Histories of Resistance in LA from 60's to Today w/ Gerald Horne
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we present a crossover of Guerrilla History and the Adnan Husain Show. Here, Dr. Gerald Horne joins Adnan and Henry to discuss his recent book, Armed Struggle?: Panthers and Communists, black Nationalists and Liberals in Southern California, Through the Sixties and Seventies. As ever, Professor Horne connects the histories of organizing and resistance against racial capitalism to the contemporary situation, including the LA uprisings against ICE raids and developments against neocolonialism and imperialism in West Asia. A wide-ranging conversation with the inimitable Dr. Horne ranged across the histories of class politics, struggles against racism, and geopolitics to consider the prospects for resistance locally and internationally in contemporary movements for justice.
Gerald Horne is the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His research interests are unbelievably varied, encompassing biographies of W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson, to The Haitian Revolution, to Hollywood in the '30s-'50s, to Jazz and Justice. Be sure to check out his bibliography, you're certain to find something that interests you!
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| 0:00.0 | You don't remember Den Van 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. |
| 0:28.5 | Hello and welcome to Gorilla History, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the |
| 0:38.3 | present. I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckmacki, joined as usual by my co-host, Professor Adnan |
| 0:45.2 | Hussein, who not only is a historian and the director of the School of Religion at Queen's |
| 0:50.4 | University in Ontario, Canada, but is also a host of the show, The Adnan Hussein |
| 0:55.7 | show, which this episode is a collaborative episode with. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? |
| 1:02.3 | I'm doing great, Henry. It's wonderful to be with you and to share video on my new platform. So |
| 1:09.5 | welcome as well to you. Yeah, absolutely. This is my debut on the Adnan |
| 1:14.6 | Hussein show. I'm very excited for this because not only do I get to spend some more time with |
| 1:19.5 | you, Adnan, but we also have a terrific guest lined up for this collaborative episode. But before |
| 1:26.1 | I introduce the guest and the topic for the discussion, |
| 1:29.9 | I want to remind the listeners that they can help support guerrilla history |
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| 1:38.6 | guerrilla history. |
| 1:39.5 | That's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A history. |
| 1:43.2 | Please note that guerrilla history is also now on YouTube. |
| 1:46.4 | Unlike the Adnan Hussein show, you don't have to see us, but we just have audio with a really cool animation made by a Marxist Vietnamese artist who... |
| 1:56.6 | She really did a great job with the animation. |
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