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 L...
Feb 24, 2021•1 hr 18 min
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 Ti...
Feb 17, 2021•1 hr 21 min
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...
Feb 10, 2021•2 hr 50 min
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
Feb 05, 2021•8 min
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 poli...
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr 15 min
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
Jan 29, 2021•5 min
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 b...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 19 min
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...
Jan 20, 2021•2 hr 31 min
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
Jan 15, 2021•5 min
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://illw...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 25 min
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
Jan 11, 2021•7 min
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/video...
Jan 07, 2021•3 min
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...
Jan 06, 2021•1 hr 15 min
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/...
Dec 30, 2020•2 hr 30 min
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 ...
Dec 23, 2020•1 hr 19 min
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 ...
Dec 16, 2020•1 hr 24 min
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...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 12 min
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...
Dec 04, 2020•10 min
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 ...
Dec 02, 2020•1 hr
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 t...
Nov 27, 2020•5 min
Andy and Sean are joined by Edwad @readcapita l 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 c...
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 7 min
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...
Nov 18, 2020•1 hr 25 min
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
Nov 13, 2020•8 min
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 ht...
Nov 11, 2020•1 hr 29 min
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...
Nov 06, 2020•7 min
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 th...
Nov 04, 2020•1 hr 6 min
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.patreo...
Oct 30, 2020•3 min
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...
Oct 28, 2020•1 hr 8 min
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
Oct 23, 2020•3 min
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, her...
Oct 21, 2020•1 hr 20 min
