Sean and Varn catch up on the first 100 days or so of Trump 2.0, the inanities and indignities of history forced to move again in dumb, but possibly productive ways. Most of all this moment calls for humility amidst radical political and economic changes we might only be able to 'sane-wash' in 20 or 30 years, if ever. How have recent events challenged our priors as Marxists or as Millennials or as Americans? Even if the Left is largely powerless to affect global events, do we at least have the c...
Apr 23, 2025•1 hr 2 min
For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada &y & &ers smoke a joint and read Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History Read along: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/benjamin/1940/history.htm Song: Johnny Thunders - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory...
Apr 21, 2025•10 min
Alex Bazeley and Bobby Wagner of the labor-focused baseball podcast Tipping Pitches join Andy to chat about the 2025 season, the upcoming 2026 showdown by the players' union and owner on the salary cap, the gap between "rich" and "poor" teams, why we might miss the Yankee Empire one day, and why leftists stay interested in America's Pastime as America itself collapses. For the full episode, support the show or sign up for a FREE membership on our Patreon:: http://patreon.com/theantifada Support ...
Apr 14, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Sean and Andy discuss JDPon Don's Great Reset, the #HandsOff protests, the Mar-A-Lago accords, and the death of the American Dream In the fun half, available for patrons, we chat about Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17 and it's sauce-obsessed Musk-Trump hybrid villain Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada ! Ken Klip on Hands Off protest: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/i-went-to-the-anti-trump-protest Speculation on Mar-A-Lago Accords: https://www.nordea.com/en/news/mar-a-lago-accord-expla...
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 4 min
This is a recording of the ILC's fourth public assembly at Woodbine Space in Queens on March 29th, 2025 featuring Cyrus Cappo of John Jay College CUNY, Daniel Jacobs of Sublation/Platypus Affiliated and Ryan Castello of the Maoist Communists Union. For more info on the Independent Labor Club of North America-including upcoming events, how to join, how to start a chapter, etc-visit the website at https://ilclabor.com/ Song: Dodos - Trades and Tariffs...
Apr 04, 2025•1 hr 28 min
To listen to the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Political cartoonist and writer Eli Valley joins us to talk about his new book Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque , another Senate Antisemitism hearings, the future of the Israeli-American fascist alliance, and a bit about AI, Jabotinski, Betar, and Ezra Klein's Abundance agenda. In the fun half we talk about Eli's pre-cartoonist life giving tours in Europe and the movie A Real Pain, and wher...
Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Preview of Part 2 in which we talk more with Jarrod and Zhana about the pitfalls of performatively moving on from identity politics, the Bukele-prison model of the fascist future, the historical anti-revolutionary basis of the 1798 Enemy Aliens Act, how a union protection racket in Chavez's Venezuela became the gang Trumpists believed were poised to takeover major metro regions of the United States, and why we should've been siding with the "woke left" all along. To listen to the episode and all...
Mar 28, 2025•15 min
Jarrod and Zhana return to talk about their new book "Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City"! We look at how the liberal apparatus used identity politics and divert the abolitionist movement to expand incarceration, and check in how the De Blasio-era plan to closer rikers and replace it with four "community" "justice hubs" has fared under the anti-Woke era of the Adams administration. Lastly, we talk about the the recent "Wildcat" CO strike in state pri...
Mar 24, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Our artificial intelligence miniseries returns with a guest spot by This Machine Kills cohost, Jathan Sadowski, about his brand new second book The Mechanic and the Luddite: a Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism . For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Song: Manuel Göttsching - E2 - E4...
Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Audio from a Twitch stream in which &ers & &y go through the history of the Minneapolis General Strike of 1934 and reflect on what lessons we can take from it as we approach the National Strike on May 1, 2028 If you like what we do support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Past episode of &&&: https://www.patreon.com/collection/500909 https://libcom.org/article/minneapolis-teamsters-strike-1934-jeremy-brecher https://www.marxists.org/glossary/events/m/i.htm#minne...
Mar 12, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Sean is joined by old friend, John Garvey, to introduce our new miniseries: Garveyism! In this first episode we discuss some current events--the Ukrainian War as seen from Brighton Beach, horse racing subsidies and working class social life, and the first month of the Trump Administration. The series will continue monthly with bonus episodes featuring John talking about his experience in (and against) the New Left, prospects for class power in the current epoch and lessons learned in organizing ...
Mar 05, 2025•59 min
Sean and Andy chat with a worker organizer at one of the three Alamo Drathouse locations striking against seasonal firings. We cover how Barbenheimer weekend inspired the union effort, frustrating interactions with management, the weird subterranean Wall Street location, some ancient NYC organizing history, service sector organizing, and how a worker-run theater could make the nerdy-niche "experience" far better. All links for union press statements and fundraisers: https://beacons.ai/nycalamoun...
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 12 min
Hinterland author Phil Neel returns to explain value-form to an American by asking us to imagine a burger. Listen to the full episode by joining our paid or free membership tiers at http://patreon.com/theantifada Phil Neel's burger essays: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/12/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh/ https://brooklynrail.org/2025/02/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh-2/ Cuban hamburgerismo: https://www.sm28.org/articles/j11-the-return-of-the-cuban-proletariat/ Song: Tyler the Creator - ...
Feb 17, 2025•57 min
NEWS EP! We sort out the class forces behind the Muskite restructuring underway, the meaning of the tariff trade war, and argue for why we should stay partisans of woke. For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Ganz: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happened-here-c9f Nolan: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dark-times-are-coming...
