Audio from our live event! A panel about the way social media and technology effect our day to day lives and our future as a species with Eric-John Russell of Cured Quail, and Fiona Pearl Miller and Zoe Laris-Djokovic of Clocked Out Magazine . Recorded (mostly) last Friday, August 8 at Woodbine . Support Antifada! http://patreon.com/theantifada Buy Cured Quail volume 3 : https://curedquail.bigcartel.com/ How to Smile Without Using You Eyes: https://curedquail.com/How-to-Smile-Without-Using-Your-...
Aug 13, 2025•1 hr 57 min
Andy and Sean are joined by two anon members of the Heatwave Collective to discuss their new project: a better magazine for a worse world. How might we imagine the communist project under conditions of climate chaos? What does political economy tell us about the limits to capitalist politics in the current moment? How has history led us to such an impasse and what might we, as a class, do about it? Become a patron of this podcast for bonus content, reading groups and more: www.patreon.com/theant...
Aug 06, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Our mysterious Anarcho Film Critic returns to debate EDDINGTON, Ari Aster's new Western farce set in a small New Mexico town experiencing the pandemic, George Floyd Uprising, and the rise of an AI data facility outside town. Is it a nihilistic farce with no message, or a powerful rebuke to impoverished mainstream narratives? For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Sophie Lewis essay: https://communemag.com/the-satanic-death-cult-is-real/ Thomas Chatterton Williams...
Aug 01, 2025•19 min
Malcolm Harris, author of Kids These Days and Palo Alto returns to talk about his new book What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis --a trip through the three leftist conceptions of how to survive the climate crisis with recommendations for the present. For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada Article about Shell consulting gig: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/shell-climate-change.html Emmanuel Carrere on the G7: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/...
Jul 30, 2025•1 hr
Sarah Schulman chats about her latest book "The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity" , a meditation on the category of solidarity informed by her decades of experience as a writer, academic and activist. Also by Sarah Schulman and mentioned in the episode: " Conflict Is Not Abuse, " " Let the Record Show ," an oral history of ACT UP, " The Gentrification of the Mind, " and the lesbian noir Maggie Terry . Song: Black Uhuru - Solidarity...
Jul 23, 2025•48 min
&ers & &y talk about James Gunn's woke, punk, millennial, pro-Palestinian, anti-ICE Superman! For the full episode sign up at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Jul 18, 2025•8 min
To listen to the bonus portion of this episode (where all the deportable offenses might happen) become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada for this and all our great bonus content. Resources on Communization: https://thecharnelhouse.org/2017/02/28/resources-on-communization/ To watch this episode on video become a patron of the excellent, independent Varn Vlog at www.patreon.com/varnvlog Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage...
Jul 16, 2025•58 min
Z's back to dive deep into Trump's BBL, Alligator Alcatraz and future detention centers, LA and Chicago's immigration showdowns, and the Brandon Johnson's failed campaign against the restaurant from The Bear. In the fun half we talk about if the Cuomo-voting Bronx will join the New York Commune, and share some HILARIOUS Hot Commie Summer tips from McSweeney's. For the full show, Discord access, and all bonus content, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Show notes: Trump's Big Beau...
Jul 09, 2025•54 min
As history repeats itself, we dissect Zohran Mamdani's stunning Democratic primary victory over former Governor Andrew Cuomo in NYC's mayoral race—a win that sent shockwaves through Wall Street and sparked what hedge fund CEO Dan Loeb dubbed "Hot Commie Summer." How did the Democratic Socialist candidate pull of one of the biggest political upsets in recent New York history? And what potentials does the win provide outside political spectacle? For the second half of the episode, including discus...
Jun 30, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Our final predictions and analysis for the 2025 NYC Democratic mayoral primaries with Mattie Lubchansky of the No Gods, No Mayors podcast. For the full episode sign up at http://patreon.com/theantifada Modern Ferret Monthly: https://web.archive.org/web/20070610044439/http://www.modernferret.com/pressreleases/nyc05212001.html McMansion Hell endorsement: - https://mcmansionhell.com/post/786540193484341248/mcmansion-hell-urges-all-new-yorkers-to-rank Lander will keep Jessica Tisch: https://www.city...
Jun 23, 2025•55 min
Part 2 of our April, 2024 discussion with Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes about the essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. He talks about the uprisings in Iran, including the murder of Mahsa Amini , and his feelings about Iran's role in the proxy wars surrounding the siege of Gaza. Listen to Part 1 here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101536326 For all our bonus content support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Read the essay here...
