This Wreckage

Doyenne of the podcast left, @kthalps, joins Jamie and Sean to discuss 1990s nostalgia. Mostly we come up with reasons why the decade actually kinda sucked and brought us to the mess we're in today. We also make some indecent proposals to famous people, discuss Juanita Broaddrick and fill a heaping mug with Laura Loomer tears. With Andy in Cuba we recorded a lot of material so expect a big, fat bonus later this week. To become a patron, access paywalled content and our Discord server sign up at www.patreon.com/theantifada Friday, May 10th Jamie guests at the Katie Halper/Struggle Session live show at Littlefield in Brooklyn along with Jake Flores and Matt Taibbi. Get your tix here: https://www.littlefieldnyc.com/e/the-katie-halper-show-and-struggle-session-60276247880/

Every get the feeling that YouTube is a cesspool of corporate propaganda and right-wing nuttery? You're not wrong. Thankfully, the left is fighting back in myriad ways. We are joined by content-craftspersons The Serfs, Non-Compete and Nick from Means Media to discuss how online got so fashy, what we can do to compete with Prager U (and a million other jerks) on the Tube and how left media can break from our capitalist overlords with new cooperative platforms. The Serfs - http://bit.ly/2Y1YOP9 @serfspodcast Non-Compete - http://bit.ly/2UXSMwM @emericanjohnson Means.TV - https://www.youtube.com/user/saraj00n @means_tv Go to https://means.media/ to help seize the means

More of our interview with Natasha Lennard about the antifas, social democracy, smooth bernies, and our political horizons Listen to the full episode by becoming a patron! https://www.patreon.com/theantifada Check out 'Being Numerous,' available May 1st: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2949-being-numerous

Good friend and all-around badass Tash rolls through once again to talk about her forthcoming essay collection from Verso Books, 'Being Numerous: Essays On Non-Fascist Life.' We discuss anti-fascism in theory and practice, the promise and pitfalls of radical love, and the role of capital and the state in ratifying and distorting our desires, and whatever the opposite of "enforced monogamy" is. We also try not to have a take on the Notre Dame fire, but ultimately cannot help ourselves. C'est la vie! To access bonus episodes, our Discord server and more you can patronize us at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada Check out 'Being Numerous,' available May 1st: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2949-being-numerous The episode of Regrettable Century on post-fascism we mentioned: http://bit.ly/2KY1b3W Outro music: Cellular Chaos, 'James Baldwin' https://cellularchaos.bandcamp.com/track/james-baldwin

This weekend was the biennial blast that is the Historical Materialism (@histmat) Conference NYC. Naturally, we took the opportunity to attend some panels and interview old friends and new. Several we interviewed tipsy in an NYC public school and others we talked to rather drunk at the @commune_mag loft down by the railroad tracks. A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL FAMOUS LEFTISTS: George Ciccariello-Maher (@ciccmar) on the coup in Venezuela Jasper Bernes (@outsidadicator) on communization Michelle O'Brien (NYC Trans Oral History Project) on abolishing the bourgeois family Callum Cant (callumcant1) & Jamie Woodcock (@jamie_woodcock) on workers inquiry, militant unionism in the UK and V I D E O G A M E S Malav Kanuga (@CommonNotions) on why Niral Shah is #canceled Shyam Khanna (@dollarpizza1) on the joys of sects Virgil Texas (@menswearhouse) finally coming clean about his political tendency For bonus content, access to our Discord and more become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada Support everyone!!! communemag.com/subscribe www.versobooks.com/books/2337-building-the-commune patreon.com/notesfrombelow www.commonnotions.org/ www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/vx021f35z www.gameworkersunite.org/

Massive spoiler alert on this one, baby! @leslieleeiii of your favorite leftist culture podcast @strugglesesh joins the crew (in studio!) to talk about Jordan Peele's sophomore offering, the blockbuster social-critique/horror film 'Us'. Sean, Jamie and Andy offer their weird opinions on the deeper meaning of the film... then Leslie, as always, schools everyone with his vast cinematic knowledge. Fun and talking shit on Breitbart happens along the way! To access this and other bonuses, along with our Discord server and other goodies, become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada If you're foolish enough to not be a patron of Struggle Session, atone for your sins at www.patreon.com/strugglesession

When @brettpain and @murderbryan from @streetfightwcrs are in town for their epic live show what the hell were we gonna do? Not have them on Antifada to talk workers inquiry, kratom and small business tyrants? Fat chance, bosses... Early access for patrons! If, for some strange reason, you're not an avid listener to America's #1 anarcho-comedy radio show here's a link: http://www.streetfightradio.com/ Please support the local work of Columbus, Ohio comrades at https://actionnetwork.org/groups/peoples-justice-project Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada

