Hinterland author Phil Neel returns to explain value-form to an American by asking us to imagine a burger.

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Phil Neel's burger essays: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/12/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh/

https://brooklynrail.org/2025/02/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh-2/

Cuban hamburgerismo: https://www.sm28.org/articles/j11-the-return-of-the-cuban-proletariat/

Song: Tyler the Creator - Burger

NEWS EP! We sort out the class forces behind the Muskite restructuring underway, the meaning of the tariff trade war, and argue for why we should stay partisans of woke.

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Ganz: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happened-here-c9f

Nolan: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dark-times-are-coming

This is a short preview of the paywalled portion of the long discussion between Sean and Varn about the 2024 election and the end of the Long Twentieth Century.

To access the entire audio file and a bunch more bonus content become a supporter of the show at www.patreon.com/theantifada in the New Year.

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, the conversation revolves around the ongoing United Autoworkers strike in the Midwest: what it might mean for the industry, how a victory might galvanize the broader working class, and how a defeat might play out.

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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.

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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 more popular demand than electing a socialist politician or taxing the rich. Some of the stuff we read for the episoe:

https://labornotes.org/2023/09/no-justice-no-jeeps-scenes-auto-workers-strike https://labornotes.org/2023/09/auto-workers-strike-plants-all-three-big-3

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/united-auto-workers-strike-shawn-fain-big-three-automakers

Alex press on democracy now: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/15/uaw_strike_big_three_automakers

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/the-uaw-strike-matters-for-the-entire-us-working-class

Ex wildcat-leader Jim Cramer maulding: https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1702318383642112082

Biden audio: https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1702723784506056705

Trump audio https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1702733477517357310

Hate listen fodder from NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/podcasts/the-daily/ford-general-motors-strike.html

Contradictions at the heart of Bidenomics: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/us/politics/biden-uaw-strike.html

Hamilton Nolan: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/whose-fault-is-it

-WSWS https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/15/nvxk-s15.html -Critique of SEP: https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/07/will-lehmans-uaw-presidential-campaign-a-poison-pill/

Adam Green and Ben Kweller - Kokomo

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/theantifadaSongs:Woodie Guthrie - Jarama Big Soda - Swearin'

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 Who Framed Roger Rabbit? How the hell was this crazy film made? What does it tell us about the history of public transit in Los Angeles and elsewhere? Why is Elon Musk full of shit? How would rail fit into the Green New Deal and socialism broadly? Most importantly, how did our fans get us to watch hentai?

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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.

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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 FORGET TO SEE US THIS TUESDAY in Philly! Sept 12 w/WTYP at FRANKLIN BALLROOM https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problem

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!

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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

And yes... the SICK POSTER IS ON SALE!!! https://www.grimgrimgrim.com/products/well-there-s-your-problem-minion-death-cult-the-antifada-gig-poster

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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.

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?

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SHOW DETAILS with MINION DEATH CULT, POD DAMN AMERICA, and WELL THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM (philly only)!!!!

NYC Sept 10: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-tickets-691958234707

Philly SEPT 12: w/WTYP https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problem

Stroky Sean and cancer-free Varn are reunited to dive back into the wreckage. This is part one of over three hours of conversation about just about everything under the sun (what happens when we take a several month break from these things) including political economy, current events, intra-Marxist rivalry and analysis. Mostly we bid adieu to the Long Twentieth Century. Turns out it expired for real this time not on 9/11/01 but 11/5/16.

We are in a new epoch and its time to start acting like it!

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Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage

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!

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Show notes:RIP Mario Tronti: https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/mario-tronti-i-am-defeated/?fbclid=IwAR0TeJLflUGKjO8tN_CLlE9DvPZb5qq0sppNliaml9Lgmdk1Yh9wQ8nEwnY

https://libcom.org/article/strategy-refusal-mario-

New York Year Zero: https://gittlitz.substack.com/p/nyyz

NYT: on conspiracy theories: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/conspiracy-theory-qanon.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The ‘monumental consequences’ of Ukraine joining the EU https://on.ft.com/44Xvr3d

Dog Breath: https://dogbreathnyc.bandcamp.com/album/dog-breath

Iggy Pop '77:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZth4CNaEBA

Song: Blackhole Sun by Soundgarden

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

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:

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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 2018 agreement: https://nwlaborpress.org/2018/10/ups/

Union buster found: https://twitter.com/JosBrock/status/1684242017641979904

Song: Allan Sherman - Beautiful Teamsters

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.

