This Wreckage

Jamie and Leslie are back with a hot, fresh VC to sink your teeth into! On this edition, they discuss Jim Jarmusch's stylish vampire slice-of-life movie "Only Lovers Left Alive" (2013), as well as Ana Lily Amirpour's Iranian vampire Western "A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night" (2014). Become a patron at Patreon.com/TheAntifada to unlock the full version of this episode, plus our Discord community and tons of bonus content!

Author Bini Adamczak discusses her newly translated book Yesterday's Tomorrow, a haunting meditation on the history of counterrevolution through the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion, the cult of Lenin, the Stalinist purges, and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. The book begs to ask how our revolutionary thinking is hindered by these tragedies, suggesting that things could have and may proceed differently in the future. She also discusses her group Zero Covid, which criticizes the far-right and neoliberal approaches the pandemic. Follow them on twitter at https://twitter.com/zeroCovid_DACH Check out Bini's books: Communism for Kids Yesterday's Tomorrow On the Communism for Kids controversy: https://brooklynrail.org/2017/06/field-notes/Why-Conservatives-Are-Panicking-Over-a-Short-Story-About-Communism And some of her writing: https://brooklynrail.org/2020/09/field-notes/Corona-Crisis-Governmentality https://brooklynrail.org/2017/12/field-notes/The-Future-of-the-Past Support us by subscribing to the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Song: Matrosen von Kronstadt! (a GDR rendition of the Soviet song "Forward, Red Marines!" about the events of the naval theater of the Russian Civil War, rewritten by Helmut Schinkel, to glorify the Bolshevik suppression of the Kronstadt Rebellion)

After we ended the episode, Bradley Greene and Touissant Losier stayed on the line to talk more about some particularities of the film, including the shootout at 58th street and Calumet, Fred Hampton's time in Menard Prison, and the racist violence in Cairo, Illinois. Listen to full clip at patreon.com/theantifada

Joining us to discuss the new movie “Judas and the Black Messiah" are Afro-American studies professor Dr. Toussaint Losier and Bradley Greene, a Chicago Black Panther. Greene tells us what life was like in the BPP, his relationship Fred Hampton, why the police were set on killing him, and several important aspects of the movie he thinks were really wrong. We also talk about the struggle today, and what our generation can learn from the Party and the attacks against it. Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Audio is taken from "The Murder of Fred Hampton" (1971) edited by Anatoli Ulyanov with music by Skarú

Part 2 of our review of with Adam Curtis' new BBC series Can't Get You Out of My Head with the Woodbine's podcast. Topics include the Joan Baez, Patti Smith, the Tupac hologram, and Elon Musk. You can hear the full episode by supporting our show at patreon.com/theantifada Closing song: Cigarettes after Sex - Starry Eyes

Part 1 of a crossover episode with Woodbine's podcast about Adam Curtis' new BBC series, Can't Get You Out of My Head. We talk about Adam Curtis' methods, his political origins, his visions of the future, and what his conclusions might offer revolutionaries. For their other episode and part 2, support Woodbine, a radical community hub in Ridgewood Queens, at their Patreon You could also support us at our Patreon! Opening song: ＫＹＬＩＥ ＭＩＮＯＧＵＥ- ＣＡＮ＇Ｔ ＧＥＴ ＹＯＵ ＯＵＴ ＯＦ ＭＹ ＨＥＡＤ Closing song: Electric Light Orchestra - Can't Get it Out of My Head

Jamie and Sean host Marcus and Lorax of leftist veteran co-op LeftFlankVets (@leftflankvets) to talk about their media project, their experiences in the military, and the potential for revolutionary organizing within the ranks of the US armed forces. They also give a prognosis for foreign policy under Biden and offer up answers as to why some vets fall prey to right-wing militia movements. The best military episode we've done since Ep 19 feat. Spenser Rapone! Closing song: The Monks - Monk Time Check out their channel at twitch.tv/LeftFlankVets Become a Patron at Patreon.com/TheAntifada to unlock tons of bonus content and our Discord community! Check us out every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7pm ET at Twitch.tv/TheAntifada

