Shows
This WreckageE298: This Town is Too Hot w/ Heatwave CollectiveAndy 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/theantifadaSubscribe to Heatwave to get print...
2025-08-061h 08
This WreckageE291: MF DOOM Outro w/ S.H. Fernando Jr.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 Skiz's music recommendations.Doom's Kanye assassination video...
2025-06-1148 min
This WreckageGarveyism 2: Three Way Fight w/ John GarveyJohn 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.com/theantifadaSong: Burning Spear...
2025-06-0257 min
Spirits In The Material WorldYankee Closer Hits a Home Run in Memphis - Andy O'FeeThe latest episode of 'Spirits in the Material World' features an engaging conversation between host Sean Blankenship and guest Andy O'Fee, known as the Yankee Closer. They delve into Andy's intriguing transition from Wall Street to Memphis, his rich childhood experiences in New Jersey, and a shared love for baseball. Reflecting on their generational differences in childhood play, the discussion touches on modern sports culture and community lifestyles. With the recent Delta storms setting the scene, the dialogue navigates through topics of family dynamics, sports history, and how past adventures influence current life choices and professional pursuits.
2025-05-221h 42
This WreckageE285 - Liberation DaySean and Andy discuss JDPon Don's Great Reset, the #HandsOff protests, the Mar-A-Lago accords, and the death of the American DreamIn 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-protestSpeculation on Mar-A-Lago Accords: https://www.nordea.com/en/news/mar-a-lago-accord-explained-a-new-era-for-the-dollarKrugman and Klein: https://youtu.be/DhabG-dyQu0?si=UWMvD4m_JmqwWyPC...
2025-04-071h 04
This WreckageE281 - Remember the Alamo Workers w/ NYC Alamo United Sean and Andy chat with a worker organizer at one of the three Alamo Drathouse locations striking against seasonal firings. We cover how Barbenheimer weekend inspired the union effort, frustrating interactions with management, the weird subterranean Wall Street location, some ancient NYC organizing history, service sector organizing, and how a worker-run theater could make the nerdy-niche "experience" far better.All links for union press statements and fundraisers: https://beacons.ai/nycalamounited https://cwa-union.org/news/workers-alamo-drafthouse-fight-back-against-unfair-firingsAlamo now functionally BYOB: https://x.com/cleverrgirrl/status/1891656861939650579Audio: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGGgjriua4s/
2025-02-241h 12
Let's Talk About Fatherlessness ShowEpisode 63 - Growing Up Fatherless with Andy DeNoon from Sunday CoolIn Episode 63, Sean Teis enjoys interviewing Andy DeNoon from Sunday Cool Tees as he shares his fun work opportunities but also his story of growing up fatherless. This interview will not only make you laugh but will also inspire anyone on their fatherless journey or those who are working to help someone on their journey!
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OUR GUEST PROFILE:
Known for his hilarious skits and creative marketing content, Andy DeNoon is the assistant to the content manager for Sunday Cool. Originally from Whitefish, MT, he cu...
2025-01-3037 min
This WreckageDITW: Anatomy of the Micro-sect (Part 1)Sean, Andy, and Varn scan the sectarian terrain of the US today as a prelude into our (part 2) discussion of drama in MAGA communism. For part 2, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaRead along: https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1973/xx/microsect.htmSong: Gary Numan - This Wreckage
2025-01-271h 31
This WreckageE277: Citizen App Marxism w/ Bruno LeipoldSean and Andy (recovering from various ailments) are joined by political theorist, Bruno Leipold, to discuss his excellent new book Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought from Princeton University Press on how Marx and Engels developed their theories within and against an 18th century republican pollical milieu that is largely lost to history and the histories of Marxism.What is republicanism? What distinguishes it from liberalism? How did real world experience with the reactionary Prussian state temper Marxism's preoccupation with civil rights? (How was that preoccupation submerged within...
2025-01-1550 min
This Wreckage BONUS: Immortalist Techniques Andy and Sean read about Prospera, a libertarian City State in Honduras that is attempting to abolish death and bankrupt the country in the process. Then sean reads Ross Douthat's analysis of the Trump administration's Musk and Vance wings.For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada
2024-12-1306 min
This WreckageE267: Ex-Pat Zerg Rush w/ Nise_YoshimiSean and Andy are joined by Sean, prolific poster and blogger and short fiction writer, to talk about the changes he has seen over the last decade as an expat worker in both mainland China and Hong Kong. What shifts in politics, the economy and social life has he seen? What is the material basis for Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign? In what ways is the 'reform and opening up' period of 'market Stalinism' similar to Tony Blair's New Labour Britain? What does the imperial and post-imperial gaze on Hong Kong and the east more generally say about...
2024-11-041h 20
This WreckageEp 264: Endgame Two - 2 End, 2 Game w/ Jamie MerchantSean and Andy are joined by returning guest and cofounder of ILC-Chicago Jamie Merchant (@pathtopraxis) to discuss his new full-length monograph, out now from Reaktion Books, called Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline. In it, Jamie provides a masterful, insightful and readable account of the political economy of the present moment.What is the connection between the functioning of the profit system and the world-historic shift away from globalization? How do ruling class ideas like economic nationalism spread and why has conspiracism racked the left and right in recent years? Why has a bipartisan consensus emerged around...
2024-10-161h 13
This WreckageDiving into the Wreckage: Decay and Renewal 2Sean and Varn are joined by special guest, A.P. Andy of the Antifada podcast, to round out their previous conversation on current impasses on the left. For access to the full episode, and all our years of great bonus content, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifadaHow did Andy’s Platypus Affiliated Panel go? What’s new with the American Communist Party and how have they Stalinized Bordigism? What has happened to make Marxism-Leninism into an anachronistic meme ideology? And, in the bonus section, out of all this decay what...
2024-09-1859 min
This WreckageBONUS: Cancel All Workers w/ Minion Death CultThe world is ending. Home Depot workers are responsible, and Alexander Edward and Tony Boswell of Minion Death Cult join Sean to document it.For the full episode, all other bonus content, and Discord access, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaCheck out Sean's other appearance on MDC this weekSupport MDC on patreon
2024-07-2607 min
This WreckageE249 - Raising Debs w/ Reid KaneSean and Andy are joined by Reid Kane to discuss the tortured legacy of the Socialist Party of America. Why doesn't the United States have a nominally working class party like the UK, where unions formed the institutional base for an independent party? How come state repression was so effective in undermining working class self-organization in the early-20th century? In which ways did the Old Left and the New Left fail to learn the lessons of the SPUSA and why are we still stuck with the Stalin-era Popular Front? Reid gives a powerful account of American socialism past...
