Recording of a discussion last Saturday with Michael Hardt at Woodbine for a discussion of his new book The Subversive Seventies and our contemporary autonomist experiments in Queens, Atlanta, and elsewhere. Michael Hardt is a philosopher and political theorist whose work focuses on autonomist social movements since the 1960s. In his books co-authored with Antonio Negri - Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth - Hardt theorized the changes in capitalism and struggle taking place at the turn of the ...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 42 min
We continue reading J. Sakai's Settlers - The Myth of the White Proletariat, chapters 7 and 8. We begin the episode with a discussion of the war in Israel and Palestine with Sakai's national-liberation framework in mind. For the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifada Leftcom statements mentioned: https://en.internationalism.org/content/17406/neither-israel-nor-palestine-workers-have-no-fatherland http://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-10-11/the-latest-butchery-in-the-middle-ea...
Oct 16, 2023•31 min
With neo-Keynesian hacks like Will Stancil crowing about the alleged successes of Bidenomics, it seemed fitting to bring on Jamie Merchant, author of many incisive articles in Paul Mattick's Field Notes section of the Brooklyn Rail and elsewhere to discuss capital, finance and permanent crisis. Topics include the enduring legacy of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, the limits of 'financialization' discourse, the politics of crisis theory, the limits of industrial policy, the Brenner-Ri...
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Sean and Andy talk about their moves/life showers, and the next chapter of our lives. We go on to discuss the influx of asylum seekers to NYC, the crisis of the WTO and rules-based international order, and right-wing opposition to a Chinese EV battery plant in Michigan and a munitions plant in East Germany. In the bonus we talk about Trudeau's "Bonzo goes to Bitzburg" moment and if this is historical revisionism or something else . For the full episode and access to the Discord support the show ...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Sean and Varn continue the second part of their miniseries on left strategies and orientations. Central to the discussion is the definition and role of what is called 'Rank and File' organizing, something that means many things to many people, but whose bases are often conflated in literature and debate, for example in the DSA. This episode tackles, in turn, the tendencies associated with Joe Burns, Jane MacAlevey, Kim Moody, Marxist-Leninists and syndicalists. Taking a cue from current events, ...
Sep 27, 2023•58 min
UAW Strike updates! We hear Sean's analysis of the struggles of US autoworkers since 2018, various strategies the government has used to intervene, evaluated the takes of Brandon and Drumpf, ponder a Titoist Obama, and discuss the revolutionary position. For the full episode subscribe to the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada In the fun half we summarize the positions of the Trotsyist SEP and WSWS, a critique from the Bolshevik Tendency, and argue why abolishing the value form would be a mor...
Sep 19, 2023•55 min
Audio from our live gig last week in Brooklyn! Find out if this the end of podcasting as we know it.Then we hang with Minion Death Cult a week later to sift through the wreckage of the Well There's Your Problem show in Philly, out trip to Citi Field to woo Mrs. Met, nasty notes to UPS drivers, NY in the post-Bloomberg era, and boys being cats. For full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Songs:Woodie Guthrie - Jarama Big Soda - Swearin'...
Sep 18, 2023•26 min
Since we're in Philly this week to perform with Well There's Your Problem , enjoy this classic episode from December 2019 with Roz ! Have you ever asked yourself what weird 1980s Hollywood live-action/cartoon crossover films have to say about the infamous General Motors Streetcar Scandal of the mid-20th century? Well do we have a film for you!Sean sits down with fellow socialist railfan Justin Roczniak, AKA donoteat1 , to get at the real and sordid history behind Robert Zemekis' 1988 blockbuster...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 12 min
In Chapters 5 and 6 of Settlers Sakai talks about the history of populist anti-imperialism, the emergence of the white proletariat (we do exist!), and explains how the IWW was a vehicle of white supremacy. For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada readsettlers.org/ch5.html https://readsettlers.org/ch6.html https://libcom.org/article/100-years-ago-philadelphia-dockers-strike-and-local-8-iww-mouvement-communiste-and Song: Pete Seeger - Casey Jones Oh, and DONT FORGE...