Jun 20, 2025•57 min
Report-back from the streets of LA with Victor Artola, author of Los Angeles, Or the End of Assimilation from Ill Will Editions . For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada Further reading: https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/08/los-angeles-stands-up-to-ice-a-firsthand-report-on-the-clashes-of-june-6 TACO Trump backing down at behest of farm and hotel lobby: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-ice-raids-farms-hotels.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/opinio...
Jun 16, 2025•49 min
Sean and Andy chat with S.H. Fernando Jr., aka Skiz, the author of Chronicles of DOOM Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast . We cover some hip hop history, DOOM's origins in underground hip hop and his emergence as crossover phenomenon in the aughts, his Nuwaubian background, getting kicked out of the US, and much more! Sign up for our Patreon to hear the fun half, in which we talk about DOOM's relationship with Kanye and Diddy, his philosophy on art, what baseball team he likes, and hear some of ...
Jun 11, 2025•48 min
For the full episode (FREE!), sign up at http://patreon.com/theantifada The following is the audio from the Independent Labor Club of New York's assembly on Education and Labor : Education in the US is at a crossroads. In recent months the Trump administration has proposed to abolish the Department of Education, and has threatened to rescind federal grants to universities across the country unless they accede to its demands. Meanwhile public education continues to lose ground to charter and priv...
Jun 06, 2025•44 min
John returns for our special miniseries discussing his decades of experience theorizing and organizing, current events and life/work in New York City. On this episode he and Sean talk about this article from Dandy Andy at Three Way Fight , John's historical taxi driver organizing campaign and what it takes for commies to be accepted at the workplace. If you like this episode, want to talk about in our discord, or want access to all our bonus material, please support the show at http://patreon.co...
Jun 02, 2025•57 min
Our French correspondent joins us to talk about the SLAP heard 'round the world. We also get some updates on Melanchon's US tour, discuss Hasan Piker's detainment, death with dignity, the abundance agenda, Zohran, Robert Moses vs. Tammany Hall, the 5 year anniversary of the George Floyd Uprising. Subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada for the fun half, in which we listen to some clips from Jordan Peterson's debate with 20 Reddit Athiests, and talk about what the "radical left" means. Check ...
May 28, 2025•58 min
Malek Rasamny walks us through the moving gears of Middle East geopolitics in the wake of Trump's visit to Riyadh, opening relations to the Syrian regime under Ahmed Al-Saraah (fka Mohammed al-Julani), nuclear talks with Iran, PKK disarmement, the current situation in Lebenon, and much more. Listen to the full episode for FREE by becoming a free member at http://patreon.com/theantifada . Or show your support by signing up for a $5/mo, $10/mo or discounted annual Patreon membership Malek is one d...
May 19, 2025•48 min
Tech and finance writer David Z. Morris talks us through the mental illness behind Silicon Valley's fascist immortalists, rationalists, effective altruists, abundists, etc. Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifdada for the fun half, in which we speculate on Luigi's connection to this world, what's behind the assassination attempts on Trump, and if we should "buy the dip" on the technofuturist dystopia read/subscribe to his substack: https://davidzmorris.substack.com/ Especially on the ...
May 12, 2025•58 min
Sean talks with Paris Marx about AI for the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Song: Barry Manilow - Aye Caramba!
May 09, 2025•22 min
Jasper Bernes chats with us about his new book on the history of revolution from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising and the task of communists today. Buy the book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/977-the-future-of-revolution Excerpt: https://illwill.com/inquiry-and-organization Check out Red May: https://www.redmayseattle.org/ BK Rail debates: https://brooklynrail.org/2025/05/field-notes/on-the-future-and-past-of-revolution/ https://brooklynrail.org/2025/05/field-notes/workers-co...
May 05, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Tribute to a recently-departed comrade. "nothing is over, that is the only certainty. the other certainty is that everything ends, even this" - Poem (Sept 26, 2023) Clip from Occupy Oakland: https://x.com/poetryc0mmunity/status/1917001969467838652 Reading from The Totality for Kids at Bowery Poetry Club in 2006 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgfMT58xkTg Youtube clip of Joshua talking about his book on the Modern Lovers' song Road Runner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6qc8EqN_XI&t=468s ...
Apr 30, 2025•39 min
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
