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Dec 2021
1h 42m

China, and the "Western Left" w/ Immanue...

GUERRILLA HISTORY
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We have another fun Intelligence Briefing this time, with a special guest!  For this conversation that takes a look at China, and once again takes aim at the "Western Left", we bring back our good friend and comrade Professor Immanuel Ness.  Manny is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and a Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg.  His latest book is Organizing Insurgency: Workers' Movements in the Global South, which is available from Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745343594/organizing-insurgency/.   You can follow him on twitter @ImmanuelNess.

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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.

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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 at @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 cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter at @Red_Menace_Pod.  You can find and support these shows by visiting 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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