After a quick lesson on Fugazinomics, we talk with Parisian Rona Lorimer, author of the Yellow Vest Diaries from the new issue Commune Magazine, about the origins of the Gilet Jaunes movement, its politics and potentials. [Note: in the intro Sean confuses the Provos (Irish Republicans) with the Ulster Volunteer Forces (anti-Catholic, loyalist murderers) like an idiot. Big apologies to all on the screw up!] Read Rona's article here: https://communemag.com/yellow-vest-diaries/ We mention/stole a title from this: http://ill-will-editions.tumblr.com/post/182503015824/full-metal-yellow-jacket-al%C3%A8ssi-dellumbria There's so much talk about we unfortunately barely make it past December, so please check out these updates from our comrades in France: A lot of translated material here: https://yellowvests.wtf/ https://yellowvests.wtf/media-archive http://ill-will-editions.tumblr.com/post/183586570914/paris-is-ours-acta-collective-2019-first http://dialectical-delinquents.com/france/france-2019-2018/ For French readers: https://lundi.am/ Support us on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theantifada Closing music: D1ST1 - Gilet Jaunes

Third-time (!) guest @niralshah jumps in to help us bang through some recent cancellations: Rachel Maddow, Barbara Streisand, the International Socialist Org... and Great Britain as a viable/sane bourgeois democratic state. Since we couldn't get any limeys to come on and talk UK politics, we had to do our best to Yank-splain what the hell is happening on the other side of the pond: Why is a Brexit? What's at stake in this slow-motion train wreck for Corbyn and the left? How come - as Jordan Peterson would say - the whole thing is crazy? As usual, it's the political-economy, stupid. You can support our podcast at www.patreon.com/theantifada Novara Media has been our go-to leftist outlet for UK news/analysis, support them here: https://novaramedia.com/ This is the great Paul Mason 'Tysky Sour' ep we mention: https://bit.ly/2uuI0U7 Outro - Destructors - Fuck the E.U.

We are joined by cartoonist, writer and all-around provocateur @elivalley to talk about his work, including recent online run-ins with fellow Jewish luminaries Ben Shapiro, Meghan McCain and Chelsea Clinton. Eli discusses the ways in which his art lampoons the fraught and contentious relationship between Israeli/Christian Zionists and the largely liberal/leftist Jewish diaspora. Lots of good talk in here about xenophobic right-wing forces abroad allying with Likudniks and Kahanists in Israel, the war over Jewish identity, and the contradictions that lie at the heart of the Zionist project. We also address the Christchurch massacre and how the Shapiros of the world are going to deal with a certain presidential candidate from Vermont. Please listen until the end as we remember Raghav Mehta, a comrade and compatriot who tragically passed away last week. Transition Music: Shalom Hanoch - Moshiach Lo Ba Outro Music: Mystic Inane - Eggs Onna Plate

Once more into the breach! @cushbomb is here to make history all the more weapony. In this episode, we discuss the 'controversial' French 'novel' that is 'just asking questions' about the Migrant Invasion, the Great Replacement, and Yt Genocide. How did a 1970s book by some grenouille asshole named Jean Raspail become a prophetic lodestar for an ascendant white nationalist movement? How does a historical materialist analysis help us understand why dickheads like Steve Bannon and Marine Le Pen are lauding this novel 50 years later? Ultimately, we ask wtf is up with French politics/development that they could vomit up filth so enduring as to still be 'relevant' in 2019? We read it so you don't have to... Note: this was going to be released as a premium episode for patrons, but in light of the white nationalist terror attack in NZ on 3/15/19 we decided to release it early. Hopefully this ep might help provide context for this horrific massacre and the ones that will surely come unless we collectively confront the wellspring of this reactionary ideology.

Jamie had a birthday weekend. Andy came back from Mexico. After the gang caught up a little, we listened to some interviews Andy got from migrants and their supporters in Tijuana, MX. The stories are heartbreaking and the situation is dire, but we give some practical advice on how to show solidarity with working class brothers and sisters in desperate need of political and material support. Enclave Caracol - https://enclavecaracol.wordpress.com/ Al Otro Lado - https://alotrolado.org/who-we-are/ Support the Comedor! http://gofundme.com/tijuana-kitchen More info on solidarity with the caravan: http://commotion.world Interlude - Distorted Head Outro - Death Grips "Guillotine"

Folks, it finally happened: we royally fucked up the sound. Which is a shame, because we had a great conversation with Splinter News' Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan) about union organizing in the media and beyond. Is millennial entitlement good for labor? Why do workers need their own institutions? Can we change organized labor from within, or do we need a new paradigm? All this, plus Jamie's failed union organizing drive, Hamilton's successful one, and Jamie and Hamilton squash an ancient beef! Sorry again about the sound. Thankfully, Andy is coming back from Mexico to act as a check on our dumbness. Check out Hamilton's writing at Splinter: https://kinja.com/hamilton_nolan Become at patron at http://www.patreon.com/theantifada for bonus content, Discord access and more

Are you a nerd like us? Do you read stories about robots and space, while also pondering a socialist future? Well, do we have an interview for you... Fellow science fiction fanatic Will Menaker joins Sean and Jamie for an extended discussion with one of our favorite utopian futurists, Kim Stanley Robinson. Come for the revolutionary potentialities of the post-capitalist imaginary and stay for the psychedelic polyamory! Outro - Hawkwind: Space is Deep @willmenaker (still buy the book: https://bit.ly/2BSI6cg) KSR's official website: http://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/ Suggested reading: EVERYTHING but especially the Mars Trilogy KSR in Commune Mag: https://communemag.com/dystopias-now/ Support the show at patreon.com/theantifada to access bonus content and our discord community. Sign up at the $5 tier or above and we'll mail you some stickers!

