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Jul 2021
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Workers Movements in the Global South w/...

GUERRILLA HISTORY
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In 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 Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg.  His book Organizing Insurgency is available from Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745343594/organizing-insurgency/.  His other books include Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto Press), Urban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South (Haymarket Books), and The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism (Palgrave Macmillan).  He is also the editor of the  Journal of Labor and Society (Brill).  Lots of stuff to check out!  Manny can be found on twitter @ImmanuelNess.

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.  If you have any questions or guest/topic suggestions, email them to us at guerrillahistorypod@gmail.com.

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.

 

Follow us on social media!  Our podcast can be found on twitter @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!

To follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter @huck1995, and also has a patreon to help support himself through the pandemic where he breaks down science and public health research and news at https://www.patreon.com/huck1995.  Adnan can be followed on twitter @adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/the-majlis, and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/.   Breht is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, which can be followed on twitter @RevLeftRadio and cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter @Red_Menace_Pod.  Follow and support these shows on patreon, and find them at https://www.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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