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Internationalism from Below / Leila Al-Shami & Benjamin

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🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Leila Al-Shami returns with co-author Benjamin to discuss their new book by The People's Want, "Revolutions of Our Times: An Internationalist Manifesto" (Haymarket Books). "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out the new book from The People's Want: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2732-revolutions-of-our-times Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

Big a gap! This is making back.

0:30.6

This is hell.

0:45.9

Live from the United States, where capitalism is the virus.

0:50.2

This is hell, and I apologize for my voice today.

0:55.1

I'll explain that in just a few moments.

0:57.4

So for nearly 30 years, we have been discussing the past, present, and future of revolutions here on This Is Hell.

1:03.7

From indigenous uprisings that began as soon as the first European colonists landed on these shores.

1:09.2

Uprising that have never ended, here or wherever,

1:12.9

and whoever colonialism has attempted to destroy, to the slave rebellions that rose up throughout

1:18.5

the entire 400 years of chattel servitude. Our guests have made certain we understood none of that

1:24.9

was ever normalized or accepted by its victims.

1:29.9

Our guests have also covered the present state of revolution over the past 30 years, from

1:34.9

the battle for Seattle at the WTO ministerial meetings to the world social forums, to the

1:40.0

protests against the World Bank and IMF, and so-called free trade deals around the world, to the protests against the World Bank and IMF and so-called free trade deals around the world,

1:45.6

to the protests against the first Iraq war, to the indignados and Occupy, to Dueney DeBoo and

1:52.4

the yellow vests, to Black Lives Matter and the uprisings against police in the wake of

1:56.8

the killing of George Floyd. We have been fortunate to have people on our show who have been

2:01.5

engaged in and witnessed it all. Following the second election of Donald Trump as president,

2:08.1

many of you contacted us and asked that we have even more activists and organizers on the show

2:13.2

than we usually do. And we have. Many of them have discussed abolition

2:18.9

and the need to free ourselves from the carceral state, the police state.

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