Time to take a big ole bong rip! In a radical departure from our usual weekly content, Sean KB joined up with a bunch of commie pals to talk about C O M M U N I Z A T I O N. We use Ben Noys' critical compilation "Communization and Its Discontents" to dip our toes into the deep waters of current ultra-left thought on the crises of capitalism and its overcoming: Has the development of bourgeois society utterly changed the terrain of struggle? Must the proletariat struggle not just against exploitation, but against its very existence as a class? Is there a need for a transitional stage between capitalism and communism, or is the creation of a classless society possible in the present moment? Tl;dr - mixed reviews. If the content is too heavy or the jargon too jargon-y, feel free to ask for clarification by email, tweet or chat. Sean will be available on Saturday 5-8pm EST on the Antifada Discord to discuss. Special thanks to Swampside Chats and Breht from RevLeft Radio/Red Menace for the great discussion! Swamp fam: patreon.com/swampsidechats @swampsidechats RevLeft fam: patreon.com/revleftradio @revleftradio

@CoreyPein sticks around to discuss The Californian Ideology, Baywatch & Julian Assange. Then we do a textual analysis of a LA Times puff piece about Instagram-ready, curated co-living complete with app-based solutions to modern living in (ugh...) The Node. Forget the chore-wheel, this is hellworld baby! Become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Author, journalist and cat dad @coreypein joins us to gives us some important updates on what he described in last year's excellent 'Live Work Work Work Die': the hyper-capitalist hellscape of Silicon Valley, the over-under on a big Bezos hog reveal, the dark powers that our new tech overlords hold over our of lives, and how we might fight back against them! Buy the book (maybe not from Amazon): https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627794855 Outro: JJ Doom - BOOKHEAD Bonus with Corey forthcoming! Become a patron for more content, access to our Discord and more: www.patreon.com/theantifada

AP Andy comes across a fellow radical exile Blair Taylor washed ashore on a beach in Nayarit, Mexico. The two post-anarchists discuss the life and work of curmudgeonly communalist Murray Bookchin as they watch dolphins frolicking in the sunset. Topics include radical muncipalism, Bookchin's concepts of democracy and citizenship, Blair's Institute for Social Ecology and the formation of the Symbiosis network with DSA-LSC, Black Socialists, Cooperation Jackson, the PKK and Rojava, Bookchin's criticism of Bernie Sanders, and others, and what sort of kinky things the old man was getting up to in Vermont. Show Notes: ISE: http://social-ecology.org Symbiosis Network: https://www.symbiosis-revolution.org/ Demand Utopia: http://demandutopia.net Blair Taylor's three Bookchin starter texts: What is Communalism: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-what-is-communalism Post Scarcity Anarchism: https://libcom.org/files/Post-Scarcity%20Anarchism%20-%20Murray%20Bookchin.pdf "The Next Revolution" by Blair Taylor and Debbie Bookchin: https://www.versobooks.com/books/1777-the-next-revolution Closing music: BearForce1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQlpFrm5iM

A bunch of our die-hard listeners were in NYC, so we decided to have as many people as would possibly fit in the studio come on the show. Why the hell not? Collectively, we get at the heart the Putin problem and... SING SONGS! Become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada for bonus content, access to our discord server and more.

Jamie and Sean are schooled by the master of critical analysis @leslieeiii from Struggle Session on what is good and what is not good about #resistance media in the age of Drumpf. Join us as we dissect the dystopian world of The Handmaid's Tale, the ur-text of liberal anxiety around the impending neo-theocratic counter-revolution. How does the Hulu series stand up to Margaret Atwood's 1985 masterpiece? What does the show tell us about donut Twitter and Hillary dead-enders? Can anything be redeemed? Next, Leslie turns us onto some much more effective resistance in the form of the ongoing Purge film series. Is this universe a better representation of actually existing material/social conditions that lead to dystopia...or already have? Are the lessons better? And can Staten Island ever be the center of a cross-racial working class alliance to overthrow the capitalist system? Tune in to find out. Check out Leslie's podcast at patreon.com/strugglesession Outro music: The Toasters - Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down Become a supporter at patreon.com/TheAntifada to unlock bonus episodes, our Discord community, and more!

