You favorite Ultra-Left-Post-Posadist-Nihilist-Anarcho-Communist-Bordiga-Adjacent comedy and politics podcast. #UnrestIsBest With Jamie Peck, Sean, AP Andy and a rotating cast of guests. Become a patron to enjoy bonus content, access to our Discord community and more at: www.patreon.com/theantifada twitter: @the underscore antifada @jamie underscore elizabeth @spaceprole
E265: The Party is Always Right w/ Aidan Beatty
Aidan Beatty, author of The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism joins us to trainspot the British Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP), a Trotskyist cult that was tight with Qaddafi, boasted Vanessa Redgrave as a member, and collapsed after the revelation of years of its leader's sexual abuse of membership.Sign up at http://patreon.com/theantifada for the bonus where we talk about Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon, the shared historical dynamics of the Irish and Jews, the WSWS's fascination with Woody Allen and Michael Jackson, and the macabre fate of Trotsky's death mask.Get the book from Pluto PressSong: Pop Smoke - For the Night
10/23/2024 • 59 minutes, 38 seconds
Fight Club Club w/ Jason & Daniel
Jason, Daniel, and Andy talk about Fight Club to celebrate to the 25th anniversary of the movie and the Battle of Seattle that followed it. We look at the history of the book and Chuck Palahniuk's situationist influence and his embrace of his rightwing fans, the Gen-X ennui behind the creation of Tyler Durden, the politics of Project Mayhem, and Marla Singer's character as the story's ethical core.The full episode is available for free at http://patreon.com/theantifada. Sign up to support the show for the second episode about Joker 2!Check out Jason's essay on Fight Club and his New York on Earth substack: https://newyorkonearth.substack.com/
10/21/2024 • 17 minutes, 8 seconds
Ep 264: Endgame Two - 2 End, 2 Game w/ Jamie Merchant
Sean and Andy are joined by returning guest and cofounder of ILC-Chicago Jamie Merchant (@pathtopraxis) to discuss his new full-length monograph, out now from Reaktion Books, called Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline. In it, Jamie provides a masterful, insightful and readable account of the political economy of the present moment.What is the connection between the functioning of the profit system and the world-historic shift away from globalization? How do ruling class ideas like economic nationalism spread and why has conspiracism racked the left and right in recent years? Why has a bipartisan consensus emerged around state industrial policy and beggar-thy-neighbor trade policy? And what might the left do about all this except tail the least worst elements of it? This, along with an update on Independent Labor Club of Chicago and how civil-social organizing might pose a path forward that doesn't end in WWIII or a Brave New World.Read an excerpt at Brooklyn Rail: https://brooklynrail.org/2022/03/field-notes/Endgame-Finance-and-the-Close-of-the-Market-System/ And stay tune for his 11/23 release event at https://www.woodbine.nyc/To support our work become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifadaInterested in joining the Independent Labor Club of North America? There may be a branch near you or other workers nearby interested in starting one, here's our Telegram: https://t.me/+TNXgQOPkV18yOGRhSong: Rage Against the Machine - People of the Sun
10/16/2024 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 21 seconds
&&& vs. General Ham w/ Quorators
&nders Lee and AP &y guest on the Quorators podcast to field questions about UFOs, cyptids, Pompeii, and, of course, ampersands. video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udhh_BrLui8
10/9/2024 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 23 seconds
E263: ILWU/Houthi Solidarity Strike
NEWS EP! We talk about the hurricane disaster, the Middle East disaster, the Ukraine disaster, and the Longshoremen's strike as a prelude to the war on Christmas.Sign up at http://patreon.com/theantifada for the fun half! We look at a proletarian get-rich quick scheme, an LAPD robbery gone wrong, and speculate on the REAL reason the Feds are taking down Mayor Eric Adams.Organized abandonment & campaign strategy in Appalachia: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/30/helene-aftermath-live-updates-monday-north-carolina/75447978007/https://www.axios.com/2024/09/27/kamala-harris-asylum-rules-border-crossingshttps://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/harris-alcohol-prices-trump-tariff-plan-1235113532/Biden on settling the "strike" https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1840576548992106698The strike he’s probably thinking of: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-east-coast-port-strike-set-start-tuesday-says-union-2024-09-29/Cruise ships and weapons shipments not effected by strike: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/baltimore-cruise-ships-military-cargo-not-affected-by-dock-worker-strike/65-93d26a57-812c-44ba-bff6-5704ce08c292https://apnews.com/article/longshoremen-strike-ports-pay-consumers-automation-october-77289c12bf3c3eff5e42cb6372126576Asheville Mutual Aid Disaster Relief info: https://itsgoingdown.org/mutual-aid-hurricane-helene/Proletarian self activity: https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/infinite-money-chase-bank-customers-in-trouble-after-viral-glitch/article_4b062eb2-6978-11ef-8c96-2346f53d638b.htmlSong: Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
10/2/2024 • 56 minutes, 44 seconds
E262: Piratical Bordiga w/ Cosimo Pantaleoni & Ross Wolf
While Marxist friend and historian Cosimo Pataleoni was in town from Italy, Sean decided to bring along Ross Wolf to get a taste of some badass history of piracy. We discuss Cosimo's work on the Uskoks, Croatian rebel sailors of the early modern period, as a lens for understanding the rise of commercial capitalism, proletarianization, debt bondage, and incarceration on the frontiers and the high seas. How do Cosimo's studies-inspired by figures like Eric Hobsbawm, Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker-help us understand the transition towards capitalism and, ultimately, how the transition towards communism might unfold?In the second half we talk about Cosimo's Italian Bordigist futurism project N+1 (no, not that one) then speculate about Houthi rebels and Yemeni pirates, maritime multipolarity, the fetters that your home wifi imposes on production and why intellectual property and the internet have become the new frontier in capitalist development... and perhaps its overcoming?For this bonus content, and so much more, become a supporter of our work at www.patreon.com/theantifadaSong: Vandals - Pirate's Life
9/25/2024 • 57 minutes, 45 seconds
Diving into the Wreckage: Decay and Renewal 2
Sean and Varn are joined by special guest, A.P. Andy of the Antifada podcast, to round out their previous conversation on current impasses on the left. For access to the full episode, and all our years of great bonus content, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifadaHow did Andy’s Platypus Affiliated Panel go? What’s new with the American Communist Party and how have they Stalinized Bordigism? What has happened to make Marxism-Leninism into an anachronistic meme ideology? And, in the bonus section, out of all this decay what hope is there in some sort of renewal? (We’ve got some ideas on this front that are better than tailing MAGA and streaming it to underemployed 20-year-olds.) Platypus panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQxb86UTmCoSong: Gary Numan - This Wreckage
9/18/2024 • 59 minutes, 49 seconds
E261 - Histadrut is a Weapon
NEWS ep! We talk about Sean's upcoming well-deserved Alaska vacation before shifting into some preliminary analysis on Israel's brief anti-Netanyahu general strike, the contradictions of the Israeli working-class and war economy, and the legacy of labor Zionism.Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada for the second half, in which we talk about AfD's victory in Thuringia and the meaning of the cleavages within neoliberalism, including Brazil banning Twitter and the absence of left partisanship in free-speech discourse. Israel general strike: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/2/what-are-israels-protests-and-general-strike-about-and-how-big-are https://www.ft.com/content/e0e5de2d-46a7-43c2-a0e5-1bf4c710efdehttps://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/23/gaza-war-extends-toll-on-israels-economyhttps://x.com/bar_peleg/status/1831033750601474400 https://www.histadrut.org.il/eng/P%7Cfs%7CF_workers_in_Israel https://www.histadrut.org.il/eng/SolidarityEcuador: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/ecuador-left-us-linked-prosecutorPreshow ad: https://bostonanarchistbookfair.org/, https://www.instagram.com/bostonanarchistbookfair/ Song - Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black - Alaska
9/9/2024 • 56 minutes, 46 seconds
E260 - Stone Age Noir w/ Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner joins us to talk about her new novel Creation Lake--the story of an American agent provocateur infiltrating a rural commune in France.We go through some of the inspirations behind her characters in this and past books (including Jacques Camatte, Julian Coupat, and Ben Morea), a Soviet historian's theory of the Neanderthal origins of class war, and the RKCU (Rachel Kushner Cinematic Universe)The full episode is FREE at http://patreon.com/theantifada. While you're there, support the show with a free, $5, $10, or annual discounted membership for access to all bonus content and our Discord community!Megabasin protests: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/06/water-mega-basins-reservoirs-france-drought/674313/https://lessoulevementsdelaterre.org/blog/stop-mega-basins---international-mobilization-from-july-16-to-21-2024Drift Mag interview: https://www.thedriftmag.com/history-as-it-is-happening/Nation Review: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/rachel-kushner-creation-lake/Info on Eric McDavid entrapment case: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/18/40682.phpThe Tribe: Interviews with Jean-Michel Mension Jacques Camatte - This World We Must LeaveTiqqun - Introduction to Civil WarThe Invisible Comittee - The Coming InsurrectionThe Zad and NoTAV: Territorial Struggles and the Making of a New Political IntelligenceSong: Daft Punk - Get Lucky (V A P O R W A V E)
9/4/2024 • 56 minutes, 39 seconds
Happy Bell Riots day to all who celebrate
REUPLOAD of our collaborative commentary with Swampside Chats of S3ep11 of Star Trek: Deep Space NineIn this two part episode, the crew goes back in time to a San Francisco homeless camp at the time of the a riot against neo-liberalism on September 1, 2024 that spiraled into international revolution. Written in the '90s, the episode presciently predicts the economic crises of the current day, Trump's plan of rounding California's homeless population into camps, and the coming lumpen revolution.Listen to Part II: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41951161/DS9: "Past Tense, Part I", "Past Tense, Part II"Check out Swampside Chats at: patreon.com/swampsidechats
9/1/2024 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 32 seconds
Boundless and Bottomless Seas 7: Chapter 5 of "The Fourth Political Theory" by Aleksandr Dugin
Enjoy this seventh episode of a sideproject with Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century, where they "explain right-wing thought to you so you can actually do something with it."For the full episode subscribe on http://patreon.com/theantifada or view the episode on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f_qKnAxV2I&list=PL3jOfuAY4QruaeI1PbA6aTHNzYpi4yI_A&index=1In this episode they read chapter 5 of Dugin's Fourth Political Theory"Previous episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3jOfuAY4QruaeI1PbA6aTHNzYpi4yI_AWork Cited: Dugin, Alexander (2012). The Fourth Political Theory. Translated by Sleboda, Mark; Millerman, Michael. Arktos Media. Prior Video in this Series:
8/30/2024 • 14 minutes, 20 seconds
E259: Lethal Strength Through Joy w/ Zhana Kurti
Bronx expat Zhana Kurti reports back from the Chicago DNC and the protests against it. We go through the context of the 1924 and 1968 DNCs, the issues of Palestine and race in the election, how the left should relate to the elections, and if we should even be talking about it all.Check out last week's episode of Party Girls podcast for more in depth discussions of the protests in Chicago, and why some found them underwhelming. Support the Antifada for all bonus content and discord community discussion at http://patreon.com/theantifada Essay about CLR James' American Civilization: https://aeon.co/essays/c-l-r-james-foresaw-the-crisis-of-us-liberal-democracyCheck out Zhana's books: Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity and States of Incarceration (buy them from Chicago's radical bookstore Pilsen Community Books!)song: Charli XCX - 360 + 365 (ガキ brat - slowed and reverbed)
8/26/2024 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 52 seconds
ARMED LOVE 12 - The Revolution of Everyday Life w/ Bill Brown
Situ-Punk Bill Brown of "NOT BORED!" zine fame chats with Andy about Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life and its influence on the punk subculture of the seventies, eighties, and nineties. Towards the end of the episode we talk about his Vaneigem's prediction of the "End of Christianity" in relation to heresy and queerness. Greil Marcus’s Liptick Traces https://monoskop.org/log/?p=12932Bill Brown's Not Bored! anthology: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Not_Bored_Anthology_1983_2010/1wQlAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0Bill's translation of Vaneigem's Resistance to Christianity: https://eris.press/Resistance-to-ChristianityVaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/raoul-vaneigem-the-revolution-of-everyday-lifeVaneigem on Coronavirus: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/raoul-vaneigem-coronavirusWriting on Tarnac affair: https://notbored.org/tarnac.htmlArmed Love series: https://www.patreon.com/collection/87680Songs: Chrissy Hynde - Love Minus Zero (No Limits) Wanda Jackson - Riot Goin’ On Sex Pistols - Holiday in the Sun The Strokes - NYC Cops The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Survival Sickness
8/21/2024 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 48 seconds
Diving in the Wreckage - Independence, Decadence, and Renewal w/ C. Derick Varn
Sean and Varn are back to talk about the various paroxysms of the American left: why are the sects getting weirder and weirder? Why do we have to pay attention to capitalist politics while realizing we have no stake in it? Why do we focus on labor and what the hell is the Independent Labor Club trying to do?This is an extended preview of the complete episode. To listen to this, the rest of the DitW series and years worth of bonus content become a subscriber at www.patreon.com/theantifadaCheck out Varn's work at www.patreon.com/varnlogSong: Gary Numan - This Wreckage
8/14/2024 • 1 hour, 54 seconds
BONUS: Theory of the YoungHegelianE-Girl
Ross Wolfe, Alex Gendler, Morgan, and Matthew Donovan join us for an extensive review and analysis of last week's Hegelian E-Girl Symposium and a discussion of fascist mystique in counterculture, social alienation, and different interpretations of HegelFor the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaMatthew Donovan's review/analysis of the party: https://matthewdonovan.substack.com/p/i-hosted-the-hegelian-e-girl-partySanje call-out: https://x.com/sanjehorah/status/1820166696021131470Manifesto: https://x.com/tenshi_anna/status/1819922668704944403
8/9/2024 • 9 minutes, 23 seconds
E258 - Populaire Frontin' 2: Melon Pilled w/ Henry Wallis
Our France correspondent Henry J. Wallis returns to give updates since the New Popular Front's surprise victory on July 7. Will Macron block them from power after the Olympics? Will the French return from vacation in fighting mode? And how does Kamala's emergence compare to the antifascist electoral block? Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaFirst episode with Henry: https://www.patreon.com/posts/e253-populaire-w-106800367Check out Henry's Forms Podcast and his post-election essay.International Communist Tendency: Popular Front in France: A Deception in 1936, A Deception in 2024 Lundi Matin - Poplar Front in the Streets (by Georges Bataille):Bordiga on activism: https://libcom.org/article/activism-amadeo-bordigaSong: Zouzou - Il est parti comme il était venu
8/5/2024 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 41 seconds
E257 - Joe vs. the Volcano w/ Phil Neel & Nick Chavez (Part 1)
Our favorite engineers of the fouriest future return! We talk about an obscure marxist concept, dispel some myths of multipolarity, and provide some updates on the US Fire Festival-esque attempts to onshore/friendshore/reshore tech manufacturing.In the bonus half, available to supporters at http://patreon.com/theantifada, we share our utopian visions for the would to come when the children of Bordigists, instead of Gramscians, take over the Democratic Party to lead the communization revolution. Chavez and Neel in Endnotes: https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/forest-and-factoryPhil Neel's dissertation on China and Global Crisis: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/items/90b923c4-509b-4612-9be7-70f36486aa1cPhil and Komite interview: https://brooklynrail.org/2023/11/field-notes/Phil-Neel-with-KomiteGuido Starosta on Productive Subjectivity: https://cicpint.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2011_Starosta_Machinery-Productive-Subjectivity-and-the-Limits.pdfStarosta's book: Marx’s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity https://brill.com/display/title/18792?language=enSome background on civil war in Sudan: https://acleddata.com/2024/04/14/sudan-situation-update-april-2024-one-year-of-war-in-sudan/TSMC plant in Phoenix: https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/tsmc-delays-second-arizona-chip-factory-to-2027/704937/Song: Jenny Hval - Female Vampire
7/31/2024 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 3 seconds
BONUS: Cancel All Workers w/ Minion Death Cult
The world is ending. Home Depot workers are responsible, and Alexander Edward and Tony Boswell of Minion Death Cult join Sean to document it.For the full episode, all other bonus content, and Discord access, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaCheck out Sean's other appearance on MDC this weekSupport MDC on patreon
7/26/2024 • 7 minutes, 40 seconds
&&&RMED LOVE - Jack Scott, Bill Walton, the SLA, and the Athletic Revolution
&ers, &y, and Sean look at the career of New Left sociologist JACK SCOTT, who founded a "Jock Liberation Army," overhauled the Oberlin Athletics Department, and linked up with the Symbionese Liberation Army. For all our bonus content and access to our Discord community support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaJack Scott: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/kw/jack-scott-the-athletic-revolution/ https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/spring-2020/wild-ride-jack-scott-and-jock-liberation/ https://www.nytimes.com/1975/09/21/archives/radical-jocks-how-jack-scott-once-known-as-chief-who-would-go.html Bill Walton: Bill Walton On The Road With The Portland Trail Blazers by Jack Scott https://www.motherjones.com/media/2024/05/searching-for-bill-walton/ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-walton-activism/tnamp/Audio clips: Interviews with Harry Edwards, Bill Walton, and SLA communiques Past ARMED Love episodes: https://www.patreon.com/collection/87680?view=expandedPast &&& episodes: https://www.patreon.com/collection/500909?view=expandedSong: Patti Smith - Hey Joe (Patty Hearst)
7/24/2024 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 1 second
E256: IVF or IMF w/ Jason Smith
Sean sits down with Los Angeles-based Antifada political economy correspondent, Jason Smith of the Brooklyn Rail, to discuss demographic decline, a hot button issue relatively untouched by the Marxist left.Why has fertility gone up in the past? Why has it gone down in the developed world? What do Marx, Adam Smith and Keynes have to say about this phenomenon? Why has the potential for population decline made the capitalists so crazy?For the complete episode and much more bonus content become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifadaCheck out Jason's article in Brooklyn Rail: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/07/field-notes/After-the-Wave-WinterReferenced article: https://newleftreview.org/issues/i137/articles/wally-seccombe-marxism-and-demographySong: Dystopia - Population Birth Control
7/17/2024 • 55 minutes, 38 seconds
E255 - How the Left Lost the Working Class w/ Gregory Butler
Audio from ILC's first Independent Labor Assembly July 7th, 2024 assembly at Talon Bar in Brooklyn with guest Gregory ButlerFor the full episode, Discord access, and all our bonus content, support the show at http:///patreon.com/theantifadaThe Independent Labor Club is an organization that seeks to bring workers together from all over to build bonds of free association and strengthen the power of labor. Our guest speaker Gregory A. Butler is a lifelong New Yorker as well as a carpenter in local 608, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America. With decades of experience in the trades, he focuses on the history of working class struggle and union organizing in New York. He is the author of Disunited Brotherhood: Race, Racketeering and the Fall of the New York Construction Unions and is owner and moderator of Gangbox: Construction Workers News Service on the yahoo groups network.Song: Johnny Cash - One Piece At A Time
7/10/2024 • 45 minutes, 2 seconds
E254 - Climate Adorno w/ Jacob Blumenfeld
We consult with our Berliner Critical Theorist rabbi Jacob Blumenfeld about his recent Cured Quail essay Managing Decline. How do we shift the climate crisis from disaster communism and inhabitable barbarity to a communism of repair?https://curedquail.com/Managing-DeclineClimate Barbarism: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8675.12596The Deluge by Stephen Markley: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/books/review/stephen-markley-deluge.htmlFor all bonus content and Discord discussion support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSong: Mekons - Hard to be Human
7/3/2024 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 34 seconds
E253 - Populaire Frontin' w/ Henry Wallis
Our France correspondent/flaneur Henry J. Wallis takes us on a leisurely derive through the French political spectrum, explaining his support as an Appelist for the Popular Front opposition to Le Pen and Macron in the upcoming snap elections.Check out Henry's Forms Podcast and his essay on the Popular FrontMacron and Lula support billionaire tax: https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-brazil-lula-da-silva-global-minimum-tax-billionaires-wealthiest-people/Recent clashes in New Caledonia: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/new-caledonia-unrest-independence-activists-france-detentionhttps://x.com/illwilleditions/status/1804965294672347603The Hollande campaign song mentioned: https://pitchfork.com/news/46275-watch-french-presidential-candidate-uses-jay-z-and-kanyes-niggas-in-paris-in-campaign-ad/Andy's Bordiga/Antifa article: https://communemag.com/anti-anti-antifa/Song: Brazz - Killing In The Name (French Version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj-C2O4YSuc
6/26/2024 • 1 hour, 35 minutes, 26 seconds
Boundless and Bottomless Seas: "The Fourth Political Theory" by Aleksandr Dugin (Episode 5)
Enjoy this fifth episode of a side project with Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century, where they "explain right-wing thought to you so you can actually do something with it."In this episode they read chapters 2 and 3 of Dugin's Fourth Political Theory" and ask: "What is it that liberalism does? Who is it's actors? What is the political economy? All that and more as we finish Chapter 2 and begin Chapter 3 of "The Fourth Political Theory."Patrons can hear the full episode on our patreon feed This and all previous episodes are also available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3jOfuAY4QruaeI1PbA6aTHNzYpi4yI_AWork Cited: Dugin, Alexander (2012). The Fourth Political Theory. Translated by Sleboda, Mark; Millerman, Michael. Arktos Media. Prior Video in this Series:
6/21/2024 • 15 minutes, 55 seconds
E252 - Exiting the Star Wars Castle
NEWS EPISODE! We talk about the the 4hr Star Wars Youtube video, and strike updates, Russian War Keynesian updates, COVID propaganda updates, and a preview of Sean's new AI show.Spectacular Failure of Star Wars Hotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZLabor: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/business/economy/supreme-court-starbucks-nlrb.html?smihttps://www.labornotes.org/2024/06/teamsters-and-amazon-labor-union-announce-affiliation-member-vote-still-aheadhttps://thehill.com/homenews/education/4711847-judge-orders-uc-workers-pause-strike-israel-hamas-war/https://x.com/thehousered/status/1799216761872458085Covid:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.htmlhttps://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/08/opinion/covid-fauci-hearings-health.htmlBolerium Books: https://www.bolerium.com/Song: John Williams - First Order March [EPIC VERSION]
6/17/2024 • 53 minutes, 32 seconds
E251 - Is Hamas Vegan?
Daniel returns to tell us about the Chicago encampments, Andy reports back from the New School occupation, and we re-read two Moishe Postone essays on anti-zionism and antisemitism in light of the new movement.For the full episode, all bonus content, and access to ongoing discussion and debate in our Discord community, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaNew School divestment vote:https://www.newschoolfreepress.com/2024/05/20/new-school-trustees-will-hold-a-vote-on-divestment-from-israel/Freddy Perlman's Continuing Appeal of Nationalism essay: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fredy-perlman-the-continuing-appeal-of-nationalismEndnotes essay mentioned: https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/the-encampments-for-gazahttps://endnotes.org.uk/posts/s-prasad-introduction-to-waiting-for-the-massacrePostone essays:https://www.workersliberty.org/files/100205postone.pdfhttps://determinatenegation.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/moishe-postone-stammheim-and-tel-zataar-1977/Song: Lil Wayne - Pure Columbia
6/12/2024 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 13 seconds
BONUS: Mad Max Anarchism
For the full episode and all other bonus content, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaAnarcho-Anon Film Critic Daniel and Andy discuss the politics of Furiosa and the rest of the Mad Max franchise through the theories of Pierre Clastres, Donna Haraway, Maggie Nelson, Bruno Latour, Nick Land, Hillary Clinton, punk, and disaster anarchism. I considered calling this episode "Anya Taylor Armed Joy" but decided against it.
6/7/2024 • 10 minutes, 7 seconds
E250: La CUNY Lucha Continúa w/ Carolyn Hietter & Ian J. Seda-Irizarry
Sean KB welcomes to the show two teachers (Carolyn Hietter and Ian Seda) from the John Jay College Department of Economics (Marxist) to discuss their program and the goings-on at the City University of New York since the beginning of the atrocities in Gaza: the McCarthyite administration's war on free speech, the massive shifts within the bourgeois university over preceding decades which led to it, and how John Jay's Econ department is pushing in another direction.We ask the essential question: What might a working class education by and for the working class might look like? Find out for yourself and apply to the CUNY if you are looking for a radical education.For Discord access and all our bonus content support the Antifada at http://patreon.com/theantifadaAttend the CUNY JJ econ rock show: People’s Garden in Bushwick, June 8th 2pmContact Ian Seda, Graduate Program Director [email protected] about Masters Program: https://johnjayeconomics.org/how-to-apply/Rick Wolff and Ian Seda on heterodox economics at John Jay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyLY-ftZnF0Ludy Thenor and Geert Dhondt on heterodox economics at John Jay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU8dT6jWHHI&t=32sMusic: Phony ppl - John Jay
6/5/2024 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 36 seconds
Diving into the Wreckage: Specters of Left Melancholia w/ C. Derick Varn
It's been four years since the demise of Sandersism in the United States. It's been two years since the COVID-19 crisis upended society and Russia invaded Ukraine. Socialist politics is, if anything, even more fractured and impotent than it was last decade.What do we make of the deep melancholy gripping politics today? How have the various political solutions on offer been delegitimated? And why is Sean KB seemingly immune to this melancholy? (Hint: it's the Independent Labor Club.)This is an extended preview of the full three-hour discussion. To access the whole audio file, become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada And for a video version of the recording become a supporter of C. Derick Varn's work at www.patreon.com/varnvlog
5/29/2024 • 58 minutes, 34 seconds
E249 - Raising Debs w/ Reid Kane
Sean and Andy are joined by Reid Kane to discuss the tortured legacy of the Socialist Party of America. Why doesn't the United States have a nominally working class party like the UK, where unions formed the institutional base for an independent party? How come state repression was so effective in undermining working class self-organization in the early-20th century? In which ways did the Old Left and the New Left fail to learn the lessons of the SPUSA and why are we still stuck with the Stalin-era Popular Front? Reid gives a powerful account of American socialism past and how we might vindicate the struggles of past generations.This is an extended preview of the full episode. To access this bonus content and much more, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifadaWorks by Reid:YouTube series on American socialismWritings in Sublation Magazine
5/22/2024 • 56 minutes, 30 seconds
E248 - Grossman's Revenge w/ Ted Reese
Sean is joined by friend of the show, Ted Reese, to discuss his brand new book: Abundant Material Wealth for All. How does Henryk Grossman's breakdown theory help us understand the economics and politics of this current moment? In what ways are crisis tendencies affecting the United States and the UK? What type of program should socialists offer as a way out of the crisis? Join us in fleshing out Ted's expansive vision for how we might overcome the current crisis and build a world with abundant material wealth for all as its basis.Order the book: https://grossmanite.medium.com/new-book-abundant-material-wealth-for-all-out-now-7d1ec5e9ac05Free PDFs for all coming out this month!Song: Kendrick - Humble
5/15/2024 • 54 minutes, 44 seconds
ARMED LOVE 10 - The Cultural Revolution w/ Ralf Ruckus
For the tenth episode of our series about the revolutionary culture of the sixties, Andy talks to China scholar Ralf Ruckus about the Cultural Revolution in China, during which large factions of youth competed to renew and complete the revolutionary vision of Mao. The result was a seizure of power by the PLA and an estimated 2.8 million death between 1966-1976. For more episode of Armed Love, and all other bonus material and Discord access, please become a patreon at http://patreon.com/theantifadaRalf Ruckus recently published The Left in China, an excerpt of which can be read here: http://illwill.com/mapping-the-left-in-chinaHe previously published The Communist Road to Capitalism: How Social Unrest and Containment Have Pushed China's (R)evolution since 1949Other resources mentioned: Darren Byler - Terror Capitalism https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/4/monograph/book/97897Chuang: https://chuangcn.org/about/Gonggchao: https://www.gongchao.org/en/the-left-in-china/China strike-map: https://maps.clb.org.hk/?i18n_language=en_US&map=1&startDate=2023-11&endDate=2024-05&eventId=&keyword=&addressId=&parentAddressId=&address=&parentAddress=&industry=&parentIndustry=&industryName=&pageEmbed=Wu Yiching - Cultural Revolution from the Margins https://files.libcom.org/files/Yiching%20Wu-The%20Cultural%20Revolution%20at%20the%20Margins_%20Chinese%20Socialism%20in%20Crisis-Harvard%20University%20Press%20(2014).pdfTelegram Link for Southwest ILC: https://t.me/+TNXgQOPkV18yOGRhSong: Sailing the Seas Depends On The Helmsman
5/8/2024 • 1 hour, 47 minutes, 28 seconds
E247 - May Day Q&A w/ Jaylien
We report on our visits to pro-Palestine encampments and take listener questionsJoin our Discord community by signing up to our Patreon! http://patreon.com/theantifadaCheck out the ILC BBQ in McCarren park in Williamsburg 3-7 followed by a party/screening at Woodbine: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6Rj8UzuoYs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==First We Take Columbia text: https://illwill.com/columbia https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2979646/pro-palestinian-activists-spread-occupation-guidebook-overrun-schools/Communique From an Absent Future: https://illwill.com/print/communique-from-an-absent-futureAdam Tooze - Columbia University's "crisis" - a political economy sketch map https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-279-columbia-universitysUnrest in the MLBPA: https://theathletic.com/5352704/2024/03/18/mlbpa-unrest-players-bruce-meyer/Big Sean - Control
5/1/2024 • 52 minutes, 46 seconds
E246 - Cursed Balkan Comments w/ Empire Never Ended / Antipolitika Journal (first half)
Boris and Rey from the anti-nationalist Empire Never Ended podcast and Antipolitika journal chat about the far rights in the US and ex-Yugoslavia, the legacy of Balkan nationalism, cursed Balkan Youtube comments and Greater Idaho.For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaEmpire Never Ended patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tenepodAntipolitika journal:Read: https://antipolitika.noblogs.org/ Buy: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1440 Songs: Infracrvena - Politika Ultima Videosex - Detektivska Priča
4/24/2024 • 58 minutes, 24 seconds
🔥&&&🌿4/20 Special🔥: Walter Benjamin's On Hashish on hashish
And(y) & And(ers) smoke a hash joint and read selections from the "Protocols of Drug Experiments" in which German Marxist philosopher Walter Benjamin ate a hash edible and wandered around Marseille being weird.For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifadaPDF: https://anarch.cc/uploads/walter-benjamin/on-hashish.pdfNew Yorker review of On Hashish: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/21/the-philosopher-stoned
4/19/2024 • 10 minutes, 12 seconds
E245: RIP Loren Goldner
The communist milieu lost a titan last week. Our kind friend and mentor, Loren Goldner (1949-2024), passed away on Friday, April 12th 3:00am, at age of 76. As a tribute to his life and legacy we were able to gather a handful of people who were close to him to share stories, memories and inspirations. Special thanks to Arya Zahedi, Zhana Kurti, Jarrod Shanahan, Joe Lombardo, Ross Wolfe and Billy O'Conner for coming on to memorialize a great thinker and a great friend.Copious Loren Goldner Links:Website archive https://breaktheirhaughtypower.org/category/articles/Melville book https://libcom.org/article/herman-melville-between-charlemagne-and-antemosaic-cosmic-man-loren-goldnerInsurgent Notes Journal http://insurgentnotes.com/author/loren/Articles mentioned in orderAryaTurkish history- https://libcom.org/article/agrarian-question-russian-revolution-material-community-productivism-and-back-loren-goldnerBolivia- https://libcom.org/book/export/html/58156Fictitious capital for beginners https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/fictitious-capital-beginners-imperialism-anti-imperialism-and-continuing-relevance-rosa-luxemburgRossRace and the enlightenment https://libcom.org/article/race-and-enlightenment-part-i-anti-semitism-white-supremacy-1492-1676Critic of post-colonial theory https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/the-universality-of-marx/Revolution in the Air critique https://libcom.org/article/review-revolution-air-max-elbaum-loren-goldnerSeanBordiga https://files.libcom.org/files/Loren%20Goldner%20-%20Amadeo%20Bordiga,%20the%20Agrarian%20Question,%20and%20the%20International%20Revolutionary%20Movement.pdfAudio clips from: https://libcom.org/article/loren-goldner-audioSongs: Monsieur Jack - The Internationale Leonard Cohen - Solidarity Forever
4/17/2024 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 48 seconds
UNLOCKED: History is a Weapon 15: On the Labor Question w/ Matt Christman
Enjoy this blast from the distant pass: January 2023!Check out all the other Histories is a Weapon on our patreonIn light of the depressing denouement of 2022's railroad conflict, Sean and Matt sit down, in person at last, to discuss the deep history behind how American organized labor got so disorganized and why the labor movement hasn't moved in decades.Why was it that, in the United States, workers institutions had trouble evolving past the infancy of narrow, sectoral, decentralized craft unionism towards broad-based, nationally-coordinated industrial unionism? How did capital, in the face of militant organizing, help choose the weaker of the two as their partner to bargain with? In what ways is worker self-organization in this country truly, as our enemies always say, anti-American? And importantly what is to be done now that private sector union density is so low, workers institutions so captured and the national labor relations regime has fallen apart?STAY TUNED AFTER THE OUTRO MUSIC FOR A SPECIAL LAST MINUTE ADDENDUM
4/10/2024 • 2 hours, 8 minutes, 35 seconds
E244 (Pt. 2) - Veiled Threats w/ Arya Zahedi
Part 2 of our discussion with Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes about the essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. He talks about the uprisings in Iran, including the murder of Mahsa Amini, and his feelings about Iran's role in the proxy wars surrounding the siege of Gaza.Full episode available at http://patreon.com/theantifadaRead the essay here: https://illwill.com/iran
4/5/2024 • 11 minutes, 48 seconds
E244 - Ayatollah Assahola w/ Arya Zahedi (Part 1)
Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes discusses his new essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. In part 1, he talks about what the left gets wrong about Iran and its political history through the 1979 revolution, hostage crisis, and counterrevolution.For Part 2 of the episode, about the uprisings against the Islamic Republic and expanding conflict in the Middle East today, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaRead the essay here: https://illwill.com/iranSong: Planet Smashers - Ska of Iran
4/3/2024 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 31 seconds
E243 - Fight the Narcissystem w/ Anslem Jappe
Anselm Jappe is a professor of philosophy, former member of the Krisis Group, and author of the newly-translate book THE SELF-DEVOURING SOCIETY: CAPITALISM, NARCISSISM, AND SELF-DESTRUCTION with Eric-John Russell. The book’s tagline is: “Everyone can feel that the world is getting angrier. The Self-Devouring Society provides an original and rigorous explanation of why.”Buy the book from Common Notions: https://www.commonnotions.org/the-self-devouring-societyMore work by Anselm at Brooklyn Rail and LibcomPreorder Cured Quail Vol 3Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSong - Courtney Love - Miss Narcissist
3/27/2024 • 54 minutes, 7 seconds
Party Girls Zine Club #1 - Inhabit
For the first ever edition of Party Girls Zine Club, Sam and Jamie discuss Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy, a 2018 broadside (or little orange book, if you will) from Inhabit, which is not a mere media project, but "a collectively and anonymously written strategy emerging from a network of autonomous projects across North America." What do we make of Inhabit's steps to revolution? Why present speculative fiction in a programmatic context? What does this work of ultra-left thought get right, and where does it fall short? How many times have YOU gone to the antifa super-soldier gym this week?Read along: Inhabit.globalSign up as a supporter at Patreon.com/partygirls to receive a shout out on the pod!
