Apartheid (AR&D Ep. 9)
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 230 minutes
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Summary
The first is a crossover episode that we had done in collaboration with our sister podcast RevLeft Radio, we brought on Ashley Fataar to provide a primer into Apartheid in the South African context, and where we also began to explore some of the parallels to the apartheid that the settler-colonial state of Israel is enforcing in occupied Palestine today.
Ashley Fataar is a long time socialist activist and writer based in South Africa. If you would like to get in touch with Ashley, you can reach him via email at ash.fataar@gmail.com.
After that, we have the 2023 Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace get-together, also known as the Rev Left Family Annual Collab (Rev Left+Red Menace+Guerrilla History), where Alyson, Henry, Adnan, and Breht sat down for a deep dive on South African Apartheid. Together they discussed its euro-colonialist origins, explained the significance of the Boer Wars, defined and explicated the origins of apartheid, explored the political economy of apartheid and how brutal racism shaped it, examined the multi-faceted indigenous resistance to apartheid, analyzed the end of formal apartheid as well as its ongoing legacy in post-apartheid South Africa, and tried to extract important lessons from this history to apply to the ongoing struggle in Palestine.
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| 0:00.0 | You don't remember Den Ben-Brew? |
| 0:09.0 | No! |
| 0:10.0 | The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa. |
| 0:14.0 | They didn't have anything but a rank. |
| 0:17.0 | The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:32.3 | Hello, guerrilla history listeners. |
| 0:34.4 | This is co-host Henry, and today you're going to be hearing a continuation |
| 0:37.9 | of our series, African Revolutions and Decolonization. The topic for this episode is going to be |
| 0:44.0 | on apartheid, and if you have clicked on this recording, you will likely already see that this is a |
| 0:49.7 | extremely long episode. There is a reason for that. This episode is going to be a little bit different |
| 0:55.9 | than our other episodes in the African Revolutions and decolonization series, and there's two |
| 1:00.4 | main reasons for that. One, this episode is going to be comprised of two recordings, and the |
| 1:08.5 | other reason is that these recordings are already existing episodes of |
| 1:12.0 | guerrilla history. On November 17th, 20203, we released an episode apartheid, an introduction |
| 1:18.6 | with Ashley Fattar. And on December 15th, 2020, we released an episode Understanding |
| 1:26.2 | Apartide, South Africa, settler colonialism, and lessons |
| 1:29.6 | for Palestine, which was our annual revolutionary guerrilla menace get together with myself, Adnan, |
| 1:37.8 | Brett O'Shea of Rev. Left Radio and the Red Menace, and Alison Escalante of the Red Menace |
| 1:43.6 | podcast. These two episodes |
| 1:46.1 | are really great episodes and I think we'll do a very good job of explaining apartheid for |
| 1:52.4 | you and fits very well within our series on African revolutions and decolonization. |
| 1:57.7 | Between the two episodes though, the conversation is going to be about three and a half hours long, |
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