Publishing as Anti-Imperialist Practice w/ Iskra Books Editors Talia, David, & Ben

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on several comrades from Iskra Books, a non-profit, all volunteer-run, independent communist publishing company to discuss Publishing as Anti-Imperialist Practice! This discussion also relates to the episode we did two weeks ago with Sina Rahmani of The East Is a Podcast on Radical Independent Media as Anti-Imperialist Practice. We also include the audio of a talk that Henry did on these topics at a China at 75 event hosted by the Friends of Socialist China a few weeks ago. This is a marvelous discussion on an important topic with some incredibly committed comrades. Be sure to check this out, and be sure to check out Iskra Books's catalogue (keeping in mind that physical book purchases support the project, but that the pdfs of all of their books are also available for FREE at iskrabooks.org). You can also keep up to date with their releases by following them on twitter @iskrabooks.

The recently released and forthcoming books from Iskra that we discussed at the end of the episode are available at the following links:

The Lost & Early Writings of James Connolly: 1889 - 1898, edited by Conor McCabe

The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism by Torkil Lausen

Unequal Exchange and the Prospects of Socialism by The Communist Working Group

Communism - The Highest Stage of Ecology by Guillaume Suing (link forthcoming on the Iskra Books site)

Talia is an Editorial Board member of Iskra Books, is one of the hosts of The Minyan podcast, and is an academic librarian. Follow The Minyan on twitter @the_minyan.

David Peat is an Editorial Board member of Iskra Books, is an anti-war activist, and is involved with The Friends of Socialist China. You can follow David on twitter @dajveism.

Ben Stahnke is one of the cofounding Editors at Iskra Books, is a Professor of Philosophy, and one of the main art members at Iskra. Follow Ben on twitter @phdirtbag.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Ben-Brew?
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 prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.9	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. Despite my voice
0:39.4	today, I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Hakemaki, joined as usual by my co-host, Professor Adnan,
0:45.6	Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.
0:50.4	Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? Hi, Henry. I'm doing great, and it's a real pleasure to be with you.
0:56.9	Yeah, it's nice to see you as well, and you are sounding as lovely as always, which I wish I could say the same about myself.
1:04.4	Although listeners will know, you will know in the future we have an episode that is coming out in our African Revolutions and Decolonization series that we have already recorded, but will not be coming out just yet,
1:15.8	where my voice is even worse than now. So be prepared. That episode is a doozy, but it is a
1:21.9	terrific, terrific conversation, a two and a half hour long episode on Pan-Africanism, so stay tuned.
1:33.2	Today, though, we have a trio of excellent guests on a really fascinating topic.
1:38.2	But before I have the guests introduce themselves, I would like to remind you, listeners,
1:42.4	that you can help support the show and allow us to continue making episodes like this by going to patreon.com forward slash guerrilla history. That-U-E-R-R-I-L-A history. And you can keep up to date with everything that Adnan and I are doing individually, as well as what the show is putting out collectively by following us on Twitter at Gorilla underscore Pod. again, G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A-U-L-A-U-R-A-U-R-A-U-R-A-U-Skore
2:02.1	And we're also on Instagram. I think it's Gorilla-U-R-U-R-SOR history. Something like that. You can find it. So, with that out of the way, as I mentioned, I have a trio of guests who are my friends from the editorial board of Isker Books, which listeners will be familiar with I am also a part of.
2:20.5	So it was very easy for me to connect with these three comrades for this conversation.
2:24.8	We have Tilea, we have David, and we have Ben.
2:28.0	Tilea, let's start with you.
2:29.0	Can you tell the listeners a little bit about yourself?
2:30.9	Who are you?
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