This Wreckage

This week we bring you a two part series on the American black radical tradition. Joined by educator and activist Kazembe Balagun we discuss some of the fundamental questions of black marxism and revolution leading to the current day. In this episode we talk about the Haitian revolution, Harriet Tubman, WEB Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Harry Haywood, CLR James and the Johnson Forest Tendency, Ja...

OG Antifadas Jamie and Sean plunk down on the podcasting couch for a light chat about two topical topics: the USPS and fascism. How worker struggle created the modern USPS and how the Democrats shot themselves in the ass with decades of bipartisan attacks on it. Oh no, ICE Bae has an Onlyfans. Fascism: how does it work? Fascism and neoliberalism. Is Trump a fascist? Is Amerikkka? Various thinkers'...

More discussion of these strange times: partying in the age of Corona, the government's handling of the crisis vis a vis the working class', the international bourgeoisie's quest for stability, and Virgil's plan for abolishing the police and prisons. For the full episode along with all other bonus material, support the show at Patreon.com/theantifada Closing song: Tim Heidecker - Cain is Able

The Beltway Garage 's chief mechanic Virgil Texas takes us for a wonk on the wild side! We focus on the Democrats' electoral strategy of writing open letters demanding socialists vote for Biden, carefully weigh their arguments, and come up with our own endorsement by the end of the episode. The letters: Former leaders of SDS: https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/letter-new-left-biden/ DSA No...

We continue to check the decomposition of the spines of our favorite texts of Marx and Marxism with this short and practical discussion on value criticism and Moishe Postone's Time Labor and Social Domination For the full episode, and all other bonus material, access to our discord community, and a signed, union-made letterpress postcard, become a patron today at Patreon.com/theantifada Previous e...

Jake "Silly Socrates" Flores is back on the show to talk about his new podcast Why You Mad? and theories of comedy and class war. But before that, we talk about something that's no laughing matter: the NYPD's permissive culture towards rapists and other abusers on the force, unfortunately celebrated by humorous challenge coins and nicknames like the "assman". Writer for the App...

Politigram ethnographer Joshua Citarella shares his observations about the online post-left, particularly its zoomer base radicalized in 2016 meme wars. We discuss how important were memes to Trumps' victory, their political journey since then, and how the left can de/re-radicalize those committed to the violent right. Finally, we discuss the phenomenon of memes becoming reality, especially in the...

Nate Postcyborg ( @postcyborg ), of #linegoesdown and TANC (Tenant and Neighborhood Councils), stops by to talk about the ongoing housing crisis and how it's being accelerated by Covid, and what tenants can do to fight back. Then the crew discuss the shadowy feds invading Portland, dropping fertility rates, the Mary Trump interview, and that fucking letter. Rest in power, Michael Brooks (1983-2020...

Part 2/2 of the latest History is a Weapon concluding the discussion of parapolitics, paranoia and what lessons we should take from it (NOT EVERYTHING/EVERYONE IS AN OP.) For the full episode, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

On this new installment of HIAW, Matt and Sean are joined by para-political expert Andy to talk about the political economy of intelligence and counterintelligence: How is this formation unique to capitalism and the bourgeois state? What is the connection between the deep state and anti-communism? What roles do the mafia and drug-running play? How powerful and pervasive is this apparatus? And what...

Brandon Sutton ( @prettybadlefty ), host of The Discourse podcast ( @Th3Discourse ), returns to discuss the important matters of the day, like Yeezy 2020 and Cats vs Hamilton. We also discuss the rebellion for black lives, radicalizing the libs, and why the DSA should have more game nights. Outro music: Kanye West - Black Skinhead

Our guest this week is Nick Estes , citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Assistant Professor of American Studies at University of New Mexico, host of the Red Nation Podcast , and author of Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance . We discuss the link between indigenous and black struggles in the context of the n...

In this edition of Vampire Castle, Jamie and Leslie discuss two coming-of-ageless films: Tomas Alfredson's Let The Right One In (2008) and Neil Jordan's Byzantium (2012) aka Ladybird II . If you are turned as a teen, do you stay an asshole forever or do you eventually grow up? How is Sweden so lovely yet so terrifying? And why do vamps always say they can't be friends with you right before they fa...