Sep 11, 2023•42 min
Brand new Diving into the Wreckage mini-series scrapping at the wreckage that is the US Left, tracing the trajectory of socialist politics since the 1970s, and looking for ways out of the mess we're in. Within, Varn presents on the recent history of the Democratic Socialists of America, their precipitous rise and slow decline in membership since 2020. How does this bode for the future of the millennial left? As it turns out, there are reasons to be cautiously optimistic! For access to the full e...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Global Uprisings documentarian and TheRealNews contributor Brandon Jourdan chats about his recent experiences in the pension strikes in France, comparisons to the June Uprising following the murder of Nahel, Belgian Balkanization, the anarchist origins of Twitter, and if the End Notes Decades is ending, or just getting started baby! >>>for the full episode subscribe at patreon.com/theantifada<<< -Anarcho origins of twitter: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3485447.351228...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 11 min
full episode at http://patreon.com/theantifada https://readsettlers.org/ch4.html TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW FOR 9/10 in NYC and 9/12 in PHILLY shows WITH MINION DEATH CULT, POD DAMN AMERICA, and WELL THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM (philly only)!!!! BROOKLYN! Sept 10 at LITTLEFIELD: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-tickets-691958234707 Philly! Sept 12 w/WTYP at FRANKLIN BALLROOM https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problem song: Lupe Fiasco - El Mural, Jr....
Aug 25, 2023•26 min
Welcome to the seventh episode of Armed Loved, the Antifada sideproject about the revolutionary countercultures of the 60s and.. Let’s just say early 70s to make it easier on me. Today we’re talking about the subject of the new book from PM Press: The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival Promo film Spaces of Exception: https://www.e-flux.com/film/421474/spaces-of-exception/ Mohawk Mothers vs. McGill and MKULTRA: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mohawk-mothers-mcgill-reach-de...
Aug 23, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Sean and Varn are back to get to the basics and discuss first principles for communist organizing, What organizational form is adequate to working class power in the present moment? On what basis might class autonomy politics and at the point of production be achieved? How do we relate to our past: our successes and many failures? For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada SHOW DETAILS with MINION DEATH CULT, POD DAMN AMERICA, and WELL THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM (philly on...
Aug 16, 2023•57 min
We weigh in on the Banana Discourse by reading a vulgar insurrectionary journal from 2009: Politics Is Not a BananaFull episode at http://patreon.com/TheAntifada Read along: https://azinelibrary.org/approved/politics-not-banana-what-are-you-doing-after-orgy-or-insurrection-or-whatever-1.pdf
Aug 11, 2023•9 min
We take listener Questions! covering a range of topics including the climate apocalypse and hopes for a better world, if we should take over the internet or destroy it, visions for postwar Ukraine, conspiracy theories turning reactionary, squatting and being aging punx, Bidenomics and much more! For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada Show notes:RIP Mario Tronti: https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/mario-tronti-i-am-defeated/?fbclid=IwAR0TeJLflUGKjO8tN_CLlE9DvPZb5...
Aug 09, 2023•54 min
This week on This Amerikkkan Life: Chapters 2-3, Bacon's Rebellion, why slaves sided with the British in the US Revolution, the true reason some founding fathers and Northern states were against slavery, why the Confederate class analysis was right (from the Settler perspective), and why Sakai spells Amerika and Afrika with a K The full episode is on Patreon.com/TheAntifada Chapter 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/reading-settlers-86265803 In two weeks: Chapter 4 and 5...
Aug 04, 2023•12 min
Minion Death Cult cohost and union militant Alexander Edward delivers the news on the tentative agreement between UPS and the Teamsters... and why he's voting NO.Shook ex-Spart Jim Cramer: For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1684234856556003328 MDC on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_TnITSxjaA World Socialist Website article against the agreement: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/27/upsc-j27.html More on the ...
Jul 31, 2023•58 min
Sean is joined by Aliyah and Isaac from the Democratic Socialists of America caucus the Marxist Unity Group to talk about their political line and practice:What is the historical relationship between Marxism, the workers movement and small-r republicanism? Why has Karl Kautsy become anathema on the far-left and is it time to bring this famous 'renegade' back? Who is Mike McNair of the Communist Party of Great Britain and what is his influence? How is it possible to uphold the revolutionary repub...
