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In this episode of the Left POCket Project Podcast, Richard and I have our third #ReadingRevolution discussion, this time about Brazilian Communist revolutionary Carlos Marighella’s 1969 work The Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla, the place of violence in anti-authoritarian movements, and the contemporary application of radical political measures.

Full Text (in English): https://t.co/67jJrv7Jnd

Suggested Readings & Resources:

Marighella (documentary, in Portuguese)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF2Rt1-e8G8

Various – History of Marxism in Brazil (6 volume series, in Portuguese)

http://www.anitagaribaldi.com.br/produtos/644/livros/socialismo-e-marxismo/colecao-historia-do-marxismo-no-brasil.html

James N. Green – We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States

https://www.amazon.com/Cannot-Remain-Silent-Dictatorship-Perspectives/dp/0822347350/ref=pd_sim_14_10?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0822347350&pd_rd_r=f6b7dcbf-7096-11e8-a5fb-5d5816128136&pd_rd_w=01Pqc&pd_rd_wg=OyvYF&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=7967298517161621930&pf_rd_r=8B182QB3WPHHFKC5QN9W&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=8B182QB3WPHHFKC5QN9W

Victoria Langland - Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil

https://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Flowers-Movements-Remembering-Military/dp/0822353121/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529065540&sr=1-1&keywords=victoria+langland+speaking+of+flowers

Thomas Skidmore – The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-1985

https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Military-Rule-Brazil-1964-1985/dp/0195063163

Maria Helena Moreira Alves - State and Opposition in Military Brazil

https://www.amazon.com/Opposition-Military-Brazil-American-Monographs/dp/0292776179/ref=pd_sim_14_7?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0292776179&pd_rd_r=f6b7dcbf-7096-11e8-a5fb-5d5816128136&pd_rd_w=01Pqc&pd_rd_wg=OyvYF&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=7967298517161621930&pf_rd_r=8B182QB3WPHHFKC5QN9W&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=8B182QB3WPHHFKC5QN9W

Various - On Violence

(selected essays by thinkers like Malcolm X, MLK, Hannah Arendt, Marx, and many others)

https://www.amazon.com/Violence-Reader-Bruce-B-Lawrence/dp/082233769X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529065571&sr=1-4&keywords=on+violence

Angela Davis – 1972 Interview (Clip)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBqyBE1Ppw

In this episode, Richard is back for our second installment of #ReadingRevolution, and we are discussing the meaning of propaganda and agitation in leftist ideology and practice.

Related Readings & Resources

The 2 pieces we read:

Scott Harrison – The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, Chapter 11, “Agitation and Propaganda”

http://www.massline.info/mlms/mlch11.htm

“On the Role of Agitation and Propaganda” Revolution, 1978 https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-8/rcp-agit-prop.htm

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References we make:

“Trump’s grammar in speeches ‘just below 6th grade level,’ study finds”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/18/trumps-grammar-in-speeches-just-below-6th-grade-level-study-finds/?utm_term=.af2f7c866569

“Who Votes, Who Doesn’t, and Why”

http://www.people-press.org/2006/10/18/who-votes-who-doesnt-and-why/

The William I am referring to at the beginning is William Richardson: twitter.com/DecolonialBlack

“In White America: Liberal Conscience vs. Radical Consciousness” – speech by Greg Calvert, SDS

http://www.sds-1960s.org/Calvert-WhiteAmerica.pdf

Natural Readers information:

https://www.naturalreaders.com/

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Pictured: Soviet propaganda poster from WWII that reads: “Fascism is women’s worst enemy. Everyone [join] in the fight against fascism.”

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In this episode, I speak with Professor Anne-Marie Angelo on the history and legacy of the Israeli Black Panthers.