2024-05-2256 min
This WreckageEp 240: Our Social Hell w/ William Clare RobertsSean is joined by political theorist William Roberts to discuss his excellent 2017 book, Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital which excavates not just Marx's use of the structure of Dante's Inferno but the radical political theory that undergirds it. What is the relationship between the analysis in Capital and the debates within the workers movement of the time typified by the likes of Proudhon, Saint-Simon and Owens? What is the place of radical republicanism in Marx's theory? How has this tradition in the workers movement been buried by history and what might we do with it today?
2024-02-2849 min
This WreckageE238 - The Renegade Century w/ Mike Macnair Sean and Andy are joined by Mike Macnair, member of the Provisional Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain, columnist at Weekly Worker and author of Revolutionary Strategy (2008) and many other works.We discuss the legacy of Marxist political movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, the role of the party, the importance of patience and republicanism to the working class struggle and what might be salvaged from the thought of great historical Marxists including... the renegade Kautsky.This is part I of an extended discussion on theory and history. To hear the...
2024-02-1450 min
This WreckageReading Settlers 8 - This is the end, my Settler friendSean and Andy finish reading Settlers, Chapters 13 and 14For the full episode, support us on patreon: http://patreon.com/TheAntifada+ Sign up or upgrade your membership at the discounted $10/month annual membership and DM your mailing address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions by Andy and many past and future friends of the show!BLA's Message to the Black Movement: https://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/messageblackmovement.pdfClips from Finally Got the News:: https://www...
2024-01-2606 min
This WreckageEp 233: Post-Soviet Space w/ Volodymyr IshchenkoSean and Andy are joined by Volodymyr Ishchenko, Ukrainian Marxist and sociologist, to discuss his upcoming collection of essays "Toward the Abyss" from Verso Books. (You can and should preorder here.)How does a 'civilizational' or 'cultural' or 'decolonial' understanding of the Russia-Ukraine conflict obscure the underlying class conflict at its heart? What is the political economy of 'corruption' and anti-corruption? How has the delegitimization of the post-Soviet political capitalist ruling class led to stagnation and civil war? Why have their been a series of Occupys, EuroMaidans and Arab Springs that seem to change nothing?...
2023-12-1350 min
This WreckageEp 232: Cryin' Like Lion in Zion w/ Jason MylesAndy and Sean are joined by returning champion Jason Myles of This is Revolution podcast and industrial metal maniacs Bitter Lake to discuss his recent Damage Magazine article about Ibram X Kendi and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion grift. How has identity politics been used to subsume class politics? What's left of a socialist left after the failure of Sandersism? Without the crutch of a social democracy more impossible by the day what might we build?We also discuss the war on Gaza and why sometimes you have to walk off tour or storm out of a...
2023-12-061h 15
This WreckageEp 229 - The Gang Goes IntifadaAndy and Sean discuss the invasion in Gaza, Israel's move towards ethnic cleansing, the history of proletarian resistance in Palestine, and theorize class conflict between the Israeli and Palestinian national projects and its working classes. We also talk about what all this means for those communists in the US removed from the conflict. Some of our reading for the episode:https://decompositions.noblogs.org/files/2023/10/Explosion- Point.pdf https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2023/10/18/israel-the-shattering-of-a-dream/https://brooklynrail.org/2015/03/field-notes/negation-of-the-diasporahttps://libcom.org/article/worldwide-intifada-1https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/tamara/Shir Hever’s Political Economy of Israel’s OccupationAzzam Tamimi's Hamas: A Hist...
2023-11-011h 06
This WreckageEp 227 - Never Go Full Stancil w/ Jamie MerchantWith 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-Riley debate, anti-anti-globalization, so-called Political Capitalism and more.In the bonus section we discuss the outlines of what a determinate negation...
2023-10-111h 02
This WreckageEp 226 - Critical Support for the WTOSean 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 at patreon.com/theantifadaWoodbine Reservoir journal...
2023-10-041h 04
This WreckageReading Settlers: Part 1 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/theantifadaWe 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/
2023-07-2419 min
This WreckageDiving into the Wreckage 8.1: Shadow of China 2 w/ C. Derick VarnFor the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifadaC. 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 future be market technocracy and slow growth forever?'
2023-05-311h 02
This WreckageEp 213 - Refusal of Turk w/ Djene Bajalan At long last, Middle East historian Djene Bajalon of This Is Revolution talks with Sean and Andy about affairs international and internecine. Topics include: London vs Hull, Labor vs Tory, the deep fakes and stonings of the Turkish election, the way Turkish culture wars mask the class war, Erdogan and anti-imperialism, And in the second half for subscribers: Twitter files, Rojava update, autonomous regions and communism, Post-Bernie leftism, DEI for imperialism, and a sip of Sublation tea.Song: Mean Jeans - I Don't Care
2023-05-101h 02
This WreckageEp 211 - The Union Makes us Sean w/ Alex Press For full episode: http://patreon.com/theantifadaWe check in with labor reporter Alex Press about the Sean vanguard emerging in the UAW and Teamsters, if the the unions are moving left and if the left is moving closer to the working class, recent updates from Amazon, Starbucks, and Trader Joe's unionization drives, cross-border solidarity with Mexican and US autoworkers, reflections of striketober and the great resignation, something interesting Andy found in the trash, and much more!Articles by Alex Press:https://jacobin.com/2023/03/uaw-convention-bargaining-shawn-fain-reformhttps://jacobin.com/2023/03/amazon-third-party-sellers-small-businesseshttps://jacobin.com/2023/02...
2023-04-261h 01
This WreckageGoing Ewok ModeDONATE TO ATL SOLIDARITY FUND: atlsolidarity.orgSean 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/theantifadaGood 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-city-climate-change-defund-the-police-1397188/ https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2023/little-turtles-war-cop-city-atlanta https://news.littlesis.org/2022/11/15/meet-the-major-corporations-and-cultural-institutions-helping-build-cop-city-in-atlanta/https://archinect.com/features/article/150336348/the-cooper-union-promotes-russian-architecture-whySong: Raury...
2023-01-3154 min
The AntifadaUNLOCKED Low Culture Boil: Caught in a Trap w/ Sean and Rax KingSean 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 www.patreon.com/lowcultureboil
2022-12-021h 00This WreckageUNLOCKED Low Culture Boil: Caught in a Trap w/ Sean and Rax KingSean 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 www.patreon.com/lowcultureboil
2022-12-021h 00
This WreckageEp 197 - Trainsurrection when?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 listen!
