More of our interview with Natasha Lennard about the antifas, social democracy, smooth bernies, and our political horizons
Check out 'Being Numerous,' available May 1st: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2949-being-numerous...
2019-04-26 13:23:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Good friend and all-around badass Tash rolls through once again to talk about her forthcoming essay collection from Verso Books, 'Being Numerous: Essays On Non-Fascist Life.' We discuss anti-fascism in theory and practice, the promise...
2019-04-24 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This weekend was the biennial blast that is the Historical Materialism (@histmat) Conference NYC. Naturally, we took the opportunity to attend some panels and interview old friends and new. Several we interviewed tipsy in an NYC public school and others we talked to rather drunk at the @commune_mag loft down by the railroad t...
2019-04-17 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Massive spoiler alert on this one, baby! @leslieleeiii of your favorite leftist culture podcast @strugglesesh joins the crew (in studio!) to talk about Jordan Peele's sophomore offering, the blockbuster social-critique/horror film 'Us'.
Sean, Jamie and Andy offer their weird opinions on the deeper meaning of the film......
2019-04-12 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
When @brettpain and @murderbryan from @streetfightwcrs are in town for their epic live show what the hell were we gonna do? Not have them on Antifada to talk workers inquiry, kratom and small business tyrants? Fat chance, bosses... Early access for patrons!
If, for some strange reason, you're not an avid listener to Ame...
2019-04-08 13:56:19 +0000 UTC View Post
@commune_mag editor Shyam @dollarpizza1 joins us for what was meant to be a friendly chat about Issue 2 of Antifada's favorite publication... then things went horribly wrong. Is Shyam cancelled? Tune in to find out.
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After a quick lesson on Fugazinomics, we talk with Parisian Rona Lorimer, author of the Yellow Vest Diaries from the new issue Commune Magazine, about the origins of the Gilet Jaunes movement, its politics and potentials.
[Note: in the intro Sean confuses the Provos (Irish Republicans) with the Ulster Volunteer Fo...
2019-04-03 14:28:46 +0000 UTC View Post
We not only reached our goal of 666 patrons, we smashed the hell out of it ...thanks to all of you! Sorry May 1st, you'll have to be relegated back to International Workers Day, not Antifada Floss-Dancing Day.
We took some calls from some of our great patrons: What's the relevance of Post-Structural theory to the rev? W...
2019-03-29 16:28:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Third-time (!) guest @niralshah jumps in to help us bang through some recent cancellations: Rachel Maddow, Barbara Streisand, the International Socialist Org... and Great Britain as a viable/sane bourgeois democratic state.
Since we couldn't get any limeys to come on and talk UK politics, we had to do our best to Yank-s...
2019-03-27 15:16:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We are joined by cartoonist, writer and all-around provocateur @elivalley to talk about his work, including recent online run-ins with fellow Jewish luminaries Ben Shapiro, Meghan McCain and Chelsea Clinton. Eli discusses the ways in which his art lampoons the fraught and contentious relationship between Israeli/Christian Zio...
2019-03-20 15:01:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Once more into the breach! @cushbomb is here to make history all the more weapony. In this episode, we discuss the 'controversial' French 'novel' that is 'just asking questions' about the Migrant Invasion, the Great Replacement, and Yt Genocide.
How did a 1970s book by some grenouille asshole named Jean Raspail be...
2019-03-15 07:04:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie had a birthday weekend. Andy came back from Mexico. After the gang caught up a little, we listened to some interviews Andy got from migrants and their supporters in Tijuana, MX.
The stories are heartbreaking and the situation is dire, but we give some practical advice on how to show solidarity with working class b...
2019-03-13 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We don't talk about the electoral horse race much, but we made an exception now that Bernie has declared his candidacy. Has HamNo changed his mind from a few months ago?https://splinternews.com/bernie-dont-run-1830983072
All is r...
2019-03-11 23:19:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Folks, it finally happened: we royally fucked up the sound. Which is a shame, because we had a great conversation with Splinter News' Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan) about union organizing in the media and beyond. Is millennial entitlement good for labor? Why do workers need their own institutions? Can we change organized lab...
2019-03-07 06:41:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Are you a nerd like us? Do you read stories about robots and space, while also pondering a socialist future? Well, do we have an interview for you!
Fellow science fiction fanatic Will Menaker joins Sean and Jamie for an extended discussion with one of our favorite utopian futurists, Kim Stanley Robinson. Come for the re...
2019-02-28 17:07:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Time to take a big ole bong rip! In a radical departure from our usual weekly content, Sean KB joined up with a bunch of commie pals to talk about C O M M U N I Z A T I O N.