3/22/2024 • 1 hour, 36 minutes, 46 seconds
E242 - Escaping the Hamster Wheel w/ Ignacio Choi
IfNotNow activist Ignacio Choi chats about the Pro-Palestine movement, which has, like Finkelstein and Rabbani, won the debate within the framework of international law and human rights. But how far does that get us, and where else could the movement go?In the bonus we talk about Israel's leftwing defenders in Germany and the US. For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifadaIf you're a in NYC, join us Saturday March 23 at 5pm at Woodbine for a meeting of the Independent Workers ClubSong: Taqbir - Aisha Qandisha
3/20/2024 • 54 minutes, 57 seconds
Diving Into the Wreckage: Nationalism, Liberalism and the State 4 w/ C Derick Varn
Sean and Varn return with part four of their series on nationalism and the nation state. This episode is about the vexing questions of class and nation that arose in the 20th century and are unresolved today. Why did both the reformist and revolutionary wings of the classical workers movement turn towards state developmentalism? How did really existing class develop to conflict with Marxist theories of working class emancipation? What mistakes from past movements are we still making today whether we know it or not? How did the millennial left really die and how might we move past it?This is part one of an extended, three-hour discussion. To access the full episode, become a patron of the Antifada at www.patreon.com/theantifada. To see the video of this discussion and get a whole lot more incisive commentary sign up for www.patreon.com/varnvlogEpisode on Henryk Grossman with Ted Reese: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67780560Endnotes - A History of Separation: https://libcom.org/article/history-separation-endnotes-4
3/13/2024 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 23 seconds
E241 - March Sadness
NEWS EP! We discuss Aaron Bushnell, voting uncomitted and hopelessness, UAW and Starbucks union victories, the MTA wildcat strike and working-class demands for safety. For the full discussion become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifadaSign up or upgrade your membership at the discounted $10/month annual membership and DM your mailing address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions by Andy and many past and future friends of the show!Aaron Bushnell / Gaza:-Crimethinc statement https://crimethinc.com/2024/02/26/this-is-what-our-ruling-class-has-decided-will-be-normal-on-aaron-bushnells-action-in-solidarity-with-gazahttps://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/burnt-offerings/?affid=x Veterans burning uniforms https://uk.news.yahoo.com/veterans-burn-uniforms-vigil-us-123204314.htmlUAW / Starbucks:-https://www.wbrc.com/2024/02/28/uaw-majority-workers-mercedes-plant-vance-signal-they-want-join-auto-workers-union/-https://prospect.org/labor/2024-02-26-auto-workers-go-all-in/-https://fordauthority.com/2024/02/uaw-announces-project-to-support-mexican-autoworkers/ -https://jacobin.com/2024/02/starbucks-workers-united-master-contract-bargainingMTA strike: https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/02/29/conductor-slash-delays-work-stoppage/Song: Crazy Spirit - Train
3/4/2024 • 56 minutes, 48 seconds
Ep 240: Our Social Hell w/ William Clare Roberts
Sean is joined by political theorist William Roberts to discuss his excellent 2017 book, Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital which excavates not just Marx's use of the structure of Dante's Inferno but the radical political theory that undergirds it. What is the relationship between the analysis in Capital and the debates within the workers movement of the time typified by the likes of Proudhon, Saint-Simon and Owens? What is the place of radical republicanism in Marx's theory? How has this tradition in the workers movement been buried by history and what might we do with it today?For the full discussion become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifadaSign up or upgrade your membership at the discounted $10/month annual membership and DM your mailing address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions by Andy and many past and future friends of the show!Son: Iggy and the Stooges - Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
2/28/2024 • 49 minutes, 52 seconds
E239 - Prisoner With the Antifa Face Tattoo w/ Eric King
An interview with Eric King, who was recently released after being incarcerated since 2014, five of those in segregation. He was charged with using an incendiary device to commit arson after throwing a molotov cocktail at an empty Federal Building in Kansas City, Missouri during the uprising in Ferguson. Today he is out on probation and talking with us about his history with the anarchist movement, his time inside and release, and how and why to support prisonersTo support the show, sign up on patreon!If you sign up at the at the discounted $10/month annual membership and DM your address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions by Andy and many past and future friends of the show!Eric King's co-authored book about life in prison: http://rattlingthecages.comEric's new gig: bread and roses legalAnarchist Black Cross FederationEric's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/supportericking/Prisoner support calendar: https://www.certaindays.org/https://www.gofundme.com/f/release-funds-for-political-prisoner-eric-kinghttps://theintercept.com/2021/05/28/bop-prison-white-supremacist-anti-fascist/Song: Motorohead - Stay out of Jail
2/21/2024 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 20 seconds
E238 - The Renegade Century w/ Mike Macnair
Sean and Andy are joined by Mike Macnair, member of the Provisional Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain, columnist at Weekly Worker and author of Revolutionary Strategy (2008) and many other works.We discuss the legacy of Marxist political movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, the role of the party, the importance of patience and republicanism to the working class struggle and what might be salvaged from the thought of great historical Marxists including... the renegade Kautsky.This is part I of an extended discussion on theory and history. To hear the paywalled fireworks, become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada Sign up or upgrade your membership at the discounted $10/month annual membership and DM your mailing address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions by Andy and many past and future friends of the show!Song: Whirlwinds of Danger by Monsieur Jack
2/14/2024 • 50 minutes, 7 seconds
E237 - Traitor Joe
NEWS EPISODE! We talk about the crisis of liberalism in the US and worldwide through the context of the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the formation of BRICs as a challenge to US-based global order, the economic spiral of Germany and China, class war at the border, and betrayal of every millennial's favorite grocery store. For the full episode, sign up on patreon!If you sign up at the at the discounted $10/month annual membership and DM your address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions by Andy and many past and future friends of the show!Show notes: UAW organizing in Alabama, Tennessee: https://alabamareflector.com/2024/02/01/montgomery-hyundai-workers-announce-union-drive-2nd-at-alabama-auto-plant/ https://uaw.org/over-10000-autoworkers-sign-union-cards-across-13-non-union-automakers-in-major-milestone-for-historic-organizing-drive/Trump planning to run as a felon: https://www.axios.com/2024/02/02/trump-conviction-trial-jan-6-courtUS/UK weighing recognition of Palestinian state: https://www.axios.com/2024/01/31/palestine-statehood-biden-israel-gaza-war Dahlia Scheindlin's two-state proposal: https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/dscheindlin/ Mutipolarity update: Russia takes up leadership of BRICs https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/01/china/brics-membership-applications-china-russia-intl-hnk/index.html Chinese defaults: -https://www.axios.com/2024/02/03/chart-evergrande-towers-over-list-of-global-bankruptcies -https://www.ft.com/content/88c027d2-bda6-4e52-97f3-127197aef1bd Germany was worst-performing major economy last year: https://www.ft.com/content/792a1a09-701c-4c9d-aa77-0d9575d5bda9 Song: Taylor Swift - Lavender Haze (80's Version Synthwave REMIX)
2/5/2024 • 49 minutes, 53 seconds
Diving Into the Wreckage: Nationalism, Liberation and the State Part 3 (Bourg Internationalism)
Sean and Varn return with part three of their series on nationalism and the nation state. This episode is about the only really existing internationalism left: the capitalist infrastructure of globalization. Special emphasis is made of the history of state formation in the Middle East as it pertains to the current conflict. In the second half, the discussion turns to the rise and decay of what is called the "Rules Based International Order". For access to this and all of our years of bonus content become a supporter of the podcast at www.patreon.com/theantifadaSong: Gary Numan - This Wreckage
1/31/2024 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 36 seconds
Reading Settlers 8 - This is the end, my Settler friend
Sean and Andy finish reading Settlers, Chapters 13 and 14For the full episode, support us on patreon: http://patreon.com/TheAntifada+ Sign up or upgrade your membership at the discounted $10/month annual membership and DM your mailing address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions by Andy and many past and future friends of the show!BLA's Message to the Black Movement: https://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/messageblackmovement.pdfClips from Finally Got the News:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5jMrfoH6qU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq_AS70pgq4Subscribe free to us on Twitch: Http://twitch.tv/theantifadaSong: MC5 - Motor City is Burning
1/26/2024 • 6 minutes, 58 seconds
ARMED LOVE 9 - Be Gay, Do Crime w/ Lola Mieseroff
Ex-Militant of the Homosexual Front of Revolutionary Action (FHAR) Lola Mieseroff is our guest on this installment of the Antifada sideproject on the revolutionary culture of the sixties. We talk about growing up in gay South France in the sixties, her experience in May '68 and after, the resonance of Stonewall, what it meant to be a pro-situ and her run-in, with Debord, the revolutionary politics of homosexuality and queerness, her relationship with Guy Hocquenhghem and the rest of the revolutionary left, and her perspectives on the queer revolutionary movements today, right-wing reaction, the potential of revolution in these bleak times, and the phrase "Be Gay, Do Crime"For all back episodes of ARMED LOVE check our Collections Page and support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifadaBuy FAG HAG from PM Press: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1501Your Place or Mine? A 21st Century Essay on (Same) Sex by Gilles Dauvé: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1270Baedan Journal: https://baedan.noblogs.org/The Screwball Asses by Guy Hocquenghem: https://selforganizedseminar.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/hocqueghem_screwball_asses.pdf Lola's first book, Voyage en outre Gauche: https://books.google.com/books/about/Voyage_en_outre_gauche.html?id=xRRSDwAAQBAJSong: Chant du FHAR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BGHWw6wsmc
1/24/2024 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 6 seconds
E236 (Part 2): Communist Santa's Kink Armory w/ Phil Neel, Nick Chavez (PREVIEW)
In part two of our discussion on the essay Forest and Factory, we foray into fourierism and the whimsical world of life under global communism. Topics include: the mushroom mafia, nomadic pleasure duels, gender orgies, capitalist fantasy camp, and communist santa!For the full episode, sign up on patreon!If you sign up at the at the discounted $10/month annual membership and DM your address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions by Andy and many past and future friends of the show!
1/19/2024 • 8 minutes, 28 seconds
E236 - Forest and Factory w/ Phil Neel, Nick Chavez (Part 1)
What will production, consumption, supply chains, and climate policy on a global scale look like under communism? Phil Neel and Nick Chavez has published a compelling vision of the future in their Endnotes essay Forest and FactoryAlso check out Nick Chavez's piece Technical Expertise and Communist Production in Brooklyn RailFor part 2 of the episode, sign up on patreon!If you sign up at the at the discounted $10/month annual membership and DM your address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions by Andy and many past and future friends of the show!Song: The Cure - A Forest (Tree Remix)
1/17/2024 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 25 seconds
E235 - DEI or DIE
News episode! We start 2024 by talking about Houthis and global shipping, the Uniparty, the Harvard presidency, and the backlash against Pro-Palestinian protesters as part of the broader backlash against progressive liberalism.*NEW YEARS PROMOTION!* Sign up or upgrade your membership at the discounted $10/month annual membership and DM your address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions by Andy and many past and future friends of the show!Or sign up at any level at http://patreon.com/theantifadaNotes: Crisis on the seas: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/business/red-sea-shipping-houthi.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShareE. Minassian on Gaza: https://brooklynrail.org/2023/12/field-notes/Gaza-An-Extreme-Militarization-of-the-Class-WarGlobal reordering on formerly tense borders: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/business/china-russia-trade.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShareSong: Hounds of Hate - Wages of Sin
1/8/2024 • 55 minutes, 13 seconds
Boundless and Bottomless: Dugin's 4th Political Theory Part 1 w/ Varn and Jason EXTENDED PREVIEW
A sneak peak at this new VarnVlog series featuring guest spots from Sean KB and Jason from great post-Trot podcast The Regrettable Century. We read Alexander Dugin's most famous work, 'The Fourth Political Theory' to understand why all sorts of people, from the right to the left, are looking to this eclectic, irrationalist Russian post-fascist to understand this particular moment in world history.For the full episode and much more bonus content, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifadaThis is actually the second episode, with the introductory program with Jason appearing on the VarnVlog YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGVSZcFZHlQ
1/3/2024 • 58 minutes, 24 seconds
E234 - Vincent and the Vortex w/ Vincent Bevins
Vincent Bevins chats about lessons of the uprisings of 2010s, as outlined in his book If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing RevolutionFor the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSong: Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn
12/27/2023 • 58 minutes, 34 seconds
Diving Into the Wreckage: Nationalism, Liberation and the Bourgeois State Part 2 (Lenin)
Sean KB and C Derick Varn return with part two of their series on nationalism and the nation state. In this episode, the discuss various Marxist conceptions of the state including Otto Bauer, Rosa Luxembourg but especially Vladimir Lenin. What is the relationship between people and nation? Class and nation? And what is to be done?This is an extended preview. For access to the entire two-hour audio episode become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifadaOr to view the video recording subscribe also to www.patreon.com/varnvlog
12/22/2023 • 53 minutes, 28 seconds
&&& w/ De-McKinseyfication w/ Garrison Lovely
Anders & Andy interview the unmasked McKinsey whistleblower and journalist Garrison Lovely about consulting with Rikers and ICE. Other topics include bread fixing, opiates, McKinsey 4chan, and Mayor Pete. In the second Garrison takes our answers on being a leftist Effective Altruist.For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaGarrison's podcast: https://mostinterestingpeople.podbean.comOriginal whisteblower article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/02/mckinsey-company-capitals-willing-executionersRecent Nation article: ww.thenation.com/article/society/mckinsey-whistleblower-confessions/Jacobin interview: https://jacobin.com/2023/10/mckinsey-garrison-lovely-whistleblower-consulting-firmsSong: They Might Be Giants - Ampersand
12/18/2023 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 24 seconds
Ep 233: Post-Soviet Space w/ Volodymyr Ishchenko
Sean and Andy are joined by Volodymyr Ishchenko, Ukrainian Marxist and sociologist, to discuss his upcoming collection of essays "Toward the Abyss" from Verso Books. (You can and should preorder here.)How does a 'civilizational' or 'cultural' or 'decolonial' understanding of the Russia-Ukraine conflict obscure the underlying class conflict at its heart? What is the political economy of 'corruption' and anti-corruption? How has the delegitimization of the post-Soviet political capitalist ruling class led to stagnation and civil war? Why have their been a series of Occupys, EuroMaidans and Arab Springs that seem to change nothing?This is part one of an extended discussion. In the bonus we pose the question, "What does the left look like in Ukraine at the moment and how can internationalists help build a working class movement adequate to social revolution in a global capitalist social order in steep decline?" For access to this content and much more, become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifadaArticles:https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii138/articles/volodymyr-ishchenko-ukrainian-voiceshttps://jacobin.com/2022/10/russia-ukraine-war-explanation-class-conflictSong: RotFront - Sovietoblaster
12/13/2023 • 50 minutes, 53 seconds
Ep 232: Cryin' Like Lion in Zion w/ Jason Myles
Andy and Sean are joined by returning champion Jason Myles of This is Revolution podcast and industrial metal maniacs Bitter Lake to discuss his recent Damage Magazine article about Ibram X Kendi and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion grift. How has identity politics been used to subsume class politics? What's left of a socialist left after the failure of Sandersism? Without the crutch of a social democracy more impossible by the day what might we build?We also discuss the war on Gaza and why sometimes you have to walk off tour or storm out of a show when things get too woke. (details within)Song: Special Interest - LA Blues
12/6/2023 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 54 seconds
Reading Settlers 7 - McCarthy Did Nothing Wrong
We read chapters X and XI of Settlers about the decline of the CPUSA and postwar settlers parasitism on a global scale.For the full episode, support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifadaAnd find previous chapters of Reading Settlers on our Reading Settlers Collections page: https://www.patreon.com/collection/241791?view=expandedRead Along:https://readsettlers.org/ch10.htmlhttps://readsettlers.org/ch11.htmlInfo about Yokinen Trial./ White Chauvinism purges:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokinen_Show_Trialhttps://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/jacobs-oc/app-a.htmSong: UAW choir sings La Borinquena - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu5cL0-_VQk
12/1/2023 • 7 minutes, 24 seconds
Ep 231 - Demagogics is Destiny
For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaNEWS EP: Musk's trip Israel and the elections of Milei, Wildes, and the Dublin riots. Israeli labor shortage. How worried we should be about Trump's Plan 2025? Why Bidenist social-democracy won't help. Civil Socety vs. Social Humanity. PSL and block the boat criticism. The rise of AMLOnomics and Avocado wars in MexicoLabor shortage in Israel: https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/26/middleeast/israel-farms-foreign-workers-crisis-intl-cmd/index.html The city where Mexico’s nearshoring hype is becoming reality https://on.ft.com/3RiM0T5Trump's plan to drain the swamp: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/opinion/trump-deep-state-schedule-f.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShareTheses on Feuerbach: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htmCriticism of Tacoma ship blockade: https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/the-boat-that-wasnt-blocked/Song: Gary Numan - OH! 2025
11/29/2023 • 59 minutes, 37 seconds
Talkin' 'tina 8: Milei Massacre
We visit Argentina, where the extremely online anarcho-capitalist Bolsonarista and MAGA Chud Javier Milei has just been elected their new president. Will it be a return to the Anti-communist dictatorship of the 70s and 80s, the neoliberal dollarization era of the 90s, or will it turn Argentina into one big AnarchApulco?To find out, Andy interviews members of ananarchist-communist collective based in the Biblioteca y Archivo Alberto Ghiraldo from Rosario, Argentina. Recently they put out a new text on the Milei phenomenon called Contra el liberalismo y sus falsos criticos, or Against Liberalism and its False Critics.They are also involved with the journal Cuadernos de Negacion, and the newsletter La Oveja Negra.Talkin’ Tina! is the Antifada side project about the politics of America Latina! See all our back episodes here and subscribe to our patreon to support the show!Other texts mentioned:Wenüy. For the rebellious memory of Santiago MaldonadoLead and smoke. The business of Capital: https://lazoediciones.blogspot.com/2022/12/la-oveja-negra-plomo-y-humo-el-negocio.htmlOveja Negra no. 89, from September 2023Interview extracts from Bloombeg and Daily CallerSong: Guerra a la Burguesia, Tango Anarquista de 1901
11/22/2023 • 29 minutes, 43 seconds
Ep 230 - Block the Beast w/ Jamie Peck
Shadowy Antifa spokesperson and podcaster Jamie Peck returns to tell us about the Block Cop City action this week in Atlanta, and what comes next for the movement against Cop Cities in Atlanta and everywhere.Support the show by becoming a patron at http://patreon.com/theantifadaCoverage on Block Cop City: Natasha Lennard: https://theintercept.com/2023/11/15/cop-city-protest-police-atlanta-tear-gas/?NDN Collective: https://twitter.com/ndncollectiveJoin a weelaunee defense society: https://www.stopcopcitysolidarity.org/wdsSupport Stop Cop City political prisoners: https://www.stopcopcitysolidarity.org/free-the-weelaunee-political-prisonersWrite Victor Puertas: https://itsgoingdown.org/a-note-from-victor-on-indigenous-peoples-day/Biden's call on Cop City with Andrew Dickens: https://twitter.com/hannahcrileyy/status/1709363361618514368NYC's Cop City: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/17/nyregion/950-million-police-academy-simulates-the-mean-streets.htmlTurn-in day horrors: https://twitter.com/hannahcrileyy/status/1721521127044915527 https://twitter.com/juliaxdupuis/status/1721510393091133591Jamie's review of George Floyd Uprising book: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thinking-was-for-later-movement-was-for-now-on-the-vortex-groups-george-floyd-uprising/Everybody Loves Communism: https://www.patreon.com/everybodylovescommunismWoke Mob: https://www.youtube.com/@TheWokeMobSong: Bloc Party - Helicopter
11/16/2023 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 40 seconds
There Is No God But God: five people ambush a stage armed with words at once holding the crowd hostage.
This is audio of CRUSH reading series no.37, Benefit for Palestine featuring Kamelya Youssef, Jenna Hamed, Tenaya Nasser, Tilghman Goldsborough, and Aristilde Kirby, with musical accompaniment by Paco Cathcart.Recorded at Woodbine Nov 3, 2023.The reading was a benefit for Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA). Donate here- https://secure.everyaction.com/3aJf-w9toEewrIbfQf-XtA2See a short clip of the performance here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CzUJSiOuNtd/CRUSH reading series is curated by Suzanne GoldenbergA zine accompanying the performance: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z2Qk716YmqbEMiamBDRKhhKJ6tR2MK9z/view
11/10/2023 • 44 minutes, 53 seconds
Diving Into the Wreckage - Nationalism, Liberation and the Bourgeois State (Part 1)
The arcane numbering system is gone, but Sean and Varn have (surprise!) a new miniseries. Inspired by current events - such as the Russo-Ukrainian War, Israel's ongoing atrocities in Gaza, and the turn towards post-neoliberal economic nationalism - we're going to explore all manner of Marxist and non-Marxist theories on the nation state to help get our heads around the current mess the world is in and hopefully chart a pathway out.How did the nation-state rise in the early modern world? what role has nationalism played in capitalist development? What are the historical legacies of Lenin and Stalin's nationalities policies? Rhetoric aside, what is the relationship (if any) between national liberation movements and the communist project?This is an extended preview. For access to the entire episode, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada. To see the video recording of this episode and get all of C. Derick Varn's amazing content, subscribe at www.patreon.com/varnvlogFor this first episode we mention various theorists - Harun Yilnaz, Ze'ev Sternhell, Benedict Anderson, Benjamin Studebaker, Eric Hobsbawm - and also look at this essay: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/3587.html
11/8/2023 • 57 minutes, 43 seconds
Reading Settlers 6 - KKKillers of the Settler Moon
For the full episode support us on patreon at http://patreon.com/theantifadaJ. Sakai's Settlers Chapter 9 - Neocolonial Pacification in the US discusses how the Settler Nation integrated Native American and Black leaders into its ranks. Topics include: Native American self-governance, the rise of Marcus Garvey's UNIA, international solidarity with Ethiopia after Italy's 1935 invasion, the STFU (Southern Tenant Farmers Union), A. Phillip Randolph, the March on Washington, Black Power, and Settlers-pilled Scorsese. For the full episode support us on patreon at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSettlers Ch. 9: https://readsettlers.org/ch9.htmlPaul Prescod on A. Phillip Randolph: https://jacobin.com/2020/05/a-philip-randolph-socialist-civil-rights-march-bscpMarcus Garvey and Ethiopia: https://republic.com.ng/august-september-2023/marcus-garvey-ethiopia-and-the-oau/Song: Hepcat - Marcus Garvey
11/6/2023 • 48 minutes, 33 seconds
Ep 229 - The Gang Goes Intifada
Andy and Sean discuss the invasion in Gaza, Israel's move towards ethnic cleansing, the history of proletarian resistance in Palestine, and theorize class conflict between the Israeli and Palestinian national projects and its working classes. We also talk about what all this means for those communists in the US removed from the conflict. Some of our reading for the episode:https://decompositions.noblogs.org/files/2023/10/Explosion- Point.pdf https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2023/10/18/israel-the-shattering-of-a-dream/https://brooklynrail.org/2015/03/field-notes/negation-of-the-diasporahttps://libcom.org/article/worldwide-intifada-1https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/tamara/Shir Hever’s Political Economy of Israel’s OccupationAzzam Tamimi's Hamas: A History from Within Song: Hawkwind - Who's Gonna Win the War?
11/1/2023 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 35 seconds
Ep 228 - Anti-Anti-Engelsism w/ Daniel Tutt
Sean is joined by @DaneilTutt, host of the @torsion_groups and @emancipations_ podcast, to talk about the life of Friedrich Engels through the Tristam Hunt's 2009 biography Marx's General.Is there truth to the argument, developed in the 1920s, that Engels was responsible for a serious distortion of Marx's theory? What do we make of his 'double life' as both a carousing bourgeois and a disciplined revolutionary? How did the political views of Marx and Engels change over he course of the 19th century? What was The Dialectics of Nature and how has so-called 'dialectical materialism' helped to dogmatize scientific socialism? And what remains of Engels' thought and practice today?Join us for a fun and informative episode on one of the revolutionary greats. For the full discussion, and tons more bonus content, become a patron at patreon.com/theantifadaSong: Dispatch - The General
10/25/2023 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 58 seconds
ARMED LOVE 8 - The subversive 70s w/ Michael Hardt
Recording of a discussion last Saturday with Michael Hardt at Woodbine for a discussion of his new book The Subversive Seventies and our contemporary autonomist experiments in Queens, Atlanta, and elsewhere.Michael Hardt is a philosopher and political theorist whose work focuses on autonomist social movements since the 1960s. In his books co-authored with Antonio Negri - Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth - Hardt theorized the changes in capitalism and struggle taking place at the turn of the 21st century. The frameworks Hardt and Negri developed together were among the most popular and influential political theories influencing the activism of the last 25 years, helping define the movement contexts that birthed spaces like Woodbine. In his new book, The Subversive Seventies, Hardt focuses on dozens of movement predecessors, including Black autoworkers and militants in the US, intersectional radical feminists, gay liberation revolutionaries, the Italian autonomists, and antinuclear activists. While the radicalism of the 70s is often understood as responding to the defeat of the spirit of '68, Hardt argues that these movements, by pursuing their own agendas without claiming supremacy over other struggles, developed a model of contemporary intersectionality that solidified as an antithetical pole to neoliberal globalization. For the rest of our series about the revolutionary cultures of the 60s and 70s check out our Armed Love collection page: https://www.patreon.com/collection/87680 Song: Alfredo Bandelli - Mort Allende
10/18/2023 • 1 hour, 41 minutes, 59 seconds
Reading Settlers 5 - CIO, New Deal, and WWII
We continue reading J. Sakai's Settlers - The Myth of the White Proletariat, chapters 7 and 8. We begin the episode with a discussion of the war in Israel and Palestine with Sakai's national-liberation framework in mind.For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifadaLeftcom statements mentioned: https://en.internationalism.org/content/17406/neither-israel-nor-palestine-workers-have-no-fatherland http://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-10-11/the-latest-butchery-in-the-middle-east-is-part-of-the-march-to-generalised-warRead along: https://readsettlers.org/ch7.html https://readsettlers.org/ch8.htmlTampa Red - New Deal Blues
10/16/2023 • 30 minutes, 51 seconds
Ep 227 - Never Go Full Stancil w/ Jamie Merchant
With neo-Keynesian hacks like Will Stancil crowing about the alleged successes of Bidenomics, it seemed fitting to bring on Jamie Merchant, author of many incisive articles in Paul Mattick's Field Notes section of the Brooklyn Rail and elsewhere to discuss capital, finance and permanent crisis. Topics include the enduring legacy of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, the limits of 'financialization' discourse, the politics of crisis theory, the limits of industrial policy, the Brenner-Riley debate, anti-anti-globalization, so-called Political Capitalism and more.In the bonus section we discuss the outlines of what a determinate negation of globalization might look like and how to turn global production into international proletarian power. Lastly, Sean, Andy and Jamie take a first pass at an internationalist perspective on fast-moving events in Palestine and what the outcome of resistance might be for the people of Gaza, the West Bank and the broader Middle East.To access the full episode and a ton more bonus content, become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifadaArticles by Jamie Merchant:https://brooklynrail.org/2022/03/field-notes/Endgame-Finance-and-the-Close-of-the-Market-Systemhttps://brooklynrail.org/2018/02/field-notes/Fantasies-of-Secession-A-Critique-of-Left-Economic-Nationalismhttps://brooklynrail.org/2018/07/field-notes/Dreams-of-National-Capital-Market-Socialism-Past-and-Presenthttps://brooklynrail.org/2023/07/field-notes/The-Economic-Consequences-of-Neo-KeynesianismRiley and Brenner’s 7 Theses on American Politics and further debate:https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii138/articles/dylan-riley-robert-brenner-seven-theses-on-american-politicshttps://jacobin.com/2023/09/robert-brenner-marxist-economics-falling-rate-of-profit-stagnation-overcapacity-industrial-policyhttps://jacobin.com/2023/10/stagnation-productivity-profit-crisis-brenner-debate-1970s-economicsTaylor Swift - End Game
10/11/2023 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 13 seconds
Ep 226 - Critical Support for the WTO
Sean and Andy talk about their moves/life showers, and the next chapter of our lives. We go on to discuss the influx of asylum seekers to NYC, the crisis of the WTO and rules-based international order, and right-wing opposition to a Chinese EV battery plant in Michigan and a munitions plant in East Germany. In the bonus we talk about Trudeau's "Bonzo goes to Bitzburg" moment and if this is historical revisionism or something else. For the full episode and access to the Discord support the show at patreon.com/theantifadaWoodbine Reservoir journal release party: https://www.thetranspecos.com/cal/2023/10/4/woodbine-presents-the-reservoir-communion-issue-no-2-release-partyshow notes:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/magazine/economy-illegal-immigration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleSharehttps://www.reuters.com/business/wto-growing-disregard-trade-rules-shows-world-is-fragmenting-2023-10-02/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/business/gotion-chinese-subsidiary-michigan-protests.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShareDesigned to Kill: https://crimethinc.com/2011/05/22/designed-to-kill-border-policy-and-how-to-change-itUkriaine articles:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/us/politics/putin-ukraine-spy-united-states.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleSharehttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/world/europe/germany-defense-ukraine-war-weapons.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare east germans don’t want arms productionsmyth of the clean SS https://www.politico.eu/article/fight-against-ussr-nazi-waffen-ss-trooper-yaroslav-hunka-world-war-ii-soviet-union-germany/song: Moldy Peaches - NYC's Like a Graveyard
10/4/2023 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 33 seconds
Diving into the Wreckage 9.2: The State of the Left and Strategies of Orientation
Sean and Varn continue the second part of their miniseries on left strategies and orientations. Central to the discussion is the definition and role of what is called 'Rank and File' organizing, something that means many things to many people, but whose bases are often conflated in literature and debate, for example in the DSA. This episode tackles, in turn, the tendencies associated with Joe Burns, Jane MacAlevey, Kim Moody, Marxist-Leninists and syndicalists.Taking a cue from current events, the conversation revolves around the ongoing United Autoworkers strike in the Midwest: what it might mean for the industry, how a victory might galvanize the broader working class, and how a defeat might play out.Become a patron of The Antifada for the extended, two-and-a-half hour audio episode, and/or a patron of VarnVlog to watch the video recording.
