The History of Modern Yemen & the Struggle Against Zionist Imperialism w/ Shireen Al-Adeimi & Rune "Aldanmarki" Agerhus

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

In this blockbuster episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on two outstanding guests to discuss the modern history of Yemen, as well as their ongoing struggle against Zionist imperialism and opposition to the genocide in Gaza. Shireen and Rune bring fantastic insight and analysis, making this complicated history accessible and utilizable for individuals in our movement against imperialism in all forms, and Zionist imperialism specifically at this moment. Be sure to take in all that our guests say, and share this episode with comrades you believe would similarly benefit!

Shireen Al-Adeimi is an assistant professor of language and literacy at Michigan State University, and is an expert on the war and humanitarian crisis in her country of birth, Yemen. She writes for In These Times and Responsible Statecraft, and speaks and writes frequently on Yemen for media globally. You can follow her on twitter @shireen818, and help support the Yemen Relief & Reconstruction Foundation.

Rune Agerhus Political Commentator & Member of the International Commission for Solidarity with Yemen (ICSY). He is the founder of Hamra Books, which Iskra Books and Guerrilla History have just announced a partnership with in order to release materials from the socialist People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. You can follow him on twitter @Aldanmarki.

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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 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 present.
0:37.4	I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my two co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? I'm doing great. That's wonderful to be with you, Henry. Absolutely. Always nice seeing you. Also, joined as usual by Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. You're looking sharp today. Well, thank you, Henry. I deeply appreciate that. Yeah, I'm doing well. I'm very excited for this episode. This is a really important, obviously, issue. And I think that the global left could be benefited immensely by understanding
1:16.8	the history and the struggle of the Yemeni people. So I'm happy for this episode.
1:21.3	Yeah, absolutely. And you tease the episode a little bit, but before I introduce the topic
1:27.2	and our guests, I want to remind
1:29.4	the listeners that you can help support the show and allow us to continue making episodes like
1:33.3	this by going to patreon.com forward slash guerrilla history. That's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A history.
1:41.0	And you can follow us on Twitter and keep up with all of the things that we're
1:44.2	putting out individually and collectively at Gorilla underscore Pod. That's G-U-E-R-R-R-I-L-A
1:51.1	underscore pod. As Brett mentioned, this episode is going to be devoted to Yemen, particularly
1:57.4	contemporary Yemeni history and how Yemen is relating to the ongoing genocide
2:03.6	in Gaza.
2:04.7	We have two absolutely fantastic guests today, one of whom is a returning guest and one of whom
2:10.2	is making his debut on the show, although we have been in contact for a while on Twitter.
2:15.7	And it's really nice to be able to talk with both of you.
2:18.6	We have Shereen al-Adimi and Runa Ehirhus on the show.
2:24.0	Hello to the two of you.
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