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I'm happy to share this interview with anarchist author and historian, Robert Graham about the split in the historic left that led to the birth of the anarchist movement. Robert published the book We Do Not Fear Anarchy, We Invoke It!: The First International and the Origins of the Anarchist Movement with AK Press in 2015 and, as I say in the interview, I was excited to have this conversation with...

This week, we're airing a conversation with Too Black, communications representative for the defense committee to Free the Pendleton 2. Too Black also hosts the Black Myths podcast . For the hour, Too Black talks about the case of the Pendleton 2, two Black men incarcerated in Indiana who had decades added to their sentences, including decades in solitary confinement, for defending another prisone...

This week on The Final Straw, we feature two portions. First up, you'll hear from Modibo Kadalie and Andrew Zonneveld of On Our Own Authority! Publishing about the upcoming Atlanta Radical Bookfair happening on October 15 th at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History. Then, you'll hear a recent interview with Aryanam, a member of the Federation of Anarchism Era ,...

Islam and Anarchism with Mohamed Abdou This week, Scott spoke with Mohamed Abdou , a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist activist-scholar who is currently a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University of Cairo. Mohamed is the author of the recent book, Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances published by Pluto Press in 202...

Anti-Coal Struggles in Lutzerath, Germany First up, we share an interview with Fauv, a radical who recently participated in the anti-coal occupation in the village of Lützerath / Lutzerath (aka the ZAD of Rhineland) in western Germany against the company RWE. We talk about RWE's push to break resistance at Luzerath and the currently-calm Hambach Forest, which activists fear will be attacked by RWE...

This week we're re-airing our 2020 conversation with Wayne Price, longtime anarchist, author and then-member of Bronx Climate Justice North and the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council, or MACC , in New York City. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) - pending Zine (Imposed PDF) - pending From the original post: After reading his book, The Value Of Radical Theory : An Anarchist Introduction to Marx's...

This week on the show, we re-air Amar's 2015 interview with Hilary Klein, author/editor of the book Compañeras: Zapatista Women's Stories , out from Seven Stories Press. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) Over the hour, Hilary talks about her 7 years of living in Chiapas and recording the stories and experiences of women there, collecting stories on their behalf. The book covers the Zap...

This week on the show, we feature a chat with Aaron Parker of Edgewood Nursery & Tim Holland (aka MC Sole ), who together form the Propaganda By The Seed podcast. You can find the podcast on the channel zero network , Libsyn , and a bunch of streaming services. We hope you enjoy this chat as much as Bursts did. We talk about their project of sharing conversations with various farmers, herbalists,...

This week on TFSR, you'll hear Watani Tyehimba of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and a supporter and comrade of New Afrikan political prisoner Dr Mutulu Shakur speaking about Dr. Shakur's life, activism and the struggle for his release since he's been diagnosed with serious bone cancer. Transcripts Watani Tyehimba on Dr. Mutulu Shakur St-Imier Weekend Libertaire PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PD...

This week, our guests are Sam and Alex (not their real names). Sam was until recently the co-host of the 12 Rules for What podcast and is the co-author with Alex of their two books, The Post Internet Far Right and The Rise of Ecofascism . Sam is now focusing on writing at Collapsology Sub-Stack and the Collapse Podcast , and you can support Alex's ongoing work with 12 Rules for WHAT podcast via th...

This week on TFSR, Professor Raymond Craib talks about his book, " Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age " out recently from PM Press. We talk about capitalist fundamentalists attempting to create free market utopias, right wing so-called Libertarians, Ayn Rand, neoliberalism and the oxymoronic tendency known as "anarcho-capitalism"...

This week, we spoke with Alex, an anarchist squatter in the Athenian neighborhood of Exarchia. They talk about repression by the New Democracy party, struggles against green washing wind turbines around rural Greece, the fires raging through the country, resistance to rape culture, fighting against the building of a metro station in Exarchia and the privatization of public spaces like Strefi Hill,...

This week we are presenting Scott's interview with Hil Malatino, who is a current professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy at Penn State University. They are also the author of three books, Trans Care, Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience, and Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad. Scott and Hil speak on many themes which are fou...

