IN SESSION #1 - Venezuela, Empire & the imperative for psychic militancy w/ Geo Maher and Alex Aviña

This was our first live stream, fittingly for the urgent times, with comrades Geo Maher and Alex Aviña. We address the most recent fascistic display of empire in Venezuela, listen to their analysis (some of the most precise and my personal favorite out there!), and importantly, unpack the psychological warfare that is at the heart of this aggression and how we can stay focused and committed to our revolutionary struggles.  Geo Maher is Coordinator of the WEB Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction and author of 5 books, including We Created Chávez and Building the Commune. Please support the incredible project our comrades at the School for Abolition & Reconstruction are doing. You can follow their work on IG at: @abolitionschool and here on YouTube  @AbolitionSchool . Check them out here and please consider donating to help support their incredible work and principled stance in terms of funding streams: https://abolitionschool.org/ You can find some of Geo's books here: Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela (https://www.versobooks.com/products/147-building-the-commune); We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution (https://dukeupress.edu/we-created-chavez); Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance (https://www.ucpress.edu/books/anticolonial-eruptions/paper) Alex Aviña is an Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is a historian of Mexico and Latin America. You can find some of Alex's analysis at Foreign Exchanges, with one of my favorites being: https://www.foreignexchanges.news/p/the-american-maginot-line-part-3; and NACLA: Report on the Americas with one of my favorites being: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714839.2025.2542070; and his book: Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside (https://alexanderavina.com/specters-of-revolution/) Follow us on IG at: @psychimilitancypod & TikTok: @psychic.militancy. And consider becoming a patron to help support the podcast! www.patreon.com/psychicmilitancy