COP26 Dispatch w/ Vijay Prashad and Chris Saltmarsh

Guerrilla History

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History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, Adnan facilitates a discussion about the recently wrapped up COP26 climate conference, its failures, and what we should look to do going forward! We are calling this a "Dispatch" as it's a shorter, more "in the moment" episode to ground us for current events. Our guests are Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, who was at COP26, and Chris Saltmarsh, co-founder of Labour for a Green New Deal, climate activist, and writer.

Vijay Prashad is the author of many books, including The Darker Nations, The Poorer Nations, and Washington Bullets. He was also the first guest on Guerrilla History, so be sure to go back and check out the episode we did with him on Washington Bullets! Follow him on twitter @vijayprashad. Chris Saltmarsh is the author of the new book Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice, and regularly writes about the climate. His two newest articles in Tribune are 2.4 Degrees Is a Disaster-But COP Won't Stop It, and COP26 Can Learn From West Papua's Green Resistance. You can follow Chris on twitter @Chris_Saltmarsh.

Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. If you have any questions or guest/topic suggestions, email them to us at [email protected].

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Ben-Boo?
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.
0:28.8	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the
0:38.6	present. I'm one of the co-hosts of guerrilla history, Henry Huck and Mackey, but what you're
0:44.4	going to be hearing today is a little bit different than usual. This will be one of our dispatches.
0:49.3	For those of you who have listened to the show before, dispatches are shorter, more contemporary accounts of things
0:56.0	that are happening in the world that we think that we can bring a little bit of historical
0:59.4	analysis on. And because of the timeliness of these dispatches, in many cases, not all of the co-hosts
1:07.3	are going to be present. And in this case, despite the fact that we were all preparing
1:11.8	for it, because of the timing of our guests, only Adnan was able to conduct the interview.
1:18.7	And so therefore, you'll only be hearing Agnan during this episode. But I will do the
1:23.8	introduction in any case. You will be hearing from Professor Adnan Hussein, historian
1:28.9	and director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada. Our guests today
1:35.2	are the excellent Vijay Prashad, who of course, as many of our listeners know, is the executive
1:40.8	director of Tri-Continental Institute for Social Research. He's the author
1:45.3	of many books, including The Darker Nations, the Poorer Nations, Red Star Over the Third
1:50.5	World, and of course, the first episode of guerrilla history, or the first full episode
1:55.8	of guerrilla history, was focused on his newest book, Washington Bullets, the history
2:00.6	of the CIA, coup coups and assassinations.
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