Workers Movements in the Global South w/ Immanuel Ness

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Professor Immanuel Ness to talk about his brand new book, Organizing Insurgency: Workers Movements in the Global South. The book combines theory of workers movements with case studies from India, South Africa, and the Philippines. A must listen conversation for an internationalist proletarian understanding of workers power!

Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. His book Organizing Insurgency is available from Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745343594/organizing-insurgency/. His other books include Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto Press), Urban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South (Haymarket Books), and The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism (Palgrave Macmillan). He is also the editor of the Journal of Labor and Society (Brill). Lots of stuff to check out! Manny can be found on twitter @ImmanuelNess.

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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. I'm your host,
0:39.6	Henry Huckamacki, joined by only one of my usual co-host today, and that would be Professor Adnan
0:44.9	Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.
0:50.2	Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? Oh, I'm doing really well. It's good to be with you, Henry.
1:12.3	Yeah, it's always nice to see you, Widnon. And unfortunately, and really unfortunately, for the listeners as well, we're not going to be joined by our other co-host, Brett O'Shea, who is, of course, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast today. he had a little bit of a family thing come up at the very last minute that he couldn't get out of, and so was unable to join us today.
1:17.2	But I know he was really looking forward to this conversation, and I'll just say this preemptively,
1:22.3	since I know he'll listen to this afterwards. We miss having you here, Brett, and we're looking
1:26.3	forward to having you next time.
1:28.1	Absolutely. But for today, we're going to have a really interesting guest. We're going to be
1:33.0	talking to Professor Emmanuel Ness. Emmanuel Ness, or Manny, as he allows us to call him, is a professor
1:41.3	of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
1:45.2	and a senior research associate at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa.
1:50.2	He is the author or editor of a bunch of books, including Southern Insurgency, Urban Revolt,
1:57.4	as well as a book that I think more people need to know about the Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism from Pulgrave.
2:05.6	Really, really critical works and this work that we're talking about today,
2:09.5	organizing insurgency, which is brand new out from Pluto Press,
2:14.1	came out about a week before we're recording this at the end of June.
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