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Roger and Erica join Jay to dig into Digger, the latest film from Mexican director Alejandro Iñárritu. Panned by critics and audiences alike and projected to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, we think that the film’s central premises were almost universally misunderstood by people who expected a satire about politics and climate change — and instead got a satire about themselves. Warning: spoi...

When a corporate landlord’s open contempt for its working-class tenants at a huge apartment complex in Montreal reached a breaking point, tenants decided to fight back with the help of a neighbourhood class struggle organization called Offensive Populaire (OP). The landlord, Norgate Quebec Inc., responded by suing tenants, OP, and individual members of OP like our guest Nick Harvest, enlisting the...

Jay is joined by the recently elected president of Canada’s New Democratic Party, Niall Ricardo. We talk about the socialist future of the party, winning back blue-collar voting blocs from the Liberals and Conservatives, the relationship of the NDP with the mainstream union movement, and liberal identity politics versus solidarity-based mass politics. Show Notes Independent Jewish Voices Globe and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com The Last Ditch Bar Thing, the Philly racefaker girl, and the bizarre clips from the Socialism 2026 conference: what do these three miserable lefty news items of the past month have in common? Jay breaks a longstanding policy of the pod (not to get into insane internet drama) in order to try to offer some analysi...

Jay is joined by Judith Lefebvre and Louise Nachet from Comité Panaris. We talk about the dismal charade of Québec politics, the hollowing out of the Left by liberal identitarians, Gramsci’s ideas about the ‘organic intellectual’, and where to go from here. Also: fuck/marry/kill, Queb edition. Show Notes Comité Panaris on Twitch / IG / YouTube The 2026 Québec general election Éric Duhaime , Conser...

Dedeker Winston, co-host of the Multiamory podcast, professional polyamorist, and author of the Smart Girl’s Guide to Polyamory, joins Jay for some hot takes about cancel culture and The Lifestyle, a deep dive into the legal situation for the differently-partnered, and a materialist defense of the poly acceptance movement. Show Notes Dedeker’s website Dedeker’s book The Smart Girl’s Guide to Polya...

Jay is joined by Emmaia Gelman, author of The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State . We discuss the pivotal role of the ADL not only in running cover for Israeli war crimes and aligning mainstream American Zionism with outright fascism, but also — and maybe more importantly — in the weaving of complex, changing narratives around race, rights, and Jewishness in America and beyond. Show Notes...

Jay is joined by Cory Doctorow, a veteran activist for internet freedom and the best-selling author of Enshittification and The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI (among many other titles) . We discuss the inexorable decline in the quality of tech platforms, the total capture of regulatory bodies by predatory corporations, the rise of monopoly capitalism, and what can be done about any of th...

Jay is joined by senior wildfire correspondents Roger and Erica to discuss the forest fires raging across North America. We talk about out of control fires on the edge of the Arctic Circle, the use of prison labour in fighting wildfires, and what kind of mitigation, if any, is possible. We also talk about the psychotic responses of American politicians to the crisis and capitalism’s One Weird Tric...

A deep, deep dive into the Lore for our 100 episode anniversary. Also, a sneak peak at the new intro music. Show Notes The Revolution Will Not be Sober by Zoë Dodd and Alexander McClelland The Wonder Years - When the Blue Finally Came Clementine on Blocked and Reported Links Instagram Merch fuckingcancelled.com clementinemorrigan.com jaylesoleil.com Fucking Cancelled has no ads and is a supported...

Numbness now seems to be the emotional default for so many of us — the result of living in a deranged reverse panopticon, where everything bad happening everywhere in the world (plus the fever dreams of robots) is beamed directly into your eyeballs all day long by our pitiless overlords. Jay joins poet, journalist and author Mark Abley to talk about confronting and escaping the brain-mushing machi...

The boom in AI datacentres is part of an anti-everything endgame strategy for capitalists who want to permanently win capital’s war against labour and complete, once and for all, the enclosure of the commons and the privatization of all stores of value, down to the last bytes of information. Roger and Erica join Jay to discuss the widespread, grassroots, and bipartisan surge in opposition to these...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com In Episode 97 Clementine and Jay kick it with Bebe Montoya, Portland’s best and most cancelled socialist zinester. We talk about Bebe’s new zines, gender politics with normal characteristics, and the final (girl)boss of neoliberal identitarianism. This is a paywalled episode; to listen to the whole thing, become...

