The Black Liberation Army w/ Comrade Z of Rookery Press

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Comrade Z from Rookery Press to talk about a vital new book Collected Works of the Black Liberation Army. In this episode, we discuss the history, idology, tactics, and legacy of the BLA, and we truly feel this is an important episode. We highly encourage everyone to pick up the book, and also share the episode with others who would benefit from hearing about a militant and radical organization, based off of their own writings!

Comrade Z is a member of the Rookery Press. Rookery Press is a new publishing house dedicated to retrieving forgotten texts and theory lost to the Whirlwind. You can find their published works on their website, and you can also follow them on twitter @rookerypress

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Transcript

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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.
0:27.1	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.
0:39.4	I'm one of your co-hosts,
0:45.7	Henry Huckimacki, joined as of now by only one of my usual co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein,
0:50.2	historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello,
0:54.4	Adnan. How are you doing today? Oh, I'm doing great. It's a real pleasure to be with you, Henry.
1:00.6	Absolutely. Unfortunately, we're not joined as of now by Brett O'Shea, who of course is host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast, having some internet problems,
1:05.7	but we're hoping that he will be able to join us during the flow of the conversation.
1:09.7	So listeners, if you hear Brett
1:11.1	pop in, you can give yourself a silent cheer while you're listening, because we will also be
1:16.2	doing so if we see him pop in here. Now, before we introduce our guests today, Adnan, I'm going
1:22.3	to turn this over to you. This is the beginning of almost another little mini series or a new style of episode
1:30.4	within guerrilla history. So perhaps you can introduce what this type of episode is going to be
1:36.5	with this being the inaugural episode of it and then introduce our guest. Yeah, great. I mean, I think
1:43.2	I've thought for a while that some of the more
1:46.5	interesting aspects of analysis in the radical tradition are in the writings themselves,
1:52.7	the documents, the historical record. So primary source work and interpretation and reading and learning and thinking through works from the past, documents from the past to get an understanding. That's how history is actually made. So in terms of sources and methods, much like we have some other kinds of episodes like intelligence briefings or dispatches or reconnaissance reports,
2:20.7	this is a new kind of episode that we hope to begin doing that focuses and concentrates on
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