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JDPODLA Intifada and Anti-ICE Organizing - A Report Back with an Anonymous Member of People's City CouncilIn this episode we provide a report back on the organizing happening in LA in response to ICE raids. We are joined with an anonymous contribution from a member of People's City Council. In this episode, we discuss what's occurred over the last thirty+ days, how organizations and community have responded, how we can improve, and the lessons that can be learned.References/Sources/Recommended Texts:Opening Audio: Democracy Now interview with Ron Gochez from Union del Barrio (starts at 20:35)Interview with member of People's City Council LA, It's Going Down2025-07-2351 minJDPODThe May 19th Communist Organization and Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism into the 1980sReferences/Sources/Recommended TextsMay 19th Communist Organization from the Freedom ArchivesM19CO Principles of Unity pamphletTracy and Moore, No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements (2020)Susan M. Reverby, Co-conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman (2020)Orisanmi Burton, Tip of the Spear (2023)RAPP Campaign (Release Aging People in Prison)Trail of Broken Treaties 20-Point Platform (1972)The FBI’s War on the Black Panther Party’s Southern California Chapter - MIM, Oct. 1999On...2025-05-201h 35JDPODSPECIAL: The Long Sixties - Black Power, Third World Solidarity, & Into the Underground (1960-1971)This special explores revolutionary movements during "the long 1960s" in Amerikkka. We trace the development of two revolutionary traditions: an anti-imperialist third worldist solidarity tradition alongside a party-building revolutionary model for achieving revolution. We examine key organizations including SNCC, RAM, the Black Panther Party, SDS, and the Weather Underground, alongside influential figures like Robert F. Williams, Muhammad Ahmad (Max Stanford), Malcolm X, and Kwame Ture. We analyze how these organizations responded to global events like the Bandung Conference, the Cuban Revolution, and independence movements across Africa and Asia. This is the first in a series exploring revolutionary...2025-05-141h 54
JDPODCritique of Documentary, "The Encampments" (ft. an outside agitator with Unity of Fields)In this episode, we sit down with an outside agitator with Unity of Fields who was involved in the Columbian encampments and the occupation of Hinds Hall, to review the 2025 documentary, 'The Encampments' produced by Watermelon Pictures.As more and more encampments are doing screenings of the documentary, we feel that it’s important to provide some much needed criticisms that have not been engaged from the complete erasure of the Palestinian resistance to its erasure of US-led imperialism, this is a misleading film of a subject without a predicate.Timestamps...2025-04-251h 02JDPODConversation on Current Events in Amerikkka"I suggest that the real contradiction may be that we really are not about the same thing, the same goals, and some of us are not willing to admit it. Not yet, anyway..." - Safiya BukhariTimestamps:5:34: Fear in the present moment.9:28: George Jackson, "Blood in my Eye"12:00: J. Sakai and Don Hamerquist, "Confronting Fascism"16:15: Tariffs and the Labor Aristokkkracy24:15: Studying anti-colonial/anti-imperialist movements and present national organizations in Amerikkka34:00: Critique of marchesSources/Resources:Workers in Palestine: https://www.workersinpalestine...2025-04-1355 minJDPODWorld-Systems Analysis: An IntroductionTimestamps3:40: Definition and Key Concepts11:52 - Genealogy22:00 - Key Thinkers48:13: WS Theorists before WST59:14 ConclusionReferences/Recommended ReadingsRather than World Systems Analysis: An Introduction, read this essay:Immanuel Wallerstein: The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis (1974): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FpqIxQnQwqPYtGcK1H391HV0PGAt5Mxh/view?usp=sharingWalter Rodney - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: https://monoskop.org/images/8/81/Rodney_Walter_How_Europe...2025-03-041h 14JDPODOn the Labor AristokkkracyOn this episode we do a deep dive on the labor aristocracy.Timestamps:The first 12:20 seconds: definitions to make this episode more accessible.12:20-18:25: On the fires in LA.18:25- On the Labor Aristocracy58:13: Common questions on the labor aristocracyResources:The essay from FRSO that we are responding to:Marxism-Leninism and the Theory of Settler-Colonialism in the United States, J. Sykes, December 2024Engels to Kautsky, 1882Lenin: “The International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart, 1907 The 'Labor Aristocracy' in Context - Barbalet, 1987Con...2025-02-081h 22JDPODU.S.-led Imperialism and Syria with Max Ajl (Part 2)Part two with Dr. Max Ajl, (@maxajl)
In this episode we discuss the overthrow of Syria. What does this mean for the present.
