In this episode of The Dugout, we’re joined by Lebanese writer, researcher, and podcast host Elia Ayoub, founder of The Fire These Times. Together we unpack Lebanon’s sectarian political system, the long shadow of the Lebanese Civil War, and the global political frameworks that shape how people interpret struggles in SWANA today.

Elia reflects on growing up in post–civil war Lebanon and how events like the 2006 Israeli invasion and the 2019 October uprising shaped his political thinking. The conversation explores how sectarian governance, regional geopolitics, and foreign intervention—from the United States to Iran—intersect with grassroots organizing and everyday survival.

We also dive into campism, a political tendency that reduces global politics to simplistic “sides,” often erasing local movements and struggles. Elia explains why this framework has distorted how many Western audiences understand conflicts in Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss memory, nostalgia, and political “hauntings” in post-conflict societies—drawing on thinkers like James Baldwin and the concept of hauntology to understand how nations shape identity through the stories they tell about the past.

Finally, we explore the possibilities of international solidarity, asking how Black radical traditions, abolitionist politics, and anti-imperialist movement

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Check out Elia's work

https://eliaayoub.com/about-2/

https://thefirethesetimes.com/

https://thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass/

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Chapters

00:43 What is a Young Elia like

01:17 what were some formative experiences for you?

02:16 What is writing like for you

03:39 What languages were the book you were reading in?

04:26 what did expanding your writing and The Fire These Times into a media ecosystem look like? James Baldwin influence

06:08 how has your relationship to Baldwin changed over the years?

07:47 Back ground on Lebanese political order

10:38 Perspective of Lebanese grassroots

11:45 a breakdown of Hauntology's and nostalgia

23:18 How do you see memory being used in different communities when self identifying with or beyond oppressors?

37:47 What of Baldwin's pieces does Elia have an affinity for?

40:59 What about campism limits solidarity and engagement in international struggles

53:51 how do you engage with the "Axis of Resistance" labeling?

1:00:08 Has grassroots formations begun challenging Hezbollah's monopoly on resistance

1:02:50 how should people imagine organized armed actors in local civil society?

1:05:39 How do you root you anti-imperialism and what other frameworks has that led you to?

1:12:51 what are some roles of the diaspora in local struggles. what ways to they show up

1:20:17 What is the state of ecological conditions Lebanon is facing? especially with Israel ecocidal tendencies

1:24:26 Context on southern Lebanon

1:30:18 What is the impart of the war on migrant workers?

1:33:10 Some ways migrant workers are organizing themselves

1:36:10 What are the characteristic of the ruling classes and authorities?

1:40:15 How does non sectarian thought show up in resistance movement spaces

1:43:31 Elia's masterclasses on Lebanon

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Mentioned Media:

BOOKS 

📚Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism – Benedict Anderson

📚Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa – Andrew Arsan

📚Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan – Sho Konishi

📚The Mnemonic Imagination: Remembering as Creative Practice – Emily Keightley & Michael Pickering

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NEWS ARTICLES

🔗The Holocaust, the Nakba and Reparative Memory

🔗Condemned to Be an Optimist: Celebrating James Baldwin

OTHER MEDIA MEDIA

Sleepless Nights (2012)

We spend some time unpacking the recent US/Israel strike on Iran and Lebanon.

With tensions rising between the U.S., Israel, and Iran, many are getting pulled into spewing out takes that delegitimize the complexity of diaspora and the struggles of folks on the ground opposing authoritarian regimes . In this episode, we slow things down and ask some questions: what's happening in this moment? What are the dangers of campism and how can it be reaction to imperial guilt? And what does international solidarity look like?