Joey Santore from Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t joins Jay to rant at length about the spiritual depravity of the wilting non-native hedges lining the empty parking lots copy-pasted across North America. Show Notes Spiritually Depraved and Misery-Inducing Landscapes of North America Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t - Main Website Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t - the podcast Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’...

A few weeks ago the NDP held their party convention in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where they elected a new party leader and a new executive slate. Intrepid reporter Jay went to Winnipeg to check things out so you didn’t have to. Everything you never wanted to know about party politics, and more! Show Notes The NDP The CLC The CCF Avi Lewis’s platform Morris Lewis By the way: friend of the pod Molly' Crab...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com Roger and Erica join Jay to commiserate about the excruciating experience of watching Louis Theroux’s new documentary ‘Inside the Manosphere’. Is the Red Pill more of a reactionary social movement or a Patreon-based pyramid scheme? Is the Manosphere the new face of neo-Nazi propaganda or The Secret for Zoomer me...

In the midst of historic cuts to public services in Quebec, workers are fighting back. Jay sits down with Kiersten and Adam from Alliance Ouvrière (Workers Alliance; the organization that successfully unionized the Amazon warehouse outside Montreal) to talk about their Nos jobs, nos services campaign, which seeks to react to austerity by radicalizing workers, mobilizing fighting unions, and revita...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com A classic cancel culture episode. Clementine and Jay are joined by conflict mediator and zinester Juno Aventurine to talk about the relationship between trauma and cancel culture, the shadowiest of shadow parts, and the moral ambiguity of the human animal. We also talk about the stubborn spectre of identitariani...

The governing party in Quebec, the CAQ, continues its death spasms with yet another project no one asked for and everybody hates: a new constitution for Quebec, decided on with no mandate and written without any popular consultation. In Episode 91 Jay sits down with Christopher Curtis, founder of independent journalism outlet The Rover, to unravel the insane tangle of arrogance, corruption and stu...

In the dying days of the Russian Empire, tens of thousands of working-class Yiddish-speaking Jews, radicalized by the triple oppression of capitalism, Tsarism and antisemitism, formed an anti-Zionist socialist party called the Jewish Labour Bund. Hugely influential on the worldwide socialist movement and at its height the largest socialist organization in Russia, the Bund remains for many anti-Zio...

In Episode 89, Erica, Roger and Jay get together to talk about ICE as the MAGA paramilitary, the ‘don’t tread on me’ to ‘please tread on me’ pipeline, the ideological emptiness and racially diverse character of contemporary American fascism, liberal myths about reality, and what is — and is not — a general strike. Erica Thomas is a labour organizer, professor and artist. Roger Peet is an artist, w...

In Episode 88 we’re joined by Eric Blanc, author of We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. We talk about the importance of unions in confronting the many problems of this dystopian timeline and how the model of worker-to-worker unionism is necessary to scale up unionization and create an effective labour movement. We also discuss the recent uptick...

On November 2, 2025, Montreal heads to the polls. We talk to Craig Sauvé, leader of the new left-wing party Transition Montreal, and punk rock candidate for city councillor, Sergio Da Silva. We discuss left-wing proposals for public safety, public workers for public works, what to do about housing and homelessness, and how to save nightlife in Canada’s cultural capital. Show Notes Transition Montr...

In Episode 86 we’re joined again by journalist Isaac Peltz to catch up on some Canadian politics. The new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, wants to read your mail and access your internet data without a warrant, while Quebec wants to abolish your right to strike and Ontario wants to turn the habitats of endangered species into Special Economic Zones where corporations don’t have to follow laws. Show N...

The first real, proletarian resistance to the second Trump administration kicked off last week in LA as thousands of working people flooded the streets, responding to the increasingly brutal terrorism they are being subjected to by US security forces. Returning guest Cecilia Guerrero joins us to discuss the LA rebellion, the state of organized resistance to Trump in the US, the socialist position...