This Wreckage

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...

Henry Wallis of the FORMS podcast returns to help us read through Books 10-19 of BOOK OF REVELATION! We meet the whore of Babylon, the Beast, and 666 On the next episode, we’ll finish Revelation and move on to Capital Vol III! For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage song: Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around

Thanks to friends in International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers: Caucus of Rank and File Electrical Workers, Sean was able to attend the 2026 Labor Notes convention in Chicago, Illinois. A bunch of fellow workers from ILC Chicago were also there so Sean sat down with them at a loud bar in the convention center hotel to discuss their experiences at various panels they went to. Whither the Team...

The second episode from the Hyatt Regency in Rosemont, Illinois for Labor Notes 2026 convention. This time Sean sits down with fellow workers JoJo and Gav from ILC Chicago to discuss various panels that they had just seen. In a surprise appearance, friend from New York, Joyce of the dissident Teamsters Mobilize stops by to talk about the trouble their group had at the conference due to TM's advers...

Sean is joined by favorite guest and wife Rax King to discuss her upcoming essay in journalism cooperative Flaming Hydra on why organizing in the food service industry is so difficult but also so vital. What will it take for labor to break through in this industry? What can restaurant work teach us about labor in general? Why are these restaurant owners always clenching their jaws and sweating so...

As Sean and Varn reconvene we are faced with the unenviable task of trying to understand what the hell the Democratic Party is going to run on in 2026 and 2028, How to understand this economic moment? How to understand the various geopolitical crises around the globe? How are counterhegemonic actors like Graham Platner and Alex Jones going to politically confront the brave new world of AI? Stay tu...

NEW EP! Was Trump's China trip a Nothing Burger or a soy slop? Why does the Deep State care so much about Taiwan? And Sean's NY☭ hat came from WHERE? All that plus choo-choo talk (LIRR Strike) in the bonus! For the full episode, sign up at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/nyregion/lirr-strike-long-island-rail-road.html https://nypost.com/2026/05/16/us-news/hochul-...

NEWS EP! Sean reports back from the a Beverly Hills Hedge Fund summit. Europe goes solar punk. US debt passes GDP as Project Freedom fails, and the Mideast bases lie in ruin. Is America through, or just through being cool? Billionaires Unfazed by Iran : https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/19bda51e-fb62-4432-bc37-b9b425f19edd Labor Market Unfazed by Iran https://giftarticle.ft.com...

We're joined by Henry Wallis of the FORMS podcast to guide us through one of the most obscure and challenging, yet arguably most consequential Biblical texts: the Book of Revelations. For the FULL episode, Discord access, and all bonus content support the show at http:///patreon.com/ThisWreckage Written by a Christian exile on an Aegean Island in a time of intense imperial Civil War and internal r...

Interviews from this past weekend's Upstate Anarchist Bookfair with Riot Act Books , Solarpunk writer Phoebe Wagner , Flock Off Ithaca , Bolshevik Tendency , and Warzone Distro For an extended version of this episode, sign up for FREE at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage At the end I include a snippet of our Armed Love interview with Ben Morea, who passed away this weekend. Check out the full interv...

We take another break from WW3 and various attempted assassinations with a sojourn into some economic shit with our guest Nicolas D Villarreal , an independent researcher focusing on the capitalist political economy. For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Full piece: https://cosmonautmag.com/2026/04/the-capitalist-in-the-21st-century/ Response https://cosmonautma...

Sean and Andy are joined by researcher A.J.A. Woods to discuss their new book The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West. How did this basket of conspiracies come together in the post-60s moment? Who was Lyndon Larouche and how did he provide a bridge from quasi-Leninist elitism to the Reaganite New Right? What does culture even mean for...

&y & &ers celebrate weed's birthday with our annual reading of "Wally B" (Walter Benjamin)! This year, we read Leon Wieseltier's weasel-tier preface to Benjamin's Illuminations, then " Unpacking My Library " and a section of Berlin Childhood. For the full episode, subscribe at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage & listen to the end for a story of Anders' Benjamin-inspired direct action...

NEWS EP! Andy is a bestseller. Sean becomes a Luddite Gnome. Orbon is Or-gone. Situation monitoring Hormuz, and looking back at the Suez crisis. In the bonus we discuss AI-generated Iranian propaganda. To hear that, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Metropolitans B&N event with Noah Kulwin: https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062206054-0 ‘Summer of Ludd’ https://www.n...

Catching up with Molly Crabapple about Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund , available TODAY!! See also Molly's "My Great Grandfather was a Bundist" in New York Review of Books Support the show / get bonus content at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Song: New Yiddish Chorale/Workers Circle Chorus feat. Adrienne Cooper - Barikadn (Barricades)

Sean and Varn are joined (eventually) by Henry Wallis, official France correspondent of This Wreckage and Varn Vlog, to talk about upcoming elections on the commune level and France Unbowed's plan to grow from municipal power to a mass political movement. Beforehand we had a brief discussion of the economic fallout from the Iran war which has subsequently went into a tentative two-week ceasefire....

Everybody preorder Metropolitans now!!!! One of the longest and weirdest baseball books ever written, METROPOLITANS is a marxist history of America’s pastime in which the Mets serve a messianic main character. Check out this excerpt , this interview , or this Adam Gopnik New Yorker review . PREORDER from Penguin , Bookshop.org , Amazon and/or find me at one of the following launch events: April 1:...

audio from the Independent Labor Club of New York City's 03/21 panel at the NYU Games Center featuring JD Calvelli, Nathan Greyson, and Goran, Svorcan-Mercola. Moderated by Alexander King. To find more info about the ILC check out ILCLabor.com to sign up. Become a supporter of our podcast at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage Song: LDR - Video Games (Live at Stagecoach)

Sean and Andy are joined by Deep State Kuba Ph. D., international relation expert to the podcasting stars, to discuss current events in an unraveling world. Who is winning the wars in Iran and Ukraine? How has the media coverage of war and peace gotten so bad since the last great period of wars in the early 2000's? What kind of divisions exist within the global ruling class and what aspects of gov...

The full episode is avaiable for FREE members at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Paid subscribers can watch the video version of the pod here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/152718531 We're joined by actor, comedian, activist, & Anders lookalike NATE SMITH ! The two mog each other as we discuss the roots of his two action groups Climate Defiance & Extinction Rebellion , the recent interest...

We go through different theories of WHY the Iran war is happening: ZOG/Epstein, Venezualizing Iran, Destabilizing the Gulf, Neo-Neoconservativism, immamentalizing the evangelical eschaton, or just because they can For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Kharg theory: https://www.eenews.net/articles/the-oil-island-that-could-break-iran/ https://x.com/guy_laron/stat...

To access the entire conversation, all of our bonus content and more become a supporter at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage The boys are back to discuss the latest war in West Asia. How should socialists view this recent outbreak of violence? What role does Zionism have in US foreign policy? Is the tail wagging the dog or has Dr Frankenstein lost control of his creation? In the fun half we discuss Ame...