Kay Gabriel (@unit01barbie), of DSA Emerge and the #DefundNYPD campaign, stops by to give a counterpoint to some of our previous guests' takes on cutting police budgets as part of the road to abolition. Equal time doctrine, but only for different types of communists! Sharp-eared observers will note this audio came from The Antifada twitch stream. Follow us at twitch.tv/theantifada to catch all our video content! We stream most Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 7pm ET. Visit defundnypd.com to stay updated and/or get involved. Check out "We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics," edited by Kay Gabriel and Andrea Abi-Karam (some of the poems are about abolishing the police!): https://nightboat.org/book/we-want-it-all/ Intro/Outro: "Total Eclipse of the Heart" (vaporwave remix) Become a member at Patreon.com/theantifada to unlock all bonus content and our Discord community!

Jason sticks around to discuss retail traders, the end of the beginning of Trumpism, the legacy of Obama and what, if anything, can be taken from last week's Reddit vs Wall Street battle. Become a patron to access this bonus episode and others, plus our Discord server: www.patreon.com/theantifada Closing song: Roger Miller - Not in Nottingham

Political economist Jason Smith, (@profitratedown) author of 'Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in and Age of Stagnation', joins Sean to give us all an update on how that dang line is doing. What is the source of all of America's various morbid symptoms the last 12 to 40 years? How can it be that a handful of tech companies (the FAANGS) can seem to be so profitable when the 'real economy' is so depressed? What does all this mean for a return to social democratic, non-revolutionary politics in the capitalist core? And if you've ever wondered just why all the jobs, including perhaps your own, as so shitty these days, we ask: what is service work, really, and how does it fit into the schema of capitalist production. Finally, what is the future of work? Bonus episode on the end of Trump and the GameStop debacle out on Friday! Jason's book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo70564105.html Support the Antifada by becoming a Patron!!! Closing song: Daisy Chainsaw - Love your money

Jamie, Jarrod, and Zhana from Hard Crackers talk more about the realistic possibilities of defunding or abolishing the police, non-reformist reformers, and an anti-carceral popular front. For the full episode and access to our Discord community, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti of Hard Crackers Journal inaugurate our new era of unrest! We talk about the origins of the journal in the white abolitionist work of Noel Ignatiev, race treason in the George Floyd uprising, and finally the January 6th Capitol Siege and how the left can take insurrectionism back from the trumpist pretenders. Read, order, and/or donate to Hard Crackers at https://hardcrackers.com/ Subscribe for bonus content and Discord access at Patreon.com/TheAntifada Work by Jarrod and Zhana: https://brooklynrail.org/2020/07/field-notes/Prelude-to-a-Hot-American-Summer https://hardcrackers.com/the-big-takeover/ https://hardcrackers.com/last-stand-freedom-america/ https://hardcrackers.com/stopthesteal/ https://hardcrackers.com/remembering-noel-ignatiev-jarrod-shanahan/ https://hardcrackers.com/white-people-discussion-race-class-police-violence/ Opening music: Second South Carolina String Band - Hard Crackers Come Again No More Closing music: Blood for Blood - White Trash Anthem

Jamie is joined by Aaron Thorpe (@posadist_trapgd) of Trillbilly Workers Party and A Time Of Monsters and Andray Domise (@andraydomise) of The Drop Squad on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to discuss the first volume of Barack O'bummer's serial killer memoir "A Promised Land." What is 44 trying to do here? Is he Lena Dunham, Walter White, or a perfect synthesis of both? And what's so bad about going to therapy that men will literally run for president to avoid it? Apologies for the poor sound quality on Jamie's end, she forgot to check the input settings and feels very bad. The Drop Squad: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-drop-squad/id1523282652 A Time Of Monsters: https://www.patreon.com/atompod Trillbillies: https://soundcloud.com/user-972848621-463073718 Aaron's substack: https://spacelight.substack.com/ Become a member at patreon.com/theantifada to unlock bonus content and our Discord community!