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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

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

Marxism vs. MMT!

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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/theantifadaAnd support QAA on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/qanonanonymousRead Postone: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/moishe-postone-anti-semitism-and-national-socialism

Music journalist Liz Pelly joins us to discuss her new book The Mood Machine the Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist.

How did the DIY culture of mixtapes and file sharing move towards massive streaming platforms? And with nearly every song freely accessible why are so many listening to elevator music instead?

You can listen to this full episode gratis by signing up at our free membership tier over at patreon.com/theAntifada

Links to Liz's work:

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

https://thebaffler.com/downstream/big-mood-machine-pelly

https://thebaffler.com/downstream/streambait-pop-pelly

https://thebaffler.com/downstream/wrapped-and-sold-pelly https://thebaffler.com/latest/podcast-overlords-pelly

Check out the Art and Labor Podcast

Music/image: Lo-Fi Girl

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

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.

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Meet Luis and Amelia TODAY (6/21/23) at Word is Change bookstore for a discussion on the book with John Garvey and Mike Morgan from Hard Crackers Magazine

Burgerville stuff: https://labornotes.org/blogs/2023/01/viewpoint-burgerville-workers-lessons-independent-unionshttps://bvwu.iww.org/https://nwlaborpress.org/

Hamerquist stuff: Buy A Brilliant Read Thread: The Revolutionary Writings of Don Hamerquist https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/don-hamerquist http://www.unityandstruggle.org/tag/don-hamerquist/

Song: Coach & Ref - Longview

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 discuss the legacy of Ted K in US anarchism, and a related analysis of AI, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaWest coast port slowdown links: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/06/05/tmau-j05.htmlhttps://lbbusinessjournal.com/ports/2-container-terminals-at-port-of-long-beach-closed-monday-at-least-1-to-be-closed-tuesday/https://www.axios.com/2023/06/06/whats-behind-work-stoppages-at-west-coast-portshttps://www.supplychainconnect.com/news-trends/article/21267198/west-coast-port-strike-update UPS strike: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/12/business/teamsters-ups-strike-possibility/index.htmlZerzan - Whose Unabomber? https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/john-zerzan-whose-unabomber NYT AI article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/technology/ai-humanity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Song: Marilyn Manson - Astonishing Panorama of End Times

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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 future be market technocracy and slow growth forever?'

Sean's substack article (free): https://seankb.substack.com/p/whither-china

Audio recording of article available for patrons on patreon

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.

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William Clare Roberts' review in Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2023/03/mute-compulsion-soren-mau-book-review

Jasper Bernes essay on Revolutionary motives: https://endnotes.org.uk/articles/revolutionary-motives.pdf

Song: Royksopp - Compulsion

STRIKE UPDATE! SEIU, WGA, AFL-CIO, PNWSU, MLBPA! Degrowth vs. workers' movement, WGA strike and culture production, the Player's Revolt against the National League, immanent critique of culture war, extinction rebellion as the zombie New Left, and much more!

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APOLOGIES for the echoey/murmury audio stuff. I messed up and i won't do it again :(

AFL-CIO support Willow Project: -https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/bidens-decision-massive-alaska-oil-project-determine-climate-future-labor-pres

WGA Updates: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/los-angeles-hospitality-union-backs-writers-strike-1235483737/ https://www.vulture.com/2023/05/wga-2023-writers-strike-news-updates-day-10.html

Andrea Vetter clip discussed on Left Reckoning: https://twitter.com/LeftReckoning/status/1653101121429200901

Blue Bird EV buses unionize: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/us/politics/clean-energy-unions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Robert B. Ross - The Great Players' Revolt

Song: 100 Gecs - Dumbest Girl Alive

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

David A. Banks, author of The City Authentic and co-host of the upstate-urbanist podcast Iron Weeds describes the rural gentrification of upstate New York and how the commodification of authenticity works. We also talk about the anti-work assault on the New College of Florida;

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Cigarettes After Sex - Apocalypse.

