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As we come marching marching in the beauty of the day, a million darkened darken kitchens, a thousand mill

off square are brightened by the beauty, sun and sun discloses.

And the people here are seeing bread and roses, bread and roses.

Hi everyone and welcome to the second episode in our Radical Read series,

a series in which we talk about historical and political

texts that we think are important for workers and radicals to read, discuss and inform

our organising. A quick note that this episode contains discussion of war crimes, sexual

violence and torture. Our radical read for this episode is Elia Ayub's recent article, Hezbollah, Ten Things You Need to Know.

Elia will introduce himself properly in a moment, but as a brief introduction to his introduction,

he's a Lebanese Palestinian activist and co-founder of the excellent Fire These Times podcast,

which seeks to develop properly internationalist perspectives on politics,

not just in the Middle East, but more generally in the global south, or what they sometimes

call quite usefully, in my opinion, the global periphery. So we invited Elia on to discuss his

article on Hezbollah. We felt it was important to do so as a year after beginning

its genocidal campaign in Gaza, Israel has now expanded its military actions into Lebanon,

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