Jul 26, 2023•1 hr 8 min
First episode of Andy and Sean reading the classic and mysterious reinterpretation of American history and class structure: J. Sakai's Settlers! For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada We read the intro and Chapter 1 about the settling of the Amerika pre-1776 Read along! Next reading Chapters 2 and 3.. maybe in two weeks. We also discuss this interview: https://kersplebedeb.com/posts/raceburn/...
Jul 24, 2023•20 min
Mike Crumplar and Matthew Donovan chat with us about the contested political terrain of a certain downtown Manhattan Square through a 2014 Graeber vs Thiel debate and Gramsci's conception of organic intellectuals. For part 2 of the episode subscribe on our patreon at patreon.com/theantifada Reading: https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/periodicals/theoretical-review/1982301.htm Song: Gunship - Hegemon...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Playtpus co-founder Chris Cutrone chats with us about his new book The Death of the Millennial Left . We chat about the socialist implications of the American Revolution, the irresistible conservative trajectory of suburban millennials, and the left's trouble conception of freedom. Check out Part 2 of the Episode on our Patreon! Video about socialism with American characteristics: https://youtu.be/5-kXCBTvxrE Song - RHCP - Black Summer...
Jul 12, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Marxism vs. MMT! For the full episode , support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Follow Varn on Youtube and support his Patreon !
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Sean went on the QAnon Anonymous podcast to Postone-pill their listeners on the critique of structural antisemitism.For the full episode sign up to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/theantifada And support QAA on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/qanonanonymous Read Postone: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/moishe-postone-anti-semitism-and-national-socialism...
Jun 30, 2023•9 min
Cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky chats with us about their new graphic novel Boy's Weekend , a not-too-distant lathe of heaven about the present and future horrors facing queer people and everyone else. In the full episode we talk about Jesusism, sports riots of the Byzantine empire, and "Yolk Hussy"?? Subscribe on Patreon to hear it! Support Mattie on their Patreon! and subscribe to their newsletter! Song: Future Islands - Old Friend...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 1 min
We're joined by Portland, Oregon organizers to talk about the revolutionary politics there over the last 25 years and related writings by Don Hamerquist of the Sojourner Truth Organization and Three Way Fight . Among other things we cover the IWW-initiated Burgerville Union, the battle of Longview, Occupy, massive black blocs following the 2020 George Floyd Uprising, state repression, and the mysterious George Sakai. Hear the full episode by supporting the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada ...
Jun 21, 2023•56 min
A news roundup--we start by talking about Sean's psychedelic encounter with a woke Civil War statue, the recent Supreme Court decisions on the Voting Rights Act and Teamsters, the West Coast port shutdowns and dynamics of portworker labor in the US, and the upcoming UPS strike as a potential opening salvo of the final battle of organized labor. We then discuss the recent trans panic in light of the history of queer liberation, and our cis blindspot on the issue.For the full episode, in which we ...
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 7 min
As we take the week off to celebrate the marriage of Sean and Rax, enjoy this classic bonus from our 2019 trip to the UK to visit the Trash lads and drink many horrible cans of lager and read James Kirkup's dystopian fanfic "How the Lib Dems could seize power."Read along: https://unherd.com/2019/07/how-the-lib-dems-could-seize-power/ Listen to all our drunken bonus material and contribute to the KB honeymoon fund: https://www.patreon.com/theantifada...
Jun 07, 2023•53 min
For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada C. Derick Varn is back to discuss Sean's new article on China. What is the political economy of China? Was the 1949 revolution betrayed by capitalist roaders? What were the patterns of development that brought it into the world market? Should China be defended as a socialist project? Is it a model worth emulating? Lastly, does the working class of China, or anywhere for that matter, have a role to play still in history or will the ...
May 31, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Communist philosopher Søren Mau chats with us about his new book Mute Compulsion , an introduction to Marx's thought on the nature of economic domination under capitalism. Support us on our Patreon: http://patreon.com/theantifada William Clare Roberts' review in Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2023/03/mute-compulsion-soren-mau-book-review J asper Bernes essay on Revolutionary motives: https://endnotes.org.uk/articles/revolutionary-motives.pdf Song: Royksopp - Compulsion...
May 24, 2023•50 min