AP Andy is in Mexico researching Posadism. Jamie is wherever goth socialists go to do goth-soc things. So Sean KB recorded an ep with fellow history nerd, Matt Christman of The Chapo Trap House, who is similarly tyrannized by the weight of dead generations. The question: Why, of all advanced capitalist countries, is the United States unique in its historical failure to form a bone-fide Labour/Socialist party organically tied to the union movement as an institutionalized political expression of working class interests? The answers may surprise you. The Antifada is an ultraleft-wrecker podcast of which History is a Weapon is an ongoing series. To support our subversion of American values and get a lot of cool stuff in return (bonus episodes, stickers, discords!) subscribe today at www.patreon.com/theantifada You can likewise support Matt Christman's excellent comedy/politics podcast at www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse and find him on twitter @cushbomb Closing music: Ｂｉｌｌｙ Ｊｏｅｌ － Ｗｅ Ｄｉｄｎ＇ｔ Ｓｔａｒｔ ｔｈｅ Ｆｉｒｅ （Ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅ）

Alright, so Jamie left everyone hanging with that inside joke in the main episode... but behind the wall Alex Gendler and Antifada can tell stories about Hasidic craigslist subs who only want to show the hog, cult party Jim Jones cosplay and romantic sex-slave encounters. We should really only make this bonus available to the $100 paypig tier patrons, but those worms don't even deserve that shit. Oh yeah, we also do a Real Trotsky-Train Hours where the man himself describes his Cossack-destroying, Knight Rider-esque Chad train that won the Russian Civil War. Become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada Outro - Soft Cell: Sex Dwarf

CONTENT WARNING: violence, war trains, choke sex, revisionism, does not pass Bechdel test To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Russian state television created an 8-part miniseries on the life of Leon Trotsky in which he spends half the screen time violently fucking on a war train dressed like a revolutionary leather daddy. And that's the least revisionist aspect of this stunningly anti-Semitic and reactionary tour-de-force. Alex Gendler, who grew up in the waning years of the USSR, puts this objet d'art into the context of Putin's neoliberal, authoritarian Russia while the rest of us ponder how one man could lay so much pipe and still have time to plot an entire revolution. Outro - The O'Jays: Love Train Become a patron at patreon.com/theantifada to access bonus content, discord community, and more!

We leave it to our patrons to guess what picante takes we have on polyamory. Is it bourgeois decadence that serves only to aggrandize our tech bro overlords? Or is it a totally normal and fine life choice that haters should stfu about? Article: https://qz.com/1501725/polyamorous-sex-is-the-most-quietly-revolutionary-political-weapon-in-the-united-states/?utm_source=reddit.com Sign up to become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada to hear this and more fun bonus content.

The government: we all hate it. But what happens if it just decides to go away? Recently Jamie joked on the Majority Report that it would be cool. Others, like the anarchist collective Crimethinc, have argued this point in earnest. We read their article and point out some flaws in their reasoning. While we agree with their vision of a self-organized, stateless society, we have a long way to go. Access the full episode, our Discord commune, and get DR. ANTIFADA'S PROPAGANDA PACK by supporting our show at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada Read the full article here: https://crimethinc.com/2018/01/19/anarchists-government-shutdown-doesnt-go-far-enough-make-the-shutdown-comprehensive-and-permanent Closing music: Zegota - Laika https://crimethinc.bandcamp.com/album/movement-in-the-music

We're joined by geographer and filmmaker Dr. Nerve V. Macaspac to talk about the history of the Philippines, its Maoist insurgency, and the rise of Rodrigo Duterte. We also talk Amazon, red-lining, Marxist geography, and Presidential foot fetishism. The last part of the episode is a discussion of Nerve's work on autonomous territories in Colombia, Mexico, and the Philippines that have earned some form of autonomy after decades of brutal armed struggle. A long episode just too good to cut down! A 50th Anniversary of the foundation of the Filipino Communist Party spectacular! Read Nerve's essay on "Insurgent Peace" https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KFRJSbvZkwAfB2sKpxGn/full Support the show! Help us get to 666 followers by May Day 2019 and get bonus content, discord access, and Dr. Antifada's propaganda pack at patreon.com/theantifada Closing music is Namatay Sa Ingay - Panimula and Berdugo https://namataysaingay.bandcamp.com/ (all sales of this album go to victims of the drug war)

The AntiFaPDA (That's Antifada + Pod Damn America, not a new anti-masturbation campaign) continues with our guest Alex Ptak and a deep dive into the depths of SJW Youtuber Marla Mae Fish! We defend Tim Burton and his goth babe characters from her bad liberal takes. Is this the foundation of an Internationalist Dark Web? Enjoy Mary Mae Fish's YT account here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChBD4NpITiW2CzIz5GwppDA Then watch some Contrapoints instead