00:00 Intro
02:15 Why we waited to record this episode
05:40 The escalation around Iran and U.S. aggression
11:10 Feeling powerless under empire
17:30 Naming powerlessness and reclaiming collective power
25:50 Internationalist solidarity and accountability
34:20 Why this conversation requires long-term thinking
42:00 Closing reflections

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Folks we follow to get more info rn...

https://www.instagram.com/anarchofggt/

https://www.instagram.com/decolonize_anarchism/

https://www.instagram.com/eliajayoub/

Read from this episode…

How Campism Mirrors the Fascist Geopolitics by Hein Htet Kyaw

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hein-htet-kyaw-how-campism-mirrors-the-fascist-geopolitics

Iran:  Campism and the Erasure of Theocracy

https://anticapitalistresistance.org/iran-campism-and-the-erasure-of-theocracy/

Why the Left Is Failing Iranians: Against Campism, by Paria Rahimi – 15 January 2026

https://leftrenewal.org/articles-en/why-the-left-is-failing-iranians/

Places to Support

https://linkin.bio/migrantworkersaction/

www.instagram.com/p/DVb6iULCXKl/

https://www.patreon.com/qmalebanon

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Peyman Vahabzadeh, Iranian-born sociologist, theorist of radical phenomenology, and author of For Land and Culture, about the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the largely erased Turkmen Council (Shura) movement that briefly flourished in its wake. Having participated in the revolution at age 17, Vahabzadeh reflects on the intoxicating rupture of revolutionary time—when the state’s grip loosens and new possibilities emerge—and asks whether freedom can exist outside such moments of upheaval.

We center the Turkmen Shuras: nearly 300 grassroots councils that organized land redistribution, education, women’s participation, and self-defense during a fleeting dual-power moment before being crushed by converging forces of the nascent Islamic Republic, vanguardist leftists, and counter-revolutionary actors. The conversation bridges revolutionary Iran, Kurdish autonomy in Rojava, Black self-defense traditions, and global anti-imperialist struggles—offering a meditation on nonviolence, violence, autonomy, and what a truly free society might look like.

At a time when nationalist rhetoric once again disguises authoritarian consolidation across the globe, this episode reminds us: anti-imperialism without autonomy can reproduce tyranny at home.

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READ HIS HOOK - For Land and Culture: The Grassroots Council Movement of Turkmens in Iran, 1979-1980

https://bookshop.org/a/109212/9781773636658

“Internationalism, Anti-Imperialism, and the Origins of Campism” — Dan La Botz

https://anticapitalistresistance.org/internationalism-anti-imperialism-and-the-origins-of-campism/

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Keywords:
Iran politics, Iran protests, Iran authoritarianism, US imperialism, US–Iran relations, Israel Iran conflict, Israel Hezbollah conflict, Lebanon politics, Middle East geopolitics, campism explained, anti-imperialism, international solidarity, global left politics, authoritarian regimes, grassroots resistance movements, Middle East history, radical political analysis, anti-authoritarian politics, Black internationalism, The Dugout podcast

ABOUT THIS EPISODE | Sudan’s current way is the latest chapter in a decades-long fight between grassroots revolution and military power. In this episode, we break down how women, workers, and resistance committees built a movement from below — and how it was pushed into counter-revolution.

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To donate to comrades in Sudan...

https://opencollective.com/support-sudanese-comrades

Watch our ON SUDAN playlist on Youtube to learn more:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTSf-b7rj7Kierq08hactDYbqI6qTDiPy&si=f8kc15xiBPvdq_9y

What's Happening In Sudan | Watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL0nz1ZeX_k

The Role of Women in the Struggle for Sudan: Activists and Leaders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkqF9-TqOD4

Sudan: the women at the heart of the revolution | FIFDH 2020:

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

This episode we examine antisemitism in the black community. What is antisemitism, how does it function, and how does it show up within Black communities?

We begin with a reading and reaction to James Baldwin’s essay “Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White.” Baldwin challenges us to think about proximity to power, resentment, and how racial hierarchy shapes perception. His analysis helps clarify how anger at structural oppression can become misdirected toward visible groups rather than systems.