9/27/2023 • 58 minutes, 26 seconds
Ep 225 - UAW Strike EMERGENCY POD
UAW Strike updates! We hear Sean's analysis of the struggles of US autoworkers since 2018, various strategies the government has used to intervene, evaluated the takes of Brandon and Drumpf, ponder a Titoist Obama, and discuss the revolutionary position.For the full episode subscribe to the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaIn the fun half we summarize the positions of the Trotsyist SEP and WSWS, a critique from the Bolshevik Tendency, and argue why abolishing the value form would be a more popular demand than electing a socialist politician or taxing the rich. Some of the stuff we read for the episoe:https://labornotes.org/2023/09/no-justice-no-jeeps-scenes-auto-workers-strike https://labornotes.org/2023/09/auto-workers-strike-plants-all-three-big-3https://jacobin.com/2023/09/united-auto-workers-strike-shawn-fain-big-three-automakersAlex press on democracy now: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/15/uaw_strike_big_three_automakershttps://jacobin.com/2023/09/the-uaw-strike-matters-for-the-entire-us-working-classEx wildcat-leader Jim Cramer maulding: https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1702318383642112082Biden audio: https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1702723784506056705Trump audio https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1702733477517357310Hate listen fodder from NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/podcasts/the-daily/ford-general-motors-strike.htmlContradictions at the heart of Bidenomics: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/us/politics/biden-uaw-strike.htmlHamilton Nolan: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/whose-fault-is-it-WSWS https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/15/nvxk-s15.html -Critique of SEP: https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/07/will-lehmans-uaw-presidential-campaign-a-poison-pill/Adam Green and Ben Kweller - Kokomo
9/19/2023 • 55 minutes, 1 second
Live in Brooklyn w/ Minion Death Cult
Audio from our live gig last week in Brooklyn! Find out if this the end of podcasting as we know it.Then we hang with Minion Death Cult a week later to sift through the wreckage of the Well There's Your Problem show in Philly, out trip to Citi Field to woo Mrs. Met, nasty notes to UPS drivers, NY in the post-Bloomberg era, and boys being cats.For full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSongs:Woodie Guthrie - Jarama Big Soda - Swearin'
9/18/2023 • 26 minutes, 7 seconds
Ep 77: People's Republic of Toontown w/ donoteat1
Since we're in Philly this week to perform with Well There's Your Problem, enjoy this classic episode from December 2019 with Roz! Have you ever asked yourself what weird 1980s Hollywood live-action/cartoon crossover films have to say about the infamous General Motors Streetcar Scandal of the mid-20th century? Well do we have a film for you!Sean sits down with fellow socialist railfan Justin Roczniak, AKA donoteat1, to get at the real and sordid history behind Robert Zemekis' 1988 blockbuster Who Framed Roger Rabbit? How the hell was this crazy film made? What does it tell us about the history of public transit in Los Angeles and elsewhere? Why is Elon Musk full of shit? How would rail fit into the Green New Deal and socialism broadly? Most importantly, how did our fans get us to watch hentai?support the show at patreon.com/theantifada
9/13/2023 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 24 seconds
Reading Settlers 4 - The Union Makes Us... Wrong?
In Chapters 5 and 6 of Settlers Sakai talks about the history of populist anti-imperialism, the emergence of the white proletariat (we do exist!), and explains how the IWW was a vehicle of white supremacy.For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadareadsettlers.org/ch5.htmlhttps://readsettlers.org/ch6.htmlhttps://libcom.org/article/100-years-ago-philadelphia-dockers-strike-and-local-8-iww-mouvement-communiste-andSong: Pete Seeger - Casey JonesOh, and DONT FORGET TO SEE US THIS WEDNESDAY in Philly! Sept 12 w/WTYP at FRANKLIN BALLROOM https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problem
9/11/2023 • 41 minutes, 49 seconds
Diving into the Wreckage 9.1: Where is the left now? w/ C. Derick Varn
Brand new Diving into the Wreckage mini-series scrapping at the wreckage that is the US Left, tracing the trajectory of socialist politics since the 1970s, and looking for ways out of the mess we're in.Within, Varn presents on the recent history of the Democratic Socialists of America, their precipitous rise and slow decline in membership since 2020. How does this bode for the future of the millennial left? As it turns out, there are reasons to be cautiously optimistic!For access to the full episode become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifadaTICKETS AVAILABLE NOW FOR 9/10 in NYC and 9/12 in PHILLY shows WITH MINION DEATH CULT, POD DAMN AMERICA, and WELL THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM (philly only)!!!!BROOKLYN! Sept 10 at LITTLEFIELD: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-tickets-691958234707Philly! Sept 12 w/WTYP at FRANKLIN BALLROOM https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problemAnd yes... the SICK POSTER IS ON SALE!!! https://www.grimgrimgrim.com/products/well-there-s-your-problem-minion-death-cult-the-antifada-gig-poster
9/6/2023 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 56 seconds
Ep 224: The Short 21st Century w/ Brandon Jourdan
Global Uprisings documentarian and TheRealNews contributor Brandon Jourdan chats about his recent experiences in the pension strikes in France, comparisons to the June Uprising following the murder of Nahel, Belgian Balkanization, the anarchist origins of Twitter, and if the End Notes Decades is ending, or just getting started baby!>>>for the full episode subscribe at patreon.com/theantifada<<<-Anarcho origins of twitter: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3485447.3512282 -The “End Notes” Decade: https://thedigradio.com/podcast/conjuncture-w-akbar-winant-riofrancos/Crimethinc essay on 2023 French uprisings: https://crimethinc.com/2023/08/09/learning-from-the-flames-reflections-on-the-june-2023-revolt-in-francefor reference, an average French view on labor and race: https://libcom.org/article/classsegmentationracialization-notes-theorie-communistein response to French Indigenous Party: https://indigenes-republique.fr/why-do-we-need-an-indigenous-party-in-france/TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW FOR 9/10 in NYC and 9/12 in PHILLY shows WITH MINION DEATH CULT, POD DAMN AMERICA, and WELL THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM (philly only)!!!!BROOKLYN! Sept 10 at LITTLEFIELD: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-tickets-691958234707Philly! Sept 12 w/WTYP at FRANKLIN BALLROOM https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problemsong: Stromae - Batard
8/30/2023 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 35 seconds
Reading Settlers 3: Settler Trade Unionism and Anti-Imperialism
full episode at http://patreon.com/theantifadahttps://readsettlers.org/ch4.htmlTICKETS AVAILABLE NOW FOR 9/10 in NYC and 9/12 in PHILLY shows WITH MINION DEATH CULT, POD DAMN AMERICA, and WELL THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM (philly only)!!!!BROOKLYN! Sept 10 at LITTLEFIELD: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-tickets-691958234707Philly! Sept 12 w/WTYP at FRANKLIN BALLROOM https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problemsong: Lupe Fiasco - El Mural, Jr.
8/25/2023 • 26 minutes, 25 seconds
ARMED LOVE 7 - Mohawk Warrior Society w/ Philippe Blouin, Matt Peterson, Malek Rasamny
Welcome to the seventh episode of Armed Loved, the Antifada sideproject about the revolutionary countercultures of the 60s and.. Let’s just say early 70s to make it easier on me. Today we’re talking about the subject of the new book from PM Press: The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and SurvivalPromo film Spaces of Exception: https://www.e-flux.com/film/421474/spaces-of-exception/Mohawk Mothers vs. McGill and MKULTRA: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mohawk-mothers-mcgill-reach-deal-to-search-for-graves-at-site-of-former-hospital-1.6365698Songs:Water Song by the Akwesasne Women Singers Robbie Robertson - Words of Fire, Deeds of Blood
8/23/2023 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 55 seconds
Diving into the Wreckage 7.3: Beginnings of a Positive Orientation
Sean and Varn are back to get to the basics and discuss first principles for communist organizing, What organizational form is adequate to working class power in the present moment? On what basis might class autonomy politics and at the point of production be achieved? How do we relate to our past: our successes and many failures?For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSHOW DETAILS with MINION DEATH CULT, POD DAMN AMERICA, and WELL THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM (philly only)!!!!NYC Sept 10: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-tickets-691958234707Philly SEPT 12: w/WTYP https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problem
8/16/2023 • 57 minutes, 1 second
BONUS: Real Inusurrecto-Banana Hours
We weigh in on the Banana Discourse by reading a vulgar insurrectionary journal from 2009: Politics Is Not a BananaFull episode at http://patreon.com/TheAntifadaRead along: https://azinelibrary.org/approved/politics-not-banana-what-are-you-doing-after-orgy-or-insurrection-or-whatever-1.pdf
8/11/2023 • 9 minutes, 6 seconds
Ep 223 - Calm Before the Solar Storm
We take listener Questions! covering a range of topics including the climate apocalypse and hopes for a better world, if we should take over the internet or destroy it, visions for postwar Ukraine, conspiracy theories turning reactionary, squatting and being aging punx, Bidenomics and much more!For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifadaShow notes:RIP Mario Tronti: https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/mario-tronti-i-am-defeated/?fbclid=IwAR0TeJLflUGKjO8tN_CLlE9DvPZb5qq0sppNliaml9Lgmdk1Yh9wQ8nEwnY https://libcom.org/article/strategy-refusal-mario-New York Year Zero: https://gittlitz.substack.com/p/nyyz NYT: on conspiracy theories: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/conspiracy-theory-qanon.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShareThe ‘monumental consequences’ of Ukraine joining the EU https://on.ft.com/44Xvr3dDog Breath: https://dogbreathnyc.bandcamp.com/album/dog-breathIggy Pop '77:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZth4CNaEBASong: Blackhole Sun by Soundgarden
8/9/2023 • 53 minutes, 32 seconds
Reading Settlers part 2: Bakkkon's Rebellion
This week on This Amerikkkan Life: Chapters 2-3, Bacon's Rebellion, why slaves sided with the British in the US Revolution, the true reason some founding fathers and Northern states were against slavery, why the Confederate class analysis was right (from the Settler perspective), and why Sakai spells Amerika and Afrika with a KThe full episode is on Patreon.com/TheAntifadaChapter 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/reading-settlers-86265803In two weeks: Chapter 4 and 5
8/4/2023 • 12 minutes, 13 seconds
Ep 222 - Teamster Runoff w/ Alexander Edward
Minion Death Cult cohost and union militant Alexander Edward delivers the news on the tentative agreement between UPS and the Teamsters... and why he's voting NO.Shook ex-Spart Jim Cramer:For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifadahttps://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1684234856556003328MDC on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_TnITSxjaAWorld Socialist Website article against the agreement: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/27/upsc-j27.htmlMore on the 2018 agreement: https://nwlaborpress.org/2018/10/ups/Union buster found: https://twitter.com/JosBrock/status/1684242017641979904Song: Allan Sherman - Beautiful Teamsters
7/31/2023 • 57 minutes, 33 seconds
Ep 221: Mugged by reality w/ The Marxist Unity Group
Sean is joined by Aliyah and Isaac from the Democratic Socialists of America caucus the Marxist Unity Group to talk about their political line and practice:What is the historical relationship between Marxism, the workers movement and small-r republicanism? Why has Karl Kautsy become anathema on the far-left and is it time to bring this famous 'renegade' back? Who is Mike McNair of the Communist Party of Great Britain and what is his influence? How is it possible to uphold the revolutionary republican tradition of the United States as a socialist virtue when the US has become what it has become? And why, contra-Browderism, must the constitution be destroyed for freedom to ring?Song: Descendents - Coffee Mug
7/26/2023 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 10 seconds
Reading Settlers: Part 1
First episode of Andy and Sean reading the classic and mysterious reinterpretation of American history and class structure: J. Sakai's Settlers! For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaWe read the intro and Chapter 1 about the settling of the Amerika pre-1776 Read along! Next reading Chapters 2 and 3.. maybe in two weeks. We also discuss this interview: https://kersplebedeb.com/posts/raceburn/
7/24/2023 • 19 minutes, 33 seconds
Ep 220 - Gramsci Sleaze w/ Mike Crumps, Matthew Donovan
Mike Crumplar and Matthew Donovan chat with us about the contested political terrain of a certain downtown Manhattan Square through a 2014 Graeber vs Thiel debate and Gramsci's conception of organic intellectuals.For part 2 of the episode subscribe on our patreon at patreon.com/theantifadaReading: https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htmhttps://www.marxists.org/history/erol/periodicals/theoretical-review/1982301.htmSong: Gunship - Hegemon
7/20/2023 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 35 seconds
Ep 219.1 - Millennials are Killing the Millennial Left w/ Chris Cutrone
Playtpus co-founder Chris Cutrone chats with us about his new book The Death of the Millennial Left. We chat about the socialist implications of the American Revolution, the irresistible conservative trajectory of suburban millennials, and the left's trouble conception of freedom.Check out Part 2 of the Episode on our Patreon!Video about socialism with American characteristics: https://youtu.be/5-kXCBTvxrESong - RHCP - Black Summer
7/12/2023 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 49 seconds
Diving into the Wreckage 6.7 - Less Money, More Problems
Marxism vs. MMT!For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaFollow Varn on Youtube and support his Patreon !
7/5/2023 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 1 second
Everyone must get Postone w/ QAnon Anonymous
Sean went on the QAnon Anonymous podcast to Postone-pill their listeners on the critique of structural antisemitism.For the full episode sign up to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/theantifadaAnd support QAA on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/qanonanonymousRead Postone: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/moishe-postone-anti-semitism-and-national-socialism
6/30/2023 • 8 minutes, 51 seconds
Ep 218 - Trash Future Islands w/ Mattie Lubchansky
Cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky chats with us about their new graphic novel Boy's Weekend, a not-too-distant lathe of heaven about the present and future horrors facing queer people and everyone else.In the full episode we talk about Jesusism, sports riots of the Byzantine empire, and "Yolk Hussy"?? Subscribe on Patreon to hear it!Support Mattie on their Patreon! and subscribe to their newsletter! Song: Future Islands - Old Friend
6/28/2023 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 17 seconds
Ep 217 - Imagine a Burgerville w/ Luis Brennan and Amelia Cates
We're joined by Portland, Oregon organizers to talk about the revolutionary politics there over the last 25 years and related writings by Don Hamerquist of the Sojourner Truth Organization and Three Way Fight. Among other things we cover the IWW-initiated Burgerville Union, the battle of Longview, Occupy, massive black blocs following the 2020 George Floyd Uprising, state repression, and the mysterious George Sakai.Hear the full episode by supporting the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaMeet Luis and Amelia TODAY (6/21/23) at Word is Change bookstore for a discussion on the book with John Garvey and Mike Morgan from Hard Crackers MagazineBurgerville stuff: https://labornotes.org/blogs/2023/01/viewpoint-burgerville-workers-lessons-independent-unionshttps://bvwu.iww.org/https://nwlaborpress.org/Hamerquist stuff: Buy A Brilliant Read Thread: The Revolutionary Writings of Don Hamerquist https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/don-hamerquist http://www.unityandstruggle.org/tag/don-hamerquist/ Song: Coach & Ref - Longview
6/21/2023 • 55 minutes, 34 seconds
Ep 216 - Rotterdam America
A news roundup--we start by talking about Sean's psychedelic encounter with a woke Civil War statue, the recent Supreme Court decisions on the Voting Rights Act and Teamsters, the West Coast port shutdowns and dynamics of portworker labor in the US, and the upcoming UPS strike as a potential opening salvo of the final battle of organized labor. We then discuss the recent trans panic in light of the history of queer liberation, and our cis blindspot on the issue.For the full episode, in which we discuss the legacy of Ted K in US anarchism, and a related analysis of AI, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaWest coast port slowdown links: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/06/05/tmau-j05.htmlhttps://lbbusinessjournal.com/ports/2-container-terminals-at-port-of-long-beach-closed-monday-at-least-1-to-be-closed-tuesday/https://www.axios.com/2023/06/06/whats-behind-work-stoppages-at-west-coast-portshttps://www.supplychainconnect.com/news-trends/article/21267198/west-coast-port-strike-update UPS strike: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/12/business/teamsters-ups-strike-possibility/index.htmlZerzan - Whose Unabomber? https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/john-zerzan-whose-unabomber NYT AI article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/technology/ai-humanity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Song: Marilyn Manson - Astonishing Panorama of End Times
6/14/2023 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 35 seconds
UNLOCKED: Real Lib Dem Hours w/ Trash Future
As we take the week off to celebrate the marriage of Sean and Rax, enjoy this classic bonus from our 2019 trip to the UK to visit the Trash lads and drink many horrible cans of lager and read James Kirkup's dystopian fanfic "How the Lib Dems could seize power."Read along: https://unherd.com/2019/07/how-the-lib-dems-could-seize-power/Listen to all our drunken bonus material and contribute to the KB honeymoon fund: https://www.patreon.com/theantifada
6/7/2023 • 52 minutes, 51 seconds
Diving into the Wreckage 8.1: Shadow of China 2 w/ C. Derick Varn
For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifadaC. Derick Varn is back to discuss Sean's new article on China. What is the political economy of China? Was the 1949 revolution betrayed by capitalist roaders? What were the patterns of development that brought it into the world market? Should China be defended as a socialist project? Is it a model worth emulating? Lastly, does the working class of China, or anywhere for that matter, have a role to play still in history or will the future be market technocracy and slow growth forever?'Sean's substack article (free): https://seankb.substack.com/p/whither-chinaAudio recording of article available for patrons on patreon
5/31/2023 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 52 seconds
Ep 215 - Tool-Organ Time w/ Søren Mau
Communist philosopher Søren Mau chats with us about his new book Mute Compulsion, an introduction to Marx's thought on the nature of economic domination under capitalism.Support us on our Patreon: http://patreon.com/theantifadaWilliam Clare Roberts' review in Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2023/03/mute-compulsion-soren-mau-book-reviewJasper Bernes essay on Revolutionary motives: https://endnotes.org.uk/articles/revolutionary-motives.pdfhhSong: Royksopp - Compulsion
5/24/2023 • 50 minutes, 14 seconds
Ep 214 - 100 Strikes
STRIKE UPDATE! SEIU, WGA, AFL-CIO, PNWSU, MLBPA! Degrowth vs. workers' movement, WGA strike and culture production, the Player's Revolt against the National League, immanent critique of culture war, extinction rebellion as the zombie New Left, and much more!For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaAPOLOGIES for the echoey/murmury audio stuff. I messed up and i won't do it again :(AFL-CIO support Willow Project: -https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/bidens-decision-massive-alaska-oil-project-determine-climate-future-labor-presWGA Updates: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/los-angeles-hospitality-union-backs-writers-strike-1235483737/ https://www.vulture.com/2023/05/wga-2023-writers-strike-news-updates-day-10.htmlAndrea Vetter clip discussed on Left Reckoning: https://twitter.com/LeftReckoning/status/1653101121429200901Blue Bird EV buses unionize: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/us/politics/clean-energy-unions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShareRobert B. Ross - The Great Players' RevoltSong: 100 Gecs - Dumbest Girl Alive
5/15/2023 • 53 minutes, 23 seconds
Ep 213 - Refusal of Turk w/ Djene Bajalan
At long last, Middle East historian Djene Bajalon of This Is Revolution talks with Sean and Andy about affairs international and internecine. Topics include: London vs Hull, Labor vs Tory, the deep fakes and stonings of the Turkish election, the way Turkish culture wars mask the class war, Erdogan and anti-imperialism, And in the second half for subscribers: Twitter files, Rojava update, autonomous regions and communism, Post-Bernie leftism, DEI for imperialism, and a sip of Sublation tea.Song: Mean Jeans - I Don't Care
5/10/2023 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 21 seconds
Ep 212 - Gross Authentic Product w/ David A. Banks
David A. Banks, author of The City Authentic and co-host of the upstate-urbanist podcast Iron Weeds describes the rural gentrification of upstate New York and how the commodification of authenticity works. We also talk about the anti-work assault on the New College of Florida;For the full episode where we talk about upstate cults like Nxium support the show at patreon.com/theantifadaCigarettes After Sex - Apocalypse.
5/3/2023 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 50 seconds
Ep 211 - The Union Makes us Sean w/ Alex Press
For full episode: http://patreon.com/theantifadaWe check in with labor reporter Alex Press about the Sean vanguard emerging in the UAW and Teamsters, if the the unions are moving left and if the left is moving closer to the working class, recent updates from Amazon, Starbucks, and Trader Joe's unionization drives, cross-border solidarity with Mexican and US autoworkers, reflections of striketober and the great resignation, something interesting Andy found in the trash, and much more!Articles by Alex Press:https://jacobin.com/2023/03/uaw-convention-bargaining-shawn-fain-reformhttps://jacobin.com/2023/03/amazon-third-party-sellers-small-businesseshttps://jacobin.com/2023/02/strike-increases-us-labor-movement-2022-statisticshttps://www.thenation.com/article/archive/construction-union-hudson-yards/https://newrepublic.com/article/153044/big-techs-unholy-alliance-pentagonhttps://jewishcurrents.org/from-the-ashes-of-the-oldhttps://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/01/nyregion/turbulent-labor-rally-snarls-midtown.htmlSong: The Press - Revolution Now!
4/26/2023 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 5 seconds
Ep 210 - Hoover Damn America w/ Malcolm Harris
Author and fellow Occupy-vet Malcolm Harris joins us to talk about his cursed hometown of Palo Alto and the many evil spirits that haunts it--mainly, Herbert Hoover.Buy the book at https://www.paloaltobook.com/Support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifadaSong: Radiohead - Palo Alto
4/19/2023 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 49 seconds
Ep 209 - How to Smoke Up A Pipeline
A NEWS EP so timely we decided to release early. We talk about the strikes and riots in France, A DNA Mist that reveals forced labor in the supply chain, And Andy's review of How to Blow up A Pipeline, Subscribe to the show on Patreon and you'll hear the full episode, with: thoughts on raving, Taibbi Derangement Syndrome, ChatGPT's solutions for sublating the New Left, and the Israeli secrets revealed in the recent US Intelligence leaks.Articles mentioned about France:https://www.seattletimes.com/business/france-guardian-of-egalite-leads-the-list-of-ultrarich/https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/drowning-in-depositshttps://twitter.com/proufos/status/1643991308485414916?s=46&t=VVQ2vdGVkxcBV4MIWyMr6Ahttps://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pension-reform-protesters-briefly-invade-paris-blackrock-building-2023-04-06/https://crimethinc.com/2023/03/30/france-in-flames-macron-attempts-to-crush-the-movement-against-the-pension-reform-with-lethal-violence-1 https://jacobin.com/2023/04/france-pension-protests-movement-long-rebellion-neoliberalism-emmanuel-macronAI DNA Mist: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/business/economy/ai-tech-dna-supply-chain.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleSharelntel leaks: https://www.nytimes.com/explain/2023/russia-ukraine-war-documents-leak?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShareSong: France Gall - Boom Boom
4/10/2023 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 49 seconds
PROLETKULT 12 - End of the UFO era w/ Wu Ming 1
Welcome to Proletkult! The Antifada sideproject about the paranormal and the parapolitical. Today we’ll be talking to Wu Ming 1, of the Italian writing collective Wu Ming about their origins in the Italian revolutionary milieu, the Satanic Panic pranks played by their associates the Luther Blisset Project in the 90s, their novel Q, and their theory that it inspired QAnon. We’ll also talk about their novel UFO78, and their political analysis of the recent UFO news.In the full episode available to patrons at Patreon.com/theantifada, you'll hear MY analysis of the recent UFO news, which, until we actually make contact with the space comrades, will be the LAST UFO news we should ever care about again.Check out Wu Ming's new essay UFOs and the Longing for the Unidentified at Ill Will EditionsSongs:Giorgio Moroder - RacerBlink 182 - Aliens ExistLana Del Rey - When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing
4/5/2023 • 48 minutes, 40 seconds
Diving into the Wreckage 6.4 Inflation and Bank Crisis w/ C. Derick Varn
Sean and Varn return to their miniseries on the global debt crisis with a very topical bank failure episode.Since Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and Credit Suisse went belly up the last couple of week capital and the state have scrambled to contain the damage to the financial system and the 'real' economy. Why is an adequate explanation for inflation important? Does the Federal Reserve Bank itself even have one? If Fed policy is blowing up banks and barely even working is there some other reason (class based, perhaps?) to induce an economic slowdown?For patrons: what 'Marxism-Leninism in the Age of Multipolarity' gets very wrong; how the shadow banking sector might be the next shoe to drop; notes on the Brenner-Riley NLR article; on blue-collar toxicity and middle class racism; doomerism, socialism and hope.Sign up at www.patreon.com/theantifada for the full episode (over two hours long!) and a ton more content from our bonus archive.
3/29/2023 • 58 minutes, 40 seconds
Beating the Terrorism Charges w/ Natasha Lennard
Our guests today are Intercept writer and author Natasha Lennard, and Libby and Sam from the Richard Hunsinger Defense Committee provide an update on the arrestees in Atlanta around the Stop Cop City Movement, the history of terrorism charges mobilized against the left since the Green Scare, how Dick beat the terror charges, and security culture in general.https://freerichardhunsinger.com/SUPPORT JESSICA REZNICEK http://supportjessicareznicek.com/Crimethinc: What Is Security Culture? https://crimethinc.com/2004/11/01/what-is-security-cultureDonate to Atlanta Solidarity Fund: https://atlsolidarity.orgNatasha on Cop City arrests: https://theintercept.com/2023/03/08/atlanta-cop-city-protesters/Natasha on Jessica Reznicek: https://theintercept.com/2022/06/08/dakota-pipeline-protester-jessica-reznicek-terrorism/Richard Hunsinger Defense Committee's reflections and lessons: https://atlpresscollective.com/2023/03/06/we-got-us-a-case-study-and-reflections-on-supporting-an-arrestee-from-the-2020-uprisings/Titled scales collective guide on being a defendant: https://tiltedscalescollective.org/wp-content/uploads/atiltedguide-web-1.pdfSupport the Antifada at Patreon.com/TheAntifadaSong: Pop Smoke ft. Young Thug & Gunna - Paranoia
3/22/2023 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 37 seconds
Ep 207 - Taxicab Confessions w/ John Garvey
Race Traitor, Hard Crackers, and Insurgent Notes editor John Garvey stops by Antifada HQ to chat about the SVB collapse, the war in Ukraine and revolutionary defeatism,In the bonus we get the Race Traitor line on the hatred of Mr. Beast, Hasan Piker's John Brown-inspired streetwear, who really killed Rosa Luxemburg, and being a militant taxi driver in the '70s.For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada!Read Hard Crackers Read Race Traitor Read Insurgent NotesJohn's essay on revolutionary defeatism and the war in Ukraine: http://insurgentnotes.com/2022/12/against-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-for-the-successful-resistance-of-the-ukrainian-people/Song: Marvin Gaye - What's Happening Brother (we had to remove this due to a copywrite strike :( )
3/15/2023 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 28 seconds
Ep 206 - Culture War III
For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifadaTopics we cover: Lab Leaks and Bioweapons, mall punk, Antifada company mask policy, why being an NPC is actually based, support SB1312, Trump’s Quantam Leap Fully Automated Luxury MAGA Communism cities, Sean's thoughts on American NEOMism, reportbacks from Mexico City and the Villages, and what credit cards YOU need in 2023 to join the revolutionary laptop class.Song: Drug Church - Million Miles of FunShow notes:https://theracket.news/p/there-is-no-lab-leak-theory https://floridapolitics.com/archives/591585-blaise-ingoglia-bill-would-cancel-democratic-party/https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/03/trump-policy-futuristic-cities-00085383 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109960680734613154For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada
3/8/2023 • 56 minutes, 59 seconds
ARMED LOVE 6 - FBI vs. Music w/ Aaron J. Leonard
Aaron J. Leonard, author of Whole World In An Uproar joins us to talk about the relationship between the revolutionary culture of the 60s as seen through the repressive apparatus of the FBI.Read more from Aaron on Truthout: https://truthout.org/authors/aaron-leonard/Including this great article about the FBI's tracking of Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo: https://truthout.org/articles/fbi-tracking-of-bob-dylan-and-suze-rotolo-foreshadowed-future-abuses/Also check out his book about the history of American Maoism Heavy RadicalsAnd his Spotify playlist for the book: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Eo6dUNjUiDUXlMdvEDjUXSongs: Black Flag - Louie Louie Lou Reed - Busload of Faith Country Joe and the Fish - Free Someday
3/1/2023 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 3 seconds
Ep205: The Politics of Global Turbulence w/ Dylan Riley
Sean welcomes Dylan Riley, Marxian sociologist and scholar of interwar fascism, to discuss his book Microverses about life and society in the pandemic and his recent article in New Left Review about American class structure, why US party politics has a materialist core with no class struggle, and what the pandemic revealed about the fractures in society.Check out more full episodes and join our discord community by joining our PatreonSong: Cabaret - Tomorrow Belongs to Me
2/22/2023 • 55 minutes, 59 seconds
Diving into the Wreckage 7.2: Principles and Heuristics w/ C Derick Varn EXTENDED PREVIEW
Sean and Varn return with part two of their series on basic principles and methods of communist analysis and organizing. This episode deals with the importance of periodization of capitalist development in formulating praxis, the problem of complexity in global accumulation, and barriers to class knowledge within the social division of labor and more. The conclusion gets us closer to the goal of the series which is to sketch an outline of what a communist organization adequate to the moment would like and how we can all build it together.This is an extended preview. For the full 2-hour episode become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada to get access to tons of bonus content, our Discord server and morePublic link to the document we're working with: https://tinyurl.com/muwn3xmy
2/15/2023 • 59 minutes, 10 seconds
UNLOCKED: Where's our Theilbux? w/ Tarence Ray
To celebrate JD Vance's ascension to the Cathedral power, we present you a discussion between Sean and Tarence from May of 2021! They talk some smack about the National Conservative slash Post-Left crowd. Are they worth worrying about? What does their whole stupid movement mean? How do we all get some of that sweet Theil cash?Part 1 of the episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65977397Beck - Sleeping Bag
2/8/2023 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 32 seconds
Going Ewok Mode
DONATE TO ATL SOLIDARITY FUND: atlsolidarity.orgSean and Andy talk about their "jobs", an architectural controversy at Cooper Union, the war in Ukraine, the apparent resurgence of Stalinism, and Defend the Forest/Stop Cop City in Atlanta.For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifadaGood articles about Tortugita the struggle in ATL: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/stop-cop-city-tortugita-oped https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/defend-atlanta-forest-copy-city-climate-change-defund-the-police-1397188/ https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2023/little-turtles-war-cop-city-atlanta https://news.littlesis.org/2022/11/15/meet-the-major-corporations-and-cultural-institutions-helping-build-cop-city-in-atlanta/https://archinect.com/features/article/150336348/the-cooper-union-promotes-russian-architecture-whySong: Raury - Channel ZeroDONATE TO ATL SOLIDARITY FUND: atlsolidarity.org
1/31/2023 • 54 minutes, 7 seconds
Antifada's History is a Weapon 15: On the Labor Question w/ Matt Christman EXTENDED PREVIEW
For the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/antifadas-is-15-77698515
In light of the depressing denouement of last year's railroad conflict, Sean and Matt sit down, in person at last, to discuss the deep history behind how American organized labor got so disorganized and why the labor movement hasn't moved in decades.
