Rev Left Radio

David Swanson, Marxist organizer and host of Radical Reflections, joins Breht for a second time; this time to talk about the history and legacy of the famous guerrilla warfare organization: the Irish Republican Army, known colloquially as the IRA. You can find and contact David on twitter @Swanny756 Find, listen to, and support Radical Reflections here: http://www.radicalreflections.co.uk Here is our episode on the Easter Uprising of 1916, as mentioned in the intro: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/irish-insurrection-the-easter-rising-of-1916 Outro music: 'The Internationale' by Pol MacAdaim. ------- LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/ SUPPORT REV LEFT RADIO: www.patreon.com/revleftradio Our logo was made by BARB, a communist graphic design collective: @Barbaradical Intro music by DJ Captain Planet. --------------- This podcast is affiliated with: The Nebraska Left Coalition, Omaha Tenants United, FORGE, Socialist Rifle Association (SRA), Feed The People - Omaha, and the Marxist Center.

Danny Haiphong, co-author of American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News--From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror, joins Breht for a long, in-depth conversation about the stories that America tells itself about itself, and why those stories are false. We cover so many topics and ideas that its impossible to summarize them all here, so check it out yourself! Check out Danny's work at the Black Agenda Report here: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Danny%20Haiphong Follow Danny on Twitter @SpiritOfHo Outro music: 'Craazy' by Rebel Diaz (feat. C-Rayz Walz) Check out and Support Rebel Diaz here: https://rebeldiaz.com/ ------- LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/ SUPPORT REV LEFT RADIO: www.patreon.com/revleftradio Our logo was made by BARB, a communist graphic design collective: @Barbaradical Intro music by DJ Captain Planet. --------------- This podcast is affiliated with: The Nebraska Left Coalition, Omaha Tenants United, FORGE, Socialist Rifle Association (SRA), Feed The People - Omaha, and the Marxist Center.

Mors, Native American historian and activist, discusses the history of the Lakota and Dakota people, settler colonialism, agency period, primitive accumulation, blood quantum, impacts of Euro parliamentarian structure and dam projects, the influence of Christianity, and the importance of recognizing and honoring indigenous history and land.

This is the second installment in our new and ongoing collaboration with Unity and Struggle. This Rev Left mini-series will trace and engage with the development of Unity and Struggle's deep study of race through the lens of Marxist historical and dialectical materialism. In this second edition, Breht is joined by Eve and Kei to cover primitive accumulation and its role in constructing race and racism. Check out, and contribute to, Unity and Struggle's study here: http://www.unityandstruggle.org/2019/11/racestudypart1/ Check out more from Unity and Struggle here: http://www.unityandstruggle.org/ Follow them on twitter @unityandstrug Intro Clip from The Michael Brooks Show ft. Richard Wolff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLRWDft8VZc Outro Music: 'Glory Box' by Portishead. ------- LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/ SUPPORT REV LEFT RADIO: www.patreon.com/revleftradio Our logo was made by BARB, a communist graphic design collective: @Barbaradical Intro music by DJ Captain Planet. --------------- This podcast is affiliated with: The Nebraska Left Coalition, Omaha Tenants United, Socialist Rifle Association (SRA), Feed The People - Omaha, and the Marxist Center.

On today's show, Breht talks with Yafeuh Balogun and Steven from the Huey P Newton Gun Club - Alpha Company about their organizing, armed self-defense, police brutality, the theory of intercommunalism, anti-fascism, survivalism, and much more! Check out, learn about, and support the Huey P. Newton Gun Club here: https://hueypnewtongunclub.org/ Outro Music: 'Sharp Shooters' by Talib Kweli & Dead Prez Check out Talib's music and podcast here: www.talibkweli.com/ Check out Dead Prez here: www.deadprezblog.wordpress.com/blog/ ------- LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/ SUPPORT REV LEFT RADIO: www.patreon.com/revleftradio Our logo was made by BARB, a communist graphic design collective: @Barbaradical Intro music by DJ Captain Planet. --------------- This podcast is affiliated with: The Nebraska Left Coalition, Omaha Tenants United, Socialist Rifle Association (SRA), Feed The People - Omaha, and the Marxist Center.