We then turn to contemporary controversies, including recent comments from Kanye West and narratives about “Jewish media.” We discuss how conspiracy thinking simplifies complex systems of power into ethnic blame and how this connects to certain strands of Black conservatism

0:00 – Opening / Cold Open
0:49 – Introduction
2:24 – What Is Your Relationship to Antisemitism?
9:37 – Reading & Reaction: “Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White” By James Baldwin
15:26 – How Do We Approach Standing Up to Antisemitism in Our Communities?
16:26 – More Reflection on the Baldwin Piece
21:57 – Kanye Interview
27:11 – Reflection on Clip
30:49 – Kanye’s Point on BLM and Where It Misses
32:18 – Prince’s Party Story
36:34 – Black Antisemitism and Black Conservatism
43:39 – Outro

Mentioned Media:

James Baldwin Essay
“Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White”
https://nykolami.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/12/James-Baldwin-Article.pdf

Kanye West Interview Clip

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This episode centers on Zolo Agona Azania, a former political prisoner, artist, and organizer who spent more than three decades incarcerated before his release in 2017. Drawing from an interview published as a zine, the episode follows Zolo’s account of his early life, imprisonment, political study, and the challenges of reentry.

Support Zolo at https://www.patreon.com/zoloazania/

Cahshapp: $ZoloAzania

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In this episode, we reflect on recent rapid response movements, what it's felt like to process the rising state violence (especially the threats of more I.C.E. raids in Springfield, OH). Then we move on to unpack community defense and rapid response movements in Twin Cities area and beyond with the following pieces...

Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities (CrimethInc) – How organizers built decentralized, trust-based networks to respond quickly to ICE raids and police escalation.

https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/15/rapid-response-networks-in-the-twin-cities-a-guide-to-an-updated-model

From Minneapolis: I’ve Never Seen Unity Like This (Margaret Killjoy) – A firsthand account of collective refusal and mutual aid under federal repression.

https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/from-minneapolis-ive-never-seen-unity

Crossing the Line: It Really Is Safer in the Front (CrimethInc) – On crowd defense, solidarity, and confronting ICE and federal agents together.

https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/29/crossing-the-line-it-really-is-safer-in-the-front-surrounding-the-portland-ice-facility

The Noise: Demonstrations Keeping ICE Awake (CrimethInc) – Why unpredictability and escalation matter in confronting federal power.

https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/27/the-noise-demonstrations-keeping-ice-agents-awake-at-their-hotels-a-model-from-the-twin-cities

Eight Things You Can Do to Stop ICE / Seven Steps to Stop ICE (CrimethInc) – Practical guides for resisting deportation and building collective defense.

https://crimethinc.com/zines/8-things-you-can-do-to-stop-ice

https://crimethinc.com/zines/seven-steps-to-stop-ice

When the Feds Come to Your City (CrimethInc) – Lessons from Chicago organizers on preparing for federal escalation.

https://crimethinc.com/2025/12/03/when-the-feds-come-to-your-city-standing-up-to-ice-a-guide-from-chicago-organizers

Our Neighbors in Minneapolis (Margaret Killjoy)

https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighbors-in-minneapolis

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EPISODE CHAPTERS

07:50 READING & REFLECTIONS onRapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities (Crimethinc)

30:49 READING & REFLECTIONS on Crossing the Line: It Really Is Safer in the Front (Crimethinc)

39:08 READING & REFLECTIONS on The Noise: Demonstrations Keeping ICE Awake (CrimethInc)

50:00 READING & REFLECTIONS on From Minneapolis: I’ve Never Seen Unity Like This (Margaret Killjoy)

55:30 READING & REFLECTIONS on Our Neighbors in Minneapolis (Margaret Killjoy)

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Topics include:

ICE surges and repression • TPS and immigration enforcement • Rapid response networks • Protest tactics and escalation • Solidarity under state violence • Organizing in moments of crisis

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In this episode, we’re joined by Isabella, an internationalist who has been involved in multiple institutions of the Rojavan Revolution and is currently on the ground in Syria. Together, we trace her personal journey into the revolution and explore the political, social, and feminist structures that have sustained Rojava through years of war, pressure, and transformation.

We discuss the foundations of the Rojavan Revolution and DAANES, the role of Mala Jin, Jinwar, and Jineology, and the development of Kongra Star as the vanguard of the women’s revolution. Isabella shares insights into how revolutionary structures endure, how patriarchal attitudes are challenged in practice, and what strategies have proven effective over time.

