation. This episode is particularly timely given the current situation in Iran. Be sure to also stay turned for our analysis on the si...
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 The Adnan Husain Show 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...
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