People's History of Europe (Part 2 - Post-WWII) w/ Raquel Varela

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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This episode of Guerrilla History is Part 2 of a two-part conversation with Professor Raquel Varela on the history of modern Europe. In this installment, we carry on from last time, where we left off at the end of WWII. If you haven't already checked out part 1, be sure to do so! This work necessitates critical engagement!

Raquel Varela is a labour historian, researcher and Professor at New University of Lisbon, and Honorary Fellow at the International Institute for Social History. She is the author of A People's History of Europe: From WWI to Today.

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0:00.0	You 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.
0:27.2	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.
0:54.2	I'm your host, Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my two co-hosts, Professor Ignan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? Hi, Henry. I'm doing well. It's great to be with you. Always nice to see you. I feel we've've been seeing a lot of each other recently, but I'm not complaining for sure. And also joined by Brett O'Shea, a host of
1:00.3	Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you doing?
1:05.6	I'm doing very well, Henry. It's always nice to see you as well. And it's also nice to see our guest today who is returning
1:13.8	from our previous conversation that we had with her. We have Professor Raquel Varela, who is a
1:19.7	labor historian, researcher and professor at the new University of Lisbon, and the author of the
1:25.0	book that we were talking about last time, a people's history of
1:28.5	Europe from World War I to today. So listeners, if you have not already listened to part
1:35.1	one of this conversation, we talked from World War I and a little bit of pre-World War I,
1:40.3	but mostly from World War I through World War II in that conversation.
1:45.0	If you haven't listened to that yet, go back and do that now because we are going to pick
1:49.1	right back up where we left off in the post-war period.
1:52.6	But first, let me welcome Professor Raquel Varela.
1:55.5	Hello, Professor.
1:56.2	It's nice to have you back on the show.
1:57.9	Hello, and thank you very much for this invitation again and this
2:02.9	talk, which was so nice last time, made me think a lot. So I hope we will continue. Absolutely. I know
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