The conversation also turns to the present moment: the media ecosystem in Rojava, the role of democratic confederalism, current conditions on the ground, and the evolving political landscape involving the Syrian Transitional Government, DAANES, and the SDF. We close with reflections on lessons from the Kurdish Freedom Movement and where listeners can go to stay informed.

02:59 — Who Is Isabella
04:04 — What Was Isabella’s Youth Like
04:54 — What Is the Rojavan Revolution & DAANES
10:25 — Mala Jin Introduced
11:35 — Jinwar Introduced
14:38 — Introduction to Jineology
19:53 — Jineology as Structure & Publication
23:24 — Kongra Star as the Vanguard of the Women’s Revolution
27:11 — How Kongra Star Started
27:22 — What Structures Have Helped the Revolution Survive / How Do You Get Men to Listen?
31:54 — Strategies for Shifting Patriarchal Attitudes
35:05 — The Media Ecosystem in Rojava
38:00 — How Independent Media Is Being Received
40:32 — Democratic Confederalism in the Region
48:22 — Current Conditions in Rojava
55:56 — The Syrian Transitional Government & Its Relation to Syria and Kurdistan
60:00 — DAANES / SDF Narratives & Conditions Under the Assad Regime
01:03:09 — Response to STG Decree on Kurdish Rights & Political Demands of DAANES/SDF
01:04:23 — Final Reflections & Lessons from the Kurdish Freedom Movement
01:07:00 — Where to Stay Informed

• The Women’s War (iHeartRadio)
  https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-the-womens-war-59464911/
  (Includes reporting on Jinwar and the women’s revolution in Rojava)

• Kongra Star (Women’s Movement)
  https://kongra-star.org/eng/homepage/

• Mala Jin (Women’s Houses)
  https://kongra-star.org/eng/mala-jin/

• Jinwar – Women’s Village
  https://mesopotamia.coop/coops/jinwar/

  https://jinwar.net/

• Kurdish Red Crescent (Heyva Sor a Kurd)
  https://heyvasor.com/en/

• Rojava Information Center
  https://rojavainformationcenter.org/

• Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women’s Liberation
  https://www.plutobooks.com/product/revolution-in-rojava/

• Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds
  https://pmpress.org.uk/product/rojava-revolution-war-and-the-future-of-syrias-kurds/

• Rojava in Focus (AK Press)
  https://www.akpress.org/rojava-in-focus.html

• Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) – Twitter/X
  https://twitter.com/SDF_Syria

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In this episode of The Dugout, we start with a mental health check-in and reflections on our goals for 2026, then move straight into the chaos of the moment: ICE activity in Central Ohio, shifting global conflicts, and what non-campist solidarity actually looks like when empires, states, and militias all claim to be the answer.

We talk about Venezuela, Iran, Kurdistan, Greenland, and Sudan — including scenes from El Fasher — to make sense of how one system of domination shows up across many places and in many forms. We dig into new developments in repressive technology, the rumored DEA–ATF merger, and what it means to organize under expanding surveillance and policing.

Finally, we sit with the psychological weight of living inside constant crisis: how to process endless media, how to stay grounded, and why “retreat” is different from surrender. We close with reflections on Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letter #18 and what it offers those trying to remain human while resisting empire.

One war. Many fronts. The same fight for dignity, survival, and freedom

Time Codes

01:20 Intro and mental health check-in

10:33 Goals for 2026 and The Dugout

14:05 What the fuck has been going on

14:32 ICE in Central Ohio

16:00 International non-campist news: Venezuela, Greenland, Iran, and Kurdistan

33:02 Why non-campist solidarity matters and how

36:39 Scenes from El Fasher, Sudan

37:45 Repressive tech updates

49:51 DEA and ATF merger??

51:31 How do we process so much media and stay sane

54:49 What we’re seeing right now that’s making us concerned

59:19 Do not flee America — retreat

1:05:48 Closing: Revolutionary Letter #18 (Diane di Prima)

Mentioned Media

CrimethInc – Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities (2026)
https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/15/rapid-response-networks-in-the-twin-cities-a-guide-to-an-updated-model

“Being ready for the incoming surge of ICE enforcement in your city… means studying the terrain… Start studying, planning, connecting, and experimenting now.”