Our guests from episode 127 stick around to discus a topic that's floating around more and more these days: civil war. What does the 1861-65 conflict and its aftermath tell us about the role that the proletariat must take in the coming months and years? And what are the stakes of the coming rupture? Become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada today Outro: Pete Seeger - John Brown's Body

Our friends Arturo and Shemon stop by to discuss the George Floyd rebellion and how it might go from a series of isolated insurrections to a glorious proletarian revolution. Radical geography, looting caravans, white accomplices, organized labor, and the black counter-insurgency as viewed through a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air lens. Stay tuned for Friday's bonus in which we discuss the chud riot at the capitol and what lessons we can take from the American Civil War. Articles referenced: https://illwilleditions.com/theses-on-the-george-floyd-rebellion/ https://illwilleditions.com/the-rise-of-black-counter-insurgency/ https://illwilleditions.com/the-return-of-john-brown-white-race-traitors-in-the-2020-uprising/ https://illwilleditions.com/prelude-to-a-new-civil-war/ https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/cars-riots-black-liberation https://itsgoingdown.org/fire-on-main-street-small-cities-in-the-george-floyd-uprising/ Outro song: Dj Screw - Sittin on Top of the World (Big Floyd aka George Floyd verse) Become a member at Patreon.com/TheAntifada to unlock bonus content and our Discord community!

Douglas Lain of Zer0 Books chats with us slightly youngsters about zines, indymedia, adbusters anti-globalization, anti-war, and the world this radicalism has left us with. Was it all radical liberalism or did 2008 break part of the counterculture towards a revolutionary path? For the full episode support us at Patreon.com/TheAntifada Closing song: Jimmy Buffet - Cheeserburger in Paradise

Cushbomb comes by our weekly Wednesday twitch show to talk about the chud invasion of the capital. Was it a grassroots uprising, an attempt coup, or a color revolution in the making? How should the left respond? For the full podcast and all our bonus material support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada Also joining us was french-based comrade Henry J Wallis and Remi from Cosmonaut Magazine and the Marxist Center For more with Henry and Remi watch the full stream free: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/864250811 And follow/subscribe to our Twitch channel!

The editor of Zer0 Books and host of Zer0 Squared talks about his recent video that was too hot for Youtube. What is "the Great Reset," what does Christopher Lasch's "The Revolt of the Elites" have to say about (via Paul Sweezy and the Johnson-Forest Tendency), and how did that critique not go far enough? We also discuss Doug's sectarian background and new media strategies for the left in general. Watch the banned video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/christopher-paul-44266732 Another good convo on Lasch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1zO1SAdCRE Support the show at http://Patreon.com/TheAntifada And check out our Twitch streams on Monday, Weds, and Friday nights around 7 pm EST at Twitch.tv/TheAntifada Closing song: Brockhampton - Weight

Jamie and Andy sit down with the great Marxist historian, author, activist and urban theorist Mike Davis to review the year that was. Topics include the California wildfires, the Covid-19 pandemic, the George Floyd uprising, and that wet fart of an election. Why is everything so terrible and what should anti-capitalist organizers be focusing on going into 2021? All will be revealed. Articles referenced: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii126/articles/mike-davis-trench-warfare https://lithub.com/how-a-pandemic-happens-we-knew-this-was-coming/ https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/california-fire-drought-climate/ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-arellano-malibu-burn-20181114-story.html Outro song: Michael Martin Murphy - Wildfire Become a member at Patreon.com/TheAntifada to unlock tons of bonus content and our Discord community!

