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 r...
Mar 29, 2023•59 min
Our guests today are Intercept writer and author Natasha Lennard , and Libby and Sam from the Richard Hunsinger Defense Committee provide an update on the arrestees in Atlanta around the Stop Cop City Movement, the history of terrorism charges mobilized against the left since the Green Scare, how Dick beat the terror charges, and security culture in general. https://freerichardhunsinger.com/ SUPPORT JESSICA REZNICEK http://supportjessicareznicek.com/ Crimethinc: What Is Security Culture? https:/...
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 6 min
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 Notes John's ess...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 28 min
For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada Topics 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 Fun Show notes: https://theracke...
Mar 08, 2023•57 min
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 Am...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 11 min
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 Patreon Song: Cabaret - Tomorrow Belongs to Me...
Feb 22, 2023•56 min
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 woul...
Feb 15, 2023•59 min
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/65977397 Beck - Sleeping Bag
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 4 min
DONATE TO ATL SOLIDARITY FUND: atlsolidarity.org Sean and Andy talk about their "jobs", an architectural controversy at Cooper Union, the war in Ukraine, the apparent resurgence of Stalinism, and Defend the Forest/Stop Cop City in Atlanta. For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada Good articles about Tortugita the struggle in ATL: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/stop-cop-city-tortugita-oped https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/defend-atlanta-forest-copy-ci...
Jan 31, 2023•54 min
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, nat...
Jan 25, 2023•50 min
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 Intervi...
Jan 18, 2023•53 min
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...
Jan 13, 2023•6 min
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 co...
Jan 11, 2023•58 min
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 Conf...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 9 min
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...
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr 6 min
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, Dif...
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 3 min
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 o...
Dec 14, 2022•1 hr 5 min
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 reall...
Dec 07, 2022•50 min
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 w...
Dec 02, 2022•1 hr 1 min
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...
Nov 29, 2022•1 hr 3 min
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...
Nov 25, 2022•5 min
"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 m...
Nov 23, 2022•57 min
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 polit...
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 33 min
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 list...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr
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 Nixo...
Nov 02, 2022•54 min
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.patreo...
Oct 26, 2022•55 min
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 i...
Oct 19, 2022•1 hr 5 min
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...
Oct 12, 2022•51 min
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 unscalabl...
Oct 05, 2022•59 min
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 ...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 17 min