More:
Downstate NY Starbucks worker solidarity fund: https://opencollective.com/sbsolidarity
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2022-11-0959 min
The AntifadaEp 197 - Trainsurrection when?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 listen!
More:
Downstate NY Starbucks worker solidarity fund: https://opencollective.com/sbsolidarity
...
2022-11-0959 min
This WreckageEp 194 - Gilt TripSean 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 unscalable fences, the economic outlook for workers in the United States, and the Amazon/Netflix-theory...
2022-10-0558 min
The AntifadaEp 194 - Gilt TripSean 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 unscalable fences, the economic outlook for workers in the United States, and the Amazon/Netflix-theory...
2022-10-0558 min
This WreckageEp 193 - Leftcoms in Kyiv w/ Ross WolfeThe Wolfe is Back! Our armchair chairman Ross Wolfe of Insurgent Notes joins Sean and Andy to sum up a recent panel on ultraleft takes on the war in Ukraine and revolutionary defeatism.
Hear our bonus episode with Ross about family abolition and the CPI implosion by supporting the show on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-cpi-and-w-72265849
Our episode On the Leftcom Question: https://fans.fm/p/1LaW96Q
Episode on Nikolai Bukharin: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70983824
Internationalist Perspective: https://internationalistperspective.org/
Andrew - Untimely Thoughts...
2022-09-2152 min
The AntifadaEp 193 - Leftcoms in Kyiv w/ Ross WolfeThe Wolfe is Back! Our armchair chairman Ross Wolfe of Insurgent Notes joins Sean and Andy to sum up a recent panel on ultraleft takes on the war in Ukraine and revolutionary defeatism.
Hear our bonus episode with Ross about family abolition and the CPI implosion by supporting the show on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-cpi-and-w-72265849
Our episode On the Leftcom Question: https://fans.fm/p/1LaW96Q
Episode on Nikolai Bukharin: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70983824
Internationalist Perspective: https://internationalistperspective.org/
Andrew - Untimely Thoughts...
2022-09-2152 minThis WreckagePREVIEW: No Logo (Daedelus)In which Sean and Andy finally start getting mercenary and talk shit behind the paywall. This week we tackle the blinkered stupidity of last week's 'Starbucks baristas are bourgeois' discourse. Is there even a crumb of meaning that we can glean from this meltdown? Anyways, we had fun with it.
To access this bonus content, our side projects History is a Weapon/Diving into the Wreckage/Proletkult and our amazing Discord server, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Here's the critique we mentioned by @criticofpolecon
2022-07-2905 min
This WreckageEp 188: Bin Pool Reich w/ Sean and AndyWhat do inflation, the London heatwave, 'communisateur' Los Angeles Truckers and the 1990s hardline band Vegan Reich have in common? They are all part of this brand new news episode featuring Sean and Andy! Plenty of scorching takes within about agricultural production, based bin men, inflation as capital in decay and how much means of production must be destroyed before Andy can rest at night.
Sweet bonus episodes, including us talking shit on the 'baristas are bourgeoisie' clowns, can be found at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Song: Sex Pistols - Bodies
2022-07-271h 01
Traffic Jam with Sean Shapiro - #TrafficJAMTPS Traffic Jam with PC Sean Shapiro S01E07 speaking with Andy Norrie Inspector (Ret) about the Hoka Hey Motorcycle ChallengeThe Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge isn't a race it's an individual experience that is different for every rider. "A warrior isn’t just a soldier who protects and defends... They are mentors, guides and teachers. They set the example for others and lend strength to the people. The stronger the warriors become - the stronger the people become."
Join PC Sean Shapiro and guest Andy Norrie, Retired Toronto Police Service Inspector as they discuss the Hoka Hey Challenge before Andy begins his 16,000 km journey across the United States.
Ride Info https://hokaheychallenge.com/
Su...
2022-06-2620 min
This WreckageEp 184: That's (Henryk) Gross, Man w/ Ted ReeseDo you feel like the economy is out of control? That this simply cannot go on? Are you dreading/anticipating a total breakdown? A final crisis, if you will? Well do we have the episode for you.
Andy and Sean are proud to be joined by Ted Reese (@Grossmanite) the author of The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman to discuss his incredible new book. This episode could not have come at a more relevant time, so you'll want to have a listen.
The continued bonus discussion for patrons can be found at...
2022-06-1552 minThis WreckagePROLETKULT 11 - Goblin Mode in Dealy Plaza (PREVIEW)Antifada's side project about the paranormal and parapolitical is back! with Andy and Jarrod Shanahan's #ReadtheGreenBook tour event at Chicago's Pilsen Community Books, and a short story about Andy's pilgrimage to Dallas.
Link to the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67648274
BUY MY BOOK (from Red Emma's): I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism
2022-06-1204 min
This WreckageJust Visiting w/ Jarrod Shanahan (BONUS PREVIEW)Andy and Sean trade prison stories with Jarrod, including a near uprising in the Tombs kicked-off by the revolutionary demand for pound cake.
For the full episode and all other bonus material support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada. We really appreciate it!
Don't forget to pick up your copy of Captives: How Rikers Island Took NYC Hostage
Song: Ghostface Killah - We Made It
2022-05-2007 min
This WreckageThe Coming Post-Left Insurrection w/ Erin Hagood (BONUS Preview)Andy and Sean talk more with Erin Hagood of Platypus about our political horizons. Do we still need a Leninist party? Do the global wave of uprisings point towards revolution or the Democratic Party? Is Antifada Post-Left?
For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
2022-03-1805 min
This WreckageEp 175 - Imperialism: When Capitalism Gets too High w/ Erin HagoodAndy, Sean, and Platypus Erin Hagood go over the details of a historic panel on the crisis in Ukraine, then segue into the question of Lenin's definitions of imperialism and revolutionary defeatism and what clarity they offer today, if any.
Hear more of our discussion and all bonus material by supporting the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada
Show notes:
Lenin - Socialism and War
Crisis in Ukraine panel: https://youtu.be/Uyoe5ml05LQ
Michael Roberts on Ukrainian economy: https://brooklynrail.org/2022/03/field-notes/Ukraine-The-Economic-Consequences-of-the-War
Spencer Leonard on...
2022-03-161h 04
This WreckageEp 173 - DON'T keep on truckin'Andy and Sean discuss Putin vs. Ukraine vs. Brandon and the war's origins in the EuroMaidan uprising. If the left's revolutionary strategy is take public space and push towards militant result, are we not replicating the errors of Ukraine and Syria? Are the Canadian truckers doing essentially the same thing?