Comedian Alex Ptak (@ptakjokes) of Ballin' Out Super and fam-cast Pod Damn America popped into the studio for a free-wheeling exchange of ideas. We confronted the most pressing issues of the day: How many radicalized Wine Moms will it take to bring on the rev? Now that Teen Vogue is anarchist and Penthouse is fash, which basic-ass mag will be the next to pivot? Why did Amazon think they could bring their subsidized helipad HQ to NYC with no consequences when this is a GODDAMN union town? And is Jonathan Chait the scabbiest scab who ever scabbed? All this and an update on merch! Become an Antifada patron to access our upcoming bonus episode with Alex, our archived premium content and much more at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada Get your dose of Ptak: http://alexptak.com https://soundcloud.com/ballin-out-super https://soundcloud.com/user-423070290 Outro: Redskins - Go Get Organized https://youtu.be/sBquv9EcVWk

Justin Akers Chacón, a person who actually knows what he's talking about, joins us to discuss the left case for actually knowing that the hell you're talking about. After some opening thoughts on the 'Yellow Vest' movement in France (which Sean mistakenly calls the 'Yellow Jackets' at least 4 times bc he clearly has some unresolved childhood bee issues) we dive into the migration maelstrom. Are borders good for unions? Has appealing to state repression been totally awesome for the labor movement? Does creating a criminalized minority of precarious workers help to bring the socialism? Can we trust Hillary Clinton, Emmanuel Macron and Tony Blair to triangulate us out of this mess we're in? Will the transnational working class ever be able to organize in an era of racial fear-mongering, militarized borders and the unfettered flow of capital? (That last one was a trick question. Justin gives us amazing examples of how transnational organizing can happen, has happened and is an absolute fucking necessity. Enjoy!) Become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada Follow us @the_antifada @jamie_elizabeth @spaceprole Good essay on Gilet Jaunes from Lundi Matin, translated by Ill Will Editions: http://ill-will-editions.tumblr.com/post/180774090884/next-stop-destitution-published-on-lundi-matin Textual riot porn and analysis from Crimethinc: https://crimethinc.com/2018/12/06/the-movement-as-battleground-fighting-for-the-soul-of-the-yellow-vest-movement Video of Paris Antifa running Action Francais out of Gilet Jaunes https://twitter.com/enough14/status/1071388684606418949 Check out Justin's work: Ownage https://socialistworker.org/2018/11/27/the-case-against-the-case-against-open-borders 'No One is Illegal' with Mike Davis https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1086-no-one-is-illegal-updated-edition 'Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class' https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/987-radicals-in-the-barrio Become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada Follow us @the_antifada @jamie_elizabeth @spaceprole Outro: Haircut - Gritona https://haircutva.bandcamp.com/

Sean and Jamie are back from their magical Mexican vacation! We talk about why we love visiting Mexico, the legend of Trotsky's cookies, their Chiapas car calamity, La Chica Arana's summit with Corbyn and Amlo, a visit to Zapatista territory, Sean's run-in with a caravan of internally-displaced indigenous Mexicans, and, of course, doing acid on the beach. Show notes: Did someone bake Trotsky's ashes into cookies? https://anarchistnews.org/content/trotskys-ashes-stolen-and-baked-cookies The story of Chavajebal, a village abandoned by its residents in November after a paramilitary siege: https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/3-dead-1500-displaced/ Oventic language school: https://schoolsforchiapas.org/advances/schools/oventic-language-school/ Info about mutual aid for the caravan in Tijuana: https://commotion.world/ Episode image by Erika Santiago https://www.instagram.com/little.eyes.alien Closing music, Cremalleras - En Todos Lados https://cremalleras.bandcamp.com/ Help us get to our goal of 666 subscribers by May Day on Patreon! Subscribers at the $5 level will receive a Dr. Antifada's mindset propaganda pack. Full details TBA at: https://www.patreon.com/theantifada

We've been on vacation for the last week and a half, so we've decided to unlock some premium content from a couple of months ago for our subscribers-slash-not-yet-patrons. Enjoy! When the alleged 'Florida Communist Front' outlined a concrete proposal to begin, fight and win a Protracted People's War from the Everglades, Antifada just had to take a deep dive into this dialectical swamp. How can revolutionary forces utilize mangrove trees and reptilian fauna to overthrown imperialism in the capitalist core? How do we apply praxis from the Maoist insurgency in 1920s-40s to the great state of Florida today? How will FCF unite with the DPRK to get the NUKES that can defeat the running dogs of the imperialist bourgeoisie? All will be revealed within.. that is, if this entire document isn't some incredibly well-honed satire. Regardless, the crew had a lot of fun with it! To become a patron, go to www.patreon.com/theantifada for more primo/weird content!

