This Wreckage

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

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

Marxism vs. MMT!For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaFollow Varn on Youtube and support his Patreon !

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.pdfSong: Royksopp - Compulsion

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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 :( )

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

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

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

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

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

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.)

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

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

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

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

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