Support the show by becoming a Patron for just $5 a month at Patreon.com/TheAntifada! Big discounts for yearly membership
Reading on the subject:
Ukraine:
https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/war-and-anarchists-anti-authoritarian-perspectives-in-ukraine
Canada:
https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/fascism-is-as-canadian-as-the-maple-leaf/
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2022-02-231h 13
This WreckageArmed Love - The Diggers w/ Peter Coyote (Part 1)We begin our new series on the revolutionary counterculture of the sixties by interviewing Peter Coyote, founding member of the Diggers -- an anarchist group from San Francisco whose free stores, tie-died shirts, free concerts, and activist street theater opened the gates of the Haight to tens of thousands of dropouts and helped define the sixties aesthetic. But by '67, the Diggers were already trying to escape the hippie movement by forming a network of revolutionary communes.
Joining Andy for the interview is Sean Lovitt, researcher sixties revolutionary groups and author of Mimeo Insurrection: The Sixties Underground...
2021-10-201h 15
This WreckageEp 159 - Forever Wars and No Strike Clause w/ Adam H JohnsonSean is joined by special guest Adam H Johnson (@adamjohnsonnyc), writer and host of the excellent Citations Needed podcast, to discuss the political economy of mass media, how consent is manufactured and the myriad ways in which the capitalist press is complicit even in a declining US empire.
Then, with some extra time, Sean gives a briefing of several recent strikes and what they might mean for organized labor going forward.
Links:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afghan-women
https://labornotes.org/2021/09/ten-thousand-uaw-members-gear-strike-vote-john-deere
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/13/pari-s13...
2021-09-221h 08This WreckageEp 154: Anti-Anti Populism w Anton JaegerSean, Jamie and Andy are joined by Anton Jaeger (@antonjagermm), Marxist researcher of populism, to discuss the history, present and future of populism whether in the left or right mold.
Several years ago it seemed as though left populism - exemplified by practitioners such as Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders - had a decent shot at upending the Washington Consensus on austerity, markets and foreign policy. With the failure and retreat of these candidates and others, what is left of this project? Why does right populism seem everywhere ascendant? What do these movements say about the economy...
2021-08-111h 02This WreckageEp 147: Abolish Action Burger Last w/ The Rax KingSean and Andy are joined by writer and cohost of the Low Culture Boil podcast, Rax King, (@raxkingisdead) for a dive into the world of food and food service. Our intrepid crew reports back about a local weird, nerd, comic book restaurant called Action Burger, then uses the opportunity to talk about the miserable conditions of workers in the industry. To round it out they discuss the amazing pamphlet by prole.info called "Abolish Restaurants" and discuss why we must do just that.
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2021-06-231h 04This WreckageEp 144: Commoners All! w/ Peter LinebaughSean and Andy are honored to sit down with Marxist historian of the Transatlantic World and Anglo-Irish labor history, Peter Linebaugh, to discuss his 2019 book, "Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard".
What is revolutionary love? How were the commons enclosed? What's the connection between capital and the anthropocene? How can the racialization of proletarians be overcome? How do we wrest back the commons for ourselves?
This was a great conversation and we're really...
2021-05-261h 00
This WreckageEp 141 - The Long March Through The Applications w/ Edward Ongweso Jr.Jamie and Sean are joined by Edward Ongweso Jr. (@bigblackjacobin), staff writer at Motherboard and co-host of This Machine Kills (@machinekillspod), for a discussion of all things tech. Rather than freeing us from drudgery, technology has been used by capitalists to make things worse for the vast majority of humanity. How did we get here? How can workers fight back? What does it mean to be a 21st century Luddite? How does this relate to police abolition? Plus: Edward's answer to Andy's Twitter poll about turning off the internet.
Outro music: Chumbawumba - the Triumph of General...
2021-04-281h 14This WreckageEp 140: 'Pushing" Biden to 'the Left' w/ Sean and JamieAh, a good old fashion news ep with Sean and Jamie!
First, we've reached pretty pass when the Wall Street Journal is penning diatribes about woke capitalism. Is it true, as they contend, that big business is.. anti-capitalist? What does this even fucking mean?
Next, President Biden has passed $2 trillion in stimulus and proposed another $2 trillion in infrastructure spending. Did it work? Did 'we' push Biden 'to the left'? We break down the spending and talk about what it really means. (Spoiler: the left wing of capital is desparate)
To support our work...
2021-04-211h 32
This WreckageEp 136 - Insurrection (ft. Rihanna) w/ Phil A. NeelIn this episode Andy and Sean sit down with Phil A. Neel, author of 'Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict' to talk about his work and travels and how they helped him reconceptualize working class life in the United States and abroad. We discuss the particular geography of accumulation and exploitation that has created glittering global cities of commerce and finance, alongside impoverished and a dystopian far hinterland. We bring it up to the present with the political ramifications of this new landscape, how it reconfigures class struggle as seen in the Ferguson protests, last summer's insurrection...
2021-03-171h 12
The Sean Casey ShowEpisode 81 - Stand with Trump featuring Rep. Andy HarrisSend us a textSean discusses the events on Capitol Hill this week including how the March to Save America was set up by the violent left. The Deep State may have won this battle but the long war remains. Say her name: Ashli Babbitt who was killed on the Hill and Sean interviews MD. Representative Andy Harris about what happened Wednesday in Congress.
2021-01-0850 min
This WreckageSpine Check 5 - Marx before Marxism: Value, Price and ProfitAndy and Sean are joined by Edwad @readcapital 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 conversation on: the difference between political economy and critical theory, the usefulness of Marx for communist theory...
2020-11-251h 07
This WreckageEp 119 - Merci bad coup w/ Eric-John RusselScholar 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 https://curedquail.com/
Society of the Spectacle pdf: https://libcom.org...
2020-11-111h 29
This WreckageEp 116 - Apres Moi, Le Troika w/ Pavlos RoufosJamie, 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, here is the previous episode we did with Pavlos (one of our favorites!) https://fans...
2020-10-211h 19
This WreckageEp 115 - Bi Donnie and the Supreme InfantsFirst Sean and Jamie do a roundup of the news: Donnie is back and he appears to not be dead but bisexual; Dems get the Supreme Court they deserve and Sen Mike Lee outs himself as a Bordigist?
Next Sean does a non-leftcom's guide to left communism: what is this thing? What's its relation to non-left communism? Wait how can communism be not left in the first place?? With help from some history and some help from leftcom friend of the show Noah Lennox he tries to explain.
