About this podcast
Return to Bandung is a podcast that explores questions of imperialism, resistance, and internationalist solidarity throughout history and into the present day. Through historical analysis, interviews with expert guests, and deep dives into classic works of anticolonial theory, Return to Bandung seeks to make the case for why anti-imperialist politics are as important in our current moment as ever before.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 43 episodes
- Decolonizing Money with Julio Linares · 1 h 25 min · Season 1 Episode 42In this episode, I’m joined by Julio Linares, author of Decolonizing Money: The Promise of Abolishing the US Dollar (Pluto Press, 2026), to discuss the colonial roots of the…
- The Psychology of Empire and Resistance with Lara Sheehi · 1 h 27 min · Season 1 Episode 41In this episode, I’m joined by Lara Sheehi, practicing clinical psychologist and Research Fellow at the University of South Africa's Institute for Social & Health Sciences, to…
- Capitalist Racism and State Repression with Charisse Burden-Stelly · 1 h 26 min · Season 1 Episode 40In this episode, I’m joined by Charisse Burden-Stelly, associate professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University and author of Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing…
- From Minneapolis to Iran with Nick Estes · 1 h 23 min · Season 1 Episode 39In this episode, I’m joined by returning guest Nick Estes—associate professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, cofounder of The Red Nation, and author…
- Venezuela After Maduro with Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert · 1 h 30 min · Season 1 Episode 38In this episode, I’m joined by returning guests Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert, both Venezuela-based scholars and Chavista activists, to provide an update from on the…
- Chinese Socialism and Green Development with Ashwin Shantha · 1 h 29 min · Season 1 Episode 37In this episode, I’m joined by Ashwin Shantha, PhD student in politics at York University and host of the International Solidarity Podcast, to discuss their recent article…
- Defending the Cuban Revolution with David Ramírez Álvarez · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 36In this episode, I’m joined by David Ramírez Álvarez, Second Secretary and cultural attaché at the Embassy of Cuba to the United States in Washington, D.C., to talk about the…
- Reviving the European Left with Peter Mertens · 1 h 15 min · Season 1 Episode 35In this episode, I’m joined by Peter Mertens, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB), to discuss the current situation and future outlook of the European left…
- Resisting Empire From Within with Torkil Lauesen · 1 h 17 min · Season 1 Episode 34In this episode, I’m joined by Marxist theorist and anti-imperialist revolutionary Torkil Lauesen, author of numerous books including The Principal Contradiction (Kersplebedeb…
- Imperialism and Resistance in Mexico with Alex Aviña · 1 h 23 min · Season 1 Episode 33In this episode, I’m joined by Alexander Aviña, historian of Mexico and associate professor of Latin American history at Arizona State University, to discuss imperialism and…
- The Problem with Western Marxism with Gabriel Rockhill · 1 h 19 min · Season 1 Episode 32In this episode, I’m joined by guest host Ashwin Shantha of the Journal of International Solidarity podcast to interview Gabriel Rockhill, professor of philosophy at Villanova…
- Trump's Revival of the Monroe Doctrine with Guillaume Long · 1 h 10 min · Season 1 Episode 31In this episode, I’m joined by Guillaume Long, former Foreign Minister of Ecuador and current Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, to discuss…
- Debating the National and Colonial Questions with Ashwin Shantha · 1 h 20 min · Season 1 Episode 30In this episode, I’m joined once again by Ashwin Shantha, host of the Journal of International Solidarity podcast, to revisit a crucial but often-overlooked episode in…
- The Political Economy of Global Shipping with Laleh Khalili · 1 h 13 min · Season 1 Episode 29In this episode, I’m joined by Laleh Khalili, Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter and author of Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian…
- Internal Colonialism in the United States with Sam Klug · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 28In this episode, I’m joined by intellectual historian Sam Klug, author of The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization (University of Chicago…
- Worldmaking After Empire with Adom Getachew · 1 h 3 min · Season 1 Episode 27In this episode, I’m joined by political theorist Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Princeton University Press, 2019)…
- Anti-Imperialist Political Education with Ashwin Shantha (1-Year Anniversary Episode) · 1 h 23 min · Season 1 Episode 26For this special one-year anniversary episode of Return to Bandung, I’m joined by my comrade Ashwin Shantha to discuss our shared project of anti-imperialist political education…
- Defending Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution with Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert · 1 h 9 min · Season 1 Episode 25In this episode, I’m joined by scholars Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert, coauthors of Venezuela, The Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution (Monthly…
- Imperialism and Global Inequality with Jason Hickel · 1 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 24In this episode, I’m joined by economic anthropologist Jason Hickel, author of The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets (W.W. Norton, 2018), to discuss the…
- Reviving the Bandung Spirit (Socialism 2025 Conference Lecture) · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 23This is the recording of a lecture that I gave in July at the Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago, titled “‘This is the Human Race Speaking…’: Reviving the Bandung Spirit in a…
