ANTICONQUISTA

A political education session hosted on October 30, 2020 by ANTICONQUISTA Co-Editor Ramiro Fúnez and Erica Caines.

Erica is a poet, writer and organizer in Baltimore and the DMV area. She is an organizing committee member of the anti-war coalition, the Black Alliance for Peace as well as an outreach member of the Black-centered Ujima People’s Progress Party. Erica founded Liberation Through Reading in 2017 as a way to provide Black children with books that represent them.

In this session, we discuss "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech by the late Malcolm X. We talk about the political implications of his revolutionary speech and how it applies to the 2020 U.S. elections.

Danny and Kayla speak with Palestinian writer and activist Khaled Barakat about the Palestinian freedom struggle in the 21st century.

Danny Shaw and Kayla Pop speak with Joey Morales, Gianella Ghiglino and New Amauta about Indigenous resistance in the 21st century. They also discuss contemporary Indigenous struggles across the Andes.

ANTICONQUISTA Co-Editor Ramiro Fúnez and Hypatia Ostojic discuss the 2020 snap election in Bolivia. The election is taking place almost a year after the 2019 U.S.-backed coup against democratically-elected President Evo Morales. Hypatia lives in Los Angeles and immigrated from Bolivia at the age of 11. She’s an activist, social worker and member of Ayni Allyu. Ayni Allyu is a group of Bolivians in the U.S. resisting the coup. Hypatia is also a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Danny Shaw and Kayla Pop speak with Tunde Osazua, Coordinator of the U.S. Out of Africa Network started by the Black Alliance for Peace. Tunde sheds light on the imperialist roots of AFRICOM (U.S. Africa Command) and its implications for Africans around the world today. The Black Alliance for Peace seeks to recapture and redevelop the historic anti-war, anti-imperialist and pro-peace positions of the radical Black movement.

A live stream with the co-editors of ANTICONQUISTA celebrating the third anniversary of our revolutionary project. ANTICONQUISTA is an anti-imperialist media collective that produces content by and for the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora. We first launched on Oct. 12, 2017, commemorating Indigenous People's Resistance Day and the centennial anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Danny Shaw and Kayla Pop honor the life and legacy of Mercedes Sosa and the Nueva Canción (New Song) movement. Mercedes was a revolutionary musician from Argentina who pioneered the genre, which inspired many leftist artists across Latin America and the Caribbean. Danny and Kayla are also joined by Argentina-based Dayana López and Adriana Pedrolo.

A political education session hosted on October 2, 2020 by ANTICONQUISTA Co-Editor Ramiro Fúnez and Kayla Pop. Kayla is a Peruvian-Haitian student and worker based in New York City and a regular contributor to ANTICONQUISTA.

In this session, we discuss “The State and Revolution” by Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. “The State and Revolution” was published in 1917, the same year the Bolsheviks took power in Russia.

In his book, Lenin explains the Marxist theory of the state and the tasks of the working class in the revolution. Lenin also discusses the role of the state in society and the theoretical inadequacies of social democracy and anarchism in achieving revolution.

This podcast features tunes by the musical genius Mama Sissoko.

Nicholas and Danny discuss the ongoing struggle of the Puerto Rican people for independence from U.S. colonialism. On Sept. 23, Puerto Ricans on the island and in the diaspora celebrated an important anti-colonial holiday, "The Grito de Lares." Nicholas and Danny also discuss the United Nations General Assembly and its relevance to the Global South.

A conversation with Bruno Fuentes about the history of socialism in Chile. Bruno is a writer for Revista de Frente, an independent revolutionary media outlet based in Santiago, Chile. We discuss the history of socialist and communist movements in the South American country from the mid-1800s to the present. We also talk about the impact of capitalism and imperialism in Chile.