Santa visits us to deck the halls with boughs of... holly. We talk about the left "negationists" and their defenders like Noam Chomsky, the Faurrison affair and connection with current culture wars about free speech, and the Bordigist critique at their heart of their milieu. Scholar of religious discrimination Dave Silverberg then presents his thesis that Marx's On the Jewish Question is misread as an antisemitic text. Finally, we draw some conclusions about labor party expulsions and other contemporary controversies surrounding antisemitism. Merry Christmas! Original Bordigist essay: http://libcom.org/library/auschwitz-big-alibi Introduction to French Ultra-Left and Faurisson: https://libcom.org/library/john-gray-introduction-question-state Thread on Bordiga, Dauve, Guillaume and Auschwitz: https://libcom.org/forums/theory/bordigism-anti-fascism-01032012 Anti-semitism and National Socialism - Moishe Postone https://libcom.org/library/anti-semitism-national-socialism-moishe-postone Closing song: Weird Al - The Night Santa Went Crazy

In order to discuss the appalling ways that poor white people are portrayed in the United States, we had to have on Tarence (@tarenceray) from the Trillbilly Workers Party. We all watched JD Vance's execrable 'Hillbilly Elegy' so you don't have to. Out of this came a great discussion about deindustrialization, rural poverty, the opioid epidemic and media portrayals of that figure of derision and fear, 'the white working class'. What changes to US political economy caused widespread immiseration over the last 50 years in places like Appalachia? How have politics failed the workers in these communities? And what dark visions do the Charles Murrays and JD Vances of the world have for a solution to the rural poverty problem? Outro song: Total Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Heart - Bonnie Dauvé Become a member at Patreon.com/TheAntifada to access bonus content and our Discord community!

A Covid vaccine is coming (for the rich). Uber gets owned. Real estate tycoons make record profits. Amazon workers organize. And much, much more. Here's the article Jamie forgot to link last time: https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1 Donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund: atlsolidarity.org Donate to Dick's commissary fund: venmo kat-richards-1 / cashapp $katrichards (caption that it’s for Richard) Send Dick a letter at [email protected] Closing song: Lady Bits - C'Mon Baby Become a supporter at Patreon.com/TheAntifada to unlock bonus content and our Discord community!

Aaron sticks around with Jamie and Sean to discuss the political implications of his work on automation and the future of work. If UBI and Keynesian stimulus is insufficient, what sort of movements and measures might be adequate to the present moment? Listen to the full episode by supporting the show at patreon.com/theantifada Outro: Rolling Stones - Luxury You can get Aaron's excellent book at, where else, verso: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3717-automation-and-the-future-of-work

Sean and Jamie speak with Aaron Benanav (@abenanav), currently a researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin, about his new book, "Automation and the Future of Work." While automation theorists predict that we are headed for a smooth transition to fully automated luxury communism (or is it partially automated poverty capitalism?) with a little help from our friend Andrew Yang, Benanav says not so fast. To provide an alternate explanation for the dropping demand for labor, he takes us through the book's key arguments, savors some Keynesian tears, pokes holes in the idea of a UBI, and sets us up nicely for part 2 (out Friday!) where we talk about how to get from our current hellworld to a society built around human needs. Outro music: Limp Bizkit - I'm Broke

Our series about Latin America returns with an episode on Brazil with Amauri Gonzo of Brasil Wire, Ponte.org, and the Afita podcast. We cover a wide range of topics including riots against the murder of a black man last weekend on Black Consciousness Day, the regional elections, COVID vaccine drama, expectations of a Biden policy in Latin America, fires and military maneuvers in the Amazon, prospects for a post-Workers' Party Brazilian left, Gl*nn Gr**nwald, and Bolsonaro's anime avatar. For the full episode an all bonus content, support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada

Andy and Sean are joined by Edwad @readcapital and Cordelia @cozyunoist, the confirmed superstars of #heinrichtwitter and co-hosts of the Reel Abstractions podcast to discuss Karl (Heinrich) Marx's 1865 address to the 1st International called 'Value, Price and Profit.' As anti-Marxist communists steeped in Marxology, they help us confront this seemingly simple text for what it is - a fraction of Marx's total critique from a snapshot of time, and a Marx at his most Ricardian - which opens a conversation on: the difference between political economy and critical theory, the usefulness of Marx for communist theory, and the ambiguities that exist even in the mature theory we've inherited today. This is a challenging episode (we stand in awe at the Reel Abstractions crew's grasp of the material) but well worth a listen. song: Green Day - Nice Guys Finish Last

