This Wreckage

For the 7th episode of Talkin' Tina, the Antifada side project where we discuss the history and politics of America Latina, we chat with a comrade from Oakland about the uprising that occurred in Cuba on July 11th, 2021, via his interview with an anarchist from the island. The interview can be read in full here: https://www.sm28.org/articles/j11-the-return-of-the-cuban-proletariat/ Support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada Check out Tamarack in Oakland Song: Afro Cuban Allstars - Distinto, Diferente

Sean and Varn take a brief intermission from their long-running debt crisis series to check in on the state of the American Left. (Tl;dr it's not looking good.) Where have the forces unleashed by the Bernie wave gone? Why has the social-democratic left become merely an adjunct to the Democratic Party? How come revolutionary organizations have either liquidated themselves into the DSA or remained marginal micro-sects? In what ways might these two coeval paths be overcome and what part might all of us play in this overcoming? This is an extended preview of [the three-hour long conversation]( the three-hour long conversation) which ends on a hopeful note and a call to action. If you're interested in this content, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada Follow Varn (@skepoet) on: Youtube and podcasts

It's an unhappy 200th birthday for us, we do a postmortem of the little rail strike couldn't. Is the blame on the squad, Brandon, the unions, or the workers themselves? And what comes next for rail workers and class struggle in general? In the second half we propose a few theories of Musk's Twitter takeover: Thiel-pilled fascist Musk, Hannah Arendt high-liberalism Musk, Gordon Gecko-style corporate raider Musk, Henry Ford productivist-futurist Musk (and why ultimately we believe none of it really matters.) Support the show at patreon.com/theantifada to hear it! Song: Annie Lennox - Train in Vain

Sean and Rax King of Low Culture Boil talk about Baz Luhrmann's 2022 masterpiece Elvis and suggest that Baz Luhrmann should in fact be tasked with directing the biopics of every single notable person until he dies from exhaustion. We also read a 1956 NYT review of an Elvis performance, where the reviewer says "teenagers" a lot, and bits of Priscilla Presley's memoir Elvis and Me, where Priscilla talks about Elvis' kinks a lot. Check out more great cultural commentary and fun times at www.patreon.com/lowcultureboil

RARE TUESDAY RELEASE DUE TO 'SCABBIN' JOE BIDEN'S ANNOUNCEMENT TO HAVE CONGRESS PUT THE RAIL WORKERS IN CHAINS National rail strike impending, Sean is joined by Justin Roczniak (@who_shot_jgr) of Well There's Your Problem, your favorite engineering disaster podcast - with slides. If the December 9th deadline for strike action is only the capstone of decades of mismanagement, decline and consolidation of private freight service in the United States, how did things get this way? What conditions are rail workers fighting against? How have so many profits been squeezed out of the industry only to see service degrade? What does it mean for US politics that much of these shifts have been happening through conflict within different sectors of the capitalist class? All this (and a big reveal on Justin's corrupt relationship with Big Hawaiian Roll) in part one of this two part episode. To get access to the second half - including a special Antifada edition of 'Safety Third' and a deposition on Norfolk Nazi Southern's 1990s shit bag scandal - become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada Intro music: Godspeed You Black Emperor - Government Came, edited with testimony from rail emperor E Hunter Harrison at Surface Transportation Board Public Hearing, October 2017

A preview taste of the spicy half of our episode with Brett from Rev Left about the possibility of communist regeneration in China and MAGA Communism in the US with Brett by supporting the show at patreon.com/theantifada. All patrons receive discord access, bonus material, and, if you DM me your mailing address, a signed letterpress Antifada postcard and stickers from collectively-owned union printshop Radix Media! https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-198-vs-w-rev-74931782

"Bunker Brett" of Rev Left Radio comes on the show for the first time in years to debate and discuss the contemporary moment for the left, electoralism, the war in Ukraine, China, an what we can learn from First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania Enver Hoxha. For the second half of the episode support the show at Patreon.com/theantifada! Patrons get all bonus material, access to our Discord, and can DM your address for Antifada stickers and a letterpress postcard from Radix media! Songs: Days N Daze - Instra Mental Days N Daze - I Wanna See It Burn

