You remember Den Van Boo?

No!

The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.

They didn't have anything but a rank.

The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.

Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global history of the activist left and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.

I'm one of your co-hosts, Adnan Hussein.

Today, I'm not joined by my usual co-host, Henry Hakamaki.

He couldn't be with us today.

We look forward, of course, to having him back on again soon in the next episode. But I'm really delighted that we have a returning co-host, a guest co-host today. Listeners, you know Brett O'Shea. Brett, it's great to have you back on.

It's absolutely wonderful to be back. It's wonderful to work with you again, Adnan. And it's particularly good to be back on an episode such as this. I know Adnan and I have done, you know, episodes on conspiracy theories and reactionary ideologies in the past. And it felt like a natural topic for you and I to collaborate on again. So I'm happy to be here. Absolutely. Yeah,

we had a few couple years ago, a general discussion among us about right-wing conspiracy theories

and broad brush strokes. But today we're actually really lucky because we have some genuine experts

who have done some serious scholarship on the issue. Before, however, I introduce them and a little

bit about the broad topic, I just want to remind listeners that they can help support the show

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But yes, Brett, I mean, we're really lucky today that we have, as I said,

some people who have dedicated some serious scholarship to some of these most popular of right-wing

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