We use Ben Noys' critical compilation "Communization and Its Discontents" to dip our toes into the deep waters of current ultra-left thought on the...
2019-02-23 02:09:23 +0000 UTC View Post
In the last four days we've recorded three - count em *three* - full episodes:
An amazing interview of leftist sci-fi hero Kim Stanley Robinson on the powers of utopia featuring Will Menaker of Chapo Trap House.
Another History is a Weapon with fellow CTH member, Matt Christman, on the far-right in France. 2019-02-19 17:37:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Corey sticks around to discuss The Californian Ideology, Baywatch & Julian Assange.
Then we do a textual analysis of a LA Times puff piece about Instagram-ready, curated co-living complete with app-based solutions to modern living in (ugh...) The Node. Forget the chore-wheel, this is hellworld baby!
2019-02-19 02:13:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Author, journalist and cat dad @coreypein joins us to gives us some important updates on what he described in last year's excellent 'Live Work Work Work Die': the hyper-capitalist hellscape of Silicon Valley, the over-under on a big Bezos hog reveal, the dark powers that our new tech overlords hold over our of lives, and how ...
2019-02-13 17:01:16 +0000 UTC View Post
AP Andy comes across a fellow radical exile Blair Taylor washed ashore on a beach in Nayarit, Mexico. The two post-anarchists discuss the life and work of curmudgeonly communalist Murray Bookchin as they watch dolphins frolicking in the sunset. Topics include radical muncipalism, Bookchin's concepts of democracy and citizensh...
2019-02-11 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A bunch of our die-hard listeners were in NYC, so we decided to have as many people as would possibly fit in the studio come on the show. Why the hell not?
Collectively, we get at the heart the Putin problem and... SING SONGS!
2019-02-06 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie and Sean are schooled by the master of critical analysis @leslieeiii from Struggle Session on what is good and what is not good about #resistance media in the age of Drumpf.
Join us as we dissect the dystopian world of The Handmaid's T...
2019-01-30 04:20:55 +0000 UTC View Post
AP Andy is in Mexico researching Posadism. Jamie is wherever goth-socialists go to do goth-soc things. So Sean KB recorded an ep with fellow history nerd, Matt Christman of The Chapo Trap House, who is similarly tyrannized by the weight of dead generations.
The question: Why, of all advanced capitalist countries, is the...
2019-01-23 08:12:12 +0000 UTC View PostWow, we really did it. 10 months in and we've reached a real milestone.
So many thanks to all of the patrons who've been here since the days when we had absolutely no idea what we were doing haha. And so many thanks to the newer patrons who have helped put us over this hurdle.
The patreon money that you have...
2019-01-18 23:46:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright, so Jamie left everyone hanging with that inside joke in the main episode... but behind the wall we can tell stories about Hasidic craigslist subs who only want to show the hog, cult party Jim Jones cosplay and romantic sex-slave encounters. We should really only make this bonus available to the $100 paypig tier patro...
2019-01-18 07:25:07 +0000 UTC View Post
CONTENT WARNING: violence, war trains, choke sex, revisionism, does not pass Bechdel test
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Russian state television created an 8-part miniseries on the life of Leon Trotsky in which he spends half the screen time violently fucking on a war train dressed like ...
2019-01-16 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We leave it to our patrons to guess what picante takes we have on polyamory. Is it bourgeois decadence that serves only to aggrandize our tech bro overlords? Or is it a totally normal and fine life choice that haters should stfu about?
Article: 2019-01-14 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Friend, comrade, ex-pat and editor at Splinter News @sophcw emerges from the bush to join the crew.
We talk about the hell of moving in NYC, the migrant crisis down under, woke-ness in the Southern Hemisphere, indigenous rights and Aussie Antifa. We break out every tired cliche, of course, because Americans can't ...
2019-01-09 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The government: we all hate it. But what happens if it just decides to go away? Recently Jamie joked on the Majority Report that it would be cool. Others, like the anarchist collective Crimethinc, have argued this point in earnest. We read their article and point out some flaws in their reasoning. While we agree with their vi...
2019-01-07 05:40:54 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by geographer and filmmaker Dr. Nerve V. Macaspac to talk about the history of the Philippines, its Maoist insurgency, and the rise of Rodrigo Duterte. We also talk Amazon, red-lining, Marxist geography, and Presidential foot fetishism. The last part of the episode is a discussion of Nerve's work on autonomous te...
2018-12-26 12:55:00 +0000 UTC View Post