Jenny Brown is an organizer with National Women’s Liberation, the author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now, and a former collaborator with the Redstockings. We talk about the how radical feminism/women's liberation went from a splinter of the New Left to shaping the course of women's struggles around the world, how their politics are misunderstood today, how their demands for repealing all laws on abortion was recuperated by a supreme court in need of legitimacy, and why the political class today strips those rights. Jenny Brown in Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2022/08/capitalism-low-birth-rate-labor-abortion-contraceptives-childcare Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America by Alice Echols: https://archive.org/details/daringtobebadrad0000echo Shout Your Abortion Pledge to Aid and Abet abortion Song: Janis Ian - Too Old to Go Away Little Girl

Sean's STRIKE update returns! We talk about the UC academic workers strike, Starbucks, the rail strike, Toronto teachers, and much more. Sean is optimistic we are heading towards an independent working class movement. Andy thinks we'll lose again. In the full episode we tell some spooky Halloween stories about a Thing Under the Bridge, a death rock band destroyed by lesbian cop love, and a very "shitty" Halloween cover band. Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada to listen! More: Downstate NY Starbucks worker solidarity fund: https://opencollective.com/sbsolidarity Terror in Trumbull: https://twitter.com/EclecticHams/status/1589281938530967552 https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/Move-people-quicker-Trumbull-seeks-action-16149765.php Halloween GG Allin cover band mystery: https://hellgatenyc.com/spooky-season-postscript Lesbian cop relationship breaks up ACAB Death Rock band: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/05/us/politics/politics-impacts-relationships.html Songs: Rodecaster generic podcast theme song DUMP - New York City Tonight Episode image: https://twitter.com/UnionDrip/status/1589756790539161600

Sports writer and Mets Sicko Richard Staff joins us to talk about the Philadelphia Phillies World Series triumph, the unionization of the minor leagues and other labor conditions of ballplayers, and how the Mets are are the sinew that ties the world of sports and proletarian politics together. For the [full episode]( full episode), including some illicit stories about Keith Hernandez too hot for public consumption, support the show at patreon.com/theantifada The Secret History of Richard Nixon, Mets Sicko by Richard Staff: https://defector.com/the-secret-history-of-richard-nixon-mets-sicko/ Inside the Drive: The Minor Leaguers Who Sprung a Union on MLB by Emma Baccellieri: https://www.si.com/mlb/2022/09/22/minor-league-baseball-union-daily-cover Robert Moses' epic Shea Stadium groundbreaking speech: https://www.wnyc.org/story/flushing-meadow-stadium-groundbreaking-ceremonies-october-28-1961-address-by-robert-moses Mets and Marlins walk-off field in protest after Kenosha shooting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LJfSQAO2cg Other audio clips throughout the episode come from "The New Breed: The Story of the Fans of the '62 Mets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjqcVwCx_9U Opening song: Blasterjaxx and Timmy Trumpet - Narco

Jarrod Shanahan is back with an audio essay about his trip to Chicago's Riot Fest to see the Original Misfits--an experience filled not only with the horror of Glenn Danzig's dark lyrics, but also his political rants, the gentrification and recuperation inherent in these reunion festivals themselves, and the fear of getting old. Read the full essay at Hard Crackers Journal: https://hardcrackers.com/hybrid-moments/ Listen to the first episode of Hardcore History on our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50262903

Sean is joined by the notorious Kevin Rogan, urbanism blogger extraordinaire and Marxist scourge of landlord Twitter, to talk about how housing, development and rent under capitalism. How do housing markets work? (Hint: not at all) Why are landlords objectively both evil and stupid? (Hint: it's baked in) What do NIMBYs/YIMBYs represent? (Hint: two competing factions of capital) How do we fight the land owners and win? And how do tenant unions fit into the broader struggle against capital? This is part one of an extended discussion. For the second half - a whole hour of takes on Matt Yglesias, intra-petit bourg warfare over the soul of city, and Mr Skanska looking over the back of US building capital - become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada Kevin's Substack: https://kevinrogan.substack.com/ Song: Mirah - Dear Landlord