Sean joins the DAMNED in an Antifada crossover episode with Pod Damn America for a special History is a Weapon about the Industrial Workers of the World, aka the wobblies. The anarchistic-Marxistic union organized hundreds of thousands of US workers with a goal of becoming "one big union" and abolishing class society. Jake Flores, Sean KB, and Alex Ptak recount some of their more dramatic adventures and how the economy of that era compares to the present moment. How can radicals of today learn lessons from the historical IWW without fetishizing them as simply badass soapbox militants with a snappy songbook? Subscribe to PDA wherever podcasts are sold and support them on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/poddamnamerica/posts

Pavlos stays after-hours to indulge our wildest fantasies with his illicit tales of sultry Syntagma street action. The Hellenic hunk's voyeuristic remembrances of battles with the police, the parliament, and the KKE, gets us too hot to last the full 30 minutes, and the last part of the episode we shamefully walk back from our fetishistic follies. Get the full episode along with all other bonuses like Real Tanky/Maoist/Posadist Hours, History is a Weapon, plus access to our discord community by supporting the show at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada

Psychedelic Bordigist, Pavlos Roufos (@PRoufos), joins us to talk about the years leading up to, the proximate causes of, and the aftermath of the Greece sovereign debt crisis. How the post-war dictatorial regime cared more about repressing the left than economic development. How the social-democratic PASOK became more than just a party, but the agents behind both Keynesian and Neoliberal reforms. How entering the Eurozone ended up going in such a shitty direction for Greece and the rest of the PIIGS. Most importantly: we talk about the lessons from years of street actions, general strikes and mutual aid and why it was that Syriza, a parliamentary leftish formation, arose and ultimately failed to break with austerity and what that means for the future of the global working class movement. We have some hottt 'audio riot porn' bonus episode that will drop shortly. To become a patron go to www.Patreon.com/TheAntifada Pavlos' "A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past: on the Greek Crisis and other Disasters" will be available shortly from Reaktion press in Europe and the Chicago University Press shortly. Outro: Javaspa - Δύο Antifa Kουπλέ

On this most terrifying Halloween episode, we are joined by the Lit Crit Guy (@TheLitCritGuy) for a discussion of Gothic Marxism, zombie neoliberalism, horror movies, and more! What is Gothic Marxism and how is it useful for understanding the horrors of capitalism? How do the stories a society scares itself with reflect its material concerns? Consumerist zombies and aristocratic vampires; Elizabeth Bathory has nothing on Peter Thiel. The dialectical tension between Goth and punk. Can this backward-looking aesthetic ever be harnessed in service of proletarian liberation, or is Jamie being a reactionary hypocrite when she dresses like a witch and listens to Joy Division? The crew finishes things out with takes on the movies Mandy, Hereditary, and First Reformed (warning: contains spoilers). Happy Hallowe'en, you dirty commies!!! Check out The Lit Crit Guy's writing at https://www.patreon.com/TheLitCritGuy and https://thelitcritguy.com Outro music: Roky Erickson - I Walked With a Zombie Become a supporter at patreon.com/theantifada Follow us on Twitter: @the_antifada, @spaceprole, @jamie_elizabeth

When the alleged 'Florida Communist Front' outlined a concrete proposal to begin, fight and win a Protracted People's War from the Everglades, Antifada just had to take a deep dive into this dialectical swamp. How can revolutionary forces utilize mangrove trees and reptilian fauna to overthrown imperialism in the capitalist core? How do we apply praxis from the Maoist insurgency in 1920s-40s to the great state of Florida today? How will FCF unite with the DPRK to get the NUKES that can defeat the running dogs of the imperialist bourgeoisie? All will be revealed within.. that is, if this entire document isn't some incredibly well-honed satire. Regardless, the crew had a lot of fun with it! To listen to the entire trainwreck, along with the rest of our premium content, become a supporter today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

This week, the crew is joined by Shyam Khanna, EIC of Commune (@commune_mag), and Andy Battle, doctoral student in US History at CUNY, for a discussion of leftist media and public transit. Shyam unpacks Commune Mag's project of chronicling the popular movements of our time while providing constructive visions for revolution. Hell yeah. Andy B discusses his article for Commune Mag, "The Subway Belongs To Us." From its construction in the early 1900s, to the city's best attempt at social democracy (1930s-1970s), to the present day, the subway has been a constant site of tension between notions of public transit as civic good vs. instrument of capital accumulation. What have people around the world been doing to reclaim this space for themselves? Here's an idea: freak across Europe on a counterfeit Eurail pass. No offense, train-hoppin' crusties, but we think we've leveled up. Stay tuned for our bonus ep featuring more hott sexxxy champagne socialist praxis! Outro music: Crazy Spirit - Train Links: https://communemag.com https://communemag.com/the-subway-belongs-to-us/ https://communemag.com/metoo-from-below/ Become a supporter at patreon.com/theantifada Follow us on Twitter: @the_antifada, @spaceprole, @jamie_elizabeth