Outro: Le otto ore - Canto di...
2020-10-141h 16
This WreckageEp 112: The Belden Program w/ Brace BeldenSean and Andy are joined with Brace from @trueanonpod to talk workers power, past and present: how unions are still central, how communist organizers like Harry Bridges, leader of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, exercised this power in the past, and how we can fight to bring it back today. We end with a call to Build The (not necessary electoral) Party.
Become a patron for access to a bonus episode on life as young punx later on in the week!
Outro music: Harry Bridges - Rancid
2020-09-091h 15
This WreckageAntifada's History is a Weapon 8.1 w/ Matt Christman and A.M. GittlitzOn this new installment of HIAW, Matt and Sean are joined by para-political expert Andy to talk about the political economy of intelligence and counterintelligence: How is this formation unique to capitalism and the bourgeois state? What is the connection between the deep state and anti-communism? What roles do the mafia and drug-running play? How powerful and pervasive is this apparatus? And what the hell do we do with all this paranoia-inducting info when we have it??
This first half is free for all. The second will be released later in the week for patrons only. Consider...
2020-07-161h 13
This WreckageEp 101 - Let's Go To The CHOP w/ Alex Edward & Matt MarciniecAndy speaks with Alex Edward (@flieldy), co-host of the Minion Death Cult podcast and Seattle resident, about life in the CHAZ/CHOP/Antifastan/Soyviet Union, providing fodder for the cursed boomer media of which Alex is normally but a passive connoisseur.
Jamie speaks with Matt Marciniec (@Mattceinicram) about Justice Frontline Aid (@aid_justice), a mutual aid project in Minneapolis that's helping liberated use values find their way to people who need them.
Sean and Jamie wrap it up with some commentary, NPR style.
Donate via PayPal to justicefrontlineaidcrew@gmail.com
CHOP...
2020-06-181h 28
This WreckageBONUS - Ep 100 Q+A w/ The Antifada CrewIn this very special edition of the Antifada, Jamie, Sean and Andy take questions from listeners. How do we envision a world without police? What will our lives be like after the rev? And what exactly went on at the parties Jamie used to throw?
Thanks x1000 to everyone for helping us keep this circus running.
Sorry if we didn't get to your question, we will hop on Twitch and answer more questions soon!
2020-06-1256 min
This WreckageEp 100 - It's All Happening w/ The AntifadaAround the world and back again, episode 100 of the Antifada! And what better circumstances under which to record an release than the largest national uprising in several generations?
Jamie, Sean and Andy analyze the revolt that has arisen since the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis: the connection between the carceral state and crisis; the racial caste system that divides us and benefits the rich; the reaction on the streets of Minneapolis; the meaning of abolition; and what to make of America in the age of riots. Tune in for our on the ground account of...
2020-06-101h 08
This WreckageEp 99 Chill, Non-Riot Content w/ Andy Battle & David A BanksRecorded before things really popped off last week, Sean was joined by returning champion Andy Battle and co-host of Ironweeds podcast, David A Banks.
We hope this wide ranging discussion of capitalist space, de/unionization, de/industrialization, supply chains, gentrification, uneven development and class struggle will be an oasis of calm as you righteously take the streets where you are and then [REDACTED].
Outro - Bruce Springsteen: Hungry Heart
Check out - Ironweeds @ironweedspod / www.patreon.com/ironweeds
Follow - Andy @bolobattle / David @DA_Banks
2020-06-031h 28This WreckageCrosspost: Year Zero - Thousand Year Stare w/ Terance Ray & Sean KB(Crosspost from an episode Sean and Tarence did for those who missed it.) Introducing Year Zero, a new miniseries on political economy hosted by Tarence. In this first episode we speak with Sean KB (@as_a_worker on twitter)from the Antifada podcast (@the_antifada) about what he terms The Thousand Year Stare: the specific feeling one unlocks by reading Giovanni Arrighi's "The Long Twentieth Century." We'll be using the book to discuss the chaotic times in which we live, but don't worry: you don't have to have read it to follow along in the conversation. You just have...
2020-05-251h 49
This WreckageEp 95 - Haiders to the Left w/ Asad HaiderJamie and Sean speak with Asad Haider (@generalityiii), editor at Viewpoint Magazine and author of "Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump" about depoliticization, the left post-Bernie, and that eternal question, "what is to be done?" Contains spicy (read: nuanced and informed) takes on "mass politics" vs "subcultural politics," the necessity of abolishing markets, the party question, and our favorite thing besides communism, punk rock.
Further reading:
https://www.viewpointmag.com/2019/12/16/on-depoliticization/
https://www.viewpointmag.com/2020/03/16/what-is-political-power/
https://dsaemerge.org/reflections-on-bernies-loss/
Jamie and Andy will be...
2020-05-061h 31
This WreckageUNLOCKED: Real Posadas Hours w/ Comrade CommunicatorTo celebrate the release this week of AP Andy's I WANT TO BELIEVE: J. Posadas, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism, we've unlocked one of our favorite bonus episodes from 2018. Along with head propagandist of the Intergalactic Workers' League - Posadist, Comrade Communicator, we read one of Posadas's unpublished essays that Andy discovered in archives: "On the Function of the Joke in History."
Antifada fans can get a 20% discount on the book using code POSADAS20 from the Pluto Website.
For more Real ___ Hours episodes, and all back episodes of History is a Weapon, Vampire Castle, and Proletkult...
2020-04-2253 min
This WreckageThe Antifan Who Stole Christmas w/ Minion Death CultHⒶ HⒶ HⒶ! Ⓐnti-Saint Nick here with an XMas Xpost of Andy and Sean's recent appearance on Minion Death Cult! Alex and Tony lead us in a reading of what is sure to become a holiday classic, a 2017 piece from the Boston Police Union magazine titled, "The Antifan Who Stole Christmas."
"A reaction to the enormous anti-racist Boston protest held directly after Charlottesville, "The Antifan" chronicles a pesky critter who wishes to destroy the town of Bhlueville and their holiday celebration."
Then we read some reactions to a National Catholic Register article titled "Bernie Sanders Says Chr...
2019-12-251h 22
This WreckageEp 79 - Uncontrollable Serge w/ Mitch AbidorWriter, translator, and historian of the revolutionary left Mitch Abidor joins Andy and Sean to discuss the life, legacy, and relevance of "The Bolshevik's Pet Anarchist" Victor Serge!