Why was it that, in the United States, workers institutions had trouble evolving past the infancy of narrow, sectoral, decentralized craft unionism towards broad-based, nationally-coordinated industrial unionism? How did capital, in the face of militant organizing, help choose the weaker of the two as their partner to bargain with? In what ways is worker self-organization in this country truly, as our enemies always say, anti-American? And importantly what is to be done now that private sector union density is so low, workers institutions so captured and the national labor relations regime has fallen apart?
This is an extended preview, but to get access to all two hours of recording - including an example of a practical way that communist theory can begin building class power today - become a patron at patreon.com/theantifada. You'll get access to our discord server, all our archives of bonus content and you get to support our work (if that's something you're into.)
1/25/2023 • 49 minutes, 45 seconds
Ep 203 - Literacy is Overrated w/ Ian Svenonius (preview)
For the full episode, support the show at patreon.com/theantifada!
Ian Svenonius is a rock singer (Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, Chain and the Gang) now turned Marxist polemicist with his new book Against the Written Word.
We discuss his theory of literacy as a tool of the bourgeoisie and how rock n' roll reeducation camps might be the antidote, and why that might not go far enough for as to completely devolve to our neanderthal origins.
Buy Against the Written Word from Akashic Books
Interview with Ian about being the "sassiest boy in America" and why the workers are rock-and-roll
Read John Zerzan on The Failure of Symbolic Thought
Check out his film The Lost Record
Opening song: Nation of Ulysses - Aspirin Kid
Closing song: The Make-Up - I am Pentagon
1/18/2023 • 53 minutes, 2 seconds
Classploitation cinema: The Menu w/ Twitch of the Death Nerve (PREVIEW)
Andy guests on a weird films podcast and forces them to talk about Marx and revolution for an hour. Movies discussed include: The Menu, Triangle of Sadness, Sorry to Bother You, Young Karl Marx, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Don't Look Up, Snowpiercer, Tar, Spirited Away by Agnes Varda, and much much more
For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
and/or follow Twitch of the Death Nerve on Instagram and Patreon
1/13/2023 • 5 minutes, 45 seconds
Diving into the Wreckage 7.1: First Principles w/ C. Derick Varn EXTENDED PREVIEW
For the full episode and the rest of the Diving into the Wreckage series, support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
Taking a break from the ongoing debt crisis analysis, Sean and Varn lay out a series of first principles. This miniseries is meant to lay out some basics for how to think about the world and act within/upon it, what differentiates our particular political bent from others on the left and ultimately what is to be done with the social knowledge and beliefs that all of us hold in common.
By the end of this series we hope to have hammered out these principles into a basis for a recomposition of communist organizing.
Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage
1/11/2023 • 58 minutes, 15 seconds
Ep 202: 2023 and Me (First Half)
We ring in the New Year by answering all the questions posed to us on our Discord! Topics include: the terminal crisis of capitalism, pushing Biden to the left, Brenner's recent NLR article, John Brown, animal testing, ecosocialism, and of course, what is to be dun.
For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada
Brenner dust-up:
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii138/articles/dylan-riley-robert-brenner-seven-theses-on-american-politics
Closing song: Flower - Filth of their Confines
1/4/2023 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 19 seconds
Ep 201 - New Years' Eve Dérive w/ Eric-John Russell (first half)
Old friend Eric-John Russell wanders with us through a variety of topics including critical theory of art and culture, the maturation and end of the Situationist International, and our traditional holiday discussion of antisemitism.
After the paywall we talk about Triangle of Sadness and Walter Benjamin's Emergency Brake, and if George Costanza is Jewish.
For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada
Check out Cured Quail and the interview in Book Forum
Read: Spectacular Logic in Hegel and Debord: Why Everything is as it Seems (Critical Theory and the Critique of Society)
Song: Louie Zong - Quail
12/28/2022 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 8 seconds
Talkin' Tina - The Cuban Uprising of J11
For the 7th episode of Talkin' Tina, the Antifada side project where we discuss the history and politics of America Latina, we chat with a comrade from Oakland about the uprising that occurred in Cuba on July 11th, 2021, via his interview with an anarchist from the island.
The interview can be read in full here: https://www.sm28.org/articles/j11-the-return-of-the-cuban-proletariat/
Support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
Check out Tamarack in Oakland
Song: Afro Cuban Allstars - Distinto, Diferente
12/21/2022 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 41 seconds
Diving into the Wreckage 6.4: Sometimes the Light at the End of the Tunnel is a Train w/ C. Derick Varn EXTENDED PREVIEW
Sean and Varn take a brief intermission from their long-running debt crisis series to check in on the state of the American Left. (Tl;dr it's not looking good.)
Where have the forces unleashed by the Bernie wave gone? Why has the social-democratic left become merely an adjunct to the Democratic Party? How come revolutionary organizations have either liquidated themselves into the DSA or remained marginal micro-sects? In what ways might these two coeval paths be overcome and what part might all of us play in this overcoming?
This is an extended preview of [the three-hour long conversation]( the three-hour long conversation) which ends on a hopeful note and a call to action. If you're interested in this content, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Follow Varn (@skepoet) on: Youtube and podcasts
12/14/2022 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 47 seconds
Ep 200 - Hans-Hermann Coppe
It's an unhappy 200th birthday for us, we do a postmortem of the little rail strike couldn't. Is the blame on the squad, Brandon, the unions, or the workers themselves? And what comes next for rail workers and class struggle in general?
In the second half we propose a few theories of Musk's Twitter takeover: Thiel-pilled fascist Musk, Hannah Arendt high-liberalism Musk, Gordon Gecko-style corporate raider Musk, Henry Ford productivist-futurist Musk (and why ultimately we believe none of it really matters.) Support the show at patreon.com/theantifada to hear it!
Song: Annie Lennox - Train in Vain
12/7/2022 • 50 minutes, 15 seconds
UNLOCKED Low Culture Boil: Caught in a Trap w/ Sean and Rax King
Sean and Rax King of Low Culture Boil talk about Baz Luhrmann's 2022 masterpiece Elvis and suggest that Baz Luhrmann should in fact be tasked with directing the biopics of every single notable person until he dies from exhaustion. We also read a 1956 NYT review of an Elvis performance, where the reviewer says "teenagers" a lot, and bits of Priscilla Presley's memoir Elvis and Me, where Priscilla talks about Elvis' kinks a lot.
Check out more great cultural commentary and fun times at www.patreon.com/lowcultureboil
12/2/2022 • 1 hour, 45 seconds
Ep 199: Goddamn You! Rail Emperors w/ Justin Roczniak
RARE TUESDAY RELEASE DUE TO 'SCABBIN' JOE BIDEN'S ANNOUNCEMENT TO HAVE CONGRESS PUT THE RAIL WORKERS IN CHAINS
National rail strike impending, Sean is joined by Justin Roczniak (@who_shot_jgr) of Well There's Your Problem, your favorite engineering disaster podcast - with slides.
If the December 9th deadline for strike action is only the capstone of decades of mismanagement, decline and consolidation of private freight service in the United States, how did things get this way? What conditions are rail workers fighting against? How have so many profits been squeezed out of the industry only to see service degrade? What does it mean for US politics that much of these shifts have been happening through conflict within different sectors of the capitalist class?
All this (and a big reveal on Justin's corrupt relationship with Big Hawaiian Roll) in part one of this two part episode. To get access to the second half - including a special Antifada edition of 'Safety Third' and a deposition on Norfolk Nazi Southern's 1990s shit bag scandal - become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Intro music: Godspeed You Black Emperor - Government Came, edited with testimony from rail emperor E Hunter Harrison at Surface Transportation Board Public Hearing, October 2017
11/29/2022 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 20 seconds
MAGA/CCP regeneration w/ Rev Left Radio (preview)
A preview taste of the spicy half of our episode with Brett from Rev Left about the possibility of communist regeneration in China and MAGA Communism in the US with Brett by supporting the show at patreon.com/theantifada. All patrons receive discord access, bonus material, and, if you DM me your mailing address, a signed letterpress Antifada postcard and stickers from collectively-owned union printshop Radix Media!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-198-vs-w-rev-74931782
11/25/2022 • 4 minutes, 54 seconds
Ep 198 - Spontaneity vs. Bunkerization w/ Rev Left Radio (first half)
"Bunker Brett" of Rev Left Radio comes on the show for the first time in years to debate and discuss the contemporary moment for the left, electoralism, the war in Ukraine, China, an what we can learn from First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania Enver Hoxha.
For the second half of the episode support the show at Patreon.com/theantifada! Patrons get all bonus material, access to our Discord, and can DM your address for Antifada stickers and a letterpress postcard from Radix media!
Songs:
Days N Daze - Instra Mental
Days N Daze - I Wanna See It Burn
11/23/2022 • 57 minutes, 14 seconds
ARMED LOVE 5 - Radical Feminism w/ Jenny Brown
Jenny Brown is an organizer with National Women’s Liberation, the author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now, and a former collaborator with the Redstockings. We talk about the how radical feminism/women's liberation went from a splinter of the New Left to shaping the course of women's struggles around the world, how their politics are misunderstood today, how their demands for repealing all laws on abortion was recuperated by a supreme court in need of legitimacy, and why the political class today strips those rights.
Jenny Brown in Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2022/08/capitalism-low-birth-rate-labor-abortion-contraceptives-childcare
Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America by Alice Echols: https://archive.org/details/daringtobebadrad0000echo
Shout Your Abortion
Pledge to Aid and Abet abortion
Song: Janis Ian - Too Old to Go Away Little Girl
11/16/2022 • 1 hour, 33 minutes
Ep 197 - Trainsurrection when?
Sean's STRIKE update returns! We talk about the UC academic workers strike, Starbucks, the rail strike, Toronto teachers, and much more. Sean is optimistic we are heading towards an independent working class movement. Andy thinks we'll lose again.
In the full episode we tell some spooky Halloween stories about a Thing Under the Bridge, a death rock band destroyed by lesbian cop love, and a very "shitty" Halloween cover band. Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada to listen!
More:
Downstate NY Starbucks worker solidarity fund: https://opencollective.com/sbsolidarity
Terror in Trumbull: https://twitter.com/EclecticHams/status/1589281938530967552
https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/Move-people-quicker-Trumbull-seeks-action-16149765.php
Halloween GG Allin cover band mystery: https://hellgatenyc.com/spooky-season-postscript
Lesbian cop relationship breaks up ACAB Death Rock band: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/05/us/politics/politics-impacts-relationships.html
Songs:
Rodecaster generic podcast theme song
DUMP - New York City Tonight
Episode image: https://twitter.com/UnionDrip/status/1589756790539161600
11/9/2022 • 59 minutes, 36 seconds
Ep 196 - Talkin' Baseball w/ Richard Staff (Part I)
Sports writer and Mets Sicko Richard Staff joins us to talk about the Philadelphia Phillies World Series triumph, the unionization of the minor leagues and other labor conditions of ballplayers, and how the Mets are are the sinew that ties the world of sports and proletarian politics together.
For the [full episode]( full episode), including some illicit stories about Keith Hernandez too hot for public consumption, support the show at patreon.com/theantifada
The Secret History of Richard Nixon, Mets Sicko by Richard Staff: https://defector.com/the-secret-history-of-richard-nixon-mets-sicko/
Inside the Drive: The Minor Leaguers Who Sprung a Union on MLB by Emma Baccellieri: https://www.si.com/mlb/2022/09/22/minor-league-baseball-union-daily-cover
Robert Moses' epic Shea Stadium groundbreaking speech: https://www.wnyc.org/story/flushing-meadow-stadium-groundbreaking-ceremonies-october-28-1961-address-by-robert-moses
Mets and Marlins walk-off field in protest after Kenosha shooting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LJfSQAO2cg
Other audio clips throughout the episode come from "The New Breed: The Story of the Fans of the '62 Mets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjqcVwCx_9U
Opening song: Blasterjaxx and Timmy Trumpet - Narco
11/2/2022 • 53 minutes, 45 seconds
Hardcore History 2: Hybrid Moments
Jarrod Shanahan is back with an audio essay about his trip to Chicago's Riot Fest to see the Original Misfits--an experience filled not only with the horror of Glenn Danzig's dark lyrics, but also his political rants, the gentrification and recuperation inherent in these reunion festivals themselves, and the fear of getting old.
Read the full essay at Hard Crackers Journal: https://hardcrackers.com/hybrid-moments/
Listen to the first episode of Hardcore History on our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50262903
10/26/2022 • 55 minutes, 17 seconds
Ep 195: The Landlord Experience w/ Kevin Rogan (part 1)
Sean is joined by the notorious Kevin Rogan, urbanism blogger extraordinaire and Marxist scourge of landlord Twitter, to talk about how housing, development and rent under capitalism.
How do housing markets work? (Hint: not at all) Why are landlords objectively both evil and stupid? (Hint: it's baked in) What do NIMBYs/YIMBYs represent? (Hint: two competing factions of capital) How do we fight the land owners and win? And how do tenant unions fit into the broader struggle against capital?
This is part one of an extended discussion. For the second half - a whole hour of takes on Matt Yglesias, intra-petit bourg warfare over the soul of city, and Mr Skanska looking over the back of US building capital - become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Kevin's Substack: https://kevinrogan.substack.com/
Song: Mirah - Dear Landlord
10/19/2022 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 49 seconds
Diving into the Wreckage 6.3 w/ C Derick Varn
Part three of our epic (and expanding) examination of the coming sovereign debt crisis with Sean and Derick. In this episode, we focus in on Europe, Italy and Great Britain in particular. What were the contradictions that were papered over in the 2008 financial crisis and the 2010 Eurozone debt crisis? How have various ruling classes tried to cope with secular stagnation of the economy? Will the post-fascist turn be able to overcome the crisis? Could the dying center left do any better? All this and many sidebars/parentheses within!
For the full episode and a ton more bonus content, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Check out all of C Derick Varn's excellent analysis at www.patreon.com/varnvlog
Song: Lou Reed - The Debt I Owe (Woody Guthrie cover)
10/12/2022 • 51 minutes, 28 seconds
Ep 194 - Gilt Trip
Sean and Andy talk about our various malaises: personal, political, and economic. Why does everything feel like shit in the present moment? Is it just us or...
Listen to the full 2 hour episode by supporting the show at https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-194-gilt-trip-72890666
Topics covered include the ideological seduction of 'the left wing of the possible', the near collapse of pension funds in the UK from zombie Thatcherism, what its like working inside a secure state facility behind unscalable fences, the economic outlook for workers in the United States, and the Amazon/Netflix-theory of the contemporary spectacle.
10/5/2022 • 58 minutes, 55 seconds
ARMED LOVE 4: Punks is Yippies w/ Crimethinc
We look back at the revolutionary dropout cultures of 1960s and 2000s, a time when middle class youth fled the suburbs to be free in urban bohemia. We look at the popular anarchist ideas and practices during these times alongside the relationship between counterculture, the left, and liberation movements.
Armed Love is a series about the revolutionary subculture of the sixties. Episode one was an interview with Peter Coyote, and episode 2 was a discussion of Charles Manson and the Lyman Family, and episode 3 an interview with Black Mask and Up Against the Wall founder Ben Morea: Part 1, Part 2
More info on the Atlanta Forest: https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/
Follow on Twitter and read their latests essays at Crimethic.com
PDF: Jerry Rubin: Do It!
Video: Ed Sanders on Firing Line
Song: The Spectacle - I, Fail
9/28/2022 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 46 seconds
BONUS: CPI Scandal and Family Abolition w/ Ross Wolfe (BONUS PREVIEW)
Full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-cpi-and-w-72265849
Ross Wolfe sticks around to talk about a couple things on his mind, namely the scandal that tore apart Caleb Maupin's CPI and reevaluating the meaning of the communist demand to abolish the family.
Read: Caleb Maupin’s Former Comrades Speak Out, His Abuses Must Stop!
9/23/2022 • 10 minutes, 11 seconds
Ep 193 - Leftcoms in Kyiv w/ Ross Wolfe
The Wolfe is Back! Our armchair chairman Ross Wolfe of Insurgent Notes joins Sean and Andy to sum up a recent panel on ultraleft takes on the war in Ukraine and revolutionary defeatism.
Hear our bonus episode with Ross about family abolition and the CPI implosion by supporting the show on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-cpi-and-w-72265849
Our episode On the Leftcom Question: https://fans.fm/p/1LaW96Q
Episode on Nikolai Bukharin: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70983824
Internationalist Perspective: https://internationalistperspective.org/
Andrew - Untimely Thoughts: Notes on Revolution and Ukraine https://lefteast.org/untimely-thoughts-notes-on-revolution-and-ukraine/
An Invitation to Contribute to a Discussion on the War in Ukraine http://insurgentnotes.com/2022/08/an-invitation-to-contribute-to-a-discussion-on-the-war-in-ukraine/
Song: Mother Anarchy Loves Her Sons
9/21/2022 • 52 minutes, 12 seconds
Diving into the Wreckage 6.2: The Continuing Debt Crisis w/ C. Derick Varn EXTENDED PREVIEW
Part two of Sean and Varn's extended discussion on sovereign debt ! This time we dive into the pre-history of of the present moment, how the New York City fiscal crisis of 1974-75 and subsequent banker's coup presaged a new 'post-industrial' and financialized regime of accumulation often called neoliberalism. And if debt crises are a signal of the rise of a new political-economic order, what sort of world does the current crisis presage?
For the full episode, a tons more bonus content and access to our Discord server, become a subscriber today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
9/14/2022 • 51 minutes, 27 seconds
Ep 192 - Quietly Quitting Brandon
Full episode here
An episode for an audience of one: DB. We give him a roadmap to Bonapartism, then discuss the coming recession, US train strike, strike wave in the UK, and, in the full episode available for patrons at patreon.com/theantifada, the phenomenon of Quiet Quitting.
Show notes:
Productivity crashing https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-productivity-drops-second-quarter-annual-decline-largest-ever-2022-08-09/
Inventories skyrocketing
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-18/end-of-us-splurge-bedevils-retailers-left-with-bloated-inventory
Investment decline
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/amazon-closes-abandons-plans-for-dozens-of-us-warehouses
Rail strike coming: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/02/rail-s02.html
Starmer refuses to join pickets https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-31/uk-train-workers-to-strike-again-next-month-as-dispute-drags-on
Quiet quitting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/01/quiet-quitting-and-firing/
https://jacobin.com/2022/09/quiet-quitting-exploitation-work-bosses-austerity-falling-wages
Song: Rodecaster Pro's Preloaded Generic Podcast Theme Song
9/5/2022 • 50 minutes, 38 seconds
On the Irish Question w/ Foreign Agent
We continue our discussion with Nate Lavey and Michael McCanne of Novara Media's Foreign Agent podcast about the IRA's support in America, first about the stereotype of Irish cops, then about Friedrich Engels' derogatory treatment of Irish immigrants to the UK in his 1845 Condition of the Working class in England.
Full episode for patrons at http://patreon.com/theantifada! please support the show :3
9/2/2022 • 8 minutes, 13 seconds
Ep 191 - How the Irish became Based w/ Foreign Agent
Foreign Agent is a 6-part series from Novara Media that investigates the funding and support for the IRA in United States, a story of gun smuggling, bank robberies, homemade missiles and submarines, and the how the politics of Irish Americans shifted through history. Host Nate Lavey and producer Michael McCanne join us.
Listen free at: https://novaramedia.com/category/audio/foreign-agent/
Song: Black 47 - Livin' in America
8/31/2022 • 53 minutes, 38 seconds
Nikolai Bukharin w/ PDA's Anders Lee (Preview)
Here's a fun crossover Sean did with Anders Lee of Pod Damn America on revolutionary and communist theorist Nikolai Bukharin.
full episode for Patrons here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70983824
8/26/2022 • 9 minutes, 24 seconds
Diving into the Wreckage 6.1: Sovereign Debt Crisis w/ C. Derick Varn (EXTENDED PREVIEW)
Sean and Varn return in the sixth episode of our Antifada/VarnVlog crossover project, covering the growing global debt crisis. Between the geopolitics of the dollar as reserve currency, the impact of quantitative easing and the pandemic stimulus, the recent Fed interest rate hike and all the potential upheaval coming down the pipe... this is going to be at least a three-parter so stay tuned!
Full Episode!
This is an extended preview, for the full episode become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
8/24/2022 • 54 minutes, 1 second
Jesus was an Anarchist w/ Minion Death Cult
Andy joins Minion Death Cult's series discussing HBO's series about the Acapulco anarcho-capitalists: The Anarchists!
In episode 2, the anarchists fortunes seem to be on the rise as bitcoin booms. But a crusty group of ancap battle hippies start to wonder if there's more to anarchocapitalism than money, and plan to "fork" the system!
For more MDC premium content and to listen to the rest of their ongoing series on the show, subscribe to MDC at https://www.patreon.com/miniondeathcult/
8/17/2022 • 1 hour, 54 minutes, 42 seconds
Ep 190 - Doing a no growth w/ Aaron Vansintjan
Co-author of The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism, Aaron Vansintjan describes the degrowth worldview, its plans of actions, its reformist and revolutionary ambitions, and beating the Malthusian/Ecofascist/Climate Mao charges.
Buy the book from Verso, now 30% off: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3989-the-future-is-degrowth
Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/
Song: Snail Mail - Thinning
8/10/2022 • 1 hour, 2 seconds
Deterritorializing the News (Preview)
Oedipal Alex Jones, the music of David Koresh, the Assassination of Nancy Pelosi by the Coward President Xi, Sean explains Taiwan crisis As_a_joker, and more Settlers banter
For the full episode, Discord access, and all other bonus content support the show at patreon.com/theantifada
8/8/2022 • 16 minutes, 39 seconds
Ep 189: Counterlogistics w/ Jasper Bernes
Sean is joined by Japser Bernes of End Notes and Cal Berkeley to catch up on the comings and goings of the communization current. They discuss the plight of big American cities, the legacy of Occupy/BLM, the ongoing crisis of inflation and supply shocks and how communists might create a counterpower to the logistical infrastructure of capital.
Follow Jasper @outsidedadgitator
if you like our work, support us at patreon.com/theantifada
https://jasperbernes.net/
https://brooklynrail.org/2022/02/field-notes/Been-Down-So-Long-It-Looks-Like-Up-To-Me
http://endnotes.org.uk/articles/21
8/3/2022 • 1 hour, 59 seconds
PREVIEW: No Logo (Daedelus)
In which Sean and Andy finally start getting mercenary and talk shit behind the paywall. This week we tackle the blinkered stupidity of last week's 'Starbucks baristas are bourgeois' discourse. Is there even a crumb of meaning that we can glean from this meltdown? Anyways, we had fun with it.
To access this bonus content, our side projects History is a Weapon/Diving into the Wreckage/Proletkult and our amazing Discord server, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Here's the critique we mentioned by @criticofpolecon
7/29/2022 • 5 minutes, 5 seconds
Ep 188: Bin Pool Reich w/ Sean and Andy
What do inflation, the London heatwave, 'communisateur' Los Angeles Truckers and the 1990s hardline band Vegan Reich have in common? They are all part of this brand new news episode featuring Sean and Andy! Plenty of scorching takes within about agricultural production, based bin men, inflation as capital in decay and how much means of production must be destroyed before Andy can rest at night.
Sweet bonus episodes, including us talking shit on the 'baristas are bourgeoisie' clowns, can be found at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Song: Sex Pistols - Bodies
7/27/2022 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 52 seconds
PREVIEW: New Org, Who Dis
Sean met with a whole bunch of listeners and patrons and friends on Discord and described his idea for a new organization. Another meeting coming up on Sunday, July 24th at 3pm EST so be sure to make it if you're interested! (You don't have to be a patron to come, but if you'd like to become one you can sign up at www.patreon.com/theantifada)
LiF Discord: https://discord.gg/zQrFjMSz
Music: The Internationale (Jamaican Reggae Version)
7/22/2022 • 9 minutes, 17 seconds
Ep 187 - Zuck My Left One w/ Neoliberalhell
Matthew and Ana from the Neoliberalhell podcast discuss their effort to unite influencers, shitposters, sex workers, abortion advocates, Hunter Biden-watchers in an instarecction against the Meta corporation, which begins this Saturday in NYC and LA!
More info on the NYC Protest: https://www.instagram.com/antizuckprotest/
LiF Discord: https://discord.gg/zQrFjMSz
For access to our discord and all bonus material, support the show at patreon.com/theantifada
Free Kita Analena! https://www.instagram.com/free.kitaanalena/
song: Bikini Kill - Suck My Left One
7/20/2022 • 54 minutes, 5 seconds
Diving into the Wreckage 5: Food Crisis w/ C Derick Varn EXTENDED PREVIEW
In the latest of our ongoing collaboration between Varn and Sean, the guys sit down to look at the multiple complicating factors behind the ongoing food crisis which has seen it's most striking culmination with the overthrow of the Sri Lankan government last week. How has capital shifted production, distribution and consumption of food crops? What kind of frailties has this produced for global grain supplies? And what are the likely complications as the crisis ratchets up in coming months?
This is an extended preview. The full episode is available for patrons, so sign up for this bonus content and much more at www.patreon.com/theantifada
7/13/2022 • 31 minutes, 38 seconds
Free Speech on the Beach (BONUS preview)
We chat about Sean's appearance at the Sublation Media release event last week in Brooklyn, the dead end of free speech/cancel culture obsession among leftists, and meeting Norman Finkelstein on the beach.
Check out the full episode and join or Discord community at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Chris Cutrone's essay from the event: https://www.sublationmag.com/post/dogmatization-and-thought-taboos-on-the-left
Song: Neil Young - On the Beach
7/8/2022 • 6 minutes, 59 seconds
Ep 186 - Take power, Dark Brandon, when it's given to you!
We talk about the recent Supreme Court decisions, the coming rightwing dictatorship, the collapse of liberal democracy, and why only Dark Brandon can save us now.
Melinda Cooper - Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection
Listen to our bonus episode about the Sublation Media panel and meeting Norman Finkelstein on the beach, and join our Discord community, by supporting the show at patreon.com/theantifada
Song: 7 Seconds - New Wind
7/6/2022 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 31 seconds
What makes you think I'm white? w/ Zhana Kurti and Geert Dhondt (BONUS)
We discuss some of the methods Noel suggested in Race Traitor journal for white people to abolish themselves.
Full episode at patreon.com/theantifada
7/1/2022 • 2 minutes, 24 seconds
Ep 185 - White Smite w/ Zhana Kurti, Geert Dhondt
Zhana is back with her co-editor of the new Noel Ignatiev reader from Verso: Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity. We start by talking about Roe being overturned before moving on to Noel's revolutionary dual power strategy, and his intervention into the SDS debates about whether white workers would ever check their privilege.
In the bonus we talk more about his nineties journal Race Traitor and what it actually looks like renounce whiteness.
Buy the book from Verso (currently 40% off!)
Read Hard Crackers journal
Closing song:
Haggathorn - Awakening
with text from David Horowitz's 1999 book "Hating Whitey"
6/29/2022 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 49 seconds
Crimes of the Future w/ Jake Flores (PREVIEW)
Jake "Feral Jokes" Flores and Andy continue our very specific collaboration of giving positive reviews to controversial works of sf! This time it's David Cronenberg's CRIMES OF THE FUTURE! A film in which "surgery is the new sex," and probably an allegory for why art and politics suck. It's NICE!
For the full episode subscribe today at patreon.com/theantifada :)
Our previous episode about Severance: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65010363
Listen to Pod Damn America
6/24/2022 • 5 minutes, 54 seconds
Antifada's History is a Weapon 14: The Dawn of (Occupy) Everything w/ Matt Christman EXTENDED PREVIEW
Matt and Sean are back with an critical review of David Graeber and David Wengrow's 'The Dawn of Everything' and their popular reimagining of humanity's historical evolution.
What can their anthropology tell us about what freedom means and has meant to peole? How does their account change our conception of the science of historical materialism? What politics follow from their project and what are the limitations of their Occupy Wall Street-esque worldview?
For the full episode become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Intro: N i g h t f e v e r - V a p o r w a v e
6/22/2022 • 11 minutes, 29 seconds
BONUS PREVIEW: The Final Countdown w/ Ted Reese
A continuation of our discussion in the main episode with Ted Reese (@grossmanite). We discuss Dengism, the connection between crisis and communism and much more!
To check out this bonus content, our History is a Weapon series with Matt Christman, Proletkult with Andy, access to our Discord server and more become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Bonus song: Europe - The Final Countdown
6/17/2022 • 8 minutes, 48 seconds
Ep 184: That's (Henryk) Gross, Man w/ Ted Reese
Do you feel like the economy is out of control? That this simply cannot go on? Are you dreading/anticipating a total breakdown? A final crisis, if you will? Well do we have the episode for you.
Andy and Sean are proud to be joined by Ted Reese (@Grossmanite) the author of The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman to discuss his incredible new book. This episode could not have come at a more relevant time, so you'll want to have a listen.
The continued bonus discussion for patrons can be found at www.patreon.com/theantifada so sign up to support our work today.
Do yourself a favor and get Ted's work out now from Zero Books.
Music: Trapped Under Ice - Reality Unfolds
6/15/2022 • 52 minutes, 48 seconds
PROLETKULT 11 - Goblin Mode in Dealy Plaza (PREVIEW)
Antifada's side project about the paranormal and parapolitical is back! with Andy and Jarrod Shanahan's #ReadtheGreenBook tour event at Chicago's Pilsen Community Books, and a short story about Andy's pilgrimage to Dallas.
Link to the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67648274
BUY MY BOOK (from Red Emma's): I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism
6/12/2022 • 4 minutes, 25 seconds
Ep 183 - Waiting for the Wreck
The 'Fada boys catch up after Andy's Amtrak trip across the country! We talk the impending Roe vs. Wade overturning, homelessness crisis, crime wave, police slowdowns, and the great resignation. Listen to the end for our new manifesto!
Help us keep the show going by supporting the at patreon.com/theantifada! Patrons get bonus episodes and acess to our discord community.
The Interregnum: https://haters.noblogs.org/post/2022/01/07/the-interregnum-the-george-floyd-uprising-the-coronavirus-pandemic-and-the-emerging-social-revolution/
More on Echo Park homeless struggles: https://newrepublic.com/article/166383/los-angeles-echo-park-homeless-industrial-complex
You Sweep? We Strike! action in Minneapolis: https://twitter.com/IGD_News/status/1529991181945348097
LA Riots 2020 by Ryan Lee https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/ryan-lee-la-riots-2020
Song: The Clash - Train in Vain
6/8/2022 • 57 minutes, 49 seconds
Ep 182 - Contra-Contrapoints w/ Muke Xexizy
None dare call him breadtuber! Sean is joined by Muke (@muke10101) of the Marxist youtube channel Xexizy to discuss his project and popularization of good communist takes on politics, the economy and whether profit is, in fact, theft.
Along the way they discuss the problems with soc-dem streamers, the parlous state of UK politics ,why the critique of political economy is important and begin the critique of Leninism found the bonus.
For this bonus and much more, become a patron today at patreon.com/theantifada
Check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDULjo1v2Hivuu4h4LZSTUQ
Outro: Kali Uchis - telepatía (vaporwaveチ ル)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7PYIx8_yn4
6/6/2022 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 55 seconds
BONUS PREVIEW: A Modest Proposal w/ Muke
Sean and Muke continue the discussion on Leninism and the joy of sects. Also, a very (im)modest proposal on how to maybe revive international unionism, wrest control over supply chains and strike some serious blows against capital.
To access this bonus content and more become a patron today at patreon.com/theantifada
6/3/2022 • 8 minutes, 6 seconds
Ep 181 - Everybody Loves Jamie
We take a look back at 4 years of Antifada, and Jamie says goodbye.
Continue to support her work at Everybody Love Communism!
And, as always, you can support the Antifada for bonus episodes, Discord chat, and more at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Closing songs:
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Dead Flag Blues
Hogtown Jug Band - Future's in The Streets
5/25/2022 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 10 seconds
Just Visiting w/ Jarrod Shanahan (BONUS PREVIEW)
Andy and Sean trade prison stories with Jarrod, including a near uprising in the Tombs kicked-off by the revolutionary demand for pound cake.
For the full episode and all other bonus material support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada. We really appreciate it!
