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Podcast of the Anti-Imperialist Network, dedicated to propagandizing for and supporting communism and anti-imperialism in the Global South.
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![Interview with Committee of Peasant Development (CODECA) of Guatemala [Spanish episode]](https://s3.castbox.fm/6e/62/94/52bf057cd7ed80d3a3987102d9945c7c50_scaled_v1_400.jpg "Interview with Committee of Peasant Development (CODECA) of Guatemala [Spanish episode]")
Interview conducted by Isa Villalón.The Committee of Peasant Development, CODECA (Comité de Desarrollo Campesino) was founded in Guatemala in 1992 within the context of the Central America Peace Accords and the rise of neoliberal accumulation. CODECA organizes to resist the deepening onslaught of extractivist imperial plunder driven by those developments, which has opened the door to new forms of violent dispossession and exploitation.CODECA has been instrumental in organizing grassroots resistance and agitating for popular political education. Their struggle for anti-capitalist, systemic changes includes agrarian reform, justice for historical crimes committed during the US backed 36-year-long internal conflict and genocide, resistance to resource privatization and land concentration by the national oligarchy and transnational corporations, and the promotion of a vision for a Plurinational State. With 29 movement leaders assassinated since 2018 and hundreds more incarcerated, threatened and assaulted, the organization faces intense political persecution in the country. The following interview was conducted during the Global Antifascist Student and Youth Conference held in Caracas, Venezuela in November 2025. Isa Villalón from the Latin American Solidarity Committee spoke with three youth leaders for the organization, each representing CODECA’s struggle in different national territories: Jutiapa, Suchitepéquez, and the urban hub of Guatemala City. ---Follow AIN:Our website — https://anti-imperialist.net/Our current fundraising campaigns — https://givebutter.com/southbound-initiativeInstagram — https://www.instagram.com/antiimperialistnetwork/Spotify — https://open.spotify.com/show/6GTgPtZ8etV1jnDFO6JsJfGet involved — https://anti-imperialist.net/join/
We talk with Sina of "The East is a Podcast", a podcast veteran who offers comradely advice on how to podcast (in all seriousness, check them out here: https://eastpodcast.com) and an amazing discussion about Edward Said's 1993 book "Culture and Imperialism", specifically the chapter "Collaboration, Independence, and Liberation". This was a great episode; huge thanks to Sina for joining us, and lending some cadre development!
We interview Torkil Lauesen, renowned anti-imperialist author and activist, on anti-Imperialist action, Unequal Exchange and the Global Perspective. Torkil's bio: In the 1970s and 80s, Torkil Lauesen was a member of a clandestine communist cell which carried out a series of robberies in Denmark, netting very large sums which were then sent on to various national liberation movements in the Third World. Following their capture in 1989, Torkil would spend six years in prison. In 2016, Lauesen’s book Det Globale Perspektiv was released in Denmark. In it, he explains how he sees the world political situation today, and his thoughts about the future. Check out Torkil's writings here: https://anti-imperialist.net/author/lauesen/
Entrevistamos professora Yazmín Bárbara Vázquez Ortiz sobre la relación entre los estados unidos y Cuba incluyendo el bloqueo y el histórico impacto de la agresión Yankee. Professora Vázquez compartió con nosotros la história de Cuba y como realmente es la condición en la isla.
We interview comrades from the Sri Lankan Frontline Socialist Party on the July 9 storming of the presidential palace, state repression the IMF loan crisis, and the general crisis in Sri Lanka and opportunities.
The Walter Rodney Peoples Public Revolutionary Library is a nonprofit library that is Pan Africanist in orientation which aims to encourage reading in working class society in Azania. Check them out here: https://www.facebook.com/WRPRLibrary/
We had the privilege to interview the Anti-Imperialist Network on Anti-Imperialist Action, their website, what anti-imperialism looks like today, and much more! Check them out here: https://anti-imperialist.net
We got the chance to visit the Communist Party of Swaziland comrades Kenneth Kunene and Pius Vilakati in exile in South Africa.
We interview Professor Charisse Burden-Stelly on her Monthly Review article "Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights", discussing racial capitalism, imperialism, anti-Blackness, Labor Aristocracy, and more. Check out the article here: https://monthlyreview.org/2020/07/01/modern-u-s-racial-capitalism/ https://twitter.com/blackleftaf https://www.charisseburdenstelly.com
We discuss John Smith's book "Imperialism in the 21st Century" and a lot more with Brazilian imperialism researcher Sam Spellmann. Check out Sam's work here: https://pucminas.academia.edu/SamuelSpellmann/Book-Reviews https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332167549_Resenha_de_Imperialism_in_the_Twenty-First_Century_de_John_Smith_2016
In this short Introduction, Chris and Joseph explore the life, writings, and activism of Samir Amin, one of the greatest intellectuals to come from the Global South.
To read more of Samir Amin's work, here's a good beginner's guide: https://monthlyreview.org/2011/10/01/samir-amin-at-80-an-introduction-and-tribute/
We interview Piero Gliejeses, Professor at Johns Hopkins University, about his writings on the subject of Cuban action against Apartheid South Africa, for which he has become quite renowned. Check out more of the Professor's writings here: https://sais.jhu.edu/users/pgleije1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero_Gleijeses And check out the Radio War Nerd Interview with Prof. Gelijeses: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/106968736
We talked to Professor Zhun Xu about his brilliant article for Monthly Review on the ideology of late imperialism, the Second International and the return of similar thoughts in the writings of Bill Warren, Hardt/Negri and David Harvey, and more. Check out Zhun Xu's article here: https://monthlyreview.org/2021/03/01/the-ideology-of-late-imperialism/
We interviewed Comrade Raghid of the Lebanon Communist Party on the 2022 elections and the Crisis in Lebanon. Good luck to the CP in the elections! More information about the CP here: http://www.lcparty.org/en/
We interview Communist Party of Swaziland General Secretary Thokozane Kenneth Kunene on the history of the Tinkhundla system, the ties between the Swazi monarchy and Apartheid, and more.
Check out our book drive here: https://twitter.com/thecadrejournal/status/1519041657638957060
We interview Sushovan Dhar of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) on current debt crises in Lebanon, Argentina, and Sri Lanka, the plans to abolish all debt, the use of structural debt against the Third World, and more.
We interview Professor Thula Simpson of the University of Pretoria on his book "Umkhonto We Sizwe: the ANC's armed struggle". Check out Professor Simpson here: https://www.up.ac.za/historical-heritage-studies/article/2353404/prof-thula-simpson
We interviewed Professor Kevin B. Anderson on his classic text "Marx at the Margins" and discussed Marx's thoughts on pre-capitalist and non-Western societies, as well as on race, and how these can impact the Left today. Check out Professor Anderson's works here: https://kevin-anderson.com
We interview Sandro Mezzadra on his fantastic article "Marx in Algiers" which seeks out Marx's theoretical understanding of the "Global South", development, primitive accumulation, the World Market, imperialism, and borders, amongst other things. Mezzadra also deals with the Neue Marx-Lektüre and Operaismo on the question of subjectivity, postcolonialism, the universal, revolutionary potential, and more. Read his article here: https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/rp201_mezzadra.pdf
We discuss Walter Rodney's "lost" (or at least recently rediscovered) text, One Hundred Years of Development in Africa, with ROAPE's Leo Zeilig. Read more about Rodney's text here: https://developingeconomics.org/2021/10/05/walter-rodneys-lost-book-one-hundred-years-of-development-in-africa/
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Excellent and valuable content. Audio quality is painful even after almost 200 episodes