While the most riotous moments of the George Floyd Uprising have past, in parts of the country renewed attention to police tyranny continues to lead to clashes. LA Podcast co-host Scott Frazier joins us to talk about the struggle in Los Angeles, specifically against its massive Sheriff's Dept (LASD) now in the spotlight for horrific acts of violence following the discovery of Robert Fuller, a blac...

Andy speaks with Alex Edward ( @flieldy ), co-host of the Minion Death Cult podcast and Seattle resident, about life in the CHAZ/CHOP/Antifastan/Soyviet Union, providing fodder for the cursed boomer media of which Alex is normally but a passive connoisseur. Jamie speaks with Matt Marciniec ( @Mattceinicram ) about Justice Frontline Aid ( @aid_justice ), a mutual aid project in Minneapolis that's h...

In this very special edition of the Antifada, Jamie, Sean and Andy take questions from listeners. How do we envision a world without police? What will our lives be like after the rev? And what exactly went on at the parties Jamie used to throw? Thanks x1000 to everyone for helping us keep this circus running. Sorry if we didn't get to your question, we will hop on Twitch and answer more questions...

Recorded before things really popped off last week, Sean was joined by returning champion Andy Battle and co-host of Ironweeds podcast, David A Banks. We hope this wide ranging discussion of capitalist space, de/unionization, de/industrialization, supply chains, gentrification, uneven development and class struggle will be an oasis of calm as you righteously take the streets where you are and then...

Winnie Wong ( @WaywardWinifred ), former Senior Advisor to the Bernie Sanders campaign, stops by to talk anarchism, electoralism, & why Bernie didn't win. :( The gang also reminisces about New York nightlife (s/o Andrew WK) and Winnie tries to talk Jamie into running for office. Outro music: Gang Gang Dance - MindKilla

(Crosspost from an episode Sean and Tarence did for those who missed it.) Introducing Year Zero, a new miniseries on political economy hosted by Tarence. In this first episode we speak with Sean KB (@as_a_worker on twitter)from the Antifada podcast (@the_antifada) about what he terms The Thousand Year Stare: the specific feeling one unlocks by reading Giovanni Arrighi's "The Long Twentieth Ce...

For the full episode and all our bonuse content: History is a Weapon, Vampire Castle, and access to our Discord Community, become a Patron today at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada This edition of the Antifada sideproject on the paranormal, parapolitical, sci-fi conspiracy theories and space tackles the newest autonomous branch of the US Military: SPACE FORCE. Is it some Trumpian flight-of-fanc...

Returning guest Hether Fortune ( @hetherrfortune ) joins Jamie for a super chill music and culture episode to get your mind off the ongoing apocalypse. After the prerequisite quar talk, the gals discuss kittens, Gary Busey, Lena Dunham, and the odious offspring of everyone's favorite thin-skinned billionaire and his biomechanical child bride. Last but certainly not least, the gals discuss Fiona Ap...

Time for Ultra-Left-Post-Posadist-Nihilist-Anarcho-Communist-comedy and politics. Hosts Jamie Peck and AP Andy look at the future of work at a rare moment when almost nobody is working. Magally Miranda surveys domestic work in the gig economy. Annie McClanahan reflects on how the Covid-19 pandemic has made us all more aware of supply-chains and provision networks, not of their largeness but rather...

Sean and Matt take a look around the American landscape - from the pandemic, to the economic collapse, to the failing political system - and discuss how the hell we got here and what the hell we might expect going forward. Whether it's the coming climate disaster or the incipient crack-up of US power, one thing is for sure: there's no way out now but through it! To listen to the remainder of this...

Jamie and Sean speak with Asad Haider ( @generalityiii ), editor at Viewpoint Magazine and author of "Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump" about depoliticization, the left post-Bernie, and that eternal question, "what is to be done?" Contains spicy (read: nuanced and informed) takes on "mass politics" vs "subcultural politics," the necessit...

In this edition of Vampire Castle, Jamie and Leslie discuss the 1997-2003 TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Become a patron at patreon.com/theantifada to unlock this and all other premium content!