Part three of our epic (and expanding) examination of the coming sovereign debt crisis with Sean and Derick. In this episode, we focus in on Europe, Italy and Great Britain in particular. What were the contradictions that were papered over in the 2008 financial crisis and the 2010 Eurozone debt crisis? How have various ruling classes tried to cope with secular stagnation of the economy? Will the post-fascist turn be able to overcome the crisis? Could the dying center left do any better? All this and many sidebars/parentheses within! For the full episode and a ton more bonus content, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada Check out all of C Derick Varn's excellent analysis at www.patreon.com/varnvlog Song: Lou Reed - The Debt I Owe (Woody Guthrie cover)

Sean and Andy talk about our various malaises: personal, political, and economic. Why does everything feel like shit in the present moment? Is it just us or... Listen to the full 2 hour episode by supporting the show at https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-194-gilt-trip-72890666 Topics covered include the ideological seduction of 'the left wing of the possible', the near collapse of pension funds in the UK from zombie Thatcherism, what its like working inside a secure state facility behind unscalable fences, the economic outlook for workers in the United States, and the Amazon/Netflix-theory of the contemporary spectacle.

We look back at the revolutionary dropout cultures of 1960s and 2000s, a time when middle class youth fled the suburbs to be free in urban bohemia. We look at the popular anarchist ideas and practices during these times alongside the relationship between counterculture, the left, and liberation movements. Armed Love is a series about the revolutionary subculture of the sixties. Episode one was an interview with Peter Coyote, and episode 2 was a discussion of Charles Manson and the Lyman Family, and episode 3 an interview with Black Mask and Up Against the Wall founder Ben Morea: Part 1, Part 2 More info on the Atlanta Forest: https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/ Follow on Twitter and read their latests essays at Crimethic.com PDF: Jerry Rubin: Do It! Video: Ed Sanders on Firing Line Song: The Spectacle - I, Fail

Full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-cpi-and-w-72265849 Ross Wolfe sticks around to talk about a couple things on his mind, namely the scandal that tore apart Caleb Maupin's CPI and reevaluating the meaning of the communist demand to abolish the family. Read: Caleb Maupin’s Former Comrades Speak Out, His Abuses Must Stop!

The Wolfe is Back! Our armchair chairman Ross Wolfe of Insurgent Notes joins Sean and Andy to sum up a recent panel on ultraleft takes on the war in Ukraine and revolutionary defeatism. Hear our bonus episode with Ross about family abolition and the CPI implosion by supporting the show on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-cpi-and-w-72265849 Our episode On the Leftcom Question: https://fans.fm/p/1LaW96Q Episode on Nikolai Bukharin: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70983824 Internationalist Perspective: https://internationalistperspective.org/ Andrew - Untimely Thoughts: Notes on Revolution and Ukraine https://lefteast.org/untimely-thoughts-notes-on-revolution-and-ukraine/ An Invitation to Contribute to a Discussion on the War in Ukraine http://insurgentnotes.com/2022/08/an-invitation-to-contribute-to-a-discussion-on-the-war-in-ukraine/ Song: Mother Anarchy Loves Her Sons

Part two of Sean and Varn's extended discussion on sovereign debt ! This time we dive into the pre-history of of the present moment, how the New York City fiscal crisis of 1974-75 and subsequent banker's coup presaged a new 'post-industrial' and financialized regime of accumulation often called neoliberalism. And if debt crises are a signal of the rise of a new political-economic order, what sort of world does the current crisis presage? For the full episode, a tons more bonus content and access to our Discord server, become a subscriber today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Full episode here An episode for an audience of one: DB. We give him a roadmap to Bonapartism, then discuss the coming recession, US train strike, strike wave in the UK, and, in the full episode available for patrons at patreon.com/theantifada, the phenomenon of Quiet Quitting. Show notes: Productivity crashing https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-productivity-drops-second-quarter-annual-decline-largest-ever-2022-08-09/ Inventories skyrocketing https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-18/end-of-us-splurge-bedevils-retailers-left-with-bloated-inventory Investment decline https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/amazon-closes-abandons-plans-for-dozens-of-us-warehouses Rail strike coming: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/02/rail-s02.html Starmer refuses to join pickets https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-31/uk-train-workers-to-strike-again-next-month-as-dispute-drags-on Quiet quitting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/01/quiet-quitting-and-firing/ https://jacobin.com/2022/09/quiet-quitting-exploitation-work-bosses-austerity-falling-wages Song: Rodecaster Pro's Preloaded Generic Podcast Theme Song

