Joined by Brendan Campisi, Back in the USSR delves into the real history of Canada as a settler-colonial state, the brutal process of land theft and capital accumulation that gave it birth, and the courageous resistance of indigenous nations and other oppressed peoples against a colonizing power bent on their destruction. The myth of the "peaceable kingdom" hides a reality of systemic violence.
Music by Willie Dunn, and Midnight Oil "Warakurna"
Blog post for this episode including links to all featured content can be found here: https://proletarianguardbackintheussr.blogspot.ca/2018/05/capitalism-colonialism-and-resistance.html