In Defense of Liberation

By In Defense of Liberation!

In Defense of Liberation is a conscientizing program meant to help folks organize around liberation for ALL peoples through political education, experience, stories, histories - failed, and successful... more

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March 26, 2023 Interview with Dr. Gerald Horne
We are so thankful to have had Dr. Horne on to talk with us about a wide-range of topics. Thank you again Dr. Horne!
We began by speaking about some of the early experiences of Dr. Horne's life, growing up in Apartheid, Jim Crow USA as a young black man, being a paperboy, listening to the radio and the news at home, his parents love of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson, and coming into consciousness through the awful experiences that black folks in the US live with everyday. We then spoke about his Law education, and his transition to history studies, why he did this and what he has gotten out of it. We talk about the need for historians, especially Black and other oppressed peoples' historians to give back to the people a history which is digestible, revolutionary, and leads to change - but also the difficulties of remaining true to radical or revolutionary principles within academia. Transitioning to other topics, we discussed the counter-revolutionary nature of the US and other settler-colonial states like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc., the ongoing debates among the "left" about this, class collaboration and some economic/material reasons for it historically. We then make our way to topics of the day, such as Russia and China, Ukraine, and domestic struggles in the US by oppressed peoples. I hope you enjoy this episode, and please let me know what you think!

Also, be sure to check out some of Dr. Horne's work below, and look out for others!
- BookFinder.com: Search Results (Matching Titles)
- Guerrilla History: The Counterrevolution of 1776 w/ Gerald Horne on Apple Podcasts
- The Cadre Journal: The American White Supremacist Project and the Murder of Tyre Nichols, with Prof. Gerald Horne on Apple Podcasts
- Gerald Horne - YouTube
- Freedom Now - KPFK 90.7 FM

and so much more!
Peace love and socialism as always - all power to the people!
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1h 11min
March 23, 2023 Global War: The 101s of US Empire - the USA is a WAR MACHINE!
Welcome to a (possible) new series - Global War - where we will focus on the developing conflicts, events, wars and regime change efforts of the US Empire and its NATO and other allies. In this episode we discuss, very very briefly, how the US came into existence, Spanish, English, Dutch and other European “exploration”, corporations, and colonization. We talk about the many many wars the US has and is fighting since it’s “founding” as a “Constitutional Republic” in 1787, before then, after then, and today. We bring up WW1 and WW2, Korea, Vietnam, China and the Opium Wars, Iraq, Iran, Guatemala, Venezuela, Peru, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Alaska, etc. all to form an idea of what exactly the US is, was and can only exist as.
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43min
March 21, 2023 Why We’re All Poor
In this episode I talk about the necessity for oppressed people/nations, workers, and unemployed people to be forced into impoverishment and dependency, degradation and oppression. I also talk some more about the documents in the recently published Collected Works of the Black Liberation Army, especially on class, subjectivism, and dialectics/dialectical materialism.
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36min
March 20, 2023 Interpersonal Relations in Organizing and in Life
In this episode we talk about how institutions and practices of slavery, colonization, and imperialism lead to the necessity for racism, sexism, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Transphobia, and therein effect all interpersonal human relations. Whether you are a socialist, communist, etc. you should, I should, we should, all work on investigating ourselves and our internalized reflections of this society in our own relationships and ways of relating to one another. In organizing, in our friendships, families, and everywhere.
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41min
March 17, 2023 Real Revolution is not just Ideas, Critiques and Criticism but Practice, Study, Action and Relations
This episode goes all over the place talking about the confusion of “Socialism”, and how a real revolution will never be perfect or pure, but real, built on the mistakes, practices, struggles, failures histories and ideas of those who’ve come before us, who have both failed and succeeded themselves. We must understand also that these lessons and histories should not be learned in isolation, disconnected, or individually, but together with collective, organizations and groups for the goal of further building the movement and organizing towards people’s liberation - all power to the People!
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1h 28min
March 16, 2023 Censorship, Left/Right Alliances and the Confusion of the Western Left
In this episode we begin by discussing some of the international news stories of the week, such as Saudi Arabia and Iran committing to a path towards re-establishing diplomatic ties through the negotiations held in Beijing with the help of China; the 10 year anniversary of the passing of Hugo Chavez, who took on the mantle of leading the Bolivarian Revolution along with his people; the recent US-Cuba Normalization conference held at Fordham University March 10-11; the upcoming Call to Action on March 15+16 to call the White House incessantly to demand Cuba be removed from the State Sponsor of Terrorism List; the upcoming rally and demonstration/march in DC on March 18th....along with a few other stories. We then transition to discussing the recent censorship of Black Power Media, an independent media coalition of incredible organizers, historians, educators and activists who were given a vague conclusion that they "engaged in election misinformation" leading to a 7-day post ban, and then told this was 1 of 3 strikes before their entire account is removed. Dr. Jared Ball was on BreakThrough News with Eugene Puryear and Rania Khalek talking about it and it struck a cord with me, so wanted to show love to the Comrade Jared Ball and all the folks at BPM, but also connect it to the confusion, lack of revolutionary awareness, consciousness, and history that the Western, Euro-Amerikan and European Left is ignorant of or intentionally ignoring.

Let me know what you think!

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
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1h 7min
March 06, 2023 Morning Commute - 3/6/2023
In this episode we discuss the National Day of Action on March 9th, and the DC rally on March 18th among other events coming up; we chat about international capitalism’s and imperialism’s need for control, exploitation, wealth accumulation, etc. and how our struggles around the world must find ways to unite and struggle for our shared and independent Liberation
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34min
March 03, 2023 The Psychology and Reality of Colonialism, Capitalism and Imperialism
In this episode we begin by sharing our explicit support and solidarity with the revolutionary masses, parties and governments of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Vietnam, China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Iran, Palestine and elsewhere. We then speak about oppression, class society, colonialism and its consequences psychologically, socially, and it’s revolutionary conclusions to come.
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1h 10min
March 01, 2023 International Women’s Month and the importance of study and revolution
In this episode, we talk about the sham holiday known as women’s month or whatever bullshit it is called in the states, and the difference between this and international working women’s day that was established in the Soviet union. We also talk about the importance of study and understanding history as an active force in our daily struggle, as well as the importance of organizing with education for the sake of taking practical and realistic steps towards revolution. Please let me know what you think!
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41min
February 28, 2023 Oppressed People’s Liberation and the Class Struggle
In this episode we talk about a bunch of shit and how different struggles are interrelated, and require inter-organizing, such as tenant orgs with food pantries or clothing aid, or community gardens with self defense and political education classes. But we must also recognize that the struggles in Peru, Mali, Burkina Faso, Russia China and North America among others are all intertwined and how we must find ways to struggle together for each other’s liberation.
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42min

FAQs about In Defense of Liberation:

How many episodes does In Defense of Liberation have?

The podcast currently has 355 episodes available.