We continue our discussion with Nate Lavey and Michael McCanne of Novara Media's Foreign Agent podcast about the IRA's support in America, first about the stereotype of Irish cops, then about Friedrich Engels' derogatory treatment of Irish immigrants to the UK in his 1845 Condition of the Working class in England. Full episode for patrons at http://patreon.com/theantifada! please support the show :3

Foreign Agent is a 6-part series from Novara Media that investigates the funding and support for the IRA in United States, a story of gun smuggling, bank robberies, homemade missiles and submarines, and the how the politics of Irish Americans shifted through history. Host Nate Lavey and producer Michael McCanne join us. Listen free at: https://novaramedia.com/category/audio/foreign-agent/ Song: Black 47 - Livin' in America

Here's a fun crossover Sean did with Anders Lee of Pod Damn America on revolutionary and communist theorist Nikolai Bukharin. full episode for Patrons here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70983824

Sean and Varn return in the sixth episode of our Antifada/VarnVlog crossover project, covering the growing global debt crisis. Between the geopolitics of the dollar as reserve currency, the impact of quantitative easing and the pandemic stimulus, the recent Fed interest rate hike and all the potential upheaval coming down the pipe... this is going to be at least a three-parter so stay tuned! Full Episode! This is an extended preview, for the full episode become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Andy joins Minion Death Cult's series discussing HBO's series about the Acapulco anarcho-capitalists: The Anarchists! In episode 2, the anarchists fortunes seem to be on the rise as bitcoin booms. But a crusty group of ancap battle hippies start to wonder if there's more to anarchocapitalism than money, and plan to "fork" the system! For more MDC premium content and to listen to the rest of their ongoing series on the show, subscribe to MDC at https://www.patreon.com/miniondeathcult/

Co-author of The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism, Aaron Vansintjan describes the degrowth worldview, its plans of actions, its reformist and revolutionary ambitions, and beating the Malthusian/Ecofascist/Climate Mao charges. Buy the book from Verso, now 30% off: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3989-the-future-is-degrowth Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/ Song: Snail Mail - Thinning

Oedipal Alex Jones, the music of David Koresh, the Assassination of Nancy Pelosi by the Coward President Xi, Sean explains Taiwan crisis As_a_joker, and more Settlers banter For the full episode, Discord access, and all other bonus content support the show at patreon.com/theantifada

Sean is joined by Japser Bernes of End Notes and Cal Berkeley to catch up on the comings and goings of the communization current. They discuss the plight of big American cities, the legacy of Occupy/BLM, the ongoing crisis of inflation and supply shocks and how communists might create a counterpower to the logistical infrastructure of capital. Follow Jasper @outsidedadgitator if you like our work, support us at patreon.com/theantifada https://jasperbernes.net/ https://brooklynrail.org/2022/02/field-notes/Been-Down-So-Long-It-Looks-Like-Up-To-Me http://endnotes.org.uk/articles/21

In which Sean and Andy finally start getting mercenary and talk shit behind the paywall. This week we tackle the blinkered stupidity of last week's 'Starbucks baristas are bourgeois' discourse. Is there even a crumb of meaning that we can glean from this meltdown? Anyways, we had fun with it. To access this bonus content, our side projects History is a Weapon/Diving into the Wreckage/Proletkult and our amazing Discord server, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada Here's the critique we mentioned by @criticofpolecon

What do inflation, the London heatwave, 'communisateur' Los Angeles Truckers and the 1990s hardline band Vegan Reich have in common? They are all part of this brand new news episode featuring Sean and Andy! Plenty of scorching takes within about agricultural production, based bin men, inflation as capital in decay and how much means of production must be destroyed before Andy can rest at night. Sweet bonus episodes, including us talking shit on the 'baristas are bourgeoisie' clowns, can be found at www.patreon.com/theantifada Song: Sex Pistols - Bodies

Sean met with a whole bunch of listeners and patrons and friends on Discord and described his idea for a new organization. Another meeting coming up on Sunday, July 24th at 3pm EST so be sure to make it if you're interested! (You don't have to be a patron to come, but if you'd like to become one you can sign up at www.patreon.com/theantifada) LiF Discord: https://discord.gg/zQrFjMSz Music: The Internationale (Jamaican Reggae Version)

