This Wreckage

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Our French correspondent, Henry JK Wallis calls in to talk about the student riots throughout France. For the full episdoe, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage

The "RED ENGINEER" Nick Chavez returns to the Wreckage to discuss his Heatwave Magazine contribution, The Black Box of Production . The essay explains how technical expertise is divided within the capitalist production process, and how it must be redistributed and transformed during revolution for the construction of communism. Support our show at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Read the essay a...

Sean and Varn discuss the ongoing crisis in the Persian Gulf, bond market chaos and much more. This is an extended preview of a much longer episode. To access the full episode and tons of other bonus content become a patron at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage

for full episode SUPPORT THE SHOW AT HTTP://PATREON.COM/THISWRECKAGE An epic and impressively realistic depiction of the 1381 British Peasant's Revolt, or an anachronistic origin story of Robin as anti-Trump cautionary tale? British history enthusiasts Ross and Susannah watch THE UPRISING with us to help us decide! for full episode SUPPORT THE SHOW AT HTTP://PATREON.COM/THISWRECKAGE Rodney Hilton...

NEWS EP! AI apocalypse and regulation scenarios. Global shipping disrupted big time. Xi winning. Flights are grounded; nature is healing. AFD surge in Germany. All hail the Great and Powerful Theil! SUPPORT THE SHOW AT HTTP://PATREON.COM/THISWRECKAGE Show notes: Riley on AI vs market capitalism: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/blind-guesses China's AI Great leap forward: https://www.nytime...

In this bonus episode Andy and Sean are joined by roving media correspondent, Rax King , to get into some of the 80s/90s urtexts that created 21st century American culture: spoken word and standup comedy by Generation X luminaries Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins and Denis Leary. What do these cultural artifacts from a bygone era tell us about how all the highlights of organized American political life...

Sean and Andy are joined by historian Daniel Wortel-London to discuss his recent book The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development 1865-1981 out now from University of Chicago Press. Without the taxes and jobs generated by wealthy firms and households, we are told, our communities cannot survive. But what if the costs of elite-driven growth outweighed its benef...

&y, &ers Lee & a special SECRET guest (Jake Flores) compare some Zoomer 9/11 takes (via the Daily Wire) and the post-9/11 hot takes that got Susan Sontag, Amiri Baraka in some trouble. For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage

Brooklyn vs. Dallas. Brownstones vs McMansions. Jelly Roll Morton vs. Jelly Roll. The Braves vs. The Savannah Bananas. The authors of "Alphabet America" ( Liam and Jackson ) claim that their theory of a cosmopolitan America A and a psuedo-rural America B is "the most explanatory method of understanding the cultural divide," and that " the vast majority of people, whether they can name it or not, e...

Audio from our LIVE SHOW in Chicago at the first national ILC Convention! For the full episode, including our panel with Jamie Merchant and 3 delegates from ILC locals, support us on patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Song: Chicago - Saturday in the Park

&ers makes some recommendations for Mamdani's approach to the NYPD, &y recaps is Irish dérive, & we read together some excerpts from the recently departed Raoul Vaneigem &ers essay on police reform: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/zohran-mamdani-needs-to-fire-jessica-tisch-but-who-will-he-replace-her-with & reply from Ant L.: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/letter-the-nypd-...

FOR THE FULL EPISODE, support the show at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage NEWS EP! We preview our coming events in Chicago and New York, and read about the United States' comic inability to make artillery shells. UPCOMING EVENTS: FRI 8/21 This Wreckage live event: https://luma.com/tc972eyv SAT 8/22 UFOlogy to the People event at the Beach: https://www.instagram.com/thebeachchicago/ SUN 8/23...

The boys are back, Sean interviews Varn on his recent tour with Daniel Tutt, What did they learn and what did they see? Next is a segment about the DSA, its strategy and factions, present and future. What might we imagine coming of winning on the Democrat ballot line? In the bonus room we get real doomer talking about the climate crisis, Complexity theory, public/private debt, the inability of US...

Sean (car painter) sits down with Billy OC (rod buster) and Gregory A. Butler (UBC retiree, IUOE member) to discuss the latter's new book The Workerist Manifesto . This is part 1 of a miniseries devoted to Greg's books, his news service Gangbox News and his many years of experience working in the trades and thinking about working class emancipation. Chicago: get tickets for the This Wreckage Live...

Audio from our live panel on Saturday, July 25 at Woodbine where we go deeper on Varn & Tutt's new book The People Are Not One , starting with some normie vs. Marxist LARPing and ending with a spirited Q&A featuring Ross Wolfe, Greg Butler, Platypus, Donald Parkinson, and more! For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage The event was sponsored by ILC of NYC...

For the full episode, support the show at patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Our consortium of classicists and Western Marxists review Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, with the help of Adorno & Horkheimer's Dialectic of the Enlightenment Song: Cream - Tale of Brave Odysseus

Andy reads the 99 page State Department report: "Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism.” For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Episode with Blowback: https://www.patreon.com/thiswreckage/posts/e324-blockade-w-149781067 2021 Cuban uprising episode: https://www.patreon.com/thiswreckage/posts/talkin-tina-of-76203208 Song: Suicide - Dream Baby Dream

An interview with Matthew Wolfe about his new book Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage Support DFW defendants: https://prairielanddefendants.com/ Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers: https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund Chopped Uncle Ted doc The Net: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn9BvNAUvcU Song: I...

The authors of The People Are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism join us to discuss their intervention against the electoral-populist trajectory of the US left, their debate with Geese, and their solutions for reviving a Marxist left. SEE Derick Varn and Tutt on their For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Book Tour! Philadelphia — July 20 6:00 PM...

Audio from June 27, 2026 ILC of NYC panel and town hall event for pride month on LGBTQ workers self-organizing, past and present. Watch and subscribe on ILC's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVfkabZCR04&t=4s With the increase in anti-LGBTQ (and especially anti-trans) sentiment among American legislators, the Independent Labor Club views it as pressing to host a public conversa...

NEWS EP! Andy's reportback from Summer of Ludd! Sean on the 42nd Street building collapse and its YIMBY origins! Finally, the war's back on. But did it ever end? For the full episode, support the show at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Brooklyn Public Library event Monday: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/am-gittlitz-discusses-central-library-dweck-20260713-0600pm Our visit to the Vers...

A chat with Freddy G, @orangefreddyg on IG, a Leftist/Antizionist Jewish comic and Content Creator for @trackaipac Check out Freddy and Anders' DSA-benefit comedy show: @paidprotestcomedy Some of his vids: Birthright https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaVtPlwiuC7/ Watermelon: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYU7Op2hYC1/ Pod Save America: https://www.instagram.com/p/DaNxxXahCbg/ Land Auction: https://www.i...

Devin Thomas O’Shea stops by to chat about his new book The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Peter Thiel's Dialog leak: https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/ Song: Bryan Ferry - In Your Mind

Sean reports back on Labor Note drama! In the fun half, we listen to some of Graham Platner's town hall in an effort to redeem the term ULTRA. Sign up at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage to hear it! For a Fighting Workers Movement, A Militant Critique of Labor Notes panel: https://youtu.be/lt5X16UQ6bA?is=T_W0N0gkrCqkl9Dw NYT piece on how ultra is a slur: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/ma...