In this very interactive episode, the skeleton crew gives thanks to Comrade Gritty, the first sports mascot who is actually mocking the fans. We then take questions from you, the listeners, on a broad range of topics including: witches & the occult, mandatory voting, Jamie's political tendency, why Sean says "deadass" so much, how often we question our beliefs, and the ever spicy Angela Nagle controversy. Outro music: Vincas - Black Rose Donate to DSA Tallahassee's hurricane relief efforts here: https://www.gofundme.com/dsa-tlh-hurricane-relief-fund Become a supporter at patreon.com/theantifada Follow us on Twitter: @the_antifada, @spaceprole, @jamie_elizabeth

In this patrons-only bonus, we chat with Jacob (@cominsitu) about how a book he translated, "Communism for Kids" and his guerilla reading of "The Coming Insurrection" triggered the unholy trifecta of Glenn Beck, Steven Crowder and Alex Jones, Germany's anti-Deutsch movement, and all the times he's been accused of shady wrongdoing abroad. Outro music: Ton Steine Scherben -- Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht Become a member at Patreon.com/theantifada to unlock this and other bonus content!

Since Halloween starts Oct 1, our episode begins with the spook-buster himself, Max Stirner. In a much anticipated meeting of the minds the two most prominent scholars today, Guillotine Podcast host, writer for Conjure House, and left-wing Alex Jones Dr. Bones, and the author of "All Things are Nothing to Me" Jacob Blumenfeld, discuss Stirner's egoism, his conflict with Marx and Engels, and its relevance to socialists today. In the second half we talk to Jacob about the political situation in Germany,abolishing the value-form, and skinhead fashion. Too-hot-to-air discussions of Jacob getting banned from multiple countries, the anti-Deutsch, and his feud with Steven Crowder will be available for Patreon subscribers this week! Links for Dr. Bones: https://theconjurehouse.com/ https://twitter.com/ole_bonsey https://godsandradicals.org/author/eineprawn/ Links for Dr. Jacob Blumenfeld: https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/ http://www.zero-books.net/books/all-things-are-nothing-to-me https://twitter.com/Cominsitu Closing music: SXTN - Deine Mutter

This week journalist and artist Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) drops by to talk Puerto Rico, SESTA/FOSTA, and much more. Highlights: Jamie and Molly's shared past as members of anarcha-feminist workers' cooperative SuicideGirls.com - haha. Another in the ongoing series 'This Week In Musk'. Sex workers as a rising voice within the political sphere. (Big shout out to www.lysistratamccf.org, www.blacksexworkercollective.org, https://survivorsagainstsesta.org and sex workers everywhere fighting for safety and dignity!) Deep dive into the legacy of colonialism, debt, crisis and austerity in Puerto Rico. What lessons can the mainland/international left take from Hurricane Maria and its aftermath? Will the island's future be austerity and privatization... or mutual aid and resistance? Reports on PR by Molly: www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/04/26/the-fatal-conscience-julia-de-burgos-puerto-ricos-greatest-poet, www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/11/17/puerto-ricos-diy-disaster-relief, and www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/12/11/puerto-rico-sketchbook-anarchist-bikers-came-help/ Books by Molly: Brothers of the Gun: a Memoir of the Syrian War (www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550211/brothers-of-the-gun-by-marwan-hisham-and-molly-crabapple/9780399590627) Drawing Blood (www.harpercollins.com/9780062797223/drawing-blood) Donate to disaster relief in PR: www.RedApoyoMutuo.org Support IWW NYC's labor campaigns at Wobfest (www.eventbrite.com/e/wob-fest-union-fundraiser-for-the-industrial-workers-of-the-world-tickets-49188287492) October 6, or donate at www.WobblyCity.org/Donate Support our show and get bonus content at www.patreon.com/theantifada Art: Molly Crabapple Outro music: Conflict -- They Said That

In the first installment of our new history and theory series "History is a Weapon," Sean breaks down historical materialism, a thing we talk about a lot but have never really explained. Why does the history that we all learned growing up suck so much? Why does it seem like we are at a historical dead end? How do we contextualize our present moment? And what tools do we have to analyze - and ultimately confront - the current state of things in this neoliberal hellworld? Dialectics, baby! Did you enjoy this fine work of edutainment? Become a supporter at patreon.com/theantifada to access the rest of our bonus content, our Discord community and more.