Matthew and Ana from the Neoliberalhell podcast discuss their effort to unite influencers, shitposters, sex workers, abortion advocates, Hunter Biden-watchers in an instarecction against the Meta corporation, which begins this Saturday in NYC and LA! More info on the NYC Protest: https://www.instagram.com/antizuckprotest/ LiF Discord: https://discord.gg/zQrFjMSz For access to our discord and all bonus material, support the show at patreon.com/theantifada Free Kita Analena! https://www.instagram.com/free.kitaanalena/ song: Bikini Kill - Suck My Left One

In the latest of our ongoing collaboration between Varn and Sean, the guys sit down to look at the multiple complicating factors behind the ongoing food crisis which has seen it's most striking culmination with the overthrow of the Sri Lankan government last week. How has capital shifted production, distribution and consumption of food crops? What kind of frailties has this produced for global grain supplies? And what are the likely complications as the crisis ratchets up in coming months? This is an extended preview. The full episode is available for patrons, so sign up for this bonus content and much more at www.patreon.com/theantifada

We chat about Sean's appearance at the Sublation Media release event last week in Brooklyn, the dead end of free speech/cancel culture obsession among leftists, and meeting Norman Finkelstein on the beach. Check out the full episode and join or Discord community at http://patreon.com/theantifada Chris Cutrone's essay from the event: https://www.sublationmag.com/post/dogmatization-and-thought-taboos-on-the-left Song: Neil Young - On the Beach

We talk about the recent Supreme Court decisions, the coming rightwing dictatorship, the collapse of liberal democracy, and why only Dark Brandon can save us now. Melinda Cooper - Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection Listen to our bonus episode about the Sublation Media panel and meeting Norman Finkelstein on the beach, and join our Discord community, by supporting the show at patreon.com/theantifada Song: 7 Seconds - New Wind

We discuss some of the methods Noel suggested in Race Traitor journal for white people to abolish themselves. Full episode at patreon.com/theantifada

Zhana is back with her co-editor of the new Noel Ignatiev reader from Verso: Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity. We start by talking about Roe being overturned before moving on to Noel's revolutionary dual power strategy, and his intervention into the SDS debates about whether white workers would ever check their privilege. In the bonus we talk more about his nineties journal Race Traitor and what it actually looks like renounce whiteness. Buy the book from Verso (currently 40% off!) Read Hard Crackers journal Closing song: Haggathorn - Awakening with text from David Horowitz's 1999 book "Hating Whitey"

Jake "Feral Jokes" Flores and Andy continue our very specific collaboration of giving positive reviews to controversial works of sf! This time it's David Cronenberg's CRIMES OF THE FUTURE! A film in which "surgery is the new sex," and probably an allegory for why art and politics suck. It's NICE! For the full episode subscribe today at patreon.com/theantifada :) Our previous episode about Severance: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65010363 Listen to Pod Damn America

Matt and Sean are back with an critical review of David Graeber and David Wengrow's 'The Dawn of Everything' and their popular reimagining of humanity's historical evolution. What can their anthropology tell us about what freedom means and has meant to peole? How does their account change our conception of the science of historical materialism? What politics follow from their project and what are the limitations of their Occupy Wall Street-esque worldview? For the full episode become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada Intro: N i g h t f e v e r - V a p o r w a v e

A continuation of our discussion in the main episode with Ted Reese (@grossmanite). We discuss Dengism, the connection between crisis and communism and much more! To check out this bonus content, our History is a Weapon series with Matt Christman, Proletkult with Andy, access to our Discord server and more become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada Bonus song: Europe - The Final Countdown

Do you feel like the economy is out of control? That this simply cannot go on? Are you dreading/anticipating a total breakdown? A final crisis, if you will? Well do we have the episode for you. Andy and Sean are proud to be joined by Ted Reese (@Grossmanite) the author of The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman to discuss his incredible new book. This episode could not have come at a more relevant time, so you'll want to have a listen. The continued bonus discussion for patrons can be found at www.patreon.com/theantifada so sign up to support our work today. Do yourself a favor and get Ted's work out now from Zero Books. Music: Trapped Under Ice - Reality Unfolds

Antifada's side project about the paranormal and parapolitical is back! with Andy and Jarrod Shanahan's #ReadtheGreenBook tour event at Chicago's Pilsen Community Books, and a short story about Andy's pilgrimage to Dallas. Link to the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67648274 BUY MY BOOK (from Red Emma's): I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism

The 'Fada boys catch up after Andy's Amtrak trip across the country! We talk the impending Roe vs. Wade overturning, homelessness crisis, crime wave, police slowdowns, and the great resignation. Listen to the end for our new manifesto! Help us keep the show going by supporting the at patreon.com/theantifada! Patrons get bonus episodes and acess to our discord community. The Interregnum: https://haters.noblogs.org/post/2022/01/07/the-interregnum-the-george-floyd-uprising-the-coronavirus-pandemic-and-the-emerging-social-revolution/ More on Echo Park homeless struggles: https://newrepublic.com/article/166383/los-angeles-echo-park-homeless-industrial-complex You Sweep? We Strike! action in Minneapolis: https://twitter.com/IGD_News/status/1529991181945348097 LA Riots 2020 by Ryan Lee https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/ryan-lee-la-riots-2020 Song: The Clash - Train in Vain

None dare call him breadtuber! Sean is joined by Muke (@muke10101) of the Marxist youtube channel Xexizy to discuss his project and popularization of good communist takes on politics, the economy and whether profit is, in fact, theft. Along the way they discuss the problems with soc-dem streamers, the parlous state of UK politics ,why the critique of political economy is important and begin the critique of Leninism found the bonus. For this bonus and much more, become a patron today at patreon.com/theantifada Check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDULjo1v2Hivuu4h4LZSTUQ Outro: Ｋａｌｉ Ｕｃｈｉｓ － ｔｅｌｅｐａｔíａ （ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅチ ル) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7PYIx8_yn4

Sean and Muke continue the discussion on Leninism and the joy of sects. Also, a very (im)modest proposal on how to maybe revive international unionism, wrest control over supply chains and strike some serious blows against capital. To access this bonus content and more become a patron today at patreon.com/theantifada

We take a look back at 4 years of Antifada, and Jamie says goodbye. Continue to support her work at Everybody Love Communism! And, as always, you can support the Antifada for bonus episodes, Discord chat, and more at http://patreon.com/theantifada Closing songs: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Dead Flag Blues Hogtown Jug Band - Future's in The Streets

Andy and Sean trade prison stories with Jarrod, including a near uprising in the Tombs kicked-off by the revolutionary demand for pound cake. For the full episode and all other bonus material support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada. We really appreciate it! Don't forget to pick up your copy of Captives: How Rikers Island Took NYC Hostage Song: Ghostface Killah - We Made It

Jarrod Shanahan returns to talk about his new book Captives: How Rikers Island Took NYC Hostage, out TODAY from Verso. Captives it the history of Rikers Island as a progressive reform turned riotous penal colony in the neoliberal era. While today it's slated to be closed, the book shows how the plan to build new state-of-the-art humanitarian jails is repeating the mistake. Check out our bonus episode with Jarrod on Friday at Patreon.com/TheAntifada Song: Negative Approach - Borstal Breakout

Sean and Derick are back with the 4th installment of our crossover series on history, political economy and current events. In this episode, the boys examine China: what was the mode of production in the revolutionary period? How has China changed since the reform period? What are common misconceptions about the CPC, good or bad? The full conversation is over two-and-a-half hours, so if you like what you hear become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada to hear this bonus content and a lot more. To see the full recorded video of this recording, and support one of the best content creators out there, head over to https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog to give Derick some love as well. NOTE: We screwed up a previous post of this file, should be fixed now!

In this bonus, Sean and Tarence talk some smack about the National Conservative slash Post-Left crowd. Are they worth worrying about? What does their whole stupid movement mean? How do we all get some of that sweet Theil cash? For the rest of the episode and a whole lot more bonus content, become a subscriber today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Nearly two years after the epic Trillbillies Workers Party crossover episode, Sean and Tarence decided to check in on how Giovanni Arrighi's historical schema is holding up. Then they throw in some Ellen Meiksins Wood and Andreas Malm for good measure. Also, what to make of the NatCon/Post-Left losers from the Vanity Fair article. Check out more about JD Vance and Peter Theil and the rest of those dinguses by becoming a supporter at www.patreon.com/theantifada Intro: Jordan Davis, Luke Bryan - Buy Dirt