An illegalist anarchist turned anarcho-syndicalist, turned Bolshevik, turned left-oppositionist before being completely blackpilled, Serge is a rare example of a revolutionary who jumped from tendency to tendency while still maintaining his principals. Abidor and Richard Greenman recently translated Serge's 1936-1947 notebooks, written mostly while in exile in Mexico watching the dream of proletarian revolution unravel.
Find more Abidor's work at Marxists.org and the New York Review...
2019-12-181h 06
This WreckageEp 75 - CANZUCK w/ Trash FutureAndy and Sean go to UK to suck some cans with the lads and lass of England's only podcast, TRASH FUTURE. We discuss the upcoming elections, the deep insecurities at the center of posh life motivating Boris Johnson's political career, the LibDem and ChUK cucks, and Corbyn's cheeky plan to nationalize Nandos and put Mr. Bean on the dole or whatever.
Subscribe and support Trash Future:
https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture
And follow them on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/trashfuturepod
Riley: @raaleh
Milo: @milo_edwards
...
2019-11-201h 11
This WreckageEp 67 - UAW Strike EMERGENCY PODThe United Auto Workers union is striking General Motors in the largest work stoppage since the same union struck in 2007. Andy and Sean jump on mic with an emergency pod to discuss the context of this job action, how the left might relate to the recent upsurge in labor militancy, and what labor history tells us about how to organize and win!
Show notes:
UAW workers on strike: https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2019/09/16/strike-uaw-workers/2338281001/
UAW Corruption cases complicate bargaining: https://www.labornotes.org/2019/09/corruption-cases-auto-workers-complicate-bargaining
GM Workers have one...
2019-09-171h 02
This WreckageEp 61 - MKUltraleftism w/ Jake FloresJake Flores spills more tea than the Sons of Liberty and Sean and Andy tackle the Manson family, parapolitics, Googling MKULTRA, and Quentin Tartufo's new film, Hollywood Dreams
Mostly based on Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the '60s by Tom O'Neil https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/tom-oneill/chaos/9780316477574/
FollowJake on twitter: @feralhogs
For bonus content including History is a Weapon, Prolekult, and access to our discord community, subscribe on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theantifada
2019-08-071h 13
This WreckageEp 58 - Boys Chat w/ Chris JamesAndy and Sean do a brocialism with Prank Stallone aka Chris James (@theCJS) joining to talk about screwing with GORKA and other right wing blowhards on the phone for the hahas. Thereafter we meander around a variety of topics including bike protests, RNC 2004 memories, the continuing Jeff Epstein affair, the escalating insanity of the migrant crisis, and the struggle against it.
Become a supporter of our work at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Follow Chris James: @theCJS
Twitch: https://t.co/2faNx6mLk7?amp=1
Youtube: https://t.co/5zrovQW6l7?amp=1
2019-07-171h 36
This WreckageProletkult 2: Bezos v. Musk, Jamie v. Skinwalkers, and Delonge v. Icke w/ Anna MerlanIn episode 2 of PROLETKULT Andy, Jamie, and Sean continue to talk with Anna Merlan about her new book: REPUBLIC OF LIES, specifically the chapter about UFO Politics. Jamie and Sean reveal their believer power levels, Andy and Anna propose a theory for the Navy UFO flap, and we talk about the culture of the Mutual UFO Network, strange southwest desert stories, and the Son of the Godhead himself, David Icke.
Show notes:
Bezos vs. Musk feud:
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-feud-rivals-spacex-blue-origin-2019-5
Bezos's O'Neill Colonies:
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/05/oneill-colonies-a-decades-long-dream-for-settling-space
https://www.citylab.com...
2019-06-0702 min
This WreckageHIGH THEORY 2 - Eclipse and Reemergence of the Communist Movement w/ Swampside ChatsHIGH THEORY is the joint effort of The Antifada & Swampside Chats that tackles the riddle wrapped up in an enigma that is communization.Grant & Lexi visit Jamie, Sean & Andy in studio to interrogate the 2015 George Lucas Special Edition of the 1974 foundational communization text "Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement", aka THE MOON BOOK, by Gilles Dauve and Francois Martin.
The text:
https://libcom.org/library/eclipse-re-emergence-communist-movement
Swampside Chats on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/swampsidechats?lang=en
Help us destroy the economy:
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patreon.com/swampsidechats
2019-06-051h 34
This WreckageUNLOCKED Antifada's Proletkult #1 w/ Stephanie MonohanYou got your History is Weapon with Sean KB... you got your upcoming new film series (!) with Jamie Peck... and now we are proud to present the first installment of AP Andy's new Proletkult! This irregularly published Antifada series will cover ufological happenings, the paranormal/parapolitical, left futurism and science fiction.
After some fresh Space News on the Israeli moonlanding fail, Andy is joined by Stephanie Monohan (@shdwbxng) to discuss her recent presentation at the Theorizing the Web conference, 'Lights in the Sky,' on paranormal investigation networks as precursors to social media, our collective obsession with...
2019-05-1042 min
This WreckageEp 50 - The Dream of the 90s w/ Katie HalperDoyenne of the podcast left, @kthalps, joins Jamie and Sean to discuss 1990s nostalgia. Mostly we come up with reasons why the decade actually kinda sucked and brought us to the mess we're in today. We also make some indecent proposals to famous people, discuss Juanita Broaddrick and fill a heaping mug with Laura Loomer tears.
With Andy in Cuba we recorded a lot of material so expect a big, fat bonus later this week. To become a patron, access paywalled content and our Discord server sign up at www.patreon.com/theantifada
Friday, May 10...
2019-05-081h 44
This WreckageBONUS - All About Us w/ Leslie Lee IIIMassive spoiler alert on this one, baby! @leslieleeiii of your favorite leftist culture podcast @strugglesesh joins the crew (in studio!) to talk about Jordan Peele's sophomore offering, the blockbuster social-critique/horror film 'Us'.
Sean, Jamie and Andy offer their weird opinions on the deeper meaning of the film... then Leslie, as always, schools everyone with his vast cinematic knowledge. Fun and talking shit on Breitbart happens along the way!
To access this and other bonuses, along with our Discord server and other goodies, become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada
If you're...
2019-04-1201 min
This WreckageEp 42 - Antifada's Baja Blast w/ The CrewJamie had a birthday weekend. Andy came back from Mexico. After the gang caught up a little, we listened to some interviews Andy got from migrants and their supporters in Tijuana, MX.
The stories are heartbreaking and the situation is dire, but we give some practical advice on how to show solidarity with working class brothers and sisters in desperate need of political and material support.
