Passy and Maurice from Friends of the Congo join Breht to discuss the history and the present of the Congo. Together, they discuss their organization, Passy's on-the-ground organizing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the history of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba and his legacy, European and Belgian colonialism, K...
2024-02-15 15:09:00 +0000 UTC View PostMatthew Furlong returns for another installment of our Dialectics Deep Dive Series.
Together, they discuss Althusser, Hegel, Dialectical Materialism, Marxism, Palestine, process philosophy, and much more!
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In this fouth installment of our ongoing W.E.B. Du Bois series, Breht and PM sit down with Saudia Durrant and Geo Maher from the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School fo...
2024-02-05 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
EARLY RELEASE: Breht got invited onto Left of the Projector to discuss Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's famous sci-fi film from 1972 "Solaris" with Evan and Amanda. Together, they discuss and analyze the film, exploring the human condition, the subcons...
2024-01-25 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, please use the comment section to ask any and all questions for me that you may have, and I will answer as many as I can in the next patreon episode!
Thank you all so much for your continued support of the show, and I look forward to navigating this uncertain and chaotic year with you all. <3
EARLY RELEASE: Dr. Joy James joins Breht and PM for their third installment of our ongoing Du Bois series, but this conversation goes well beyond the life and work of Du Bois to cover James' newest book, her long history of organizing, the history of black liberation struggles in the US, and much more. Together, they discuss ...
2024-01-06 18:51:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Nicholas Richard-Thompson and Tunde Osazua from the Black Alliance for Peace join Breht to discuss the life and legacy of Kwame Nkrumah. Together, they discuss the Ghanaian Marxist and Pan-Africanist politician, political theorist, and revolutionary, h...
2023-12-26 18:10:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Everett from The Age of Napoleon and Arjun from Deep into History join Breht to discuss Napoleon Bonaparte. Together they explore and reflect on the new film b...
2023-12-18 02:44:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn this 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. 2023-12-13 15:34:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a recent episode of our semi-secret, non-political podcast for those interested...
2023-12-07 18:58:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Breht reads and reflects on a couple of articles covering the life and crimes of Henry Kissinger.
2023-12-01 04:26:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 2023-11-28 18:24:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Corey Mohler from Existential Comics returns to the show to discuss the famous novel (and its many adaptations) by Victor Hugo "Les Misérables".
Together they discuss the novel, its various adaptations, its political and social themes, 19th Ce...
EARLY RELEASE: Ashley Fataar joins Breht and Henry to give listeners an introduction to South African apartheid; its rise, its control, its defeat, and its lingering legacy... Along the way we use the example of South Africa to help us make sense of Israeli apartheid and the Palestinian resistance to it.
This is a 101...
Professor Matthew McManus returns to the show to discuss his newest book "The Politi...
2023-11-07 20:41:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Alyson and Breht discuss the ongoing national liberation struggle in Palestine. Together, they discuss the incredible shift in public opinion on Israel and Palestine, the internal and external contradictions culminating in unison for Israel, the discussion about whether or not what Israel is doing is technically a genocide (i...
2023-11-01 23:38:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Nicholas Richard-Thompson and Tunde Osazua from the Black Alliance for Peace join Breht to discuss AFRICOM, or The United States Africa Command - responsible for U.S. military operations and imperialism on the continent. Together they discuss the ongoi...
2023-10-30 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Breht continues and updates his discussion on the carnage unfolding in Palestine. He discusses the global situation, the very real possibility of a much wider war, Iran and America, the history of the Nakba, the Second Nakba, the tragic murder of precious Wadea Al Fayoume in Chicago by a zionist landlord, why the two state so...
2023-10-17 22:15:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Breht launches into a fiery tirade about the current situation in Palestine, helps listeners navigate and dismantle common Zionist talking points, and brings some much needed moral clarity and intellectual honesty to a topic that, especially in the West, often lacks both...
2023-10-10 18:14:10 +0000 UTC View PostChase from Mass Struggle joins Breht to discuss American labor history and communist political theory in relation to the trade union struggle through the lens of TUEL, or the Trade Union Educational League (1920 -1929). Together they discuss trade union consciousness, the necessity of a vanguard party, William Z. Foster, the ...
2023-10-05 13:49:23 +0000 UTC View Post
EARLY RELEASE: Jared from Millennials are Killing Capitalism podcast invited Breht on to talk about Friedrich Engels' draft to the Communist Manifesto entitled 2023-09-25 18:06:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Teddy Ostrow and Maximillian Alvarez from The Real News Network join Breht to discuss the recent "stand up...
2023-09-19 02:03:37 +0000 UTC View PostThese are the questions I was asked by Jared from MaKC, and Im VERY excited to release this episode in a week or two, as I truly l think its one of the better episodes I've done in a while!
Here are the questions Ill be answering in detail:
- One of the things I find interesting is that suppo...
2023-09-17 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHenry Hakamaki and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro join Breht to discuss the new translation (by Henry and Salvatore) of Domenico Losurdo's <...
2023-09-11 16:00:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly joins Breht and PM for a second installment of our Du Bois series, this one focusing on Du Bois' human rights and peace activism and how he tied that in with his revolutionary Marxism. Together they discuss Du Bois' politi...
2023-08-28 13:49:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all, just wanted to give you this heartwarming update and picture regarding the episode PM and I dropped a few days ago asking for donations to help prevent this family from losing their home due to their inability to pay all their back-rent. You all rose to the challenge after seeing that we were their last hope, and qui...
2023-08-26 19:59:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Breht reads and comments on the opening chapter of Domenico Losurdo's "Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend", translated only very recently into English from the original Italian by Henry Hakamaki and Salvatore Engel-Di Ma...
2023-08-26 11:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostAnyone who submitted an email address to be included in a Rev Left league, either on the main post (now deleted) or in the follow up patreon comment section: PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL AND JOIN THE LEAGUE IF YOU HAVENT ALREADY!
We have 3 leagues (Marx League, Engels League and Lenin League) and two of the...
Breht analyzes the lyrics of - and the ideology undergirding - a recent viral country song being presented as a working class anthem.
2023-08-17 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostRoxana and Enrique from the Black Rose Anarchist Federation join Breht to discuss their new political program, the analysis and strategy contained therein, the importance of organization for revolutionaries, their orientation toward Marxists in their organizing...
2023-08-16 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