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We 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-businesses

https://jacobin.com/2023/02/strike-increases-us-labor-movement-2022-statistics

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/construction-union-hudson-yards/

https://newrepublic.com/article/153044/big-techs-unholy-alliance-pentagon

https://jewishcurrents.org/from-the-ashes-of-the-old

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/01/nyregion/turbulent-labor-rally-snarls-midtown.html

Song: The Press - Revolution Now!

Merry Christmas, everyone! This year, the Santifada is bringing you the same present as always: an episode about the themes of Jewish identity and antisemitism! We discuss Brady Corbet's new epic film, The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody as a Bauhaus architect and Holocaust survivor trying to rebuild his life in the absurd New World of America.

In the first half of the episode, our brutalism scholar guests, Ross and Susannah, explain what brutalism is and how it relates—or doesn’t relate—to Brody's character, Laszlo Toth, and the themes of the movie in general.

In the second half, available for subscribers at patreon.com/theantifada, we discuss the film's final chapter and epilogue, which features an infuriating, although perhaps excusable, political twist ending.

• Music for the episode is mostly from the brutalist soundtrack by Daniel Blumberg. Closing song is La Bionda - One For You, One For Me

Author and fellow Occupy-vet Malcolm Harris joins us to talk about his cursed hometown of Palo Alto and the many evil spirits that haunts it--mainly, Herbert Hoover.

Buy the book at https://www.paloaltobook.com/

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Song: Radiohead - Palo Alto

A NEWS EP so timely we decided to release early. We talk about the strikes and riots in France, A DNA Mist that reveals forced labor in the supply chain, And Andy's review of How to Blow up A Pipeline, Subscribe to the show on Patreon and you'll hear the full episode, with: thoughts on raving, Taibbi Derangement Syndrome, ChatGPT's solutions for sublating the New Left, and the Israeli secrets revealed in the recent US Intelligence leaks.

Articles mentioned about France:https://www.seattletimes.com/business/france-guardian-of-egalite-leads-the-list-of-ultrarich/

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/drowning-in-deposits

https://twitter.com/proufos/status/1643991308485414916?s=46&t=VVQ2vdGVkxcBV4MIWyMr6A

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pension-reform-protesters-briefly-invade-paris-blackrock-building-2023-04-06/

https://crimethinc.com/2023/03/30/france-in-flames-macron-attempts-to-crush-the-movement-against-the-pension-reform-with-lethal-violence-1

https://jacobin.com/2023/04/france-pension-protests-movement-long-rebellion-neoliberalism-emmanuel-macron

AI DNA Mist: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/business/economy/ai-tech-dna-supply-chain.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleSharelntel

leaks: https://www.nytimes.com/explain/2023/russia-ukraine-war-documents-leak?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Song: France Gall - Boom Boom

Welcome to Proletkult! The Antifada sideproject about the paranormal and the parapolitical. Today we’ll be talking to Wu Ming 1, of the Italian writing collective Wu Ming about their origins in the Italian revolutionary milieu, the Satanic Panic pranks played by their associates the Luther Blisset Project in the 90s, their novel Q, and their theory that it inspired QAnon. We’ll also talk about their novel UFO78, and their political analysis of the recent UFO news.

In the full episode available to patrons at Patreon.com/theantifada, you'll hear MY analysis of the recent UFO news, which, until we actually make contact with the space comrades, will be the LAST UFO news we should ever care about again.