Jamie and Sean vibe on a number of topics, not limited to but including: feeling depressed, #DefundNYPD canvassing, and the latest bad discourse around "connecting with the working class." What's going to happen to millennials' politics when some of them inherit property? And a preview of a critique of democratic socialism. Donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund at https://atlsolidarity.org Closing song: Nina Simone - Backlash Blues

The second half of our conversation with Eric-John Russel of Cured Quail about Society of the Spectacle. We define the spectacle, cover the abolition of time, do some close readings of some of the aphorisms, and talk about practical applications of the text For the full episode and access to all our bonus content, including History is a Weapon, Vampire Castle, and Proletkult, support us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheAntifada

Scholar and madman Eric-John Russel joins us to discuss his journal the Cured Quail, the political origins of the Situationist International, and Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. After that Sean and Andy discuss Trump's low-energy coup attempt, especially why so many anticipated it and why it doesn't seem to be working. Support the Antifada by becoming a Patron for the full Spine Check episode on Society of the Spectacle, released Friday. Get Cured Quail 1 and preorder Cured Quail 2 at https://curedquail.com/ Society of the Spectacle pdf: https://libcom.org/files/The%20Society%20of%20the%20Spectacle%20Annotated%20Edition.pdf Eric-John Russel's forthcoming book on Debord and Hegel: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/spectacular-logic-in-hegel-and-debord-9781350157637/ Recent SI reader from Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338897/the-situationist-international/ Don Hammerquist's essay on right populism and international capital: https://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2018/10/new-stuff-from-old-guy-part-1.html Matthew Lyons - Resisting Trump's Coup https://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2020/09/resisting-trumps-coup.html Business leaders plan response if Trump disputes election results: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/06/business/business-groups-election-results/index.html music: Refused - Rather be Dead Stone Roses - Bye Bye Badman

In Part two of our discussion with the Angry Workers collective about their new book Class Power on Zero Hours, we talk about the new cycle of unrest spreading the world: riots against police brutality, racism, and renewed lockdowns in Europe. We close with a discussion of the tasks a workers' revolution will need to accomplish to succeed, and how we can get from here to there. For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada Angry Workers' Insurrection and Production essay

We interview two authors of the new book "Class Power on Zero Hours" describing the Angry Workers' collective efforts of organizing, agitating, and working in the industrial fringes of west London. “We are publishing this book at a time when many on the left are licking their wounds, despondent at their missed opportunity to implement a socialist program through the Labour Party," they write in the intro, calling instead for more focus on daily worker activity for autonomy, and theorizing how solidarity between essential workers can point the way to revolution. Part two of the episode, released Friday on Patreon, will discuss that program as well as anti-lockdown riots and BLM. Read the full introduction: https://classpower.net/intro/ Buy Class Power on Zero Hours from PM Press: https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1164 Angry Workers’ essay on insurrection: https://angryworkersworld.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/insurrection-and-production/ Correspondence with Insurgent Notes: http://insurgentnotes.com/2020/09/introduction-to-discussion-of-class-power-on-zero-hours/ Closing song: Sleaford Mods - Jobseeker

Happy Mischief Night! Andy is joined by Jon the Lit Crit Guy to discuss Tim Burton's 1988 horror comedy BEETLEJUICE, well known for its titular imp and goth heroine, but far less for its themes of afterlife bureaucracy, rapacious capitalism, rural gentrification, and class conflict. For the full episode and all other bonus material, support the show at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada And to support Jon and his podcast, Horror Vanguard: https://www.patreon.com/TheLitCritGuy https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard Read an accompanying essay about Beetlejuice, Rural Gentrification, and insurrection at: https://gittlitz.substack.com/