Enclave Caracol - https://enclavecaracol.wordpress.com/
Al Otro Lado - https://alotrolado.org/who-we-are/
Support the Comedor! http://gofundme.com/tijuana-kitchen
More...
2019-03-131h 35
This WreckageHigh Theory: Communization and its Discontents w/ Swampside Chats and Breht O'SheaTime to take a big ole bong rip! In a radical departure from our usual weekly content, Sean KB joined up with a bunch of commie pals to talk about C O M M U N I Z A T I O N.
We use Ben Noys' critical compilation "Communization and Its Discontents" to dip our toes into the deep waters of current ultra-left thought on the crises of capitalism and its overcoming:
Has the development of bourgeois society utterly changed the terrain of struggle? Must the proletariat struggle not just against exploitation, but against...
2019-02-231h 20
This WreckageAntifada's History is a Weapon #2 w/ Matt ChristmanAP Andy is in Mexico researching Posadism. Jamie is wherever goth socialists go to do goth-soc things. So Sean KB recorded an ep with fellow history nerd, Matt Christman of The Chapo Trap House, who is similarly tyrannized by the weight of dead generations.
The question: Why, of all advanced capitalist countries, is the United States unique in its historical failure to form a bone-fide Labour/Socialist party organically tied to the union movement as an institutionalized political expression of working class interests? The answers may surprise you.
The Antifada is an ultraleft-wrecker podcast of...
2019-01-231h 31
This WreckageEpisode 30: Mapache GuevaraSean and Jamie are back from their magical Mexican vacation! We talk about why we love visiting Mexico, the legend of Trotsky's cookies, their Chiapas car calamity, La Chica Arana's summit with Corbyn and Amlo, a visit to Zapatista territory, Sean's run-in with a caravan of internally-displaced indigenous Mexicans, and, of course, doing acid on the beach.
Show notes:
Did someone bake Trotsky's ashes into cookies?
https://anarchistnews.org/content/trotskys-ashes-stolen-and-baked-cookies
The story of Chavajebal, a village abandoned by its residents in November after a paramilitary siege:
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/3-dead-1500-displaced/
...
2018-12-051h 10
This WreckageUNLOCKED! - Real (?) Moist Hours w/ AP Andy, Jamie Peck & Sean KBWe've been on vacation for the last week and a half, so we've decided to unlock some premium content from a couple of months ago for our subscribers-slash-not-yet-patrons. Enjoy!
When the alleged 'Florida Communist Front' outlined a concrete proposal to begin, fight and win a Protracted People's War from the Everglades, Antifada just had to take a deep dive into this dialectical swamp.
How can revolutionary forces utilize mangrove trees and reptilian fauna to overthrown imperialism in the capitalist core? How do we apply praxis from the Maoist insurgency in 1920s-40s to the great...
2018-11-2849 min
This WreckageWob Damn AmericaSean joins the DAMNED in an Antifada crossover episode with Pod Damn America for a special History is a Weapon about the Industrial Workers of the World, aka the wobblies. The anarchistic-Marxistic union organized hundreds of thousands of US workers with a goal of becoming "one big union" and abolishing class society. Jake Flores, Sean KB, and Alex Ptak recount some of their more dramatic adventures and how the economy of that era compares to the present moment. How can radicals of today learn lessons from the historical IWW without fetishizing them as simply badass soapbox militants with a...
2018-11-211h 42
This WreckagePREVIEW Real (?) Moist Hours w/ AP Andy, Jamie Peck and Sean KBWhen the alleged 'Florida Communist Front' outlined a concrete proposal to begin, fight and win a Protracted People's War from the Everglades, Antifada just had to take a deep dive into this dialectical swamp.
How can revolutionary forces utilize mangrove trees and reptilian fauna to overthrown imperialism in the capitalist core? How do we apply praxis from the Maoist insurgency in 1920s-40s to the great state of Florida today? How will FCF unite with the DPRK to get the NUKES that can defeat the running dogs of the imperialist bourgeoisie?
All will be revealed...
2018-10-2902 min
This WreckageEpisode 26 BONUS - Guy Debord Riding Dinosaurs in Pseudo-Cyclical Time w Andy Battle & Shyam KhannaShyam from Commune (@commune_mag) and Andy Battle of CUNY Struggle (@cunystruggle) stick around to get utopian and weird.
Musky hyper-loop death machines. Anarchist scarcity train-hopping vs sexxxy luxury sleeper-car socialism. Utopian transit visions: car libraries, dino rides and #BringBackTheOcean. Abolishing leisure time by overcoming labor time.
Serious talk: radical City University of New York teachers union caucus CUNY Struggle demands $7k or strike! Organizing with and for students to decommodify higher ed. HELL YEAH!
To get ears on this and other bonus content, along with access to our Discord community and other...
2018-10-2601 min
This WreckageEpisode 26: Battle of the Andys w/ Shyam Khanna & Andy BattleThis week, the crew is joined by Shyam Khanna, EIC of Commune (@commune_mag), and Andy Battle, doctoral student in US History at CUNY, for a discussion of leftist media and public transit.
Shyam unpacks Commune Mag's project of chronicling the popular movements of our time while providing constructive visions for revolution. Hell yeah.
Andy B discusses his article for Commune Mag, "The Subway Belongs To Us." From its construction in the early 1900s, to the city's best attempt at social democracy (1930s-1970s), to the present day, the subway has been a constant site...
2018-10-251h 22
This WreckageEpisode 25: True Grit w/ Jamie Peck, Sean KB & AP AndyIn this very interactive episode, the skeleton crew gives thanks to Comrade Gritty, the first sports mascot who is actually mocking the fans. We then take questions from you, the listeners, on a broad range of topics including: witches & the occult, mandatory voting, Jamie's political tendency, why Sean says "deadass" so much, how often we question our beliefs, and the ever spicy Angela Nagle controversy.
Outro music: Vincas - Black Rose
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2018-10-171h 28
This WreckageUNLOCKED! History is a Weapon #1: Historical Materialism w/ Sean KBIn the first installment of our new history and theory series "History is a Weapon," Sean breaks down historical materialism, a thing we talk about a lot but have never really explained.
Why does the history that we all learned growing up suck so much? Why does it seem like we are at a historical dead end? How do we contextualize our present moment? And what tools do we have to analyze - and ultimately confront - the current state of things in this neoliberal hellworld?
Dialectics, baby!
Did you enjoy this fine...
2018-10-0128 min
This WreckageEpisode 21: Russia Russia Russia w/ David KlionThe gang is joined by writer David Klion (@DavidKlion) to talk New York's Democratic primaries, the socialist read on Trump/Russia, and the need for a left internationalism.