This is the first installment of our new and ongoing collaboration with Unity and Struggle. This Rev Left mini-series will trace and engage with the development of Unity and Struggle's deep study of race through the lens of Marxist historical and dialectical materialism. In this first episode, Breht is joined by Eve and Chino to cover the foundational concepts and the methodology of Unity and Struggle's race study. Check out, and contribute to, Unity and Struggle's study here: http://www.unityandstruggle.org/2019/11/racestudypart1/ Check out more from Unity and Struggle here: http://www.unityandstruggle.org/ Follow them on twitter @unityandstrug Outro Music: 'Make Change' by Bambu Check out and support Bambu's music here: https://bambubeatrock.bandcamp.com/ ------- LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/ SUPPORT REV LEFT RADIO: www.patreon.com/revleftradio Our logo was made by BARB, a communist graphic design collective: @Barbaradical Intro music by DJ Captain Planet. --------------- This podcast is affiliated with: The Nebraska Left Coalition, Omaha Tenants United, Socialist Rifle Association (SRA), Feed The People - Omaha, and the Marxist Center.

Maximillian Alvarez is an educator, essayist, and host of the Working People podcast. He joins Breht to explain and argue in favor of humanist Marxism, touching on countless core concepts within the Marxist and socialist traditions in the process. Follow Max on twitter @Maximillian_alv Listen to his podcast Working People here: http://workingpeople.libsyn.com/ And check out his writings and other work here: https://activeforgetting.com/ Here is the Mandatory OT episode we did together with Coffee w/ Comrades and Beep Beep Lettuce that was mentioned in the episode: https://soundcloud.com/mandatoryotpod/037-orgs-with-friends Outro Music: 'Tear The Facists Down' by Woody Guthrie ------- LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/ SUPPORT REV LEFT RADIO: www.patreon.com/revleftradio Our logo was made by BARB, a communist graphic design collective: @Barbaradical Intro music by DJ Captain Planet. --------------- This podcast is affiliated with: The Nebraska Left Coalition, Omaha Tenants United, Socialist Rifle Association (SRA), Feed The People - Omaha, and the Marxist Center.

Alekx and Ethan from Proles of the Round Table podcast join Breht on this All Hallows Eve to deconstruct the myth and logic of the oft-stated claim that Communism is responsible for the deaths of 100 million human beings. On this Halloween, we urge our listeners to reject the anti-communist propaganda of our enemies, while also realizing that the real blood-drenched monsters, ghouls, goblins, and vampires of this world are not to be found within the pages of fairy tales, but rather at the highest echelons of capitalist class society: the very people who want nothing more than for you to fall, hook, line, and sinker, for their anti-communist lies in order to maintain their murderous grip on the ill-gotten seats atop our world's bloody and unjust hierarchies of wealth and power. Find Proles of the Round Table here: https://www.prolespod.com/ and on Twitter @ProlesPod Here are just some of the sources used for this episode: https://medium.com/@discomfiting/debunking-communism-killed-more-people-than-naziism-7a9880696f67 https://mronline.org/2011/06/26/revisiting-alleged-30-million-famine-deaths-during-chinas-great-leap/ https://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/ https://mronline.org/2017/10/18/mao-reconsidered/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4331212/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/03/the-holodomor-and-the-film-bitter-harvest-are-fascist-lies/ https://www.newcoldwar.org/archive-of-writings-of-professor-mark-tauger-on-the-famine-scourges-of-the-early-years-of-the-soviet-union/ https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/furr_yezhov_jls17.pdf Outro Music: 'Bury a Friend' by Billie Eilish ------- LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/ SUPPORT REV LEFT RADIO: www.patreon.com/revleftradio Our logo was made by BARB, a communist graphic design collective: @Barbaradical Intro music by DJ Captain Planet. --------------- This podcast is affiliated with: The Nebraska Left Coalition, Omaha Tenants United, Socialist Rifle Association (SRA), Feed The People - Omaha, and the Marxist Center.

Gabriel Radic, a writer and organizer with the Marxist Center, joins Breht to discuss the Marxist urban guerrilla warfare organization 17N (Revolutionary Organization 17 November), which operated in Greece from 1975 to 2002. Outro Music: "Revolution" by Derek Minor Support his music here: www.derekminor.com ------- LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/ SUPPORT REV LEFT RADIO: www.patreon.com/revleftradio Our logo was made by BARB, a communist graphic design collective: @Barbaradical Intro music by DJ Captain Planet. --------------- This podcast is affiliated with: The Nebraska Left Coalition, Omaha Tenants United, Socialist Rifle Association (SRA), Feed The People - Omaha, and the Marxist Center.

Todd McGowan, a professor and author of "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution," dives into the nuances of Hegelian philosophy. He uncovers the often-misunderstood role of contradiction in dialectics and its implications for Marxism. The conversation highlights how Freudian psychoanalysis enriches Hegel’s ideas, and how embracing contradictions can drive societal progress rather than impede it. McGowan also discusses the impact of the French Revolution on Hegel's theories of freedom and equality, challenging listeners to reconsider their understanding of these complex philosophies.