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Jamie is joined by returning guests Leslie Lee III (@leslieleeiii), of Struggle Session and Vampire Castle, and Hether Fortune, formerly of Wax Idols and currently of Jamie's dreams, to talk about two very different horror movies: Zoom-based thriller (and first great film of the Covid era?) "Host" and 1992 cult classic "Society." Spoiler alert: there are no safe spaces, Zoom is even worse than you thought, and the rich are a race of slimy incest-monsters who just wanna get their shunt on. Happy sp00ky szn (㇏(•̀ᵥᵥ•́)ノ) Outro music: Richard Band - Re-Animator Theme

We read a review of Shrek 2 by the Maoist International Party - Amerika, paying close attention to their theory of "gender aristocracy", and discuss the role of ogre love in anti-imperialist struggle and revolution. For the full episode, and all our bonus material, support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada

Jamie, Andy and Sean are joined by political economist and author Pavlos Roufos to catch up Greece in the wake of the recent imprisonment of the leadership of the Golden Dawn fascist group and a return to the 'normalcy' of centrist governance. We also discuss the aftermath of the viscous austerity imposed by the Troika, the nature of Syriza's capitulation, the migration crisis that still roils Greek society and some similarities between American and Greek far-right populism. For a refresher, here is the previous episode we did with Pavlos (one of our favorites!) https://fans.fm/p/50i Follow Pavlos - @PRoufos Buy 'A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past: The Greek Crisis and Other Disasters' from Reaktion Books: https://bit.ly/3dJKLGO Outro - Killah P - Α.ΛΗ.Τ.ΗΣ (Rest in power)

Jamie and Sean continue the discussion of historical and contemporary left communism by addressing listener questions from Discord, Twitter, and elsewhere. For this bonus content, access to the Discord and more become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada

First Sean and Jamie do a roundup of the news: Donnie is back and he appears to not be dead but bisexual; Dems get the Supreme Court they deserve and Sen Mike Lee outs himself as a Bordigist? Next Sean does a non-leftcom's guide to left communism: what is this thing? What's its relation to non-left communism? Wait how can communism be not left in the first place?? With help from some history and some help from leftcom friend of the show Noah Lennox he tries to explain. Outro: Le otto ore - Canto di lotta Follow Noah Lennox @commiePandaBear Leftcom listener questions bonus will be out later this week: become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Part two of collaborative commentary of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Past Tense w/ Swampside Chats! As the Bell Riots kick off, can the DS9 crew protect the revolutionary demands of the sanctuary districts' homeless district from the nihilism of its most lumpen elements? And will @Jack censor news of the police raid from the people? Check out Swampside Chats at: patreon.com/swampsidechats

Our collaborative commentary of S3ep11 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine w/ Swampside Chats! In this two part episode, the crew goes back in time to a San Francisco homeless camp at the time of the a riot against neo-liberalism that spiraled into international revolution. Written in the '90s, the episode presciently predicts the economic crises of the current day, Trump's plan of rounding California's homeless population into camps, and the coming lumpen revolution. Check out Swampside Chats at: patreon.com/swampsidechats

Part two of HIAW 9 continues with Sean and Matt discussion Q in light of the tradition of religion (and religious weirdness) in the USA, alongside the increasing estrangement of the American people from each other and from the American Dream. To listen to this bonus along with the rest of our premium content, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

In the latest two part HIAW, Matt and Sean examine the political economy and pre-history of everyone's favorite far-right conspiracy movement. How has alienation and economic crisis combined to create a heady, and perhaps dangerous, mix of religious fervor and crackpot ideology? How does Qanon overlap with conspiracy theories of the past? How is it represent something new and different? The boys do their best to get their heads around it! Part two will be released for patrons later in the week. Stereolab - Refractions in the Blue Pulse Vaporwave - We Didn't Start the Fire

On this edition of Vampire Castle, Leslie and Jamie discuss two vampire flicks set in the workplace: Late '80s bizarro dark comedy Vampire's Kiss and office comedy turned splatfest Bloodsucking Bastards. Tune: Lush - Mannequin Become a member at patreon.com/theantifada to unlock the full version of this episode and a ton of other bonus content!

