You remember Den Van Boo?

No!

The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.

They didn't have anything but a rank.

The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.

Hello everybody, and welcome to the annual, I guess at this point, event in which the whole Rev Left family comes together.

Last year, we came together to answer a series of questions,

and this year we're coming together to do a bit of a deeper dive on South African apartheid.

Of course, this whole concept and this whole history is becoming increasingly relevant

in the face of what's going on in Palestine currently. And so we figured that, you know, having a sort of deep dive on

South African apartheid could clarify some similarities, some differences with the case in Israel,

as well as other, you know, related phenomena like segregation after failed reconstruction in the

American South. In a lot of ways, and maybe there'll be some

disagreement on this going forward, but I see South African apartheid is sort of this mix of what,

you know, sort of Israeli settler colonialism and impression with some fundamental differences

and with, you know, Jim Crow in the South. And there's lots of sort of parallels between both and some interesting differences that perhaps we can get into.

I guess for lack of a better term, we call episodes like this revolutionary guerrilla menace episodes,

a sort of mixture of everything.

So this is really fun.

And we don't get to do this as much as I think all of us would like.

So it's always a pleasure to have Allison, Henry, and Adnan together in the same place.

I want to say up top as well that over on guerrilla history, we did have a sort of introduction to South African apartheid.

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