Suggested Readings:

On the Israeli Black Panthers:

Oz Frankel – “What’s In a Name? The Black Panthers in Israel”

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17541320802063554?journalCode=rsix2

“Israeli black panthers remind us what their struggle was about”

https://972mag.com/israels-black-panthers-remind-us-what-their-struggle-was-all-about/122566/

“Jewish Arabs and the birth of Israel's Black Panthers”

https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2016/5/15/jewish-arabs-and-israels-black-panthers

“The Legacy of Israel’s Black Panthers”

https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2016/5/16/the-legacy-of-israels-black-panthers

May 19, 2971 Demonstration by the Israeli Black Panthers (AP Archive)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0T4-sd9fNk

Interview w/ Reuven Abergel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0uSQA1TMbw&feature=youtu.be

“Saadia Marciano: Founder of Israel's Black Panthers”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/saadia-marciano-founder-of-israels-black-panthers-766842.html

On the UK Professors’ Strike:

University and College Union

https://www.ucu.org.uk/

UCU Announces 14 Strike Dates at 61 Universities in Pensions Row

https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/9242/UCU-announces-14-strike-dates-at-61-universities-in-pensions-row

UCU Members Have Voted to Accept the UUK Offer (update)

https://www.ucu.org.uk/strikeforuss

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In Episode 14, I discuss black Brazilian activist and socialist city councilmember Marielle Franco a month after her assassination, and contextual her murder among other recent developments in Brazil’s contemporary political climate. I also read the letter I co-authored with several scholars who work on Brazil that was published in The Black Scholar and Folha de São Paulo.

Reading/Resources:

On the Imperative of Transnational Solidarity: A U.S. Black Feminist Statement on the Assassination of Marielle Franco (The Black Scholar)

http://www.theblackscholar.org/on-the-imperative-of-transnational-solidarity-a-u-s-black-feminist-statement-on-the-assassination-of-marielle-franco/

(note: contains extensive links for additional information/context)

Declaração Feminista Negra dos EUA sobre o assassinato de Marielle (Folha de São Paulo)

http://agoraequesaoelas.blogfolha.uol.com.br/2018/04/02/tbs-marielle/

Full thread for the Left POCket Project on Marielle Franco’s life, work, and related socio-historical and political context (includes videos, articles, and other resources): https://twitter.com/LeftPOC/status/976870039759532032

Thread in “unrolled” web form: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/974338513373188096.html?refreshed=yes

“Afro-Brazilian Leader, Witness in Marielle Franco’s Case, Killed” (TeleSur)

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Afro-Brazilian-Leader-Witness-in-Marielle-Francos-Case-Killed-20180409-0015.html

“Miscarriage of Justice: Ex-President Lula's Imprisonment in Brazil” (The Real News Network)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiUvhbjgLUw (video)

“Hidden History: The US “War on Corruption” In Brasil” (BrasilWire)

http://www.brasilwire.com/dont-call-it-brazilgate/

“Under Threat of Military Coup, Brazil's Supreme Court Sends Lula to Prison” (The Real News Network)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFyde4033ic (vídeo)

ETA:

Interview I did for Black and Intellectual on 4/14/18 on the political situation in Brazil:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmva-ruYejc&t=1s

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In Episode 13 - “Peach Progressivism” – I speak with Anoa Changa (@thewaywithanoa) - activist, attorney, and news commentator - about election 2016, the Southern political scene, her family’s black radical history, & much more.

Related Reading/Resources:

Discussion between Benjamin Dixon, Anoa Changa, & Wendi Muse on the Left-“Alt-Right” Alliance, Benjamin Dixon Show, March 12, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pold5hl3XBQ

Marcus Ferrell for State Representative, Arizona:

http://www.ferrellfor24.com/

“Inequality in America: A National Town Hall” w/ Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Darrick Hamilton, Michael Moore, & guests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EV8XfM9CZo

“Bernie Endorses Challenger to Antiabortion Candidate in IL”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/03/08/bernie-sanders-endorses-challenger-to-antiabortion-democrat-in-illinois/?utm_term=.67626789c7a6