Check out Wu Ming's new essay UFOs and the Longing for the Unidentified at Ill Will Editions

Songs:Giorgio Moroder - Racer

Blink 182 - Aliens Exist

Lana Del Rey - When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing

Sean and Varn return to their miniseries on the global debt crisis with a very topical bank failure episode.Since Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and Credit Suisse went belly up the last couple of week capital and the state have scrambled to contain the damage to the financial system and the 'real' economy. Why is an adequate explanation for inflation important? Does the Federal Reserve Bank itself even have one? If Fed policy is blowing up banks and barely even working is there some other reason (class based, perhaps?) to induce an economic slowdown?For patrons: what 'Marxism-Leninism in the Age of Multipolarity' gets very wrong; how the shadow banking sector might be the next shoe to drop; notes on the Brenner-Riley NLR article; on blue-collar toxicity and middle class racism; doomerism, socialism and hope.Sign up at www.patreon.com/theantifada for the full episode (over two hours long!) and a ton more content from our bonus archive.

Our guests today are Intercept writer and author Natasha Lennard, and Libby and Sam from the Richard Hunsinger Defense Committee provide an update on the arrestees in Atlanta around the Stop Cop City Movement, the history of terrorism charges mobilized against the left since the Green Scare, how Dick beat the terror charges, and security culture in general.

https://freerichardhunsinger.com/

SUPPORT JESSICA REZNICEK http://supportjessicareznicek.com/

Crimethinc: What Is Security Culture? https://crimethinc.com/2004/11/01/what-is-security-culture

Donate to Atlanta Solidarity Fund: https://atlsolidarity.org

Natasha on Cop City arrests: https://theintercept.com/2023/03/08/atlanta-cop-city-protesters/

Natasha on Jessica Reznicek: https://theintercept.com/2022/06/08/dakota-pipeline-protester-jessica-reznicek-terrorism/

Richard Hunsinger Defense Committee's reflections and lessons: https://atlpresscollective.com/2023/03/06/we-got-us-a-case-study-and-reflections-on-supporting-an-arrestee-from-the-2020-uprisings/

Titled scales collective guide on being a defendant: https://tiltedscalescollective.org/wp-content/uploads/atiltedguide-web-1.pdf

Support the Antifada at Patreon.com/TheAntifada

Song: Pop Smoke ft. Young Thug & Gunna - Paranoia

Race Traitor, Hard Crackers, and Insurgent Notes editor John Garvey stops by Antifada HQ to chat about the SVB collapse, the war in Ukraine and revolutionary defeatism,

In the bonus we get the Race Traitor line on the hatred of Mr. Beast, Hasan Piker's John Brown-inspired streetwear, who really killed Rosa Luxemburg, and being a militant taxi driver in the '70s.

For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada!

Read Hard Crackers Read Race Traitor Read Insurgent Notes

John's essay on revolutionary defeatism and the war in Ukraine: http://insurgentnotes.com/2022/12/against-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-for-the-successful-resistance-of-the-ukrainian-people/

Song: Marvin Gaye - What's Happening Brother (we had to remove this due to a copywrite strike :( )

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Topics we cover: Lab Leaks and Bioweapons, mall punk, Antifada company mask policy, why being an NPC is actually based, support SB1312, Trump’s Quantam Leap Fully Automated Luxury MAGA Communism cities, Sean's thoughts on American NEOMism, reportbacks from Mexico City and the Villages, and what credit cards YOU need in 2023 to join the revolutionary laptop class.

Song: Drug Church - Million Miles of Fun

Show notes:

https://theracket.news/p/there-is-no-lab-leak-theory https://floridapolitics.com/archives/591585-blaise-ingoglia-bill-would-cancel-democratic-party/

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/03/trump-policy-futuristic-cities-00085383 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109960680734613154

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Aaron J. Leonard, author of Whole World In An Uproar joins us to talk about the relationship between the revolutionary culture of the 60s as seen through the repressive apparatus of the FBI.