The various reactions to Julia Salazar's NY State Senate win and what it means when the libs think they have to be nice to us. We all drag the fuck out of hasbara hack Bari Weiss, of whose bad takes Sean cannot get enough. Jamie and Sean get divorced x 2.
What, if anything, can the left take away from the Trump/Russia story? David breaks it down...
2018-09-201h 42This WreckageHistory is a Weapon #1 (TEASER): Historical Materialism w/ Sean KBIn the first installment of our new history and theory series "History is a Weapon," Sean breaks down historical materialism, a thing we talk about a lot but have never really explained.
Why does the history that we all learned growing up suck so much? Why does it seem like we are at a historical dead end? How do we contextualize our present moment? And what tools do we have to analyze - and ultimately confront - the current state of things in this neoliberal hellworld?
Dialectics, baby!
2018-09-1001 min
This WreckageCats, Communism & Community: Andy Reports From Queens' Woodbine SpaceIn the second edition of The Antifada's new interview series, Andy interviews Matt and Vanessa from the Queens communist project Woodbine at one of their weekly Sunday dinners about building communism, populism, and the autonomism of street cats.
Check out Woodbine at https://woodbine.website/ and the Liasons journal issue 1 at http://www.commonnotions.org/liaisons
Closing music: Gorilla Biscuits - Cats and Dogs
2018-09-0641 min
This WreckageEpisode 18: Posadism for Regular-Ass People w/ Comrade Communicator (IWL-P)After our intended guests fell through, we were surprised and pleased to be joined by Comrade Communicator of the Intergalactic Workers League, who was inspired to appear by the troubling news of Trump's weird Space Force proposal.
Seems dumb, but how about the extraterrestrial militarization of Ronny Raygun? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMfmVzHZvkc
Next, in a Marxist-Ufologist version of Crossfire, AP Andy faces off against our guest in ideological combat over the legacy and relevance of 20th-Century Argentine socialist thinker and head of the Latin American section of the 4th International, J Posadas...
2018-08-151h 48
This WreckageEpisode 17: The Working Class Goes to Hell w/ Matt Christman & Virgil TexasIn this very special Antifada offering, Andy, Jamie and Sean are joined by your favorite sons: Matt Christman and Virgil Texas of Chapo Trap House.
Gang begins by addressing the central questions of our hyper-digital age: what if God friended you on Facebook? Is QAnon just a benign hobby for bored Boomers? And, holy shit, what if GOD WAS QANON?
Matt, Virgil and Jamie reveal - for the very first time - their respective political tendencies. Everyone marvels at how high-T Jeb(!) managed to lose the primary despite the PR coup of offering a poorly...
2018-08-072h 08
This WreckageEpisode 16: (((Globalist))) Uprisings w/ Brandon JourdanJamie, Sean, and Andy are joined by militant documentarian Brandon Jourdan of globaluprisings.org.
Brando discusses life as an expat, the indymedia network, and his four seconds of fame in Boots Riley's smash hit "Sorry to Bother You."
The crew plays clips from Brando and his partner Marianne Maeckelbergh's films on uprisings in Spain, Turkey and the US. Does Brando see himself as part of these movements or just another slack jawed servant to the spectacle?
The causes of, and potential solutions to, right-wing populism around the world. Fascists all have permanent clown...
2018-08-021h 37
This WreckageEpisode Eight: The University & Its Malcontents w/ Anonymous New School StudentJamie, Sean and Andy take a field trip to the occupied New School to interview "K," an anonymous student, about New School students' latest direct action in solidarity with cafeteria workers (repped by UNITE HERE Local 100) and grad students (SENS-UAW).
Later, back at the ranch, the gang contextualizes this occupation with some history of the modern university: its roots, its social function, and how it has developed as a site of struggle. What happened in the '70s and '80s that made college so expensive, yet also so necessary? The through-lines from the student occupations of the 1960s...
2018-05-181h 40
This WreckageEpisode Six: Brutalism, Infantilism and #Doom w/ Ross WolfeIf you thought last episode was arcane, get a load of this shit! We sit down with Ross Wolfe of https://thecharnelhouse.org to venture into the farthest, darkest reaches of left theory... in order to resurrect the nightmares of dead generations within the minds of our listeners.
Ross discusses how Sean nearly came to blows with famous fashy troll Kantbot at a Verso Books party. Jamie informs Sean that she thought he was a violent horror man when they first dated. We debate the monetary value of a human rib if it's broken within a police...
2018-04-301h 51This WreckageEpisode Four: Liberal Derangement Syndrome w/ Doug Henwood and Liza FeatherstoneIn The Antifada's HARD LAUNCH episode, Jamie and Sean speak with socialist power couple Doug Henwood and Liza Featherstone about aggression in Syria, the governor's race in New York, and liberal derangement syndrome. Liza does an on-air version of her socialist-feminist advice column in The Nation, "Asking for a Friend."
Jamie almost sells out, but mistakes ice cream for soap so w/e. Sean reminds us that leftists don't make heroes of i-banking cops like James Comey. Doug and Liza talk about how they met and their philosophy on makin' red diaper bbs. Jamie and Liza admit...
2018-04-171h 34This WreckageEpisode Three: Punk, Riotgrrl, & Other Opiates of the Masses w/ Aaron PetcoffUp the punx! Jamie, Sean and guest Aaron Petcoff of the ISO discuss music, religion and sacred cows. We talk shit on Fiverr. Sean confuses Epitaph with Hellcat records like an old idiot. Jamie revisits one of her childhood favorites. We try nuance for the first time with regard to religion and socialism. We discuss our lame faves. Jamie cucks Sean thrice.
Uber-producer Matt couldn't make it, so we screwed up the levels. Sorry!
2018-04-152h 05
The Andy Furman PodcastSean Casey talks Reds opening day, Dan Hoard talks Bearcats and BengalsFormer Cincinnati Reds first-baseman and grand marshal for the 2017 Reds opening day parade Sean Casey talks to Andy Furman about what makes opening day so special in Cincinnati.Voice of the Cincinnati Bengals and UC Bearcasts Dan Hoard joins Furman to talk about Adam Jones and football in Cincinnati.Plus, hear from WCPO's John Popovich on his experiences and coverage of opening day. 0:40 - John Popovich talks about his experiences covering opening day in Cincinnati6:50 - Sean Casey explains what makes opening day so special in Cincinnati.24:40 - Dan Hoard talks Adam Jones and shares his insight on what to...
2017-03-3042 min