In this very conspiratorial episode, the crew is joined by Tanz, writer, researcher, and PhD candidate in the CUNY Grad Center's social psychology program, to talk about a pamphlet she co-authored, "How to Overthrow the Illuminati," which can be found at https://overthrowingilluminati.wordpress.com Alex Jones, David Icke, 9/11 truthers, and the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories. The flat earth people make tankies of us all. Why do working class people believe in the Illuminati and other conspiracy theories? Gothic Marxism gets an extraterrestrial update. How to help people figure out the real problem is (spoiler alert!) capitalism without being an alienating weirdo about it. Read the pamphlet here: https://overthrowingilluminati.wordpress.com We were going to discuss a piece on structural anti-Semitism by Moishe Postone called "Anti-Semitism and National Socialism," but we ran out of time. Read it yourself, and/or demand Sean give you the Cliff's notes version in the next History is a Weapon. Outro music - Zounds - Demystification Support the show at patreon.com/theantifada to access bonus content and our awesome Discord community! Follow us on Twitter: @the_antifada @spaceprole @jamie_elizabeth

The gang is joined by writer David Klion (@DavidKlion) to talk New York's Democratic primaries, the socialist read on Trump/Russia, and the need for a left internationalism. The various reactions to Julia Salazar's NY State Senate win and what it means when the libs think they have to be nice to us. We all drag the fuck out of hasbara hack Bari Weiss, of whose bad takes Sean cannot get enough. Jamie and Sean get divorced x 2. What, if anything, can the left take away from the Trump/Russia story? David breaks it down with help from comrades Bill Maher and Rachel Maddow. Jamie goes off on a cowardly Harrington-ite for his smarmy, disingenuous, red-baiting, left-punching op-ed. International super-friends Bernie and Yanis spit hot bars on foreign policy. All this, plus a new commie karaoke! Outro music: Pulp - Common People Support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada to access bonus content, our Discord community and more!

In this patrons-only bonus, Jake (@feraljokes) tells a touching tale about chasing Joe Rogan around LA trying to get on his show like Captain Ahab chasing a very stoned white whale. Plus: a close reading of Elon Musk smoking weed on Joe Rogan. We watched the whole thing so you don't have to! Check out Jake's podcast at patreon.com/poddamnamerica Become a member at patreon.com/theantifada to access this and other bonus content

The Antifada crew is back from vacation and ready to pop off once more. This week, we are joined by fellow Goth socialist podcaster Jake Flores (@feraljokes) for a discussion of comedy, politics, and the joys of amyl nitrate. How has his now infamous visit from the DHS impacted Jake's comedy career? Is there such a thing as an objectively problematic joke? Which side of the rev will the Upright Citizens Brigade be fighting on? All this, plus Sean defends Comrade George Carlin from the attacks of snarky millennials. Outro music: Vanilla Poppers - Holes the Goal Check out Jake's podcast, Pod Damn America: https://www.patreon.com/poddamnamerica Follow us on Twitter: @the_antifada @jamie_elizabeth @spaceprole Become a supporter of The Antifada at patreon.com/theantifada to access bonus content, our Discord community, and more!

In the first installment of our new history and theory series "History is a Weapon," Sean breaks down historical materialism, a thing we talk about a lot but have never really explained. Why does the history that we all learned growing up suck so much? Why does it seem like we are at a historical dead end? How do we contextualize our present moment? And what tools do we have to analyze - and ultimately confront - the current state of things in this neoliberal hellworld? Dialectics, baby!

In the second edition of The Antifada's new interview series, Andy interviews Matt and Vanessa from the Queens communist project Woodbine at one of their weekly Sunday dinners about building communism, populism, and the autonomism of street cats. Check out Woodbine at https://woodbine.website/ and the Liasons journal issue 1 at http://www.commonnotions.org/liaisons Closing music: Gorilla Biscuits - Cats and Dogs

While on vacation last week, the Antifada crew decided to mix it up a little by each doing a standalone segment. For her contribution, Jamie spoke with her old friend Anna Barie a.k.a. Nora Singh of Los Angeles punk band Hit Bargain about life on the road, Situationism, and what it means to be the Gallagher of noise rock. Also: the naughty aughties, makin' babies, and is Lana del Rey a sign of the end times? music: Hit Bargain - Capitulate Hit Bargain - Quiet Streets Hit Bargain's debut full length Potential Maximizer is out now via Buzz Records. Stream and/or buy it here: hitbargain.bandcamp.com/album/potential-maximizer

This week on the Militant Minority Report, we get even more seditious than usual with the help of army resister Spenser Rapone (@punkproletarian). Mike Ness of Social Distortion brings a smile to our faces. Spenser's journey from 18-year-old recruit to dank communist meme. The relationship between capitalism and imperialism: Is it even possible to oppose war without attacking the wage system? The pitfalls of knee-jerk anti-imperialism. A comparative history of resistance and mutiny during the Vietnam War and Portugal's Carnation Revolution, the latter of which overthrew a fascist government with hardly any violence. Andy Stapp's heroic efforts to unionize the US Army in the Vietnam era. Will anyone pick up the mantel? The military as potential — even essential — site of class struggle, and the various factors working for and against that. Could a revolution ever happen here in the dark heart of the American empire, and if so, what would it look like? Lastly and most importantly: Was Spenser just trolling or does he really think communism will win? Check out Spenser's podcast, Eyes Left, at http://www.patreon.com/ Also, support his comrades at @dsaveterans Become a supporter of The Antifada at http://www.patreon.com/theantifada to access bonus content, our Discord community, and more!