Feb 10, 2025•51 min
full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-our-lives-121342801 Our guests from this week's AI episode stick around with Sean to continue the hijinks about our tech oligarchy and discuss the first couple of episodes of AppleTV's television show Severence about how working for a mid-20th century capitalist firm is creepy and kinda suss ngl....
Feb 07, 2025•16 min
Sean didn't have the guts to name this new podcast series about AI as Rax, Mattie and Jaya would have it: Unintelligent Fartelligence. Feel free to boo him in the comments. For the bonus episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Song: Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4
Feb 03, 2025•1 hr 28 min
Sean, Andy, and Varn scan the sectarian terrain of the US today as a prelude into our (part 2) discussion of drama in MAGA communism . For part 2, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Read along: https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1973/xx/microsect.htm Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage...
Jan 27, 2025•2 hr 32 min
D-Rock and J-Bone are back to join us in a reading of the ICC 's classic essay about gangsta rap and Eminem: https://en.internationalism.org/wr/242_eminem.htm For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada Song: Eminem - President Mathers...
Jan 24, 2025•15 min
Drawing from their own experiences of incarceration, authors Jarrod Shanahan and David Campbell offer an unprecedented look inside New York's notorious Rikers Island jail in their compelling new book "City Time." They meticulously document how incarcerated people construct complex social systems and survival strategies within an environment defined by structural racism and institutional neglect. Through their intimate perspective as former detainees, they reveal the intricate unwritten rules, re...
Jan 20, 2025•55 min
Sean and Andy (recovering from various ailments) are joined by political theorist, Bruno Leipold, to discuss his excellent new book Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought from Princeton University Press on how Marx and Engels developed their theories within and against an 18th century republican pollical milieu that is largely lost to history and the histories of Marxism. What is republicanism? What distinguishes it from liberalism? How did real...
Jan 15, 2025•51 min
Audio from a talk held by Woodbine 's December 22nd Research Group facilitated by Malek Rasamny and Arya Zahedi. What are the horizons, opportunities and challenges amidst the collapse of the Iranian-led order? Over the past few months Israel’s genocidal assault in Gaza has more fully expanded into a regional conflict with what has been referred to as the “axis of resistance”, led by Iran. Its fall has been decisive, with the destruction of much of the senior leadership of Hezbollah, including t...
Jan 10, 2025•2 hr 19 min
We talk about the Cybertruck psyop with Insurgent Notes , Race Traitor , and Hard Crackers vets John Garvey and Zhana Kurti. In the fun half, available to subscribers at http://patreon.com/theantifada , we read the prophecies of alien intervention and free energy by the Balkan Nostradamus Baba Vanga , and hear Sean's interpretation of Charli XCX's Brat. Song: Kendrick Lamar - wacced out murals...
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr 5 min
This is a short preview of the paywalled portion of the long discussion between Sean and Varn about the 2024 election and the end of the Long Twentieth Century. To access the entire audio file and a bunch more bonus content become a supporter of the show at www.patreon.com/theantifada in the New Year.
Jan 03, 2025•11 min
Stroky Sean and cancer-free Varn are reunited to dive back into the wreckage. This is part one of over three hours of conversation about just about everything under the sun (what happens when we take a several month break from these things) including political economy, current events, intra-Marxist rivalry and analysis. Mostly we bid adieu to the Long Twentieth Century. Turns out it expired for real this time not on 9/11/01 but 11/5/16. We are in a new epoch and its time to start acting like it!...
Jan 01, 2025•1 hr 11 min
Music journalist Liz Pelly joins us to discuss her new book The Mood Machine the Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist . How did the DIY culture of mixtapes and file sharing move towards massive streaming platforms? And with nearly every song freely accessible why are so many listening to elevator music instead? You can listen to this full episode gratis by signing up at our free membership tier over at patreon.com/theAntifada Links to Liz's work: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/...
Dec 30, 2024•54 min
Merry Christmas, everyone! This year, the Santifada is bringing you the same present as always: an episode about the themes of Jewish identity and antisemitism! We discuss Brady Corbet's new epic film, The Brutalist , starring Adrien Brody as a Bauhaus architect and Holocaust survivor trying to rebuild his life in the absurd New World of America. In the first half of the episode, our brutalism scholar guests, Ross and Susannah, explain what brutalism is and how it relates—or doesn’t relate—to Br...
Dec 25, 2024•1 hr 2 min
For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada The Antifada sideproject about the paranormal, the parapolitical, science fiction, and science futurism returns to check in on the New Space Age! While the left typically perceives Elon Musk as an all-talk grifter, our guest Beka Valentine argues his Starship program will make many off-earth industries, like drug manufacturing and solar harvesting, inevitable through dramatically lowering the cost of launching to low-Earth ...
Dec 18, 2024•53 min
Andy and Sean read about Prospera, a libertarian City State in Honduras that is attempting to abolish death and bankrupt the country in the process. Then sean reads Ross Douthat's analysis of the Trump administration's Musk and Vance wings. For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada...
Dec 13, 2024•7 min
Sean is BACK from hopital with Stroke Updates + Syria, South Korea, UHC Shooter and other political assassinations Listen to Part 2 and support Sean and the show by signing up at http://patreon.com/theantifada Song: The Strokes - Reptilia (Stroked and Reverbed)
Dec 09, 2024•47 min
&y and &ers Lee read Leon Trotsky's predictions about the glorious future of a 1930s Soviet America , in which tipping and chewing gum have been abolished. For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada...
Dec 06, 2024•11 min