Don't forget to pick up your copy of Captives: How Rikers Island Took NYC Hostage
Song: Ghostface Killah - We Made It
5/20/2022 • 7 minutes, 55 seconds
Ep 180 - The Rikers Disliker w/ Jarrod Shanahn
Jarrod Shanahan returns to talk about his new book Captives: How Rikers Island Took NYC Hostage, out TODAY from Verso. Captives it the history of Rikers Island as a progressive reform turned riotous penal colony in the neoliberal era. While today it's slated to be closed, the book shows how the plan to build new state-of-the-art humanitarian jails is repeating the mistake.
Check out our bonus episode with Jarrod on Friday at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
Song: Negative Approach - Borstal Breakout
5/18/2022 • 59 minutes, 43 seconds
Diving into the Wreckage 4: Shadow of China w/ C. Derick Varn EXTENDED PREVIEW
Sean and Derick are back with the 4th installment of our crossover series on history, political economy and current events. In this episode, the boys examine China: what was the mode of production in the revolutionary period? How has China changed since the reform period? What are common misconceptions about the CPC, good or bad?
The full conversation is over two-and-a-half hours, so if you like what you hear become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada to hear this bonus content and a lot more.
To see the full recorded video of this recording, and support one of the best content creators out there, head over to https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog to give Derick some love as well.
NOTE: We screwed up a previous post of this file, should be fixed now!
5/11/2022 • 57 minutes, 10 seconds
PREVIEW: Bonus - Where's OUR Theilbux w/ Tarence Ray
In this bonus, Sean and Tarence talk some smack about the National Conservative slash Post-Left crowd. Are they worth worrying about? What does their whole stupid movement mean? How do we all get some of that sweet Theil cash?
For the rest of the episode and a whole lot more bonus content, become a subscriber today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
5/7/2022 • 13 minutes, 27 seconds
Ep 179: The Short 21st Century? w/ Tarence Ray
Nearly two years after the epic Trillbillies Workers Party crossover episode, Sean and Tarence decided to check in on how Giovanni Arrighi's historical schema is holding up. Then they throw in some Ellen Meiksins Wood and Andreas Malm for good measure. Also, what to make of the NatCon/Post-Left losers from the Vanity Fair article.
Check out more about JD Vance and Peter Theil and the rest of those dinguses by becoming a supporter at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Intro: Jordan Davis, Luke Bryan - Buy Dirt
5/4/2022 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 9 seconds
Armed Love 3 - Black Mask w/ Ben Morea (part 2 preview)
In the second part of our interview ben tells us more about his affinity for indigenous struggle, why he moved back to NY, his views on COVID mandates and public health, his hatred of Jerry Rubin, and if he beat up the MC5.
In the spirit of the Motherfuckers, the full episode is available FREE at patreon.com/theantifada... but while you're there, why not support the show for the rest of our bonus content and access to our discord commune!
check out ben's art: https://www.instagram.com/ben_morea/?hl=en
4/29/2022 • 7 minutes, 17 seconds
Armed Love 3: Black Mask w/ Ben Morea (part 1)
Ben Morea is a founding member of Black Mask and Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, two 1960s revolutionary formations known as the most direct action-oriented wing of the youth revolutionary movement in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Comrades of the Black Panthers, Diggers, Yippies, and SDS, their black bloc tactics and uncompromising solidarity with black and indigenous struggles remains a blueprint of anarchist activity today.
Part 2 of the discussion here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65563424
Armed Love is a series about the revolutionary subculture of the sixties. Episode one was an interview with Peter Coyote, and episode 2 was a discussion of Charles Manson and the Lyman Family.
Joining me for the interview was Matt Peterson of Woodbine.nyc
Correction on #ReadtheGreenBook tour-- the Minneapolis date is May 24, not 23
Song: Jefferson Airplane - We Can be Together
4/27/2022 • 59 minutes
CROSSPOST: Castrating The Bitcoin Bull w/ Jamie, Aaron & Jorge
In their first ever CURRENT EVENTS episode, the Everybody Loves Communism crew of Jamie Peck, Aaron Thorpe (he's back, y'all!) and Jorge Rocha (@linegoesdown) take on various topics of the day, including Peter Thiel's Bitcoin meltdown and NYC mayor Eric Adams' love of crypto. Okay, so it's mostly about Bitcoin. What does it mean that various capitalists are having it out over this dumb new commodity?
To the 1,000 or so of you who are already listening to ELC on the regs: sorry for the dearth of slop this week. Come to the Eve 6 afterparty and Jamie will buy you a drink. No seriously, she's throwing the afterparty for the 5/4 Eve 6 NYC tour date. DM for deets!
Listen to ELC and give us money: Patreon.com/everybodylovescommunism or Fans.fm/everybodylovescommunism
Follow ELC on Twitter: @ELCpod
4/20/2022 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 18 seconds
Lulu Lumon w/ Jake Flores (preview)
Jake "Feral Jokes" Flores and Andy discuss the new Apple TV show Severance.
Full the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
4/15/2022 • 4 minutes, 6 seconds
Ep 178 - Ask_a_worker
The crew talks about the Sunset Park shooting, Amazon unionization, global uprisings resulting from inflation and war, and getting various kinds of ill in Mexico.
Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada for our weekly bonus episode, Discord access, and more!
Song - Macka B - Give the Workers
4/13/2022 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 47 seconds
Ep 177 - Milkshake the State w/ Devin Zane Shaw
We’re going back to our supersoldier roots with Devin Zane Shaw, a professor of philosophy and the author of the book the Philosophy of Antifascism. We talk about the antifascist theory Three Way Fight, political tensions within antifascism between its militant and liberal strains, the "parapolitical" aspects of the MAGA and Covid-denialist movements, Ben Burgis' comments on Joe Rogan about the milkshaking of Andy Ngo, and if Putin is antifa.
Access our Discord community, bonus material, and discuss this episode with us by becoming a patron at http://Patreon.com/TheAntifada
Show notes:
Seven theses on the Three Way Fight
Where Do We Go Next? A Review of Shane Burley’s Why We Fight
Confronting Fascism book: https://itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/confrontingfascism1.pdf
M.I. Asma - On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal https://burningbooks.com/products/on-necrocapitalism-a-plague-journal
Understanding A22 PDX : discussion and analysis for the antifascist movements
Song: Ministry - Antifa
4/6/2022 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 35 seconds
Antifada's History is a Weapon 13.1: Actually Existing Socialism w/ Matt Christman (EXTENDED PREVIEW)
Listen to the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/antifadas-is-13-64451503
For almost four years we've been speculating about the end of a certain period of history and hoo boy is it here!
In this part one of the thirteenth installment of HIAW, Matt and Sean return to talk about the roots of this current turbulence: What are the forces aligned for and against the 'rules-based international order'? How has the calculus of the various ruling classes changed in this zero-sum moment? Are there even good guys or bad guys to root for? And how has the seeming exit of the working class from history worked out for humanity? Not so good, it seems...
In part two we delve into the muck and mire of the XXth century, the hopes and dreams of communism, and the bitter denouement of 1991.
To hear the second half, and support our work, sign up as a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada for access to this bonus content, access to our Discord server, and more.
Music: Eddy Huntington - USSR Vaporwave
3/30/2022 • 51 minutes, 22 seconds
Vampire Castle: 'Fright Night' (1985) & 'Dracula: Dead and Loving It' (1995) (PREVIEW)
For the full episode and all other bonus content, support the show at http://Patreon.com/TheAntifada!
Jamie and Leslie (@leslieleeiii) discuss two more great vampire movies: Tom Holland's teen popcorn flick 'Fright Night' (1985) and Mel Brooks' classic horror-comedy starring Leslie Nielsen, 'Dracula: Dead and Loving It' (1995).
3/25/2022 • 7 minutes, 59 seconds
Ep 176: No War but the Class War? w/ Matt Crossin
After the episode on Lenin's imperialism with Erin Hagood, we decided to get a different perspective on the Ukraine war and other current events with Australian anarchist-communist Matt Crossin (@MattCrossin).
How does Australia fit into the global economy and capitalist hegemony? What are the uses and limits of theories of imperialism? How are anarchists in Ukraine and Russia confronting the upheaval of war? And how might working class power be forged in this chaotic and desperate time?
For bonus episodes, access to our Discord server and more become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Gilles Dauve article: https://www.troploin.fr/node/98
Angry Workers: https://www.angryworkers.org/
Music: Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Insufficient Funds
3/23/2022 • 56 minutes, 53 seconds
The Coming Post-Left Insurrection w/ Erin Hagood (BONUS Preview)
Andy and Sean talk more with Erin Hagood of Platypus about our political horizons. Do we still need a Leninist party? Do the global wave of uprisings point towards revolution or the Democratic Party? Is Antifada Post-Left?
For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
3/18/2022 • 5 minutes, 11 seconds
Ep 175 - Imperialism: When Capitalism Gets too High w/ Erin Hagood
Andy, Sean, and Platypus Erin Hagood go over the details of a historic panel on the crisis in Ukraine, then segue into the question of Lenin's definitions of imperialism and revolutionary defeatism and what clarity they offer today, if any.
Hear more of our discussion and all bonus material by supporting the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
Show notes:
Lenin - Socialism and War
Crisis in Ukraine panel: https://youtu.be/Uyoe5ml05LQ
Michael Roberts on Ukrainian economy: https://brooklynrail.org/2022/03/field-notes/Ukraine-The-Economic-Consequences-of-the-War
Spencer Leonard on Bonapartism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv6hY8AhT20
song: Oxxxymiron, Porchy, LSP - Imperial
3/16/2022 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 19 seconds
Diving into the Wreckage 3: Ukraine and the Multipolar World w/ C. Derrick Varn EXTENDED PREVIEW
Events are moving rapidly and there are processes in motion that seem to be forging a new global order. The question is what kind?
Following up on last week's episode with Alex Gendler, Sean and Derrick are back to continue the discussion of the Russo-Ukrainian War. What are the geopolitics that led to this violent and tragic episode? What are the regional and global forces that helped create it? What kind of changes to the capitalist economy can we expect to see especially out of the West's 'total financial war' on Russia? How should communists orient towards these events and what should we be building towards the future?
This is an extended preview. To hear the entire two hour plus episode become a subscriber today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
To see the video recording of this and access all of Derrick's excellent analysis and interviews check out www.patreon.com/varnvlog and www.youtube.com/c/CDerickVarnVlog
3/9/2022 • 50 minutes, 56 seconds
Ep 174 - War Is A Defeat For All Of Us w/ Alex Gendler
Friend of the show and Ukrainian immigrant Alex Gendler (@achilleselbow) discusses the Russian invasion of Ukraine, situating it in its proper historical context before discussing more recent events. He also takes some time to debunk galaxy brain takes from dumb dumb anti-imperialists who think a "multipolar" world — with neoliberal, authoritarian Russia as one of the poles — will somehow bring us closer to communism.
Song: Blind Boy Grunt - John Brown
Links:
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-19/the-intellectual-situation/ukraine-putin-and-the-west/
https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/war-and-anarchists-anti-authoritarian-perspectives-in-ukraine
https://www.nihilist.li/2017/11/19/confession-of-the-ukrainian-marxist-soldier/
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-letter-to-the-western-left-from-kyiv
https://illwill.com/the-kazakh-insurrection
Donate:
https://operation-solidarity.org/
https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-ukraines-media-going
https://www.peopleinneed.net/
https://redcross.org.ua/en/donate/
3/2/2022 • 1 hour, 34 minutes, 45 seconds
BONUS: Eve 6, Reloaded w/ Max Collins (PREVIEW)
Max Collins of '90s (and present day) alt-rock band Eve 6 (@Eve6) returns for a wide-ranging BONUS convo touching on music, religion, shitposting, and Max's hi-jinx with the guy from Third Eye Blind.
Become a supporter at patreon.com/theantifada to unlock this episode, tons of other bonus content, and our Discord community!
Image: emily_eclectic
2/25/2022 • 12 minutes, 48 seconds
Ep 173 - DON'T keep on truckin'
Andy and Sean discuss Putin vs. Ukraine vs. Brandon and the war's origins in the EuroMaidan uprising. If the left's revolutionary strategy is take public space and push towards militant result, are we not replicating the errors of Ukraine and Syria? Are the Canadian truckers doing essentially the same thing?
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Reading on the subject:
Ukraine:
https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/war-and-anarchists-anti-authoritarian-perspectives-in-ukraine
Canada:
https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/fascism-is-as-canadian-as-the-maple-leaf/
https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/14/ill-winds-from-ottawa-thinking-through-the-threats-and-opportunities-as-a-far-right-initiative-gains-momentum
https://breachmedia.ca/the-battle-of-billings-bridge/
https://north-shore.info/2022/02/07/trip-report-ottawa-on-saturday-february-5/
Interview with teamster about how this is not a workers movement: https://fromembers.libsyn.com/patriots-and-big-trucks
https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-29/
Song: Яблочко/Yablochko - Ukrainian Black Army song
2/23/2022 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 39 seconds
BONUS: Love Hurts w/ Aaron Thorpe (PREVIEW)
Jamie and Aaron Thorpe (@paradoomer) round out the Valentine's Day-adjacent content by attempting to answer a listener's relationship question. They also talk designer babies and bio-mechanical wombs.
Become a supporter at Patreon.com/TheAntifada to unlock the full version of this episode, plus tons of other bonus content and our Discord community!
2/18/2022 • 7 minutes, 57 seconds
Ep 172 - Woke NFL & The Nostalgia Trap w/ Aaron Thorpe
Friend of the show Aaron Thorpe (@paradoomer) stops by for some capital-d Discourse about the Superbowl, nostalgia, and the NFL's promise to "end systemic racism." Jamie and Aaron also discuss Larry David's crypto ad and REI's woke anti-union campaign.
Check out Aaron's substack piece on nostalgia: https://spacelight.substack.com/p/what-may-have-been
Outro song: Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.A.D. City
2/16/2022 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 13 seconds
Ep 171 - Royalties In A Blender w/ Max Collins of Eve 6
Eve 6 frontman and powerful poster Max Collins (@Eve6) stops by to discuss Neil Young, Joe Rogan, and "cancel culture"...but more importantly, how Spotify is fucking musicians out of rent money. What, if anything, can music fans do to help? Is Max the daddy that Joe Rogan's fans need? He also previews his band's upcoming tour with friend-of-the-show Jake Flores!
Closing song: Eve 6 - The Heart in a Blender Song (downloaded from Soulseek)
Check out Jamie's new history and theory podcast: fans.fm/everybodylovescommunism, patreon.com/everybodylovescommunism, or listen in your fav podcast app
2/9/2022 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 39 seconds
How to Make Money on the Fartchain w/ Clark Filio (BONUS PREVIEW)
Clark Filio, producer of How To: With John Wilson, stays on to talk NFTs, crypto, CIA Anitfa vs. Nazi Apes, metaverse nikes, how to make it rich with NFT farts, and Jingle Berry.
The full episode is available to patrons at http://Patreon.com/TheAntifada
Critique of crypto currency by Gegen Kapital und Nation: https://gegen-kapital-und-nation.org/en/bitcoin-finally-fair-money/?fbclid=IwAR24m892D8HjbHgJD7tWHM4GH5zHcUZ15hL6MWA4FI6E6-Qm9IAMVoRqb7M
Signal creators weights in on Web3: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
Antifa Ryder Ripps: https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/after-bored-ape-yacht-clubs-alleged-racist-ties-critic-ryder-ripps-elaborates-on-specifics-of-the-controversy
But NFT farts: https://fartjarsnft.com/
Line Goes Up video on NFTs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
song: The Vandals - Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
2/4/2022 • 7 minutes, 10 seconds
Ep 170 - How to Communize Art w/ Clark Filio
Painter, arts worker organizer, and How To: With John Wilson producer Clark Filio talks to us about the world of art! What is an arts worker, why are they organizing, and what are they organizing for? How do we wrest the art world away from the Sachlers and Axelrods of the world, and what would it look like after?
Listen to our bonus episode How to get Rich with NFTs by becoming a Medici-level Patron at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
Clark Filio's IG and painting Children of Gont: https://www.instagram.com/p/CHX6IbcFMdr/
The Financial Reason for Abolishing Museum Boards: https://hyperallergic.com/author/clark-filio/
Clark's article about the Tear Gas Biennial: https://communemag.com/breathing-together/
Closing song: The Thermals - No Culture Icons
2/2/2022 • 59 minutes, 45 seconds
EXTENDED PREVIEW: Diving into the Wreckage 2 "Fossil Capital" w/ C. Derrick Varn
The long-awaited second installment of Diving Into The Wreckage, the VarnVlog/Antifada crossover series is here! This time, Sean and Derrick put on their doomer caps to discuss capitalism and global warming: Is there a way out within this mode of production? Why have emissions ramped up so much in our lifetimes? What kind of political forces make climate change so intractable? And what does the future look like if we keep going down this path?
This is an extended preview of a longer episode. To access the full ep and tons more bonus content become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
To watch the video recording of this conversation, do what you should be doing already and subscribe to C. Derrick Varn's excellent content as well: https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog
Music: Gary Numan - This Wreckage
1/28/2022 • 42 minutes, 8 seconds
CROSSOVER: No Blood for Oil w/ Nostalgia Trap
Sean and David Parsons, host of the excellent history podcast Nostalgia Trap, take a dive into the politics and ideology of fossil fuels through the lens of the 2005 George Clooney and Matt Damon film 'Syriana'. They go back to the 1990s and 2000s, especially the wake of 9/11 and the runup to the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, to look at the sometimes troubled and myopic, but always fraught, way that Americans understand their relationship to oil and geopolitics.
Out later this week will be follow-up crossover, 'Diving into the Wreckage 2' with C Derrick Varn, about the deep connection between capital accumulation and fossil fuel consumption, globalization and rising emissions, and the future we can expect with climate change. For access to this and more become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada
1/26/2022 • 59 minutes, 49 seconds
PREVIEW: Denialism and Fascism w/ Pavlos Roufos
Continuing our discussion from the main episode, we go deeper into the denialism mess with Pavlos and ask ourselves what COVID and society's response might tell us about a possible revolutionary horizon. How do approach the real issues in the world without seeing like a state? We also discuss a second article written by an Italian collective, Wu Ming, that has a different take on the backlash against mandates: https://illwill.com/conspiracy-and-social-struggle
To access this and a ton more bonus content, access our discord server and be first to call in to our live show at twitch.tv/theantifada become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada
1/21/2022 • 8 minutes, 7 seconds
Ep 169 - Living in Denial w/ Pavlos Roufos
The gang is back with returning guest, Pavlos Roufos, for a spicy discussion about ever-contentious pandemic politics and how the left should relate to it:
Why has SARS-COVID 19 and the state response to it caused such an uproar in parts of Europe and the United States? What contradictory functions does the capitalist state perform in class society, and how has this led to disaster? What is the attraction of denialism among the populist right and, increasingly, parts of the left? Is there a rational kernel inside the mystical shell of COVID conspiracism? How have the unvaccinated been made a scapegoat for the failures of the bourgeois state? And is there anything recuperable within the waves of protest and direct action against mandates and vaccines?
Even spicier bonus episode will be available for subscribers at www.patreon.com/theantifada to sign up today. Special thanks from all of us to our friends at Cured Quail for publishing the collective article in question: https://curedquailjournal.wordpress.com/2021/12/09/the-reality-of-denial-and-the-denial-of-reality/
Outro: Juice WRLD - Denial
1/19/2022 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 5 seconds
Real Praetorian Hours (Preview)
We continue our discussion on the J6 "insurrection" with a reading of a NYT piece about a shadowy rightwing group you may not have heard of... likely because it's all a grift.
For the full episode and all our other bonus content support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
song: John Cale - Praetorian Underground
1/14/2022 • 5 minutes, 27 seconds
Ep 168 - Happy Birthday, Bay Of Chuds
On the one-year anniversary of the media spectacle that was the Jan 6 Capitol Hill 'insurrection,' the Antifada crew look back on what happened on that fateful day, how it compared to the George Floyd uprising, what's going on with liberal democracy, and how the anti-capitalist left should relate to all of it.
Outro song: Sick of it all - Insurrection
Fundraiser for families affected by Bronx fire: https://www.gofundme.com/f/relief-for-families-at-333-e-183rd-st
1/12/2022 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 58 seconds
Talkin Tina 6 - The Boric Pickle
After the election of self-described libertarian socialist Gabriel Boric, we talk to Isabel from the Valparaiso anarchist assembly and Rara Senal anarchafeminist podcast network about the election, constitutional referendum, and what, if anything, these things have to do with the massive uprising in Chile in 2019. We also discuss the relationship of indigenous groups to the new constitution, the status of political prisoners, and the many riot dogs (and other animals) of Chile.
Follow effort to support uprising prisoners: https://instagram.com/buscandolakalle
Bees attack cops: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/04/americas/beekeepers-chile-police-scli-intl/index.html
Perro Vaquito: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NkNbhXRXpQ
For past Talkin Tina episodes on Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru, and all other bonus content support the Antifada by becoming a patron at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
Opening song: Los Prisioneros -Baile de los que Sobran
Closing song: Dirti Lepra - Anti 133
1/5/2022 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 5 seconds
Armed Love 2 - Acid Fascism w/ JG Michael (Part 2 PREVIEW)
We continue our discussion of Mindfuckers: The Rise of Acid Fascism with the story of the Lyman Family--a folk music collective turned into a creepy cult of astrology-obsessed devotees to a toothless harmonica-playing manchild. Afterwards we discuss cults today--why they are so intriguing in popular culture yet seem to be on the decline. Finally we talk about acid. If it's a CIA psyop, does that mean we shouldn't take it?
The full episode is available for patrons at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
12/25/2021 • 3 minutes, 53 seconds
Armed Love 2 - Acid Fascism w/ JG Michael (Part 1)
Were the Manson and Lyman families apocalyptic cults, misunderstood revolutionaries, or media distortions created to delegitimize the revolutionary communalism of the '60s? Parallax Views host JG Michael joins us to discuss Mindfuckers: The Rise of Acid Fascism, a collection of early-'70s Rolling Stone Magazine articles, to ponder cultism, psychedelic culture, hippy racism, The Beatles, and much more.
Part two about the Lyman Family available for Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada
The second episode of a series on the revolutionary counterculture of the '60s! Listen to the first with Peter Coyote here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57554185
Support Parallax Views on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/parallaxviews
Music:
Charles Manson - Garbage Dump
The Beatles - Glass Onion
Lemonheads - Your Home is where You're Happy (Charles Manson cover)
12/22/2021 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 26 seconds
Diving Into the Wreckage w/ C. Derrick Varn (pt 1)
A new special collaboration series for VarnVlog and Antifada patrons featuring Sean and C. Derrick Varn. In this first episode we tackle to outlines of the present moment: what is the state of geopolitics? How does China fit into the world system? What is the state of American decline? How is US politics reflecting this decadence? What do the Democrats and Republicans stand for at the present moment, if anything? And more!
The full episode is available for patrons now at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/diving-into-ep1-59884519
This will be an ongoing collaboration so there will be more episodes soon. In the meantime, be sure to check out Varn's work:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/varn-vlog/id1567634170
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMuZYE1Q9yNpzn4dzsPtmcQ
Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage
12/15/2021 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 20 seconds
Take This Job and Reddit w/ Vladimir Lootin
A conversation about r/antiwork with @highriselowlife. Where did it come from? Why does it appeal to people? Is it the antidote to culture war? Will it organize a revolutionary general strike?
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Song: Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job and Shove It
12/10/2021 • 5 minutes, 59 seconds
Ep 167 - Srsly Chuang
Along with Red May and History Against Misery we interview communist collective Chuang about their new book the Social Contagion (sort of). Expanding on the 2020 essay about the origins of the pandemic in China, the anonymous collective living in and outside of China uses on-the-ground interviews, reports and analysis to show the fragile reality between China's authoritarian Marxist facade.
Buy Social Contagion from AK Press
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Closing song - Sandee Chan - Uncanny Valley
12/8/2021 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 34 seconds
PREVIEW: TIR, Extra w/ Pascal Robert and Jason Myles
Jamie and Sean continue with Jason Myles (@lafinabsolute) and Pascal Robert (@probert06) of the podcast and YouTube show This is Revolution (@TIRShowOakland) to critique the American left, talk shit and analyze the intersection of music and politics.
For this bonus content and access to our huge archive of good content, become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada.
12/3/2021 • 6 minutes, 28 seconds
The Black Misleadership Class w/ Jason Myles & Pascal Robert
Jamie and Sean are joined by Jason Myles (@lafinabsolute) and Pascal Robert (@probert06) of the podcast and YouTube show This is Revolution (@TIRShowOakland) for a wide-ranging discussion of black politics, media, and organizing in the modern age.
Pascal's Newsweek article: https://www.newsweek.com/black-political-elite-serving-corporate-interests-misrepresenting-our-community-opinion-1652384
Jason's Medium article: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/i-was-a-teenage-anarchist-e918b00bb13
What The Negro Wants: https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268019648/what-the-negro-wants/
Check out This Is Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qbDUXlCk5s&t=1s
12/1/2021 • 54 minutes, 38 seconds
UNLOCKED: Proletkult 10 - Memes Without End w/ Meg Williams
Enjoy this unlocked bonus ep! Happy Thanks-taking, we'll be back next week. -jamie
Meme Militant Meg and Andy read the essay Memes Without End by Adrian Wohlleben, in which he argues that elements of recent uprisings like the Yellow Vests of France, turnstile hopping of Chile, the umbrella-wielding frontliners of Hong Kong were memes that help them spread in a way that traditional social movements cannot.
Can we meme revolution into reality? Or is it impossible to force a meme? We discuss Richard Dawkins, Susan Blackmore, Darwin, and more!
Support Philly Elmo!
Music: Giorgio Moroder - Racer
11/24/2021 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 3 seconds
PREVIEW History is a Weapon 12: Something's Gotta Give w/ Matt Christman
Notes from the great impasse.... the boys are back to take you for a wild ride from supply chains, to the Great Resignation, to culture wars, to cryptocurrency, to NFTs to terminal crisis.
Why is nothing working and why does everything feel bad? It's the decadence of capitalism as a functioning social system and Sean and Matt explain why.
Be sure to listen to the end as Matt, like a similarly bearded guy before him, reaches into the misty depths of theology to try to analogize the impersonal domination of the value form. Ask yourself: is capital in fact the DEVIL? The answer might surprise you.
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Intro: The Doors 'Light my fire' (Vaporwave)
11/19/2021 • 11 minutes, 13 seconds
Ep 165 - Born In Flames w/ Aaron Thorpe
Jamie is joined by pal-of-the-show Aaron Thorpe (@paradoomer) to discuss Lizzie Borden's 1983 feminist sci-fi film "Born In Flames." Ten years after a "war of liberation" that established a social democratic government in the United States, things are still not great for women, especially queer, black, working class women! In a story that remains relevant to this day, the film follows the radical organizers of the Women's Army as they fight for true equality.
Outro song - "Born In Flames," Red Krayola
11/17/2021 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 47 seconds
Everybody Loves Communism: The Paris Commune (pt. 1)
Greetings, Antifada super soldiers! This week, we're cross-posting an episode of Jamie's new show Everybody Loves Communism, wherein she and co-host Jorge do the reading so you don't have to. In this edition, Jamie and Jorge begin their mini-series on the Paris Commune as a prelude to chapter 3 of Lenin's "State and Revolution," because you need to know about it to understand that chapter. It's also just an important event in the history of class struggle; Marx called it "the dawn of the great social revolution which will liberate mankind from the regime of classes forever"(!)
The content of the episode draws from Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune by John Merriman.
New Yorker Review of the book: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/fires-paris
Produced and Edited by Paul (@aufhebenkultur)
Intro: Everybody Hates Chris theme song.
Image: The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning by Camille Pissarro
Be sure to subscribe at fans.fm/everybodylovescommunism if you want to hear more, and sign up as a supporter if you're feeling generous. Patrons will be rewarded with a fun ep on "Succession" due out next week!
11/10/2021 • 59 minutes, 4 seconds
Ep 164 - The Great Strike Wave Of 2021
As "Striketober" becomes "Strikevember," Sean and Jamie discuss the ongoing wave of strikes and labor actions, and what they might mean for class struggle in the US.
Outro song: Strike Anywhere - You're Fired
Happy Halloweekend! Jamie and Leslie are back with a seasonally appropriate discussion of two takes on the same tale from two towering directors: "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and "Nosferatu the Vampyre" (1979), written and directed by Werner Herzog.
Which film contains the more convincing worldview? Which Dracula is incel, and which is volcel? Does Mina come off cooler than she should because she's played by Winona Ryder? All will be revealed.
Subscribe to The Antifada's premium feed to access the rest of this frighteningly fun series, plus tons of other bonus content and our Discord community! Patreon.com/TheAntifada
NYC listeners come to Jamie's Halloween cover bands show on 10/31!: https://bit.ly/3besiBW
10/29/2021 • 41 seconds
Ep 163 - Tales from the Palmer Hotel w/ Rick Paulas, Jake Flores
After the GSA convention (Gothic Socialists of America) the Antifidada crew spends a night at a hotel made famous by the book The Palmer Hotel, a collection of spooky short stories set over a century at a downtown hotel. $20. Venmo: Rick-Paulas, PayPal: RickPaulas@gmail, CashApp: $RickPaulas. Include address.
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NYC listeners come to Jamie's Halloween cover bands show 10/31!: https://bit.ly/3besiBW
10/27/2021 • 47 minutes, 7 seconds
Zen and the Art of Decolonization w/ Peter Coyote (Part 2)
In the second part of our first episode of Armed Love, Peter Coyote discusses his interest in Zen, how it came to be so influential to the beatniks and hippies, and his background with indigenous solidarity, particularly the campaign to free Leonard Peltier.
Coyote recommends Peter Matthiessen's In the Spirit of Crazy Horse regarding Peltier, and The New Buddhism by David Brazier and How the Swans came to the Lake by Rick Fields about Zen Buddhism.
The full episode is available free at Patreon.com/TheAntifada. If you like what we do, please support the show by becoming a patron and we'll send you a union-made letterpress postcard!
Opening song: Pink Fairies - Do it
Closing song - John Trudell - Look at Us / Peltier / Aim Song
10/24/2021 • 4 minutes, 15 seconds
Armed Love - The Diggers w/ Peter Coyote (Part 1)
We begin our new series on the revolutionary counterculture of the sixties by interviewing Peter Coyote, founding member of the Diggers -- an anarchist group from San Francisco whose free stores, tie-died shirts, free concerts, and activist street theater opened the gates of the Haight to tens of thousands of dropouts and helped define the sixties aesthetic. But by '67, the Diggers were already trying to escape the hippie movement by forming a network of revolutionary communes.
Joining Andy for the interview is Sean Lovitt, researcher sixties revolutionary groups and author of Mimeo Insurrection: The Sixties Underground Press and Long Hot Summer of Riots
Topics discussed include: The SF Mime Troop and their controversial minstrel show, the formation of the Diggers, the alleged insurrectionary activities, the Hells Angels, psychedelic drug culture and conspiracies, and the movements against war and for racial justice then and now.
For Part 2 of the series visit Patreon.com/TheAntifada
Check out Peter Coyote's books Sleeping Where I fall and Rainman’s Third Cure
And Diane di Prima's Revolutionary Letters
Intro song: Patti Smith - Citizen Ship
Outro Song - My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row
10/20/2021 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 14 seconds
Ep 162 - TFW No Supply Chain w/ Paul Channelstrip
Jamie and Sean are joined by superproducer Paul Channelstrip (@aufhebenkultur) (Antifada twitch channel, Everybody Loves Communism, many more) for a laid back episode about the zoo, a high profile bird murder, and the tendency of the rate of treats to fall over time. Why is the supply chain having a normal one and what does it mean for the current phase of capitalism?
You can watch this trio shoot the shit from 3pm-5pm ET every Wednesday and Friday at Twitch.tv/TheAntifada!
Check out Paul's many projects:
Everybody Loves Communism <--Jamie's new history and theory pod
Mortal Science
Varn Vlog
Reel Abstractions
closing song: Berner - Status
10/13/2021 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 16 seconds
Ep 161: Whither the Limeys? w/ Riley Quinn and Nate Bethea
The madlads from TrashFuture are back! Sean is joined by Riley (@raaleh) and Nate (@inthesedeserts) to discuss the very public meltdown of, well, you know, the entire British civilization. As it turns out, things in the UK are even more bleak than they appear from across the pond: supply chains breaking down, petrol stations empty, services being cut, etc. But even more dire, and darkly funny, is the reaction of the British ruling class' which absolutely refuses to rule. Put on your schadenfreude caps before queuing up for this one.