“Why Is the DNC Embracing an Aggressively Anti-Choice Candidate?”

https://rewire.news/article/2017/04/20/why-is-dnc-embracing-aggressively-anti-choice-democrat/

“Two Angry Black Ladies & a Microphone,” Anoa’s Interview of Imani Gandy, February 7, 2018

http://thewaywithanoa.com/2018/02/07/anoa-imani-gandy-two-angry-black-ladies-and-a-microphone/

The Peach Perspective (Anoa’s Georgia Politics Blog):

http://peachperspective.com/

“BDS Vote Exposes Split between Democratic Leadership”

http://peachperspective.com/2018/03/01/bds-vote-exposes-split-democratic-leadership-evans/

Coverage of Dwight Bullard at the Progressive Army

http://progressivearmy.com/tag/dwight-bullard/

“Pro-Israel Billionaire Haim Saban Drops $100,000 against Donna Edwards in Maryland Senate Race”

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/25/pro-israel-billionaire-haim-saban-drops-100000-against-donna-edwards-in-maryland-senate-race/

*correction: it was indeed $100k! I made a mistake on the podcast.

Chuck Schumer’s Speech 2018 AIPAC Speech:

http://www.policyconference.org/article/transcripts/2018/schumer.asp

“Trump Promised to Protect Steel. Layoffs Are Coming Instead.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/business/economy/trump-steel-industry-layoffs.html

“An Untold Chapter in Black History: an Excerpt of Safiya Bukhari’s The War Before: https://monthlyreview.org/2010/02/01/an-untold-chapter-in-black-history/

More on Safiya Bukhari: http://safiyabukhari.com/

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In this episode, Richard (@ProgressivGreen) and I have our first #ReadingRevolution with a discussion of Fidel Castro’s 1953 speech “History Will Absolve Me”

Suggested Readings/Resources:

Fidel Castro – “History Will Absolve Me” (1953)

Ful text: https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm

History Will Absolve Me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_Will_Absolve_Me

Louis A. Pérez,Jr. – “Chapter 3: c. 1930 – 1959,” Cuba a Short History (Leslie Bethell, editor)

https://www.amazon.com/Cuba-Short-History-Cambridge-America/dp/0521436826

The Moncada Barracks Attack:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moncada_Barracks

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/castro-failed-coup-moncada-barracks/

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Episode 11 - "Making Millennials" A Conversation with Shaun Scott - Left POCket Project Podcast

In this episode, I speak with Shaun Scott, writer, historian, and author of the new book Millennials and the Moments That Made Us: A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982 - Present, out now on Zero Books, about race, class, gender, and the left as young people continue to shape US politics.

http://www.zero-books.net/books/millennials-moments-made-us

You can also check out Shaun's writing at City Arts, where he has a bi-weekly column "Faded Signs": http://www.cityartsmagazine.com/contributor/shaun-scott/

Related Readings & Resources:

Shaun Scott - Millennials and the Moments that Made US: A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982 - Present (2018)

http://www.zero-books.net/books/millennials-moments-made-us

Shaun Scott - "In Defense of Call Out Culture"

http://www.cityartsmagazine.com/defense-call-culture/

Liz Ryerson and Shaun Scott, Guests - "The Vampire Castle" - Delete Your Account Podcast

https://deleteyouraccount.libsyn.com/the-vampire-castle

Mark Fisher - "Exiting the Vampire Castle"

http://www.thenorthstar.info/2013/11/22/exiting-the-vampire-castle/

Meagan Day - "Under Neoliberalism, You Can Be Your Own Tyrannical Boss"

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/under-neoliberalism-you-can-be-your-own-tyrannical-boss

Amber A'Lee Frost - "Cops on Campus"

https://thebaffler.com/your-sorry-ass/cops-on-campus

Katie Herzog - "Call-Out Culture Is a Toxic Garbage Dumpster Fire of Trash"

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/01/23/25741141/call-out-culture-is-a-toxic-garbage-dumpster-fire-of-trash

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In this episode, I speak with Beatrice Wayne about Ethiopian student movements of the 1960s, their engagement with leftist thought amid oppressive social and political conditions, and the complicated struggles for state control that followed.

