This Wreckage

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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!

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.htmlThe 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

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 anarchist-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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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'

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

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.html​​https://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 TUESDAY in Philly! Sept 12 w/WTYP at FRANKLIN BALLROOM https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problem

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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