Read more from Aaron on Truthout: https://truthout.org/authors/aaron-leonard/

Including this great article about the FBI's tracking of Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo: https://truthout.org/articles/fbi-tracking-of-bob-dylan-and-suze-rotolo-foreshadowed-future-abuses/

Also check out his book about the history of American Maoism Heavy Radicals

And his Spotify playlist for the book: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Eo6dUNjUiDUXlMdvEDjUX

Songs: Black Flag - Louie Louie Lou Reed - Busload of Faith Country Joe and the Fish - Free Someday

Sean welcomes Dylan Riley, Marxian sociologist and scholar of interwar fascism, to discuss his book Microverses about life and society in the pandemic and his recent article in New Left Review about American class structure, why US party politics has a materialist core with no class struggle, and what the pandemic revealed about the fractures in society.

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Song: Cabaret - Tomorrow Belongs to Me

Sean and Varn return with part two of their series on basic principles and methods of communist analysis and organizing. This episode deals with the importance of periodization of capitalist development in formulating praxis, the problem of complexity in global accumulation, and barriers to class knowledge within the social division of labor and more. The conclusion gets us closer to the goal of the series which is to sketch an outline of what a communist organization adequate to the moment would like and how we can all build it together.

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Public link to the document we're working with: https://tinyurl.com/muwn3xmy

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The Antifada sideproject about the paranormal, the parapolitical, science fiction, and science futurism returns to check in on the New Space Age! While the left typically perceives Elon Musk as an all-talk grifter, our guest Beka Valentine argues his Starship program will make many off-earth industries, like drug manufacturing and solar harvesting, inevitable through dramatically lowering the cost of launching to low-Earth orbit. Could his and Bezos's fantasies of colonies on the moon, Mars, or in asteroid belts be far behind?

If so, what happened to the late-2010s enthusiasm for "Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism"? Is the left now anti-space, and is that position leaving the future entirely in the hands of capitalists and imperialist states? In her new essay for Strange Matters, Valentine argues we should begin strategizing for this new era so we don't get stranded from Elysium.

Guest co-host Nick Chavez gives the engineer's perspective, and describes his critique of ME Obrien and Eman Abdelhadi's vision of expropriating a SpaceX-like factory in their speculative novel Everything for Everyone.

Beka Valentine's essay in Strange Matters: https://strangematters.coop/political-economy-of-near-future-space-industries/

Inside Musk's Starfactory: https://wccftech.com/spacex-is-using-robots-to-make-starship-rockets-in-texas-shows-footage/

Nick Chavez's review of Everything for Everyone: https://designformanufracture.com/2023/01/25/review-everything-for-everyone-an-oral-history-of-the-new-york-commune-2052-2072-by-m-e-obrien-and-eman-abdelhadi/

Don't Let Them Leave! zine: https://ia903003.us.archive.org/20/items/dontletthemleave/Dont-Let-Them-Leave-zine-unimposed%20.pdf

Past episodes of Proletkult: https://www.patreon.com/collection/87627 Song - Giorgio Moroder - Racer

To celebrate JD Vance's ascension to the Cathedral power, we present you a discussion between Sean and Tarence from May of 2021! They talk some smack about the National Conservative slash Post-Left crowd. Are they worth worrying about? What does their whole stupid movement mean? How do we all get some of that sweet Theil cash?

Part 1 of the episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65977397

Beck - Sleeping Bag

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Sean and Andy talk about their "jobs", an architectural controversy at Cooper Union, the war in Ukraine, the apparent resurgence of Stalinism, and Defend the Forest/Stop Cop City in Atlanta.

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Good articles about Tortugita the struggle in ATL: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/stop-cop-city-tortugita-oped https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/defend-atlanta-forest-copy-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-why

Song: Raury - Channel Zero

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In light of the depressing denouement of last year's railroad conflict, Sean and Matt sit down, in person at last, to discuss the deep history behind how American organized labor got so disorganized and why the labor movement hasn't moved in decades.

Why was it that, in the United States, workers institutions had trouble evolving past the infancy of narrow, sectoral, decentralized craft unionism towards broad-based, nationally-coordinated industrial unionism? How did capital, in the face of militant organizing, help choose the weaker of the two as their partner to bargain with? In what ways is worker self-organization in this country truly, as our enemies always say, anti-American? And importantly what is to be done now that private sector union density is so low, workers institutions so captured and the national labor relations regime has fallen apart?

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