Cultural Revolution in Swaziland w/ Ruehl Muller & Bafanabakhe Sacolo of the Communist Party of Swaziland (AR&D Ep. 8)

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

In this exceptional episode of Guerrilla History, we continue our series African Revolutions and Decolonization by bringing back guest host Ruehl Muller, senior lecturer/associate professor at the Institute of Creativity and Innovation at Xiamen University in China (who has been in contact with the CPS for quite some time) and guest Bafanabakhe Sacolo of the Communist Party of Swaziland (both of whom were with us in our previous AR&D episode Struggle Against Africa's Last Absolute Monarchy). This time, we discuss the construction of a culture to uphold the monarchy in Swaziland, the importance of cultural revolution in fighting against the monarchy, and the CPS's efforts on this front. A massive and important conversation, you'll definitely want to share this with comrades!

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Bafanabakhe Sacolo is National Organizing Secretary of the Communist Party of Swaziland. You can keep up to date with the CPS by following them on Facebook, on Twitter, or by checking out their website.

Ruehl Muller is senior lecturer/associate professor at the Institute of Creativity and Innovation at Xiamen University in China, and the editor of the fantastic Building a People's Art: Selected Works of Trường Chinh and Tố Hữu (buy a physical copy or download the free PDF from Iskra Books).

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0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.5	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 present.
0:38.3	I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, unfortunately not joined this time by my usual
0:43.9	co-host, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at
0:48.1	Queens University in Ontario, Canada.
0:50.9	I am going to be joined by a guest host again today, so listeners do stay tuned for who that is as well as who our excellent guest is.
0:58.8	But before I introduce them and the topic of this episode, I'd like to remind you listeners that you can help support the show and allow us to continue making episodes like this by going to patreon.com forward slash gorilla history. That's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A history.
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1:45.4	And again, Gorilla with two R's. With that being said, we have an excellent guest host
1:50.2	and guests today. And it's the same guest host and guests that we had in the previous episode
1:54.5	of African Revolutions and Decolonization. So this is listeners, a continuation of our series
2:00.7	on African Revolutions and Decolonization. You this is listeners, a continuation of our series on African revolutions and
2:02.6	decolonization. You'll remember that our previous episode of this series was on the struggle in
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