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Good writers on the UK mentioned by Nate:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6372431-when-the-lights-went-out
https://tribunemag.co.uk/author/owen-hatherley
Outro: Stormzy - Disapointed
10/6/2021 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 40 seconds
Ep 160 - Occupy Turns Ten w/ Natasha Lennard
Jamie and Andy are joined by Natasha Lennard (@NatashaLennard), contributing writer at The Intercept and author of "Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life," to commemorate Occupy Wall Street's ten-year anniversary. What are people erasing when they remember Occupy solely as something that "changed the conversation" around wealth inequality? How did the occupiers demonstrate anarchist politics in action? And what lessons can we carry into the future as we fight not merely to shore up the system, but to overthrow it?
Natasha on OWS:
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/01/occupy-wall-street-brooklyn-bridge-five-years/
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/occupy-socialist-anarchist/
Audio: Slavoj Zizek speaks at OWS: https://imposemagazine.com/bytes/slavoj-zizek-at-occupy-wall-street-transcript
"Peanut butter man" is alive and well and asks that we support LES Food Not Bombs: tiktok.com/@lesfoodnotbombs, Instagram.com/lesfoodnotbombs
Closing song: Third Eye Blind - If There Ever Was a Time
Support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada!
9/29/2021 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 20 seconds
Ep 159 - Forever Wars and No Strike Clause w/ Adam H Johnson
Sean is joined by special guest Adam H Johnson (@adamjohnsonnyc), writer and host of the excellent Citations Needed podcast, to discuss the political economy of mass media, how consent is manufactured and the myriad ways in which the capitalist press is complicit even in a declining US empire.
Then, with some extra time, Sean gives a briefing of several recent strikes and what they might mean for organized labor going forward.
Links:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afghan-women
https://labornotes.org/2021/09/ten-thousand-uaw-members-gear-strike-vote-john-deere
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/13/pari-s13.html
https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/09/06/nabisco-owner-sends-cease-and-desist-to-bakers-union-pledging-legal-action/
https://labornotes.org/2021/09/after-voting-down-four-tentative-agreements-washington-carpenters-strike
Closing song: B.o.B. - Arena
9/22/2021 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 37 seconds
BONUS: The Strokes Did 9-11 (PREVIEW)
The crew discuss some of the cultural changes that happened in New York City and the country following the attacks of September 11th through the lens of the biggest band of that era, The Strokes.
Sign up as a member at Patreon.com/theAntifada to unlock this episode and all of our fine bonus content!
9/17/2021 • 4 minutes, 15 seconds
Ep 158 - 9/11's Worst Responders w/ Research & Destroy
We share our stories of 9/11 (some more harrowing than others) and commemorate some of the lesser known actions of the NYPD and FDNY with one of the anonymous members of Research and Destroy NYC
Check out our bonus episode on the Strokes and NYC after 9/11 by becoming a patron at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Download Research and Destroy's free zine New York's Worst Responders free: https://researchdestroy.com/new-yorks-worst-responders-nypd-and-9-11.pdf
Music: Bruce Springsteen - Into the Fire
9/15/2021 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 11 seconds
BONUS: Memes Without Ends w/ Meg Williams (preview)
Meme Militant Meg and Andy read the essay Memes Without End by Adrian Wohlleben, in which he argues that elements of recent uprisings like the Yellow Vests of France, turnstile hopping of Chile, the umbrella-wielding frontliners of Hong Kong were memes that help them spread in a way that traditional social movements cannot.
Can we meme revolution into reality? Or is it impossible to force a meme? We discuss Richard Dawkins, Susan Blackmore, Darwin, and more!
For the full episode, all our other bonus material, and access to our discord community, subscribe today at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
And Support Philly Elmo!
9/10/2021 • 4 minutes, 14 seconds
Ep 157 - Steel this Book w/ Zhana Kurti, Dave Ranney, Kingsley Clarke
The late Noel Ignatiev's comrades Zhana Kurti (from Hard Crackers) and Dave Ranney and Kingsley Clarke from the Sojourner Truth Organization discuss the release of Acceptable Men, a memoir of Noel's time in the '70s as militant worker in the larger US Steel Mill in Gary Indiana.
Buy Acceptable Men from Charles H. Kerr Books or AK Press
And follow Kerr Books on Twitter
Please SUPPORT THE SHOW at PATREON.COM/THEANTIFADA
Show notes:
Dave Ranney's Living and Dying on the Factory Floor review:
https://www.angryworkers.org/2019/11/26/living-and-dying-on-the-factory-floor-by-dave-ranney/
Hard Crackers Journal:
https://hardcrackers.com/
Eulogy of Noel Ignatiev by Jarrod Shanahan:
https://communemag.com/noel-ignatiev-1940-2019/
Truth and Revolution: A history of the Sojourner Truth Organization: https://www.akpress.org/truthandrevolution.html
Song: Dave Dudley - Steel Worker Blues
9/8/2021 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 42 seconds
PREVIEW - History is a Weapon 11: The Sorrows of Empire w/ Matt Christman
Matt and Sean have returned to talk about the disastrous defeat of the United States in Afghanistan:
How did this happen and how does it implicate the American Imperial project? Why was the War on Terror? How is Biden's withdrawal linked to broader strategic interests (Cold War with China)? Whither American capitalist hegemony in the 21st century? And how will the citizens of this cursed country reconcile themselves to imperial decline? (Not well.)
Become at patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada for access to this premium content, other bonus episodes and access to our Discord server.
9/1/2021 • 9 minutes, 2 seconds
Ep 156: The Pig Majority w/ Geo Maher
Jamie is joined by Geo Maher to discuss his new book, "A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete." They discuss the origins of mass incarceration, the debate around "non-reformist" reforms, and alternative models of community safety. Also, the million dollar question: how do abolitionist politics fit into the over-arching project of building communism?
W/ bonus questions on the communes of Venezuela and the Zbellion!
Buy the book:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3783-a-world-without-police
Andy's essay criticizing the politics of safety:
https://illwill.com/gimme-danger
Outro: Noname - Song 33
Support the show at patreon.com/theantifada
8/25/2021 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 10 seconds
BONUS: No, Tanks w/ Michael Heinrich (PREVIEW)
In this very special bonus, Michael Heinrich addresses his detractors and fleshes out the political implications of his reading of Marx's mature work:
Is Michael's reading of Marx as having a monetary theory of value a concession to neoliberalism? What was Marx trying to get at with the Tendency of the Law of the Rate of Profit to Fall? What remains of Marx's crisis theory if we admit he gave up on TRoPF? Is the empirical work of 'Marxist Economics' worth a damn? And, of course, what does all this have to do with the production of communism?
Long-time listeners of the show are not going to want to miss this one, it's a banger!
Intro: LCD Soundstystem - Dance Yrself Clean
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8/20/2021 • 6 minutes, 10 seconds
Ep 155: Marx Against Marxism w/ Michael Heinrich
Sean and Jamie are excited to be joined by Michael Heinrich, German scholar and author of a series of books popularizing and clarifying Marx's value theory and contextualizing the life and times of old Karl. We discuss the core of Marx's project, what distinguished him from the economists of his day, and what political orientations might follow from a precise understanding of his critique of political economy. Importantly, Michael has a powerful critique of vulgar Marxism and the orthodoxies of the 19th and 20th centuries. Nerds, you're not going to want to miss this one!
Stick around for an excellent bonus episode by becoming a patron at patreon.com/theantifada for this, access to our Discord server and more!
Works by Michael Heinrich:
"An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Marx's Capital" https://monthlyreview.org/product/an_introduction_to_the_three_volumes_of_karl_marxs_capital/
"Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society" https://nyupress.org/9781583677353/karl-marx-and-the-birth-of-modern-society/
"How to Read Marx's Capital" (Out soon) https://nyupress.org/9781583678947/how-to-read-marxs-capital/
"The Science of Value" (Out next year)
Intro: Kenny Dorham - Maxology
Outro: Atari Teenage Riot - Destroy 2000 Years of Culture
8/18/2021 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 52 seconds
Ep 154: Anti-Anti Populism w Anton Jaeger
Sean, Jamie and Andy are joined by Anton Jaeger (@antonjagermm), Marxist researcher of populism, to discuss the history, present and future of populism whether in the left or right mold.
Several years ago it seemed as though left populism - exemplified by practitioners such as Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders - had a decent shot at upending the Washington Consensus on austerity, markets and foreign policy. With the failure and retreat of these candidates and others, what is left of this project? Why does right populism seem everywhere ascendant? What do these movements say about the economy and the political order? How can we understand the populist mode of politics in relation to the fight to abolish capital?
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Works by Anton:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/populism-douglas-hofstadter-donald-trump-democracy
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii128/articles/anton-jager-rebel-regions
https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2021/02/welfare-without-welfare-state-death-postwar-welfarist-consensus
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/11/we-bet-the-house-on-left-populism-and-lost
https://catalyst-journal.com/2020/03/making-sense-of-populism
https://nonsite.org/back-to-work-review-of-david-graebers-bullshit-jobs/
Intro: Cincinnati's University Singers -The Hand the Holds the Bread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqiAT6o7Kks
Outro: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - Populism Yea Yea
8/11/2021 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 9 seconds
BONUS: Deep State Lab Leak w/ Julian Feeld
Julian Feeld sticks around to smoke a hash joint and discuss the work of the New School alumni graphic designer who began the Deep State Map Project, his contact with aliens for Ashtar, the Q-esque manifesto it inspired, and our opinions on the "lab leak" hypothesis
For the full episode ppplleeeeaaasssseee support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Show notes:
Dylan Louis Monroe: Deep State Mapping Project
Interview: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/04/a-fascinating-interview-with-a.html
Nicholas Baker in New York Magazine: Did COVID-19 Escape from a Lab?
8/6/2021 • 3 minutes, 9 seconds
Ep 153 - Q Late w/ Julian Feeld
We're joined by QAnon Anonymous host Julian Feeld from Paris, giving us an update on all things QAnon, including Ron Watkins' pivot to UFOs, the right and left of the Yellow Vest movement's resistance to Macron's neoliberalism and vaccine passports, if there's any hope in a revolutionary left QAnon movement, and tips on staying sane in the eye of the storm.
Check out QAnon Anyonymous on Patreon and Twitch
Video of fascists getting wrecked at vaccine passport demo in Toulouse
For a bonus episode with Julian, and all other bonus material and access to our discord community, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Music: Q: Into the Storm theme by Brent Knopf
8/4/2021 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 12 seconds
Ep 152 - Anti-Imperialist Birthright w/ Marvin Gonzalez
Jamie is joined by Marvin Gonzalez (@Sulliedsubjects), a member of DSA's International Committee Secretariat, to discuss his recent trip to Venezuela as part of DSA's delegation to the Congreso Bicentenario de los Pueblos del Mundo, as well as his experience touring las comunas, a Soviet-like organ of dual power.
Outro song: Lloviznando Cantos - Arriba a la Izquierda
For more, check out the DSA delegation's report back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL2RHFnzpG0
Check out The Partisan, a publication from three of DSA's communist caucuses: partisanmag.com
Become a member at patreon.com/theantifada to unlock tons of bonus content and our Discord community!
7/28/2021 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 9 seconds
PREVIEW - Is China Imperialist? w/ Tony Norfield
As promised, here is a continuation of the discussion with Tony Norfield about capitalist imperialism and finance: is China's Belt and Road Initiative an imperialist endeavor? Despite having billionaires and huge corporations, is China even capitalist? What would a new Cold War between America and China look like?
Become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada for access to this bonus content and more, plus our Discord server and first in line to call in on our twitch.tv/theantifada
7/23/2021 • 7 minutes, 50 seconds
Ep 151 - Invisible Empire w/ Tony Norfield
Sean speaks with Tony Norfield (@StubbornFacts) who worked for decades in international banking and has seen first hand the way capital exploits the world, about the intersection of finance and empire. His book, 2016's The City, is more than just an update Lenin and Hilferding's work on imperialism, it provides a crucial Marxist analysis and critique of the capitalist world system, interest-bearing capital, international institutions, and more.
In this interview we discuss the long duree of Brexit, where the British ruling class fits in the hegemonic world order, the connection between market power and state violence, the rise of 'neoliberalism', and critique the idea that capitalism is being replaced by 'neofeudalism' or 'rentier capitalism'.
Bonus episode on the spicy question, 'is China imperialist,' is also available, so become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada for access to this and more!
Buy the book: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2457-the-city
Articles mentioned in the discussion:
https://economicsofimperialism.blogspot.com/2016/07/value-theory-finance-and-imperialism.html
https://anti-imperialist-action-ireland.com/blog/2020/08/01/china-and-us-power-with-tony-norfield/
https://economicsofimperialism.blogspot.com/2014/09/t-shirt-economics-update.html
Outro: Dirtbombs - Living Just Enough for the City (Stevie Wonder)
7/21/2021 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 25 seconds
BONUS - Folkintelpro w/ Aaron J. Leonard (PREVIEW)
Aaron J Leonard gives us a preview of his next book on folk music, revolutionary politics, and state repression in the '60s. We discuss Dylan going electric, his relationship with the old and new left, the black panthers' obsession with Highway 61 Revisited, and how much revolutionaries should worry about COINTELPRO today
For the full episode please support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
7/16/2021 • 5 minutes, 30 seconds
Ep 150 - Anti-Folk w/ Aaron J. Leonard
Historian of the radical left and state repression Aaron J. Leonard discusses his book Folk Singers and the Bureau, a chronicle of the relationship between American musicians, the Communist Party, and the FBI. We also talk about state repression today, human evolution, and Eric Adams' history of backing the blue.
For the bonus episode on Dylan, the Panthers, and the '60s please support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
Check out Aaron's twitter or his website
Songs:
Pete Seeger - Song for Bridges
Woody Guthrie - 1913 Massacre
The Weavers and Howard Fast - The Peekskill Story
7/14/2021 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 50 seconds
Ep 149 - Lavender Scare + Stonewall Riot Porn w/ John Leavitt [PREVIEW]
In this belated celebration of gay liberation Andy talks to writer and cartoonist for the New Yorker, Baffler, The Toast, the Nib, etc, and a real life gay communist, John Leavitt about the Lavender Scare--a moral panic and homophobic purge of the State Department after World War II that paralleled and informed the Red Scare. We also discuss purges of homosexuals from Leninist organizations, and whether it is better today that government buildings fly the rainbow flag.
After that some audio riot porn in the form of an excerpt from Martin Duberman's Stonewall, including a background on the raid and vivid details of how the riot began and how it played out.
For the full episode and all other bonus material, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Song: Sylvester - You Make me Feel (Mighty Real)
Jamie (@jamie_elizabeth) and Leslie (@leslieleeiii) discuss two scary, sexy — and above all, seventies — lesbian vampire movies with the help of Tanya Turner (@auntiebernice) of the Trillbilly Workers Party: Vampyres (1974) and The Vampire Lovers (1970).
Subscribe to The Antifada's (or Struggle Session's) premium feed to access the rest of this frighteningly fun series! Patreon.com/TheAntifada
Outro music: Secret Shame - Calm
Jamie and Aaron (@punishedtrapgod) finish out their discussion of Marx and Engels' "The Communist Manifesto."
Become a patron today at patreon.com/theantifada to unlock parts 2 and 3 of this episode, plus tons of other bonus content and our Discord community!
7/7/2021 • 7 minutes, 26 seconds
Ep 148 - Everybody Loves Communism w/ Aaron Thorpe
In the first ever episode of their new project "Everybody Loves Communism" — which just happens to be a crossover episode with The Antifada — Jamie Peck and Aaron Thorpe (Trillbilly Workers Party, A Time Of Monsters) delve into Marx and Engels' classic broadside "The Communist Manifesto" with the help of Sean KB. Stay tuned for parts 2 and 3, as well as for info on how to follow the show going forward!
"The Communist Manifesto": https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm
Outro song: Everybody Hates Chris theme song
6/30/2021 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 17 seconds
Ep 147: Abolish Action Burger Last w/ The Rax King
Sean and Andy are joined by writer and cohost of the Low Culture Boil podcast, Rax King, (@raxkingisdead) for a dive into the world of food and food service. Our intrepid crew reports back about a local weird, nerd, comic book restaurant called Action Burger, then uses the opportunity to talk about the miserable conditions of workers in the industry. To round it out they discuss the amazing pamphlet by prole.info called "Abolish Restaurants" and discuss why we must do just that.
Become a patron and get access to bonus content and our Discord at patreon.com/theantifada
Andy's former boss at the vegan place: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2017/05/11/the-vegan-fugitive-done-in-by-dominos-pizza-takes-a-plea/?sh=6b4338cd5cca
Action Burger: http://actionburger.com/
Sub to Rax King and LCB: https://www.patreon.com/raxkingisdead ; https://www.patreon.com/lowcultureboil
Abolish Restaurants: https://www.prole.info/
Outro: Vandals - Anarchy Burger
6/23/2021 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 40 seconds
UNLOCKED - C*mmunization Th**ry w/ Aaron Benanav
Now unlocked for non-patrons, Jamie and Sean with Aaron discuss the political implications of his research on automation and the future of work. If UBI and Keynesian stimulus is insufficient, what sort of movements and measures might be adequate to the present moment?
Outro: Rolling Stones - Luxury
You can get Aaron's excellent book at, where else, verso: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3717-automation-and-the-future-of-work
6/16/2021 • 47 minutes, 18 seconds
BONUS: The Sickle Drop w/ Anthony Fantano
Music reviewer Anthony Fantano (@The Needle Drop) comes on our Wednesday Twitch stream to talk about Grimes' AI communist future, Lana Del Rey's BLM track, Morrissey headlining Cruel World festival, vegan musicians ranked, Madball and Section H8 reopening shows, Connecticut hardcore, Fiona Apple Stans, 100 Gecs, ska-punk, new music recommendations, and much more!
Watch Anthony on Twitch and Youtube
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OR watch the whole unedited stream at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1051395799, and don't forget to follow and subscribe to our twitch channel!
Music:
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart V a p o r w a v e
Dridge - Webb
6/11/2021 • 11 minutes, 59 seconds
Ep 146 - AntiSKAda w/ Alex Kane
A discussion with journalist Alex Kane, who covers Israel/Palestine for Jewish Currents, the Intercept, Ha'aretz and others, about the recent conflict and cease-fire, the origins of the unrest in Jerusalem, the political shifts in Israeli society, and the effectiveness of pro-Palestinian activism in the United States, anti-war ska, and if we should change our podcast's name.
Please support the show! at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
Show notes:
http://www.alexbkane.com/
https://jewishcurrents.org/former-aipac-senior-operative-launches-group-to-cultivate-democratic-support-for-israel/
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/israel-palestine-occupation-gaza-nathan-thrall
https://www.angryworkers.org/2021/06/02/learning-processes-on-recent-working-class-movements-in-the-middle-east/
https://brooklynrail.org/2021/06/field-notes/Both-Sides-Now
Songs:
Bashar Murad - Maskhara
Ska-P - Intifidada
6/9/2021 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 26 seconds
BONUS PREVIEW: Hard Hat Riot and DSA Hair w/ Virgil Texas
Virgil and the Antifada crew continue their discussion of this dark and lascivious tale, placing it in historical context vis-a-vis the rise of right-wing populism, the Hard Hat Riot of 1970 and a disturbingly similar murder committed after the film was shot but before it was released. Plus: racial dynamics, modern day analogs and a bonus-to-the-bonus review of the New York City Press Corp's abortive attempt at satirizing the youth of today.
For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
Music: Dean Michaels - Hey Joe
6/4/2021 • 5 minutes, 53 seconds
Ep 145 - Classploitation w/ Virgil Texas (Part I)
Our buddy Virgil Texas (@VirgilTexas) calls in to discuss the 1970 exploitation film "Joe," starring Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, and — in her first ever movie role!— Susan Sarandon. In a spiritual sequel to Episode 17, the crew examines the rise of neoliberalism and concurrent dissolution of the American working class through the lens of this low-budget sleeper hit, in which the titular character, fed up with the degeneracy of hippie youth culture, teams up with a well-to-do dad to get revenge.
Part II of the episode is available now to Patrons at [Patreon.com/TheAntifada](Part II of the episode is available now to Patrons)
Check out Bad Faith, Virgil's podcast with Briahna Joy Gray, at patreon.com/badfaithpodcast
Follow us at Twitch.tv/TheAntifada to watch our livestreams Wednesdays and Fridays at 3pm and assorted additional times. We usually take calls!
Intro: Dean Michaels - Hey Joe
Outro: Exuma - You Don't Know What's Going On
6/2/2021 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 41 seconds
PREVIEW: Vampire Castle - Salem's Lot w/ Dan Boeckner
On this episode of Vampire Castle, Jamie and Leslie are joined by special guest Dan Boeckner (@DanBoeckner), of the bands Wolf Parade and Operators, to discuss "Salem's Lot," the 1979 TV miniseries based on the horror novel by Stephen King.
Note: contains spoilers for "The Outsider," so don't listen to 6:00-7:00 if you don't want em! (I'm the fucking worst, my exes were right about me, etc.)
Check out Dan's latest music stuff at patreon.com/operators ! Also check out his super Canadian podcast that Jamie has been on, The Bottlemen (@BottlemenPod).
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5/28/2021 • 38 seconds
Ep 144: Commoners All! w/ Peter Linebaugh
Sean and Andy are honored to sit down with Marxist historian of the Transatlantic World and Anglo-Irish labor history, Peter Linebaugh, to discuss his 2019 book, "Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard".
What is revolutionary love? How were the commons enclosed? What's the connection between capital and the anthropocene? How can the racialization of proletarians be overcome? How do we wrest back the commons for ourselves?
This was a great conversation and we're really proud to present this episode.
Outro: Robert Johnson - Crossroads Blues
Check out Peter's excellent book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520383036/red-round-globe-hot-burning
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5/26/2021 • 1 hour, 31 seconds
PREVIEW - Ep 143.2 Omnium-Gatherum w/ C. Derick Varn
Jamie and Sean are joined by C. Derick Varn, host of Varnblog, Pop the Left, and Mortal Science, in a wide-ranging discussion: the role of the Democratic Socialists of America and its orientation towards the Democratic Party, the ongoing slaughter in Palestine, communization theory and more. Part 2 of 2!
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Follow Derrick - https://symptomaticcommentary.wordpress.com/ @skepoet
Texts discussed -
Amedeo Bordiga: "Onward, Barbarians!" - https://libcom.org/library/onwards-barbarians
Endnotes: "Onward Barbarians" - https://endnotes.org.uk/other_texts/en/endnotes-onward-barbarians
Outro: Sheer Mag - Expect the Bayonet
5/21/2021 • 8 minutes, 50 seconds
Ep 143 - Omnium-Gatherum w/ C. Derick Varn
Jamie and Sean are joined by C. Derick Varn, host of Varnblog, Pop the Left, and Mortal Science, in a wide-ranging discussion: the role of the Democratic Socialists of America and its orientation towards the Democratic Party, the ongoing slaughter in Palestine, communization theory and more. Part 2 for patreons out later this week!
Become a patron at patreon.com/theantifada for bonus content, access to our Discord and more.
Follow Derrick - https://symptomaticcommentary.wordpress.com/ @skepoet
Texts discussed -
Amedeo Bordiga: "Onward, Barbarians!" - https://libcom.org/library/onwards-barbarians
Endnotes: "Onward Barbarians" - https://endnotes.org.uk/other_texts/en/endnotes-onward-barbarians
Outro: Sheer Mag - Expect the Bayonet
5/19/2021 • 58 minutes, 2 seconds
Talkin' 'Tina - Colombia Fights the Plan w/ Santi
For this episode of our side project on Latin American history and politics, we talk to a Human Rights lawyer from the Colombian movement Congreso del Pueblos about the recent uprising against far-right President Ivan Duque's pandemic austerity measures, and the brutal repression that followed.
Earlier this year Duque proposed a new tax on consumer goods, a regressive tax disproportionately effecting the poor population already struggling against booming unemployment. A series of nationwide strikes against the tax and austerity called for late April turned out to be far more massive than anyone had predicted, overcoming some of the deep divisions between the popular movements and Duque's base. But the dozens of deaths, disappearances, countless beatings and sexual assaults that followed have only galvanized the struggle further--and our guest has concluded that the State has "already lost."
Special thanks to Projet Accompagnement Solidarité Colombie
Relevant reading:
https://crimethinc.com/2020/09/11/uprising-in-colombia-an-example-of-what-is-to-come-a-report-and-interview-on-the-background-of-the-revolt
Song: Dead Hero - Dime quevas hacer?
Previous episodes of Talkin' 'Tina on Peru, Brazil, and Argentina are available for our Patreon subscribers
5/10/2021 • 44 minutes
Ep 142 - The Healthcare Monster w/ Gabriel Winant
Sean and Jamie are joined by Gabe Winant (@gabrielwinant), historian and author of "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America," to discuss the composition of the US working class yesterday and today.
Gabe's excellent historical work has given us a picture of the remarkable changes seen in Pittsburgh, once an emblematic blue collar town and one now dominated by hospitals and pink collar work. But, as we see in the interview, Pittsburgh is merely a microcosm of an epochal shift from one regime of accumulation to another; from the post-war "Golden Age," to the (decaying) neoliberal order of today. Together we pick apart the contradictions within both as we look at real examples of class struggle (alongside the grand dialectic of capital) and wonder what the future might look like for the American working class as a whole.
Buy "The Next Shift" https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091
Outro - Wiz Khalifa: Black and Yellow (Vaporwave)
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5/5/2021 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 40 seconds
Ep 141 - The Long March Through The Applications w/ Edward Ongweso Jr.
Jamie and Sean are joined by Edward Ongweso Jr. (@bigblackjacobin), staff writer at Motherboard and co-host of This Machine Kills (@machinekillspod), for a discussion of all things tech. Rather than freeing us from drudgery, technology has been used by capitalists to make things worse for the vast majority of humanity. How did we get here? How can workers fight back? What does it mean to be a 21st century Luddite? How does this relate to police abolition? Plus: Edward's answer to Andy's Twitter poll about turning off the internet.
Outro music: Chumbawumba - the Triumph of General Ludd
Check out Edward's reporting at Motherboard: https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/edward-ongweso-jr
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4/28/2021 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 2 seconds
Hardcore History w/ Jarrod Shanahan, Dave ToolUsingMammal (Bonus Preview)
A free-form discussion on the history of hardcore, from its origins in the '77 punk explosion in LA, NY, DC, Boston, and Canada. We talk about our experiences in the scene and the various class backgrounds and political sentiments at play. Discussions include: anti-racism, youth crew, straightedge, veganism, political hardcore, if anarchopunk really exists, the concept of "unity", and why hardcore singers keep saying "all lives matter" at their reunions.
For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
Including tracks from: John Joseph, Pg.99, Slapshot, SSD, Gorilla Biscuits, Catharsis, and Twisted Thing
Follow Jarrod's writing at Hard Crackers
And follow Dave on Twitter
4/23/2021 • 11 minutes, 17 seconds
Ep 140: 'Pushing" Biden to 'the Left' w/ Sean and Jamie
Ah, a good old fashion news ep with Sean and Jamie!
First, we've reached pretty pass when the Wall Street Journal is penning diatribes about woke capitalism. Is it true, as they contend, that big business is.. anti-capitalist? What does this even fucking mean?
Next, President Biden has passed $2 trillion in stimulus and proposed another $2 trillion in infrastructure spending. Did it work? Did 'we' push Biden 'to the left'? We break down the spending and talk about what it really means. (Spoiler: the left wing of capital is desparate)
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Outro: Novelist - Street Politician
4/21/2021 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 24 seconds
ep 139 - Autism Abolition Month w/ Anders Lee
Andy and Anders have an intimate discussion about the history autism, starting in the coffeehouses of Red Vienna and ending in the imageboards of collapsing modernity. With a history rooted in eugenics, fascism, and neoliberalism, Anders questions the origins and continued necessity of the category while advocating for increased understanding and compassion for neurodivergency.
Follow Anders Lee and listen to Pod Damn America
Read his article "I Don't Believe in Autism": https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/02/i-dont-believe-in-autism/
Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN): https://autisticadvocacy.org/
Check out Aspergers are Us on Netflix and HBO
Opening song: Autistic Youth - Stones
Closing: Autistic Youth - Not for Me
4/14/2021 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 22 seconds
Ep 138 - Spring Break Forever w/ Jake Flores
Jamie, Sean and special guest Jake Flores (@feraljokes) of Pod Damn America (@PodDamnAmerica) get together to discuss Harmony Korine's seminal 2012 film Spring Breakers. We trust you've already seen this masterpiece, but in case you haven't, major spoilers ahead!
Outro: Skrillex - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
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4/7/2021 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 17 seconds
Antifada's History is a Weapon 10.2: 'Farm Aid 1985' w/ Matt Christman EXTENDED PREVIEW
HIAW is back with our tenth episode! In this one we wonder: what are the roots of the poverty of rural life in America?
The American Dream always included self-sufficiency and independence and nothing represented this more than the family farm. This form of petty commodity production used to be a backbone of 'middle class' life in America, but now less than 2% of the population engages in it. Alongside we have seen an opiate epidemic, material deprivation, deaths of despair and more. What can political economy tell us about the rural crisis?
Part 2 of 2.
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Music: Eddy Huntington - USSR Disco Vaporwave
Suggested Readings:
Ellan Meiksins Wood - The Origins of Capitalism: a Longer View
Jainus Banaji - Theory as History
Gred Grandin - The End of the Myth
Ed. - The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe
Charles Post - The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class Structure
G.M. Tamas - Telling the Truth About Class
4/2/2021 • 17 minutes, 4 seconds
Antifada's History is a Weapon 10: 'Farm Aid 1985' w/ Matt Christman EXTENDED PREVIEW
HIAW is back with our tenth episode! In this one we wonder: what are the roots of the poverty of rural life in America?
The American Dream always included self-sufficiency and independence and nothing represented this more than the family farm. This form of petty commodity production used to be a backbone of 'middle class' life in America, but now less than 2% of the population engages in it. Alongside we have seen an opiate epidemic, material deprivation, deaths of despair and more. What can political economy tell us about the rural crisis?
This is an extended preview: become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada for access to this premium content and more
The second part will be out on Friday.
Music: Eddy Huntington - USSR Disco Vaporwave
3/31/2021 • 21 minutes, 8 seconds
Ep 137 - Work Sucks (I Know) w/ Sarah Jaffe
Author and journalist Sarah Jaffe (@sarahljaffe) joins Sean and Jamie to discuss her new book, "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone." Antifada listeners know "do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life" is a dirty lie told by capitalists. But where did this idea come from? In this book, Jaffe traces the rise of "labor of love" ideology to the neoliberal turn of the 1970s, explains how it intersects with racism and sexism, shows how it damages workers, and lastly, gives some ideas for how to defeat it.
Buy the book: https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/sarah-jaffe/work-wont-love-you-back/9781568589398/
Outro song: Kate Bush - "This Woman's Work"
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3/24/2021 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 3 seconds
Ep 136 - Insurrection (ft. Rihanna) w/ Phil A. Neel
In this episode Andy and Sean sit down with Phil A. Neel, author of 'Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict' to talk about his work and travels and how they helped him reconceptualize working class life in the United States and abroad. We discuss the particular geography of accumulation and exploitation that has created glittering global cities of commerce and finance, alongside impoverished and a dystopian far hinterland. We bring it up to the present with the political ramifications of this new landscape, how it reconfigures class struggle as seen in the Ferguson protests, last summer's insurrection and the waves of riots across the planet.
Outro: Eminem ft Rihanna - Love the Way you Lie
Buy the book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo28433484.html
Phil's article on the pandemic : https://brooklynrail.org/2020/07/field-notes/Crowned-Plague
Nihilist Communism by Monsieur Dupont: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/monsieur-dupont-nihilist-communism.pdf
3/17/2021 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 37 seconds
PREVIEW - Vampire Castle - Only Lovers Left Alive & A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
Jamie and Leslie are back with a hot, fresh VC to sink your teeth into! On this edition, they discuss Jim Jarmusch's stylish vampire slice-of-life movie "Only Lovers Left Alive" (2013), as well as Ana Lily Amirpour's Iranian vampire Western "A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night" (2014).