Aaron Thorpe (@posadist_trapgd), former host of Vanguard Army and host of the upcoming podcast A Time Of Monsters, joins the Antifada crew to discuss topics including: The death of RBG and how much the left should care. Killer Mike, Atlanta as "Wakanda," and the black misleadership class. White people pretending to be black for clout. And why haven't the space comrades brought us communism yet? NOTE: If you want to buy an Antifada t-shirt, email [email protected] with subject line "shirt." We have a few left from the last batch and we will order more if we get enough requests! Closing song: Outkast - SpottieOttieDopaliscious

Sean and Jamie stick around to talk about Louisville finally forced to admit civil culpability in Breonna Taylor's murder and humongous private equity firm Blackrock making a bet on the bottom of the rental market with its recent mobile-home park investment. Outro: Spits - Police

Jamie and Sean discuss what they've been reading and break down some news of the day: QAnon in Congress, the political transformation of a town in PA, and ICE's eugenics program. Just another fun, chill episode about rising fascism. Sorry this went up late, we aren't feeling very well. :( Bonus on killer cops (and killer investments) out Friday, 9/18 Outro music: Big Black - Jordan, Minnesota Rest in power, David Graeber (1961-2020)

Brace sticks around to talk about our punk origin stories, the pros and cons of a tribal subculture like punk, the death of Maximum Rock N' Roll, if punk has a future, and late-era Black Flag For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada

Sean and Andy are joined with Brace from @trueanonpod to talk workers power, past and present: how unions are still central, how communist organizers like Harry Bridges, leader of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, exercised this power in the past, and how we can fight to bring it back today. We end with a call to Build The (not necessary electoral) Party. Become a patron for access to a bonus episode on life as young punx later on in the week! Outro music: Harry Bridges - Rancid

On this edition of the Antifada side project on the politics of Latin America, we discuss the political situation in Bolivia, where last year riots against a supposed voter fraud lead to a coup of far-right evangelicals. Since then, they have massacred protesters, clamped down on free speech, and cancelled election after election. Spanish historian José Lastra Zorrilla uses the method of analysis of Marx's 18 Brumaire describe the origins of the coup, the failures of Morales and MAS, and how the Bolivian campesinos and workers continue to struggle against the new regime, even as the pandemic rages. For the full episode, the previous episode of Talkin' 'Tina about Argentina and Peru, other Antifada side projects like History is A Weapon, Vampire Castle, and Proletkult, and access to our Discord, become a Patron today at http://patreon.com/theantifada For the original article and other works by Zorrilla: https://libcom.org/library/bolivia-s-18th-brumaire

Sean and Jamie break down the tragic news out of Los Angeles, Kenosha and Portland, then broaden out the discussion to theories of political violence and revolutionary organization (and spontaneity). What is the least LARP-y line a communist might take in this day and age? Also: Down with eco-yogic slumlords! In the second half, Jamie speaks with three worker/organizers about the union-busting activities of No Evil Foods, a vegan food company with radical branding but extremely capitalist labor practices. What's up with faux-cialist scabs naming things after the Zapatistas?! Follow our soy-slinging comrades at MoEvilFoods.com, @BirdieGregson and @MoEvilFoods on Twitter, and @soevilfoods and @moevilfoods2 on Instagram. Outro music: Gorilla Biscuits - Cats and Dogs

We continue to discuss the black radical tradition with Kazembe Balagun. In this episode we cover marxist feminists Angela Davis and Claudia Jones. We finish with a few questions about the continuation of these struggles into BLM and the George Floyd uprising, including a certain infamously cancelled Zoom call. Many of the texts in question can be found in the Communist Research Cluster Black Radical Tradition reader: https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2020/06/02/black-revolutionaries-in-the-united-states/ Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf Support the show by becoming a Patron at http://patreon.com/theantifada Idris Robinson Red May speech: https://illwilleditions.com/how-it-might-should-be-done/ Closing song: Elaine Brown - Until We're Free