404 Media – ICE contracts company making “bounty hunter” AI agents
https://www.404media.co/ice-contracts-company-making-bounty-hunter-ai-agents/

ACLU – DHS is circumventing the Constitution by buying location data
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/dhs-is-circumventing-constitution-by-buying-data-it-would-normally-need-a-warrant-to-access

FOIA documents page:
https://www.aclu.org/cases/aclu-v-department-homeland-security-commercial-location-data-foia#legal-documents

404 Media – Inside ICE’s tool to monitor phones in entire neighborhoods (geofencing)
https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/

Texas Observer – Texas police invest in Tangles surveillance software
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-police-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/

Texas Observer – Texas DPS $5.3 million Tangles contract
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-tangle-cobwebs/

LA Times – ICE / Border Patrol operations (Dodger Stadium example)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-04/ice-border-patrol-dodger-stadium-parking-lot

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Anti-ICE organizing / MinneapolisICE, AI, and surveillance techICE operations context

In this episode of The Dugout, we talk to Germán Gonzalez, one of the Stanford 11 and one of five students facing felony charges after intense repression during the pro-Palestine encampment movement at Stanford University. We break down how Gonzalez’s family background in El Salvador radicalized them to be in solidarity with Palestine, the rising tide of 2023/2024 student encampment movements, the university and local repression leading to trumped up charges, and what it means to hold your ground in the face of genocide, war profiting, and censorship.

To stay up to date on Stanford 11 case….

To support the Stanford 11 and folks going on trial, there is a support/action tool-kit:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRlHj6fh3wc7nmMaaXppZetvYG4A0gqCH8IIlht8XuPs8yTMtc39zPOw-MXXn3ndgON9_Id6zhceblx/pub

Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine: https://www.instagram.com/stanfordsjp/

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To learn more about resources mentioned in the episode:

Bay Area for Gaza Mutual Aid Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bayarea4gaza

Trial begins for Stanford students for occupying offices in pro-Palestinian protest:

https://apnews.com/article/propalestinian-stanford-protesters-trial-c62bba681be05a52cc50b5bd78f8ec58

Pro-Israel Advocates Are Weaponizing “Safety” on College Campuses

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/28/safety-college-columbia-stanford-antisemitism-israel-palestine/

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against

This is a 2025 non-fiction book by Omar El Akkad that serves as a memoir and manifesto, exploring Western hypocrisy, imperialism, and the disillusionment of marginalized communities, particularly in the context of the Gaza genocide.

https://www.nationalbook.org/books/one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against-this/

The Battle of Algiers (dir. Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) A searing, semi-documentary account of Algeria’s anti-colonial struggle against French occupation, showing how urban insurgency and state repression feed each other. Long treated as a manual by both revolutionaries and counterinsurgents, it exposes how “security” becomes a language of colonial control.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpn4Htfrv88&pp=ygUVVGhlIEJhdHRsZSBvZiBBbGdpZXJz0gcJCU0KAYcqIYzv

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi (2020) [affiliate link]

 A sweeping political history of Palestine told through lived experience, tracing a century of settler colonialism, dispossession, and resistance from 1917 to the present. Khalidi frames Palestine not as a “conflict,” but as an ongoing colonial war backed by Western power.

https://bookshop.org/a/109212/9781250787651

Morning in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa (2010) A multigenerational novel following a Palestinian family displaced by the Nakba, capturing how loss, memory, and love survive under occupation. The book humanizes Palestinian life beyond headlines, showing how violence reverberates across decades.

https://bookshop.org/a/109212/9781608190461

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (“The Little Red Book,” 1964) A collection of Mao’s writings on revolution, discipline, and mass struggle that shaped 20th-century liberation movements worldwide. Widely read by anti-imperialist and Black radical organizers, it emphasized political education, collective discipline, and resistance to imperial domination.

https://bookshop.org/a/109212/9781088280515

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