[00:09:34 - 01:43:24] This week we're sharing an interview that we conducted with anarchists and abolitionists mostly in and around Manila, the capital of the Philippines. You'll hear from K, Honey, Adrienne, Castle, Magsalin and R. During the chat they share about their projects, discussions of abolitionism in the Philippines, decolonization discourse, informal organizing, accountability and chal...

This week, we're airing 2 interviews to do with the Russian war in Ukraine. Plus, Kevin Rashid Johnson talks about being denied medical care for his prostate cancer in the Virginia prison system. Transcript Assembly. Org. UA (English) Español: ALasBarricadas. Org Deutsche: EnoughIsEnough. Org BOAK (English) Deutsche: EnoughIsEnough. Org Russian Czech: afed.cz PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed) Assembl...

This week, Scott and William talk to Sophie Lewis , author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family and the soon-to-be-released Abolish The Family A Manifest for Care and Liberation (out in October, 2022) about the current political moment that is characterized by attacks on trans people and peoples reproductive abilities. They also talk through what creates this moment, where trans people c...

Stop Cop City +David Campbell on Antifascist Prisoners This week's episode features two interviews. Stop Cop City Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) David Campbell on Antifascist Prisoners Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) Stop Cop City / Defend the Atlanta Forest First up, the struggle to Defend the Atlanta Forest and Stop Cop City has been gaining momentum over the last ye...

This week, we're re-airing a 2019 conversation with Nora Samaran , author of the essay "The Opposite Of Rape Culture Is Nurturance Culture" , which became the seed of her book " Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture. " Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) We talk about harm, entitlement as relates to positions of power like masculinity or whiteness in our culture...

Rojava Again Under Threat of Turkish Invasion [00:10:35 - 01:45:30] Emre, Rimac, Xero and Anya, members of the Emergency Committee for Rojava join us on the show this week to talk about the escalation of violence and threats of invasion by Turkey into northeast Syria, updates from the region and their thoughts on how people in the West can help folks living under the Autonomous Administration of N...

This week on the show, we're airing two portions. Transcript Jessica Reznicek Conflict In Movement PDF (Unimposed) – pending ZIne (Imposed PDF) – pending Support Jessica Reznicek [00:02:06 - 00:36:33] First up, Charlotte speaks about their friend, political prisoner and water defender Jessica Reznicek who just had an appeal denied of an 8 year sentence and terrorism enhancement for sabotaging the...

This week on the show, we're featuring a few segments. First up, Chazz speaks about the website UprisingSupport.org which shares the names and cases of people criminalized in relation to the George Floyd Uprising of 2020 across the so-called USA, as well as the importance of growing a culture of anti-repression and resistance. Then, for this year's June 11 th Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason an...

First up, we're sharing a blast from the past blast from the past, an interview that we conducted in 2013 via our comrades from A-Radio Berlin with a participant in the autonomous anti-capitalist street movement in Germany in the latter half of the 20 th century known as Autonomen. Specifically, the guest speaks about the context of anonymous street actions during May Day of 1987 in the district o...

Dunstan Bruce is perhaps most famous for his lead vocals and listing of libations in the Chumbawamba pop hit, Tubthumping. But there is so much more to him and that band than that one song. For the hour we touch on some of the band's 30 year history, their relation as a collective, anarchist band to social justice movements around the world and how they used their fame and money to give back, Duns...

For this special mid week podcast release, we are presenting a conversation with three defendants who are in an ongoing legal battle with the city of Asheville. This group of 15 people, three of whom are speaking today, are facing felony littering charges in connection with a demonstration in December of 2021 against a targeted camp sweep in a local park adjacent to the downtown district. For this...

This week, we spoke with Liaizon Wakest. Liaizon grew up in an anarchist commune in rural America. They can be found climbing into dumpsters from Mexico to Kazakhstan looking for trash to make art with. In recent years they have been focused on research into ethical technology and infrastructural anarchism. For the hour we speak about the interoperable, open source ensemble of federated online pub...