Suggested Readings/Resources

Ethiopian Student Movement:

Bahru Zewde - The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement c. 1960-1974 (2014)

https://www.amazon.com/Quest-Socialist-Utopia-Ethiopian-1960-1974/dp/1847011640

Randi Rønning Balsvik - Haile Sellassie’s Students: The Intellectual and Social Background to Revolution. 1952- 1977 (1984)

https://books.google.com/books/about/Haile_Sellassie_s_students.html?id=nZ8lAQAAIAAJ

Ethiopian Revolution and its diverse effects:

Gebru Tareke - The Ethiopian Revolution: War in the Horn of Africa (2009)

https://www.amazon.com/Ethiopian-Revolution-War-Horn-Africa/dp/0300204140

Donald L. Donham - Marxist Modern: An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution (1999)

https://www.amazon.com/Marxist-Modern-Ethnographic-Ethiopian-Revolution/dp/0520213297

Amrit Wilson - The Challenge Road: Women and the Eritrean Revolution (1991)

https://www.amazon.com/Challenge-Road-Women-Eritrean-Revolution/dp/0932415717/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518841852&sr=1-6&keywords=amrit+wilson

On student organizing across Africa more generally:

Leo Zeilig, editor - Revolt and Protest: Student Politics and Activism in Sub-Saharan Africa (2007)

https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Protest-Politics-Sub-Saharan-International/dp/1780760434/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518841914&sr=1-1&keywords=Revolt+and+Protest%3A+Student+Politics+and+Activism+in+Sub-Saharan+Africa

Oral history collection containing the reflections of former radical ESM students:

Zewde, Bahru Zewde, editor - Documenting the Ethiopian Student Movement: An Exercise in Oral History (2010)

https://www.amazon.com/Documenting-Ethiopian-Student-Movement-Exercise/dp/9994450336/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518841950&sr=1-1&keywords=Documenting+the+Ethiopian+Student+Movement%3A+An+Exercise+in+Oral+History.

Beautifully written memoir of Hiwot Teffera, a woman who was deeply involved in the ESM, recounting her early involvement in the movement and following up through her incarceration:

Hiwot Teffera - Tower in the Sky (2012)

https://books.google.com/books/about/Tower_in_the_Sky.html?id=9mzinQEACAAJ

Learn more about Beatrice’s research here: https://sydney.academia.edu/BeatriceWayne

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Additional source added by Wendi for more information on the different student movements and political groups:

https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ethiopia/index.htm

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Pictured: Martha Mebrahtu, student activist, killed in 1972. For more information on Martha, please visit:

https://www.pambazuka.org/governance/martha-manifesto-ethiopian-womans-dream

and

http://abyotawi.blogspot.com/2016/03/womens-history-month-martha-mebrahtu.html

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In this episode of the Left POCket Project Podcast, I speak with Richard (@ProgressvGreen) about his thoughts on making leftist discourse more easily accessible for a broad audience and we reveal a surprise I’ve had up my sleeve for some time. Have a listen to find out what it is!

Suggested Resources:

“The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther”

https://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/4/the_assassination_of_fred_hampton_how

Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith 

https://www.amazon.com/Decolonizing-Methodologies-Research-Indigenous-1999-03-15/dp/B01FIWTGMW/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518078430&sr=1-2&keywords=linda+tuhiwai+smith%2C+decolonizing+methodologies

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

https://www.amazon.com/Pedagogy-Oppressed-Anniversary-Paulo-Freire/dp/0826412769/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518078494&sr=1-1&keywords=paulo+freire

The episode of The Discourse that Richard mentions on the ties between science fiction and politics: https://soundcloud.com/expandthediscourse/the-time-after-time-ep

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