Become a patron at Patreon.com/TheAntifada to unlock the full version of this episode, plus our Discord community and tons of bonus content!
3/12/2021 • 38 seconds
Ep 135 - Don't Kronstadt me w/ Bini Adamczak
Author Bini Adamczak discusses her newly translated book Yesterday's Tomorrow, a haunting meditation on the history of counterrevolution through the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion, the cult of Lenin, the Stalinist purges, and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. The book begs to ask how our revolutionary thinking is hindered by these tragedies, suggesting that things could have and may proceed differently in the future.
She also discusses her group Zero Covid, which criticizes the far-right and neoliberal approaches the pandemic. Follow them on twitter at https://twitter.com/zeroCovid_DACH
Check out Bini's books:
Communism for Kids
Yesterday's Tomorrow
On the Communism for Kids controversy: https://brooklynrail.org/2017/06/field-notes/Why-Conservatives-Are-Panicking-Over-a-Short-Story-About-Communism
And some of her writing:
https://brooklynrail.org/2020/09/field-notes/Corona-Crisis-Governmentality
https://brooklynrail.org/2017/12/field-notes/The-Future-of-the-Past
Support us by subscribing to the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Song: Matrosen von Kronstadt!
(a GDR rendition of the Soviet song "Forward, Red Marines!" about the events of the naval theater of the Russian Civil War, rewritten by Helmut Schinkel, to glorify the Bolshevik suppression of the Kronstadt Rebellion)
3/10/2021 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 4 seconds
Some of those things can never be discussed w/ Bradley Greene, Toussaint Losier (Bonus Preview)
After we ended the episode, Bradley Greene and Touissant Losier stayed on the line to talk more about some particularities of the film, including the shootout at 58th street and Calumet, Fred Hampton's time in Menard Prison, and the racist violence in Cairo, Illinois.
Listen to full clip at patreon.com/theantifada
3/5/2021 • 57 seconds
Ep 134 - It's not Revolution, It's HBO w/ Toussaint Losier, Bradley Greene
Joining us to discuss the new movie “Judas and the Black Messiah" are Afro-American studies professor Dr. Toussaint Losier and Bradley Greene, a Chicago Black Panther. Greene tells us what life was like in the BPP, his relationship Fred Hampton, why the police were set on killing him, and several important aspects of the movie he thinks were really wrong. We also talk about the struggle today, and what our generation can learn from the Party and the attacks against it.
Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Audio is taken from "The Murder of Fred Hampton" (1971) edited by Anatoli Ulyanov with music by Skarú
3/3/2021 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 49 seconds
Tupac could have prevented this w/ Amogh Sahu, Matt Peterson (CGYOMH Part 2 preview)
Part 2 of our review of with Adam Curtis' new BBC series Can't Get You Out of My Head with the Woodbine's podcast. Topics include the Joan Baez, Patti Smith, the Tupac hologram, and Elon Musk.
You can hear the full episode by supporting our show at patreon.com/theantifada
Closing song: Cigarettes after Sex - Starry Eyes
2/26/2021 • 4 minutes, 31 seconds
Ep 133 - Crazy Bitch Theory of History w/ Amogh Sahu, Matt Peterson (Part 1)
Part 1 of a crossover episode with Woodbine's podcast about Adam Curtis' new BBC series, Can't Get You Out of My Head. We talk about Adam Curtis' methods, his political origins, his visions of the future, and what his conclusions might offer revolutionaries.
For their other episode and part 2, support Woodbine, a radical community hub in Ridgewood Queens, at their Patreon
You could also support us at our Patreon!
Opening song: KYLIE MINOGUE- CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD
Closing song: Electric Light Orchestra - Can't Get it Out of My Head
2/24/2021 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 45 seconds
Ep 132 - What No Anti-War Movement Does To An AUMF w/ LeftFlankVets
Jamie and Sean host Marcus and Lorax of leftist veteran co-op LeftFlankVets (@leftflankvets) to talk about their media project, their experiences in the military, and the potential for revolutionary organizing within the ranks of the US armed forces. They also give a prognosis for foreign policy under Biden and offer up answers as to why some vets fall prey to right-wing militia movements. The best military episode we've done since Ep 19 feat. Spenser Rapone!
Closing song: The Monks - Monk Time
Check out their channel at twitch.tv/LeftFlankVets
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2/17/2021 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 14 seconds
Ep 131 - On The Ultra Question w/ Kay Gabriel
Kay Gabriel (@unit01barbie), of DSA Emerge and the #DefundNYPD campaign, stops by to give a counterpoint to some of our previous guests' takes on cutting police budgets as part of the road to abolition. Equal time doctrine, but only for different types of communists!
Sharp-eared observers will note this audio came from The Antifada twitch stream. Follow us at twitch.tv/theantifada to catch all our video content! We stream most Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 7pm ET.
Visit defundnypd.com to stay updated and/or get involved.
Check out "We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics," edited by Kay Gabriel and Andrea Abi-Karam (some of the poems are about abolishing the police!): https://nightboat.org/book/we-want-it-all/
Intro/Outro: "Total Eclipse of the Heart" (vaporwave remix)
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2/10/2021 • 1 hour, 50 minutes, 23 seconds
BONUS - GameStopulism w/ Jason Smith
Jason sticks around to discuss retail traders, the end of the beginning of Trumpism, the legacy of Obama and what, if anything, can be taken from last week's Reddit vs Wall Street battle.
Become a patron to access this bonus episode and others, plus our Discord server: www.patreon.com/theantifada
Closing song: Roger Miller - Not in Nottingham
2/5/2021 • 7 minutes, 51 seconds
Ep 130 Line Goes Mad w/ Jason Smith
Political economist Jason Smith, (@profitratedown) author of 'Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in and Age of Stagnation', joins Sean to give us all an update on how that dang line is doing.
What is the source of all of America's various morbid symptoms the last 12 to 40 years? How can it be that a handful of tech companies (the FAANGS) can seem to be so profitable when the 'real economy' is so depressed? What does all this mean for a return to social democratic, non-revolutionary politics in the capitalist core? And if you've ever wondered just why all the jobs, including perhaps your own, as so shitty these days, we ask: what is service work, really, and how does it fit into the schema of capitalist production. Finally, what is the future of work?
Bonus episode on the end of Trump and the GameStop debacle out on Friday!
Jason's book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo70564105.html
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Closing song: Daisy Chainsaw - Love your money
2/3/2021 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 23 seconds
Beyond the Defund/Abolish debate w/ Hard Crackers (BONUS)
Jamie, Jarrod, and Zhana from Hard Crackers talk more about the realistic possibilities of defunding or abolishing the police, non-reformist reformers, and an anti-carceral popular front.
For the full episode and access to our Discord community, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
1/29/2021 • 5 minutes, 21 seconds
Ep 129: The Year Whiteness Broke w/ Hard Crackers
Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti of Hard Crackers Journal inaugurate our new era of unrest! We talk about the origins of the journal in the white abolitionist work of Noel Ignatiev, race treason in the George Floyd uprising, and finally the January 6th Capitol Siege and how the left can take insurrectionism back from the trumpist pretenders.
Read, order, and/or donate to Hard Crackers at https://hardcrackers.com/
Subscribe for bonus content and Discord access at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
Work by Jarrod and Zhana:
https://brooklynrail.org/2020/07/field-notes/Prelude-to-a-Hot-American-Summer
https://hardcrackers.com/the-big-takeover/
https://hardcrackers.com/last-stand-freedom-america/
https://hardcrackers.com/stopthesteal/
https://hardcrackers.com/remembering-noel-ignatiev-jarrod-shanahan/
https://hardcrackers.com/white-people-discussion-race-class-police-violence/
Opening music: Second South Carolina String Band - Hard Crackers Come Again No More
Closing music: Blood for Blood - White Trash Anthem
Jamie is joined by Aaron Thorpe (@posadist_trapgd) of Trillbilly Workers Party and A Time Of Monsters and Andray Domise (@andraydomise) of The Drop Squad on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to discuss the first volume of Barack O'bummer's serial killer memoir "A Promised Land." What is 44 trying to do here? Is he Lena Dunham, Walter White, or a perfect synthesis of both? And what's so bad about going to therapy that men will literally run for president to avoid it?
Apologies for the poor sound quality on Jamie's end, she forgot to check the input settings and feels very bad.
The Drop Squad: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-drop-squad/id1523282652
A Time Of Monsters: https://www.patreon.com/atompod
Trillbillies: https://soundcloud.com/user-972848621-463073718
Aaron's substack: https://spacelight.substack.com/
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1/20/2021 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 16 seconds
BONUS - Electric Boogaloo w/ Shemon and Arturo
Our guests from episode 127 stick around to discus a topic that's floating around more and more these days: civil war.
What does the 1861-65 conflict and its aftermath tell us about the role that the proletariat must take in the coming months and years? And what are the stakes of the coming rupture?
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Outro: Pete Seeger - John Brown's Body
1/15/2021 • 4 minutes, 45 seconds
Ep 127 - Riot Cars Go Vrrrrroom w/ Arturo & Shemon
Our friends Arturo and Shemon stop by to discuss the George Floyd rebellion and how it might go from a series of isolated insurrections to a glorious proletarian revolution. Radical geography, looting caravans, white accomplices, organized labor, and the black counter-insurgency as viewed through a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air lens.
Stay tuned for Friday's bonus in which we discuss the chud riot at the capitol and what lessons we can take from the American Civil War.
Articles referenced:
https://illwilleditions.com/theses-on-the-george-floyd-rebellion/
https://illwilleditions.com/the-rise-of-black-counter-insurgency/
https://illwilleditions.com/the-return-of-john-brown-white-race-traitors-in-the-2020-uprising/
https://illwilleditions.com/prelude-to-a-new-civil-war/
https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/cars-riots-black-liberation
https://itsgoingdown.org/fire-on-main-street-small-cities-in-the-george-floyd-uprising/
Outro song: Dj Screw - Sittin on Top of the World (Big Floyd aka George Floyd verse)
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1/13/2021 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 2 seconds
Gen-X Ghost Stories w/ Douglas Lain (PREVIEW)
Douglas Lain of Zer0 Books chats with us slightly youngsters about zines, indymedia, adbusters anti-globalization, anti-war, and the world this radicalism has left us with. Was it all radical liberalism or did 2008 break part of the counterculture towards a revolutionary path?
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Closing song: Jimmy Buffet - Cheeserburger in Paradise
1/11/2021 • 6 minutes, 40 seconds
The 17th Nivôse of Donald J. Trump w/ Matt Christman (PREVIEW)
Cushbomb comes by our weekly Wednesday twitch show to talk about the chud invasion of the capital. Was it a grassroots uprising, an attempt coup, or a color revolution in the making? How should the left respond?
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Also joining us was french-based comrade Henry J Wallis and Remi from Cosmonaut Magazine and the Marxist Center
For more with Henry and Remi watch the full stream free: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/864250811
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1/7/2021 • 3 minutes, 5 seconds
Ep 126 - Lasch Back w/ Douglas Lain
The editor of Zer0 Books and host of Zer0 Squared talks about his recent video that was too hot for Youtube. What is "the Great Reset," what does Christopher Lasch's "The Revolt of the Elites" have to say about (via Paul Sweezy and the Johnson-Forest Tendency), and how did that critique not go far enough? We also discuss Doug's sectarian background and new media strategies for the left in general.
Watch the banned video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/christopher-paul-44266732
Another good convo on Lasch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1zO1SAdCRE
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Closing song: Brockhampton - Weight
1/6/2021 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 38 seconds
Ep 125 - The Monster Enters w/ Mike Davis
Jamie and Andy sit down with the great Marxist historian, author, activist and urban theorist Mike Davis to review the year that was. Topics include the California wildfires, the Covid-19 pandemic, the George Floyd uprising, and that wet fart of an election. Why is everything so terrible and what should anti-capitalist organizers be focusing on going into 2021? All will be revealed.
Articles referenced:
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii126/articles/mike-davis-trench-warfare
https://lithub.com/how-a-pandemic-happens-we-knew-this-was-coming/
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/california-fire-drought-climate/
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-arellano-malibu-burn-20181114-story.html
Outro song: Michael Martin Murphy - Wildfire
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12/30/2020 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 9 seconds
Ep 124 - On the Xmas Question w/ Dave Silverberg
Santa visits us to deck the halls with boughs of... holly. We talk about the left "negationists" and their defenders like Noam Chomsky, the Faurrison affair and connection with current culture wars about free speech, and the Bordigist critique at their heart of their milieu. Scholar of religious discrimination Dave Silverberg then presents his thesis that Marx's On the Jewish Question is misread as an antisemitic text. Finally, we draw some conclusions about labor party expulsions and other contemporary controversies surrounding antisemitism. Merry Christmas!
Original Bordigist essay: http://libcom.org/library/auschwitz-big-alibi
Introduction to French Ultra-Left and Faurisson: https://libcom.org/library/john-gray-introduction-question-state
Thread on Bordiga, Dauve, Guillaume and Auschwitz: https://libcom.org/forums/theory/bordigism-anti-fascism-01032012
Anti-semitism and National Socialism - Moishe Postone https://libcom.org/library/anti-semitism-national-socialism-moishe-postone
Closing song: Weird Al - The Night Santa Went Crazy
12/23/2020 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 25 seconds
Ep 123 - Trillbilly Elegy w/ Tarence Ray
In order to discuss the appalling ways that poor white people are portrayed in the United States, we had to have on Tarence (@tarenceray) from the Trillbilly Workers Party. We all watched JD Vance's execrable 'Hillbilly Elegy' so you don't have to.
Out of this came a great discussion about deindustrialization, rural poverty, the opioid epidemic and media portrayals of that figure of derision and fear, 'the white working class'. What changes to US political economy caused widespread immiseration over the last 50 years in places like Appalachia? How have politics failed the workers in these communities? And what dark visions do the Charles Murrays and JD Vances of the world have for a solution to the rural poverty problem?
Outro song: Total Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Heart - Bonnie Dauvé
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12/16/2020 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 56 seconds
Ep 122 - Uber (Owned)
A Covid vaccine is coming (for the rich). Uber gets owned. Real estate tycoons make record profits. Amazon workers organize. And much, much more.
Here's the article Jamie forgot to link last time: https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1
Donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund: atlsolidarity.org
Donate to Dick's commissary fund: venmo kat-richards-1 / cashapp $katrichards (caption that it’s for Richard)
Send Dick a letter at [email protected]
Closing song: Lady Bits - C'Mon Baby
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12/9/2020 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 6 seconds
PREVIEW - C*mmunization Th**ry w/ Aaron Benanav
Aaron sticks around with Jamie and Sean to discuss the political implications of his work on automation and the future of work. If UBI and Keynesian stimulus is insufficient, what sort of movements and measures might be adequate to the present moment?
Listen to the full episode by supporting the show at patreon.com/theantifada
Outro: Rolling Stones - Luxury
You can get Aaron's excellent book at, where else, verso: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3717-automation-and-the-future-of-work
12/4/2020 • 9 minutes, 50 seconds
Ep 121 - Automation & The Future Of Work w/ Aaron Benanav
Sean and Jamie speak with Aaron Benanav (@abenanav), currently a researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin, about his new book, "Automation and the Future of Work." While automation theorists predict that we are headed for a smooth transition to fully automated luxury communism (or is it partially automated poverty capitalism?) with a little help from our friend Andrew Yang, Benanav says not so fast. To provide an alternate explanation for the dropping demand for labor, he takes us through the book's key arguments, savors some Keynesian tears, pokes holes in the idea of a UBI, and sets us up nicely for part 2 (out Friday!) where we talk about how to get from our current hellworld to a society built around human needs.
Outro music: Limp Bizkit - I'm Broke
12/2/2020 • 1 hour, 29 seconds
Talkin' Tina 4 - Brazil's Nuts w/ Amauri Gonzo
Our series about Latin America returns with an episode on Brazil with Amauri Gonzo of Brasil Wire, Ponte.org, and the Afita podcast. We cover a wide range of topics including riots against the murder of a black man last weekend on Black Consciousness Day, the regional elections, COVID vaccine drama, expectations of a Biden policy in Latin America, fires and military maneuvers in the Amazon, prospects for a post-Workers' Party Brazilian left, Gl*nn Gr**nwald, and Bolsonaro's anime avatar.
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11/27/2020 • 5 minutes, 14 seconds
Spine Check 5 - Marx before Marxism: Value, Price and Profit
Andy and Sean are joined by Edwad @readcapital and Cordelia @cozyunoist, the confirmed superstars of #heinrichtwitter and co-hosts of the Reel Abstractions podcast to discuss Karl (Heinrich) Marx's 1865 address to the 1st International called 'Value, Price and Profit.'
As anti-Marxist communists steeped in Marxology, they help us confront this seemingly simple text for what it is - a fraction of Marx's total critique from a snapshot of time, and a Marx at his most Ricardian - which opens a conversation on: the difference between political economy and critical theory, the usefulness of Marx for communist theory, and the ambiguities that exist even in the mature theory we've inherited today.
This is a challenging episode (we stand in awe at the Reel Abstractions crew's grasp of the material) but well worth a listen.
song: Green Day - Nice Guys Finish Last
11/25/2020 • 1 hour, 7 minutes
Ep 120 - Bob's Bürgerlichs
Jamie and Sean vibe on a number of topics, not limited to but including: feeling depressed, #DefundNYPD canvassing, and the latest bad discourse around "connecting with the working class." What's going to happen to millennials' politics when some of them inherit property? And a preview of a critique of democratic socialism.
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Closing song: Nina Simone - Backlash Blues
11/18/2020 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 57 seconds
Spine Check 4 - Society of the Spectacle w/ Eric-John Russel (preview)
The second half of our conversation with Eric-John Russel of Cured Quail about Society of the Spectacle. We define the spectacle, cover the abolition of time, do some close readings of some of the aphorisms, and talk about practical applications of the text
For the full episode and access to all our bonus content, including History is a Weapon, Vampire Castle, and Proletkult, support us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
11/13/2020 • 8 minutes, 10 seconds
Ep 119 - Merci bad coup w/ Eric-John Russel
Scholar and madman Eric-John Russel joins us to discuss his journal the Cured Quail, the political origins of the Situationist International, and Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle.
After that Sean and Andy discuss Trump's low-energy coup attempt, especially why so many anticipated it and why it doesn't seem to be working.
Support the Antifada by becoming a Patron for the full Spine Check episode on Society of the Spectacle, released Friday.
Get Cured Quail 1 and preorder Cured Quail 2 at https://curedquail.com/
Society of the Spectacle pdf: https://libcom.org/files/The%20Society%20of%20the%20Spectacle%20Annotated%20Edition.pdf
Eric-John Russel's forthcoming book on Debord and Hegel:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/spectacular-logic-in-hegel-and-debord-9781350157637/
Recent SI reader from Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338897/the-situationist-international/
Don Hammerquist's essay on right populism and international capital: https://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2018/10/new-stuff-from-old-guy-part-1.html
Matthew Lyons - Resisting Trump's Coup https://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2020/09/resisting-trumps-coup.html
Business leaders plan response if Trump disputes election results:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/06/business/business-groups-election-results/index.html
music:
Refused - Rather be Dead
Stone Roses - Bye Bye Badman
11/11/2020 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 24 seconds
Angry Workers Part II: Essential Workers and Insurrection
In Part two of our discussion with the Angry Workers collective about their new book Class Power on Zero Hours, we talk about the new cycle of unrest spreading the world: riots against police brutality, racism, and renewed lockdowns in Europe. We close with a discussion of the tasks a workers' revolution will need to accomplish to succeed, and how we can get from here to there.
For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
Angry Workers' Insurrection and Production essay
11/6/2020 • 6 minutes, 31 seconds
Ep 118 - Angery Worker Reacts Only w/ Angry Workers
We interview two authors of the new book "Class Power on Zero Hours" describing the Angry Workers' collective efforts of organizing, agitating, and working in the industrial fringes of west London.
“We are publishing this book at a time when many on the left are licking their wounds, despondent at their missed opportunity to implement a socialist program through the Labour Party," they write in the intro, calling instead for more focus on daily worker activity for autonomy, and theorizing how solidarity between essential workers can point the way to revolution.
Part two of the episode, released Friday on Patreon, will discuss that program as well as anti-lockdown riots and BLM.
Read the full introduction: https://classpower.net/intro/
Buy Class Power on Zero Hours from PM Press: https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1164
Angry Workers’ essay on insurrection:
https://angryworkersworld.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/insurrection-and-production/
Correspondence with Insurgent Notes: http://insurgentnotes.com/2020/09/introduction-to-discussion-of-class-power-on-zero-hours/
Closing song: Sleaford Mods - Jobseeker
11/4/2020 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 22 seconds
Proletkult 9 - The People's Beetlejuice w/ the Lit Crit Guy (PREVIEW)
Happy Mischief Night! Andy is joined by Jon the Lit Crit Guy to discuss Tim Burton's 1988 horror comedy BEETLEJUICE, well known for its titular imp and goth heroine, but far less for its themes of afterlife bureaucracy, rapacious capitalism, rural gentrification, and class conflict.
For the full episode and all other bonus material, support the show at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada
And to support Jon and his podcast, Horror Vanguard:
https://www.patreon.com/TheLitCritGuy
https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard
Read an accompanying essay about Beetlejuice, Rural Gentrification, and insurrection at: https://gittlitz.substack.com/
10/30/2020 • 2 minutes, 57 seconds
Ep 117 - Talking Horror: 'Host' & 'Society' w/ Hether Fortune & Leslie Lee III
It's the most wonderful time of the year!
Jamie is joined by returning guests Leslie Lee III (@leslieleeiii), of Struggle Session and Vampire Castle, and Hether Fortune, formerly of Wax Idols and currently of Jamie's dreams, to talk about two very different horror movies: Zoom-based thriller (and first great film of the Covid era?) "Host" and 1992 cult classic "Society." Spoiler alert: there are no safe spaces, Zoom is even worse than you thought, and the rich are a race of slimy incest-monsters who just wanna get their shunt on. Happy sp00ky szn (㇏(•̀ᵥᵥ•́)ノ)
Outro music: Richard Band - Re-Animator Theme
10/28/2020 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 39 seconds
PREVIEW: Real Maoist Hours - Shrek vs. the Gender Bureaucracy
We read a review of Shrek 2 by the Maoist International Party - Amerika, paying close attention to their theory of "gender aristocracy", and discuss the role of ogre love in anti-imperialist struggle and revolution.
For the full episode, and all our bonus material, support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
10/23/2020 • 2 minutes, 33 seconds
Ep 116 - Apres Moi, Le Troika w/ Pavlos Roufos
Jamie, Andy and Sean are joined by political economist and author Pavlos Roufos to catch up Greece in the wake of the recent imprisonment of the leadership of the Golden Dawn fascist group and a return to the 'normalcy' of centrist governance.
We also discuss the aftermath of the viscous austerity imposed by the Troika, the nature of Syriza's capitulation, the migration crisis that still roils Greek society and some similarities between American and Greek far-right populism.
For a refresher, here is the previous episode we did with Pavlos (one of our favorites!) https://fans.fm/p/50i
Follow Pavlos - @PRoufos
Buy 'A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past: The Greek Crisis and Other Disasters' from Reaktion Books: https://bit.ly/3dJKLGO
Outro - Killah P - Α.ΛΗ.Τ.ΗΣ (Rest in power)
10/21/2020 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 36 seconds
PREVIEW - On the Leftcom Question
Jamie and Sean continue the discussion of historical and contemporary left communism by addressing listener questions from Discord, Twitter, and elsewhere.
For this bonus content, access to the Discord and more become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada
10/16/2020 • 4 minutes, 47 seconds
Ep 115 - Bi Donnie and the Supreme Infants
First Sean and Jamie do a roundup of the news: Donnie is back and he appears to not be dead but bisexual; Dems get the Supreme Court they deserve and Sen Mike Lee outs himself as a Bordigist?
Next Sean does a non-leftcom's guide to left communism: what is this thing? What's its relation to non-left communism? Wait how can communism be not left in the first place?? With help from some history and some help from leftcom friend of the show Noah Lennox he tries to explain.
Outro: Le otto ore - Canto di lotta
Follow Noah Lennox @commiePandaBear
Leftcom listener questions bonus will be out later this week: become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada
10/14/2020 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 51 seconds
Swamp Trek: Past Tense (Part II)
Part two of collaborative commentary of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Past Tense w/ Swampside Chats! As the Bell Riots kick off, can the DS9 crew protect the revolutionary demands of the sanctuary districts' homeless district from the nihilism of its most lumpen elements? And will @Jack censor news of the police raid from the people?
Check out Swampside Chats at:
patreon.com/swampsidechats
10/7/2020 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 1 second
Swamp Trek: Past Tense (Part I)
Our collaborative commentary of S3ep11 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine w/ Swampside Chats! In this two part episode, the crew goes back in time to a San Francisco homeless camp at the time of the a riot against neo-liberalism that spiraled into international revolution. Written in the '90s, the episode presciently predicts the economic crises of the current day, Trump's plan of rounding California's homeless population into camps, and the coming lumpen revolution.
Check out Swampside Chats at:
patreon.com/swampsidechats
10/7/2020 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 32 seconds
Antifada's History is a Weapon 9.2: Q is You w/ Matt Christman PREVIEW
Part two of HIAW 9 continues with Sean and Matt discussion Q in light of the tradition of religion (and religious weirdness) in the USA, alongside the increasing estrangement of the American people from each other and from the American Dream.
To listen to this bonus along with the rest of our premium content, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
10/2/2020 • 11 minutes, 6 seconds
Antifada's History is a Weapon 9: Q is You w/ Matt Christman
In the latest two part HIAW, Matt and Sean examine the political economy and pre-history of everyone's favorite far-right conspiracy movement. How has alienation and economic crisis combined to create a heady, and perhaps dangerous, mix of religious fervor and crackpot ideology? How does Qanon overlap with conspiracy theories of the past? How is it represent something new and different? The boys do their best to get their heads around it!
Part two will be released for patrons later in the week.
Stereolab - Refractions in the Blue Pulse
Vaporwave - We Didn't Start the Fire
9/30/2020 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 24 seconds
PREVIEW - Vampire Castle - Vampire's Kiss and Bloodsucking Bastards
On this edition of Vampire Castle, Leslie and Jamie discuss two vampire flicks set in the workplace: Late '80s bizarro dark comedy Vampire's Kiss and office comedy turned splatfest Bloodsucking Bastards.
Tune: Lush - Mannequin
Become a member at patreon.com/theantifada to unlock the full version of this episode and a ton of other bonus content!
9/25/2020 • 53 seconds
Ep 114 - Posadist Trap House w/ Aaron Thorpe
Aaron Thorpe (@posadist_trapgd), former host of Vanguard Army and host of the upcoming podcast A Time Of Monsters, joins the Antifada crew to discuss topics including: The death of RBG and how much the left should care. Killer Mike, Atlanta as "Wakanda," and the black misleadership class. White people pretending to be black for clout. And why haven't the space comrades brought us communism yet?
NOTE: If you want to buy an Antifada t-shirt, email [email protected] with subject line "shirt." We have a few left from the last batch and we will order more if we get enough requests!
Closing song: Outkast - SpottieOttieDopaliscious
9/23/2020 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 15 seconds
PREVIEW - Killer Cops and Killer Investments
Sean and Jamie stick around to talk about Louisville finally forced to admit civil culpability in Breonna Taylor's murder and humongous private equity firm Blackrock making a bet on the bottom of the rental market with its recent mobile-home park investment.
Outro: Spits - Police
9/18/2020 • 6 minutes, 42 seconds
Ep 113 - When Prairie Socialists Go MAGA & ICE's Eugenics Program
Jamie and Sean discuss what they've been reading and break down some news of the day: QAnon in Congress, the political transformation of a town in PA, and ICE's eugenics program. Just another fun, chill episode about rising fascism.
Sorry this went up late, we aren't feeling very well. :(
Bonus on killer cops (and killer investments) out Friday, 9/18
Outro music: Big Black - Jordan, Minnesota
Rest in power, David Graeber (1961-2020)
9/17/2020 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 33 seconds
BONUS: Punk may actually be dead this time w/ Brace Belden (PREVIEW)
Brace sticks around to talk about our punk origin stories, the pros and cons of a tribal subculture like punk, the death of Maximum Rock N' Roll, if punk has a future, and late-era Black Flag
For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada
9/11/2020 • 4 minutes, 31 seconds
Ep 112: The Belden Program w/ Brace Belden
Sean and Andy are joined with Brace from @trueanonpod to talk workers power, past and present: how unions are still central, how communist organizers like Harry Bridges, leader of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, exercised this power in the past, and how we can fight to bring it back today. We end with a call to Build The (not necessary electoral) Party.
Become a patron for access to a bonus episode on life as young punx later on in the week!
Outro music: Harry Bridges - Rancid
9/9/2020 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 8 seconds
Talkin' 'Tina 3 - The 18th Brumaire of Macho Camacho w/ José Lastra Zorrilla (Preview)
On this edition of the Antifada side project on the politics of Latin America, we discuss the political situation in Bolivia, where last year riots against a supposed voter fraud lead to a coup of far-right evangelicals. Since then, they have massacred protesters, clamped down on free speech, and cancelled election after election. Spanish historian José Lastra Zorrilla uses the method of analysis of Marx's 18 Brumaire describe the origins of the coup, the failures of Morales and MAS, and how the Bolivian campesinos and workers continue to struggle against the new regime, even as the pandemic rages.
For the full episode, the previous episode of Talkin' 'Tina about Argentina and Peru, other Antifada side projects like History is A Weapon, Vampire Castle, and Proletkult, and access to our Discord, become a Patron today at http://patreon.com/theantifada
For the original article and other works by Zorrilla: https://libcom.org/library/bolivia-s-18th-brumaire
9/4/2020 • 8 minutes, 24 seconds
Ep 111 - Pigs And Cows Have All The Luck
Sean and Jamie break down the tragic news out of Los Angeles, Kenosha and Portland, then broaden out the discussion to theories of political violence and revolutionary organization (and spontaneity). What is the least LARP-y line a communist might take in this day and age? Also: Down with eco-yogic slumlords!
In the second half, Jamie speaks with three worker/organizers about the union-busting activities of No Evil Foods, a vegan food company with radical branding but extremely capitalist labor practices. What's up with faux-cialist scabs naming things after the Zapatistas?!
Follow our soy-slinging comrades at MoEvilFoods.com, @BirdieGregson and @MoEvilFoods on Twitter, and @soevilfoods and @moevilfoods2 on Instagram.
Outro music: Gorilla Biscuits - Cats and Dogs
9/2/2020 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 52 seconds
ep 110 - The Black Radical Tradition (Part 2) w/ Kazembe Balagun
We continue to discuss the black radical tradition with Kazembe Balagun. In this episode we cover marxist feminists Angela Davis and Claudia Jones. We finish with a few questions about the continuation of these struggles into BLM and the George Floyd uprising, including a certain infamously cancelled Zoom call.
Many of the texts in question can be found in the Communist Research Cluster Black Radical Tradition reader: https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2020/06/02/black-revolutionaries-in-the-united-states/
Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
Support the show by becoming a Patron at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Idris Robinson Red May speech: https://illwilleditions.com/how-it-might-should-be-done/
Closing song: Elaine Brown - Until We're Free
8/28/2020 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 46 seconds
ep 110 - The Black Radical Tradition (Part 1) w/ Kazembe Balagun
This week we bring you a two part series on the American black radical tradition. Joined by educator and activist Kazembe Balagun we discuss some of the fundamental questions of black marxism and revolution leading to the current day. In this episode we talk about the Haitian revolution, Harriet Tubman, WEB Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Harry Haywood, CLR James and the Johnson Forest Tendency, James and Grace Lee Boggs, DRUM, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and the Black Panther Party.