Resources:
The Cradle.co
Al-Mayadeen English
Middle East Critique
Agrarian South
Journal of Labor and Society
Excellent podcasts from comrades on Syria compiled by the Good Shepherd Collective2024-12-1844 minJDPODU.S.-led Imperialism and Syria with Max Ajl (Part 1)In our inaugural episode with a guest, we are pleased to invite Dr. Max Ajl (@maxajl) to speak about Syria. This is a two part interview. Part one is a historical materialist primer on Syria, the groundwork you need to be able to understand the present moment. Part two will be helping us understand recent developments and de-developments.
A quick note, as Max works and lives in Tunisia, he says Tunisia/Tunisian at several points when he means Syria/Syrian.
Resources:
Patrick Higgins' "Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab...2024-12-161h 00JDPODCritique of "Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor"References:
Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, "Decolonization is Not A Metaphor": https://clas.osu.edu/sites/clas.osu.edu/files/Tuck%20and%20Yang%202012%20Decolonization%20is%20not%20a%20metaphor.pdf
"We Remember the Attempts to be Free" Joy James on Black August and the Captive Maternal"
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/millennials-are-killing-capitalism/id1292638162?i=1000531844926
Max Ajl, "Logics of Elimination and Settler Colonialism: Decolonization or National Liberation?"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19436149.2023.2191401?casa_token=fi5MSn12KIgAAAAA:H_l0Xv2oZteXv-lWgNzMjqU2MmJMZJyG8qJ0CyTBgN68WuBE61DOJx2uhC4p3...2024-11-2248 minJDPODReflections on the 2024 Amerikkkan ElectionsEnding music credit:
Bambu - "November to Remember": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXG3QxgXgVA
References:
MAKC - “Opening as Many Fronts as Possible” - Reflections on Palestine Action Us & the Merrimack 4 With Calla Walsh:
https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/opening-as-many-fronts-as-possible-reflections-from-palestine-action-us-the-merrimack-4-with-calla-walsh
Bayan USA - "Resist Fascism & Imperialism! Build the Mass Movement and Forge Hope through Struggle!":
https://www.bayanusa.org/blog/us-election
Aime Cesaire - Discourse on Colonialism:
https://files.libcom.org/files/zz_aime_cesaire_robin_d.g._kelley_discourse_on_colb...2024-11-141h 02JDPODThird Worlds Within: An Introduction to Internal Colonial TheorySuggested Readings/Cited Sources:
Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton - Black Power: https://mygaryislike.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/black-power-kwame-ture-and-charles-hamilton.pdf
Rod Bush - We Are Not What We Seem (Chapter 1): https://rodbush.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/we-are-not-what-we-seem-ch-1.pdf
Rod Bush - The End of World White Supremacy: https://drive.proton.me/urls/CTSPD2FQQM#xATxPdcz3V6i
Sam Klug - Making the Internal Colony dissertation: https://drive.proton.me/urls/RNAS30145R#gtMlu8c3wHFV
Will Kujala - The Dialectics of Domestication dissertation: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/37128575-cba0...2024-10-181h 06JDPODOctober 7th, Student Encampments, ILA StrikeFor questions, clarifications, feedback, DM at:
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Suggested Readings:
Max Ajl, "Palestine and the End of Theory": https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19436149.2024.2404338
Joma Geneciran, "Global Historical Materialism and Decoloniality": https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.62191/ROAPE-2024-0035
Mondoweiss Interview with Mousa Abu Marzouk: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/10/a-time-of-painful-birth-and-major-transformation-a-senior-hamas-leader-reflects-on-october-7-and-its-aftermath/
Within Our Lifetime, “To Them, We Are All Outside Agitators: Encampments & Escalation”: https://wolpalestine.com/encampments/
Palestine Action US, "Flood the Gates, Esca...2024-10-071h 24JDPODIntroducing JDPODReferences:
May 19th Communist Organization (M19CO) Principles: https://archive.org/details/may-19th-principles-of-unity_202105
Anti-Imperialist Network (AIN) Points of Unity: https://file.io/YCLqt1VaaXzC
Anti-Imperialist Network (AIN Website): https://anti-imperialist.net/
"Eating the Apple of the World" - Social Investigation and Class Analysis with Dani Manibat" on Millennials are Killing Capitalism
While Nate and I both went through the tramautic experience that is higher education in Amerikkka, our goal is to make this information as accessible as possible. DM us on Twitter with feedback and questions at @ka_joma_ and/or @600cm3.2024-10-0229 min