Many of the texts in question can be found in the Communist Research Cluster Black Radical Tradition reader: https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2020/06/02/black-revolutionaries-in-the-united-states/
Other referenced texts:
CLR James and Grace Lee Boggs - Facing Reality https://libcom.org/files/James%20-%20Facing%20Reality.pdf
Finally Got the News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FarGHAO7h-c
Excellent analysis of Huey P Newton's conception of intercommunalism: https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/06/11/intercommunalism-the-late-theorizations-of-huey-p-newton-chief-theoretician-of-the-black-panther-party/
https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/06/11/intercommunalism-1974/
Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation by Angela Davis - https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/davispoprprblli.html
Viewpoint Mag reader on whiteness:
https://www.viewpointmag.com/2020/08/05/beyond-guilt-and-privilege-abolishing-the-white-race/
Closing song: Joe L. Carter - Please Mr. Foreman
8/26/2020 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 58 seconds
Ep 109 - The ICE Bae Cometh
OG Antifadas Jamie and Sean plunk down on the podcasting couch for a light chat about two topical topics: the USPS and fascism.
How worker struggle created the modern USPS and how the Democrats shot themselves in the ass with decades of bipartisan attacks on it. Oh no, ICE Bae has an Onlyfans. Fascism: how does it work? Fascism and neoliberalism. Is Trump a fascist? Is Amerikkka? Various thinkers' attempts to define the big F. Maybe the real fascism was the enemies we made along the way.
Article Jamie referenced on fascist economics: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-supermanagerial-reich/
Outro song: The Postal Service - Brand New Colony
8/19/2020 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 38 seconds
Antisocial Distancing w/ Virgil Texas (Preview)
More discussion of these strange times: partying in the age of Corona, the government's handling of the crisis vis a vis the working class', the international bourgeoisie's quest for stability, and Virgil's plan for abolishing the police and prisons.
For the full episode along with all other bonus material, support the show at Patreon.com/theantifada
Closing song: Tim Heidecker - Cain is Able
8/14/2020 • 7 minutes, 50 seconds
Ep 108 - Biden Time w/ Virgil Texas
The Beltway Garage's chief mechanic Virgil Texas takes us for a wonk on the wild side! We focus on the Democrats' electoral strategy of writing open letters demanding socialists vote for Biden, carefully weigh their arguments, and come up with our own endorsement by the end of the episode.
The letters:
Former leaders of SDS: https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/letter-new-left-biden/
DSA North Star: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/defeat-trump-open-letter/
Mitch Abidor: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/opinion/socialists-support-biden-election.html
Closing song - Nat King Cole - Bidin' My Time
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8/12/2020 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 30 seconds
Spine Check 3 - Abolishing Value and Time w/ Jake Flores (Preview)
We continue to check the decomposition of the spines of our favorite texts of Marx and Marxism with this short and practical discussion on value criticism and Moishe Postone's Time Labor and Social Domination
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8/7/2020 • 3 minutes, 39 seconds
Ep 107 - Philosopher Kings of Comedy w/ Jakie Flores and Tana Ganeva
Jake "Silly Socrates" Flores is back on the show to talk about his new podcast Why You Mad? and theories of comedy and class war.
But before that, we talk about something that's no laughing matter: the NYPD's permissive culture towards rapists and other abusers on the force, unfortunately celebrated by humorous challenge coins and nicknames like the "assman". Writer for the Appeal and the Intercept Tana Ganeva joins us to discuss the failures of Cuomo and di Bunglio's even tepid reforms, speculate why it's been such a shell game, and if "defund" or "abolish" police and prisons are the right approach.
Shownotes:
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/06/nypd-culture-of-impunity/
https://theintercept.com/2020/05/07/coronavirus-america-rural-prisons/
https://theintercept.com/2020/02/03/michigan-legal-marijuana-criminal-justice-reform-michael-thompson-clemency/
https://www.patreon.com/whyyoumad
NYPD Challenge Coins https://researchdestroy.com/nypd-challenge-coins.pdf
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Closing song: G-Flux - Ceviche
8/5/2020 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 7 seconds
Ep 106 - Be Water w/ Wilfred Chan
We talk about the pro-democracy struggle in Hong Kong with Nation and Lausan writer Wilfred Chan. From its history of struggling against British colonialism to its rejection of being China's neoliberal "window to the world," the movement provides many contemporary lessons on the potentitals and contradictions of mass organizing.
But while reactionary elements of the movement are central, it is no use for the left to simply turn its back. Chan's work stakes out its leftwing, translating its most revolutionary aspects for an international audience, and deepening correspondences with other struggles around the world. We move from the particularities of HK to the global economic roots of the struggle, and how its most innovative tactics (like umbrella-shield frontliners and laser-wielding "light mages") have spread to Chile, France, and now the Pacific Northwest. Finally, we discuss the painfully hypocritical deepening tensions between the US and China, and the prospects of World War III.
A couple recent articles by Chan:
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/hong-kong-china-national-security-law/
dissentmagazine.org/article/why-hong-kongers-fight
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Closing Music: Les Miserables - Do You Hear the People Sing? (2012 film soundtrack)
Politigram ethnographer Joshua Citarella shares his observations about the online post-left, particularly its zoomer base radicalized in 2016 meme wars. We discuss how important were memes to Trumps' victory, their political journey since then, and how the left can de/re-radicalize those committed to the violent right. Finally, we discuss the phenomenon of memes becoming reality, especially in the context of Unite the Right in Charlottesville and the CHAZ/CHOP in Seattle.
For the full episode, along with all our Patron-only bonuses like History is a Weapon and Vampire Castle, and access to our own meme stash, subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Show notes:
Joshua Citarella on Instagram
Joshua Citarella on Patreon
Politigram and the Post-Left
Read the Moon Book
Theme music: Georgio Moroder - Racer
7/24/2020 • 6 minutes, 43 seconds
Ep 105 - Housing Is Canceled w/ Nate Postcyborg
Nate Postcyborg (@postcyborg), of #linegoesdown and TANC (Tenant and Neighborhood Councils), stops by to talk about the ongoing housing crisis and how it's being accelerated by Covid, and what tenants can do to fight back. Then the crew discuss the shadowy feds invading Portland, dropping fertility rates, the Mary Trump interview, and that fucking letter.
Rest in power, Michael Brooks (1983-2020)
Outro music: Cock Sparrer - Secret Army
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7/22/2020 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 18 seconds
Antifada's History is a Weapon 8.2: The Deep State w/ Matt Christman and A.M. Gittlitz
Part 2/2 of the latest History is a Weapon concluding the discussion of parapolitics, paranoia and what lessons we should take from it (NOT EVERYTHING/EVERYONE IS AN OP.)
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7/17/2020 • 16 minutes, 25 seconds
Antifada's History is a Weapon 8.1 w/ Matt Christman and A.M. Gittlitz
On this new installment of HIAW, Matt and Sean are joined by para-political expert Andy to talk about the political economy of intelligence and counterintelligence: How is this formation unique to capitalism and the bourgeois state? What is the connection between the deep state and anti-communism? What roles do the mafia and drug-running play? How powerful and pervasive is this apparatus? And what the hell do we do with all this paranoia-inducting info when we have it??
This first half is free for all. The second will be released later in the week for patrons only. Consider becoming at patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Theme: Eddy Huntington - USSR [VAPORWAVE remix by Dank Red]
Episode art curation: @insert_name27
7/15/2020 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 12 seconds
Ep 104 - Our Beautiful Dark Twisted Reality w/ Brandon Sutton
Brandon Sutton (@prettybadlefty), host of The Discourse podcast (@Th3Discourse), returns to discuss the important matters of the day, like Yeezy 2020 and Cats vs Hamilton. We also discuss the rebellion for black lives, radicalizing the libs, and why the DSA should have more game nights.
Outro music: Kanye West - Black Skinhead
7/8/2020 • 1 hour, 36 minutes, 38 seconds
Ep 103: Statue? I hardly know you! w/ Nick Estes
Our guest this week is Nick Estes, citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Assistant Professor of American Studies at University of New Mexico, host of the Red Nation Podcast, and author of Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance.
We discuss the link between indigenous and black struggles in the context of the no-DAPL blockade at Standing Rock and Black Lives Matter, statue removals and vandalism in New Mexico and in New York at #OccupyCityHall, whether attacking statues of Lincoln and Grant are "justified," and the final boss: Mt. Rushmore. Finally we chat about the tensions and intersections between decolonization and revolutionary communism.
Please support some of the political prisoners we discussed in the episode:
https://nodaplpoliticalprisoners.org/
Red Dawn Fallis: https://www.standwithredfawn.org/
Justice for Clifton White: https://www.dailylobo.com/article/2020/06/clifton-white-remains-incarcerated-as-calls-for-release-gain-momentum
Justice for Scott Williams: https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/family-of-shooting-victim-comments-on-protest-apdrsquos-response/5762130/
Show notes:
NYT "Free Land" program: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/realestate/homesteading-free-land-programs.html
Trump's Mt. Rushmore event: https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/25/mount-rushmore-oglala-sioux-president-removal-president-trump/3198922001/
Standing With Standing Rock book
Closing song: Stand Up Standing Rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onyk7guvHK8
7/1/2020 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 54 seconds
PREVIEW - Vampire Castle: Byzantium and Let The Right One In
In this edition of Vampire Castle, Jamie and Leslie discuss two coming-of-ageless films: Tomas Alfredson's Let The Right One In (2008) and Neil Jordan's Byzantium (2012) aka Ladybird II. If you are turned as a teen, do you stay an asshole forever or do you eventually grow up? How is Sweden so lovely yet so terrifying? And why do vamps always say they can't be friends with you right before they fall in love with you for all eternity? Listen on for answers to these and other bloodsucking questions.
Theme music: Intellectual Darkwave
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6/27/2020 • 1 minute, 23 seconds
Ep. 102 - LASD SMD w/ Scott Frazier
While the most riotous moments of the George Floyd Uprising have past, in parts of the country renewed attention to police tyranny continues to lead to clashes. LA Podcast co-host Scott Frazier joins us to talk about the struggle in Los Angeles, specifically against its massive Sheriff's Dept (LASD) now in the spotlight for horrific acts of violence following the discovery of Robert Fuller, a black man dead from hanging, in Palmdale California.
After immediately ruling the death a suicide with no evidence, LASD killed Fuller's half brother Terron Boone. And last week they inexplicably killed 18 year old Andres Guardado, a security guard working out of their jurisdiction. Then they removed the cameras.
We talk about the history of LASD and the broader context of riots and political struggle and racism in Los Angeles. We also tell some fun LA Stories!
Show notes:
Man found hanging in Manhattan park:
https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-investigating-suicide-black-man-found-hanging-tree-manhattan-park
LASD gangs:
https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/10/11/20910315/banditos-los-angeles-sheriff-department-lawsuit-gangshttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/la-county-sheriffs-department-deputy-cliques
LASD prisons and COVID:
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/06/18/lasd-inmates-employees-positive-covid-19/
Garcetti's anti-homeless street sweeps:
https://laist.com/2019/08/02/homeless_garcetti_sweep_sanitation.php
6/24/2020 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 43 seconds
Ep 101 - Let's Go To The CHOP w/ Alex Edward & Matt Marciniec
Andy speaks with Alex Edward (@flieldy), co-host of the Minion Death Cult podcast and Seattle resident, about life in the CHAZ/CHOP/Antifastan/Soyviet Union, providing fodder for the cursed boomer media of which Alex is normally but a passive connoisseur.
Jamie speaks with Matt Marciniec (@Mattceinicram) about Justice Frontline Aid (@aid_justice), a mutual aid project in Minneapolis that's helping liberated use values find their way to people who need them.
Sean and Jamie wrap it up with some commentary, NPR style.
Donate via PayPal to [email protected]
CHOP demands: https://medium.com/@seattleblmanon3/the-demands-of-the-collective-black-voices-at-free-capitol-hill-to-the-government-of-seattle-ddaee51d3e47
Music:
Danny and the Junions - At the Hop
Vic Mensa - 16 Shots
6/18/2020 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 16 seconds
BONUS - Ep 100 Q+A w/ The Antifada Crew
In this very special edition of the Antifada, Jamie, Sean and Andy take questions from listeners. How do we envision a world without police? What will our lives be like after the rev? And what exactly went on at the parties Jamie used to throw?
Thanks x1000 to everyone for helping us keep this circus running.
Sorry if we didn't get to your question, we will hop on Twitch and answer more questions soon!
6/12/2020 • 56 minutes, 25 seconds
Ep 100 - It's All Happening w/ The Antifada
Around the world and back again, episode 100 of the Antifada! And what better circumstances under which to record an release than the largest national uprising in several generations?
Jamie, Sean and Andy analyze the revolt that has arisen since the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis: the connection between the carceral state and crisis; the racial caste system that divides us and benefits the rich; the reaction on the streets of Minneapolis; the meaning of abolition; and what to make of America in the age of riots. Tune in for our on the ground account of what's been happening on the streets of NYC.
Intro - Assault on Precinct 13 Title Theme
Outro - Afrika Bambaataa & Family - Bambaataa's Theme
Special bonus Q&A episode for patrons later this week - ww.patreon.com/theantifada
6/10/2020 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 52 seconds
Ep 99 Chill, Non-Riot Content w/ Andy Battle & David A Banks
Recorded before things really popped off last week, Sean was joined by returning champion Andy Battle and co-host of Ironweeds podcast, David A Banks.
We hope this wide ranging discussion of capitalist space, de/unionization, de/industrialization, supply chains, gentrification, uneven development and class struggle will be an oasis of calm as you righteously take the streets where you are and then [REDACTED].
Outro - Bruce Springsteen: Hungry Heart
Check out - Ironweeds @ironweedspod / www.patreon.com/ironweeds
Follow - Andy @bolobattle / David @DA_Banks
6/3/2020 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 53 seconds
Minneapolis Uprising Reacts Only w/ Cole James Cash, Leslie Lee III, Rob Rousseau (PREVIEW)
We Twitch-streamed Friday afternoon to discuss the events Thursday night in Minneapolis with Ghetto News Network's Cole Cash, Leslie Lee III of Struggle Session, and Rob Rousseau of 49th Parahell. We talked everything from the political economic origins of the protests, Cointelpro, white supremacy and interracial struggle, and if revolution is on the way.
We cut this into a podcast to spare our Patrons the boomer-level audio/and video quality, available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/37701668
The full stream is also available on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/635634575
5/31/2020 • 5 minutes, 40 seconds
Ep 98 - You Winnie Some, You Lose Some w/ Winnie Wong
Winnie Wong (@WaywardWinifred), former Senior Advisor to the Bernie Sanders campaign, stops by to talk anarchism, electoralism, & why Bernie didn't win. :( The gang also reminisces about New York nightlife (s/o Andrew WK) and Winnie tries to talk Jamie into running for office.
Outro music: Gang Gang Dance - MindKilla
5/27/2020 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 13 seconds
Crosspost: Year Zero - Thousand Year Stare w/ Terance Ray & Sean KB
(Crosspost from an episode Sean and Tarence did for those who missed it.) Introducing Year Zero, a new miniseries on political economy hosted by Tarence. In this first episode we speak with Sean KB (@as_a_worker on twitter)from the Antifada podcast (@the_antifada) about what he terms The Thousand Year Stare: the specific feeling one unlocks by reading Giovanni Arrighi's "The Long Twentieth Century." We'll be using the book to discuss the chaotic times in which we live, but don't worry: you don't have to have read it to follow along in the conversation. You just have to be willing to face the past, present, and future with a perfected thousand year stare...
5/25/2020 • 1 hour, 49 minutes, 44 seconds
Proletkult 7 - BLOW UP THE MOON (bonus preview) w/ Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
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This edition of the Antifada sideproject on the paranormal, parapolitical, sci-fi conspiracy theories and space tackles the newest autonomous branch of the US Military: SPACE FORCE.
Is it some Trumpian flight-of-fancy, a Bezos/Musk money grab, or a doomsday plan for astro-nuclear American hegemony? I talk to Bruce K Gagnon, a lifelong activist against the militarization of space, for a perspective on what Space Force is and how to fight back.
Before that, my audio essay "The Plot Against Space," also textually published on the Pluto Books blog.
And listen to the end to hear Breht O'Shea of Rev Left Radio read an excerpt from the introduction of my book I WANT TO BELIEVE: J. Posadas, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism, now available from major retailers and PlutoBooks.com with a 20% discount using code POSADAS20.
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5/22/2020 • 12 minutes, 23 seconds
Ep 97 - Fortune Favors The Bolt Cutters w/ Hether Fortune
Returning guest Hether Fortune (@hetherrfortune) joins Jamie for a super chill music and culture episode to get your mind off the ongoing apocalypse. After the prerequisite quar talk, the gals discuss kittens, Gary Busey, Lena Dunham, and the odious offspring of everyone's favorite thin-skinned billionaire and his biomechanical child bride. Last but certainly not least, the gals discuss Fiona Apple's tour de force fifth studio album "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" and why Fiona's fearless truth-telling is a balm for our souls in these uncertain times.
Intro/interstitial: Fiona Apple - Shameika
Closing: Fiona Apple - Ladies
Check out Hether's various projects at https://linktr.ee/HetherFortune
5/20/2020 • 1 hour, 37 minutes, 33 seconds
Ep 96 - Live @ Red May 2020 w/ Aaron Benanav, Magally Miranda, Annie McClanahan
Time for Ultra-Left-Post-Posadist-Nihilist-Anarcho-Communist-comedy and politics. Hosts Jamie Peck and AP Andy look at the future of work at a rare moment when almost nobody is working. Magally Miranda surveys domestic work in the gig economy. Annie McClanahan reflects on how the Covid-19 pandemic has made us all more aware of supply-chains and provision networks, not of their largeness but rather their intimacy, the human labor whereby goods move hand to hand to hand. (“Now,” says a friend, “I can’t stop thinking about all the hands that touched everything I buy.”) Aaron Benanav looks at the effects of automation. Will the rise of the robots free us? Will a guaranteed income allow us to work less and enjoy the fruits of leisure? Or will we be under-employed—pushed into doing tasks like dog-walking or assembling IKEA shelves—tasks that the rich used to do for themselves but can now hire others to do for a pittance?
Show notes:
Watch the entire talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0m0_CwVDzM
Part 1 of Aaron's article on Automation for New Left Review: https://newleftreview.org/issues/II119/articles/aaron-benanav-automation-and-the-future-of-work-1
Magally Miranda's domestic workers inquiry in Viewpoint:
https://www.viewpointmag.com/2017/03/07/the-power-of-trabajadoras-and-the-subversion-of-capital-notes-on-a-domestic-workers-inquiry/
Annie McClanahan talking about the Working Day at Red May 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW889a2ph6A
Red May is an annual monthlong series of discussions, lectures, book releases, and actions taking place across Seattle. Watch upcoming livestreams and donate to help them recoup some of their losses and keep organizing for next year at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC01CmowL5t_ku11gikGRZcg
and
https://www.redmayseattle.org/
Closing song: Kraftwerk - We are the Robots
5/13/2020 • 1 hour, 58 minutes, 2 seconds
Antifada's History is a Weapon 7: Live and Let Die w/ Matt Christman (PREVIEW)
Sean and Matt take a look around the American landscape - from the pandemic, to the economic collapse, to the failing political system - and discuss how the hell we got here and what the hell we might expect going forward.
Whether it's the coming climate disaster or the incipient crack-up of US power, one thing is for sure: there's no way out now but through it!
To listen to the remainder of this episode and the rest of our excellent bonus content, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
5/11/2020 • 13 minutes, 14 seconds
Ep 95 - Haiders to the Left w/ Asad Haider
Jamie and Sean speak with Asad Haider (@generalityiii), editor at Viewpoint Magazine and author of "Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump" about depoliticization, the left post-Bernie, and that eternal question, "what is to be done?" Contains spicy (read: nuanced and informed) takes on "mass politics" vs "subcultural politics," the necessity of abolishing markets, the party question, and our favorite thing besides communism, punk rock.
Further reading:
https://www.viewpointmag.com/2019/12/16/on-depoliticization/
https://www.viewpointmag.com/2020/03/16/what-is-political-power/
https://dsaemerge.org/reflections-on-bernies-loss/
Jamie and Andy will be moderating a panel for Red May (virtual edition) entitled "Corona Virus and the Future of Work" w/ Aaron Benanav, Magally Miranda and Annie McClanahan on Thursday, May 7 at 9pm ET! Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0m0_CwVDzM
Outro music: The Ramones - "I'm Against It"
5/6/2020 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 17 seconds
PREVIEW: Vampire Castle - Buffy the Vampire Slayer
In this edition of Vampire Castle, Jamie and Leslie discuss the 1997-2003 TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Become a patron at patreon.com/theantifada to unlock this and all other premium content!
4/24/2020 • 56 seconds
UNLOCKED: Real Posadas Hours w/ Comrade Communicator
To celebrate the release this week of AP Andy's I WANT TO BELIEVE: J. Posadas, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism, we've unlocked one of our favorite bonus episodes from 2018. Along with head propagandist of the Intergalactic Workers' League - Posadist, Comrade Communicator, we read one of Posadas's unpublished essays that Andy discovered in archives: "On the Function of the Joke in History."
Antifada fans can get a 20% discount on the book using code POSADAS20 from the Pluto Website.
For more Real ___ Hours episodes, and all back episodes of History is a Weapon, Vampire Castle, and Proletkult, please support us on Patreon.
4/22/2020 • 53 minutes, 13 seconds
BONUS: Real Sp!ked Hours (AntiKa Action) w/ Trash Future
We subject our brains to more Sp!king as we read through some recent hits.
For the full episode become a patron at http://patreon.com/theantifada
4/17/2020 • 7 minutes, 9 seconds
Ep 93: How Trotsky got Sp!ked w/ Trash Future
Trashifada continues with a deep dive on the origin of the Koch-funded British anti-PC-hysteria-hysteria blog Sp!ked. We go through their origins in seventies Trotskyism to the bizarre posh ultraleftism in the eighties until they emerged as the magazine Living Marxism, famous for satirizing the nanny state and denying the genocide of Bosnian Muslims. From there they formed the Institute of Ideas, a collection of tiny front groups that have helped them along to mainstream media prominence. But to what ends? We offer a range of theories.
Listen this Friday for a Bonus Real Sp!ked hours to hear some hot takes on goths, Karen-bashing, and Jimmy Saville.
Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
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Follow Alice and Riley and Trash Future
Jenny Turner's fantastic essay on Institute of Ideas: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n13/jenny-turner/who-are-they
Account of RCP's political shift in the eighties: https://hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/the-revolutionary-communist-party-living-marxism-and-the-road-to-free-speech-absolutism/
Brendan on Dave Rubin calling himself a Marxist Libertarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHUjZd63z9U
Songs: Whistling in the Dark and Come out Fighting by Easterhouse
4/15/2020 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 41 seconds
Ep 92 - A Qaly For Your Thoughts w/ Trashfuture
It's a Trash-a-Fada crossover extravaganza! We had a delightful discussion with Alice, Riley and Milo of TrashFuture about labour organising at the end of the world, and then we venture back into the mind of Toby Young as he weighs the lives of the British public against a feather and decides if they live or die to appease the great and powerful Economy.
Listen to TF: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/
Follow TF: @trashfuturepod
4/8/2020 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 49 seconds
Ep 91 - N95 Mask of the Red Death w/ Peter Frase
Jacobin columnist and Four Futures: Life after Capitalism author Peter Frase indulges us in some speculation about the world of tomorrow--which will be anything but a return to "normal."
Those changes will be dependent on type of class and ideological struggles that emerge in the next several months. With exterminationism looming around the ideology of "scarcity and hierarchy," it is up to us to imagine what kind of better reality might come out of this dark moment.
Frase's article from Jacobin, the Party of Death: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/03/coronavirus-economy-public-health-exterminism
Please support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/theantifada
Closing song: Gun Club - Death Party
4/1/2020 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 54 seconds
Ep 90: My Corona w/ Amanda
Amanda from Twitter Dot Com (@catcontentonly) was kind enough to break quarantine to sit down with Sean and discuss the politics of pandemic. How has the COVID-19 virus affected life in NYC? How seriously are people taking it compared to how seriously they should? How come our president is calling it The Chinese Virus? How is anti-Chinese xenophobia attached to the larger dynamic of power politics in a globalized capitalist world?
Follow Amanda: @catcontentonly
Outro: Bob Dylan - Shelter From The Storm
3/25/2020 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 22 seconds
Ep 89 - Rockin' with Kropotkin w/ Lucy Diavolo
Teen Vogue politics editor Lucy Diavolo joins us to discuss what will hopefully be the story of this crisis: neighbors organizing themselves into mutual aid networks to support each other against the virus and the capitalist system's attempts to profit from the disorder. We talk about the concept of mutual aid historically, how it's emerged in the last 15 years in the front lines of disaster relief, and some of the new ways its emerging in these early days of the pandemic. There's a lot to cover, but we talk about grocery funds and distribution, food pantries, rent strikes, squatting, childcare, self-care, and much more. Then we talk a bit about the philosophy of mutual aid: does it provide an image of a better world, or just help us survive through the collapse of civilization?
Find Lucy's work @SatansJacuzzi or on Teen Vogue: https://www.teenvogue.com/contributor/lucy-diavolo
Her article we discuss: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/people-fighting-coronavirus-mutual-aid-efforts-help-each-other
Also see: https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/ and their Mutual Aid Safety Guide
https://gothamist.com/news/neighbors-mobilize-help-each-other-during-coronavirus-pandemic
Article in Commune about Rent Strike and disaster relief: https://communemag.com/rent-and-its-discontents/
Vacant homes seized in LA: https://itsgoingdown.org/a-dozen-vacant-homes-reclaimed-by-unhoused-tenants-in-la-as-calls-for-rent-strike-grow-across-us/
IGD round-up of mutual aid initiatives: https://itsgoingdown.org/autonomous-groups-are-mobilizing-mutual-aid-initiatives-to-combat-the-coronavirus/
LA Tenants Union demands: https://medium.com/@LATenantsUnion/declaraci%C3%B3n-sobre-el-covid-19-demands-in-response-to-the-covid-19-crisis-f7353925d298
Sex Worker Organizing Project mutual aid fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/z6w8v5
-Black and Pink penpal signup: https://www.blackandpink.org/penpal-sign-up
Anarchist Black Cross guide to letter writing: https://nycabc.wordpress.com/write-a-letter/
DSA grocery fund: bit.ly/covid19aid
Unity and Separation from Endnotes 4: https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/4/en/endnotes-preface
Closing song: Devendra Banhart and Beck - Life During Wartime
3/20/2020 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 14 seconds
Ep 87 - If UC Pay Me w/ 3 FIRED UCSC strikers
A wave of wildcat strikes, blockades, and general militant organizing is spreading the University of California system based on the demand that academic workers be paid a living wage. We're joined by three union members of UC Santa Cruz who were fired for refusing to turn in grades until their demands are met. We discuss the history of UC strikes starting with the 2009 occupations that were a precursor to Occupy Wall Street, how this struggle began, the meaning of Bernie's support, its broader political vision, and what lessons the broader working class can draw.
Support their strike fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-fund-for-striking-workers-at-ucsc
The roots of the strike: https://thefilemag.org/the-roots-of-the-santa-cruz-wildcat-strike/
Letter to UC President Napolitano: https://thefilemag.org/dear-president-napolitano/
The strike spreads: https://www.kqed.org/news/11805470/uc-berkeley-graduate-students-stage-walkout-push-for-strike-authorization?fbclid=IwAR2Z2XKKgHX-rzs6HtwFBfGnLIFbYNgNfH_guZVBC0fX55xBq6_R7NER0us
Another essay from a striker: https://communemag.com/become-unreasonable/
Closing song: Lost Kids - Cola Freaks
The gang delves into some of the discourse around Bernie, Warren and "intersectionality" to figure out just what liberal pundits mean when they say that word.
Closing song: Kayla Nicole - Move Like A Snake
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3/6/2020 • 4 minutes, 47 seconds
Ep 86 - Bernardism-Sanderism w/ Shuja Haider
The gang is back with special guest Shuja Haider, @shujaxhaider, writer-at-large for Outline Magazine and contributing editor of Viewpoint.
We begin with an analysis of the political economy of coronavirus, then continue with a lengthy discussion of the Bernie Sanders campaign. (You know we had to talk electoral politics eventually!) What kind of social forces are being brought together? What potentials might the campaign bring? What are the limits of electoralism and how does a robust anti-capitalist movement relate to politics-at-large?
Coronavirus article: http://chuangcn.org/2020/02/social-contagion/
Shuja's superdelegates article: https://theoutline.com/post/8721/democratic-debaste-superdelegates-dnc-convention
Outro: Chumbawumba - The Wasteland
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3/4/2020 • 1 hour, 34 minutes, 30 seconds
Ep 85 - Berning Down The House w/ Hether Fortune
Jamie is joined by writer, musician, and leftist shitposter Hether Fortune (@hetherrfortune), formerly of the band Wax Idols, for a recap of their canvassing trip to New Hampshire, which involved seeing Bernie open for the Strokes and starting a riot! Also: the state of the music biz, a bit of girl talk, and Hether spills the tea on why she quit White Lung.
Check out Hether's music at https://hetherfortune.bandcamp.com/
Closing song: Lydia Lunch - St. Marks Place
2/26/2020 • 1 hour, 34 minutes, 59 seconds
Ep 84 - Bernie's Got A Gun w/ Faye Ecklar of the Socialist Rifle Association
Jamie speaks with Faye Ecklar (@FayeEcklar), co-founder and VP of the Socialist Rifle Association, about gun control, mutual aid, and why it's a good idea to have an armed left. Find your local SRA chapter at https://socialistra.org!
Closing song: Nouvelle Vague - Guns of Brixton
2/19/2020 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 47 seconds
PREVIEW: Vampire Castle - Blade & Blade II
On this episode of Vampire Castle, Jamie and Leslie discuss 'Blade' (1998) and 'Blade II.' (2002). 'Blade: Trinity' can go ice skate uphill.
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2/14/2020 • 1 minute, 4 seconds
PROLETKULT 6 - Cult vs. Commune w/ Joseph L Flatley + SPACE STRIKE
In this episode of the Antifada sideproject about space, sci-fi, the paranormal, and parapolitical, we talk to Joseph L Flatley -- the investigative journalist behind "The So-Called Prophet from Pittsburgh" podcast.
Through interviews with ex-members, Flatley provides new details about Gabriel of Urantia and his small UFO apocalypse cult in the desert of Tuscon, inspired by psychedelic culture, intentional communities, and a cosmic self-help book of unknown authorship from the twenties. It is a thoroughly "destructive cult," but is there any other kind? We ponder the possibilities through a wide-ranging discussion of Raelianism, Scientology, Posadism, Marxism-Leninism, and the militia movement.
Stay tuned after the interview for an audio essay about a 1973 strike at Skylab, the Anti-Space movement, Ad Astra, and the Star Wars trilogy!
Shownotes:
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Audio taken from the Aquarian Concepts episode
Rael Encourages World Revolution
Unarius: the "good UFO cult" near San Diego I mentioned
Closing clip: TaliasVan & The Bright & Morning Star Band • Energy Master
Interstitial music: Sparks - Tryouts for the Human Race
The Skylab 4 Mutiny
Salish Anti-Space Symposium
Don't Let Them Leave, anti-space zine
Hannah Arendt - The Conquest of Space and the Stature of Man
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Other music:
Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey on the Moon
John Williams - Ewok Celebration
Opening music: Giorgio Moroder - Racer
2/12/2020 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 10 seconds
Antifada's History is a Weapon 6: Utopia 2/2 w/ Matt Christman
Matt and Sean continue their discussion of utopian versus scientific socialism in the second half. As we move from the religious communalism of the medieval period to the secular socialism of the 19th century, the limitations of utopian socialism become more clear... and yet the desire to, say, go back to the land... or occupy wall street continue. How do we break from the cycle and build a concrete utopia that can last?
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1/31/2020 • 2 minutes, 58 seconds
Ep 82 - Denvir's Nuggets w/ Daniel Denvir
Jamie is joined by Daniel Denvir (@DanielDenvir), esteemed host of Jacobin's The Dig (aka socialist NPR) to talk about his book "All-American Nativism: How The Bipartisan War On Immigrants Explains Politics As We Know It." In an effort to explain how we got orange man, Denvir traces the history of anti-immigrant politics in the US, paying close attention to the bipartisan consensus that emerged in the 1970s and intensified with NAFTA, only fracturing when the GOP went fully mask off. What have been the material factors driving this? How does decriminalization of migration benefit the working class as a whole? And how should left-populist politicians like you-know-who talk about things like "open borders"? We realize it's like the third episode we've done on this topic, but it's important!
Outro music: Karen O w/ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Immigrant Song and
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