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Our final predictions and analysis for the 2025 NYC Democratic mayoral primaries with Mattie Lubchansky of the No Gods, No Mayors podcast.For the full episode sign up at http://patreon.com/theantifadaModern Ferret Monthly: https://web.archive.org/web/20070610044439/http://www.modernferret.com/pressreleases/nyc05212001.htmlMcMansion Hell endorsement: -https://mcmansionhell.com/post/786540193484341248/mcmansion-hell-urges-all-new-yorkers-to-rankLander will keep Jessica Tisch: https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/02/lander-would-keep-nypd-commish-jessica-tisch-several-his-mayoral-opponents-would-too/403280/Pre-order Mattie’s new book Simplicity: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739012/simplicity-by-mattie-lubchansky/Intro music: Avalon Emerson DJ snippet: https://www.instagram.com/p/DK9xVm6sMxa/?img_index=1Outro music: Avalon Emerson - Treat Mode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R7XLqeDRmk

Transcribed - Published: 23 June 2025

Part 2 of our April, 2024 discussion with Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes about the essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. He talks about the uprisings in Iran, including the murder of Mahsa Amini, and his feelings about Iran's role in the proxy wars surrounding the siege of Gaza.Listen to Part 1 here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101536326For all our bonus content support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaRead the essay here: https://illwill.com/iranSong: Tudeh Party's Hymn to Socialism

Transcribed - Published: 20 June 2025

Report-back from the streets of LA with Victor Artola, author of Los Angeles, Or the End of Assimilation from Ill Will Editions.For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifadaFurther reading: https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/08/los-angeles-stands-up-to-ice-a-firsthand-report-on-the-clashes-of-june-6TACO Trump backing down at behest of farm and hotel lobby: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-ice-raids-farms-hotels.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/opinion/ice-protests-la.htmlNewark ICE facility riot: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/nyregion/newark-ice-detainees-escape.html Song: Doors - LA Woman

Transcribed - Published: 16 June 2025

Sean and Andy chat with S.H. Fernando Jr., aka Skiz, the author of Chronicles of DOOM Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast. We cover some hip hop history, DOOM's origins in underground hip hop and his emergence as crossover phenomenon in the aughts, his Nuwaubian background, getting kicked out of the US, and much more!Sign up for our Patreon to hear the fun half, in which we talk about DOOM's relationship with Kanye and Diddy, his philosophy on art, what baseball team he likes, and hear some of Skiz's music recommendations.Doom's Kanye assassination video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V5jOg_VGMASongs in order: King Geedorah - No Snakes Left AliveKMD - Humrush KMD - Who MeMadvillain - Late Night TailsDANGERDROOM - Crosshairs

Transcribed - Published: 11 June 2025

For the full episode (FREE!), sign up at http://patreon.com/theantifadaThe following is the audio from the Independent Labor Club of New York's assembly on Education and Labor:Education in the US is at a crossroads. In recent months the Trump administration has proposed to abolish the Department of Education, and has threatened to rescind federal grants to universities across the country unless they accede to its demands. Meanwhile public education continues to lose ground to charter and private schools, where unionization rates are much lower, as lawmakers consider providing vouchers and tax credits in the name of “school choice.” Teachers and professors at every level face increased precarity, lower pay, larger class sizes, and deteriorating work conditions, even as their political speech off the job comes under greater scrutiny.Featuring:Susannah Grossman, former private school teacher Alexander King, Assistant Professor (The New School & NYU) | ACT-UAW 7902 Tom Quick, NYC DoE | United Federation of Teachers MCR, charter school teacher Lauren Wolfe, Brooklyn Institute for Social ResearchModerated byJake Kinzey, NYC DoE | United Federation of TeachersSong: Pink Floyd - Another Brick in The Wall Pt 2 ( v a p o r w a v e )

Transcribed - Published: 6 June 2025

John returns for our special miniseries discussing his decades of experience theorizing and organizing, current events and life/work in New York City. On this episode he and Sean talk about this article from Dandy Andy at Three Way Fight, John's historical taxi driver organizing campaign and what it takes for commies to be accepted at the workplace.If you like this episode, want to talk about in our discord, or want access to all our bonus material, please support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSong: Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey

Transcribed - Published: 2 June 2025

Our French correspondent joins us to talk about the SLAP heard 'round the world. We also get some updates on Melanchon's US tour, discuss Hasan Piker's detainment, death with dignity, the abundance agenda, Zohran, Robert Moses vs. Tammany Hall, the 5 year anniversary of the George Floyd Uprising.Subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada for the fun half, in which we listen to some clips from Jordan Peterson's debate with 20 Reddit Athiests, and talk about what the "radical left" means.Check out https://newintermag.com/ and subscribe for updates.articles mentioned: https://newintermag.com/assisted-suicide-or-social-murder/https://newintermag.com/the-defeat-of-biopolitics/https://newintermag.com/abundance-big-techs-bid-for-the-democratic-party/song: Ludacris - Slap

Transcribed - Published: 28 May 2025

Malek Rasamny walks us through the moving gears of Middle East geopolitics in the wake of Trump's visit to Riyadh, opening relations to the Syrian regime under Ahmed Al-Saraah (fka Mohammed al-Julani), nuclear talks with Iran, PKK disarmement, the current situation in Lebenon, and much more.Listen to the full episode for FREE by becoming a free member at http://patreon.com/theantifada. Or show your support by signing up for a $5/mo, $10/mo or discounted annual Patreon membership Malek is one directors of Native and the Refugee a film about the commonalities native american life on reservations and palestinian life on refugee camps"Beyond the Axis of Resistance" panel: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-beyond-of-118617202US/Israel/Arab League ceasefire talks: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-netanyahu-saudi-arabia-arab-gulf-hamas-qatar-ceasefire https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/witkoff-hamas-trump-deal-edan-alexander-lift-blockade”Saudi-US investment forum” clip: https://x.com/hxhassan/status/1922390556740550962Trump on Syria sanctions: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/5/16/trumps-decision-to-lift-syria-sanctions-fuels-dreams-of-economic-revival PKK disarmament and its regional significance: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/5/14/what-does-the-pkks-disarming-mean-for-its-regional-alliesSong: Logic - 44 More

Transcribed - Published: 19 May 2025

Tech and finance writer David Z. Morris talks us through the mental illness behind Silicon Valley's fascist immortalists, rationalists, effective altruists, abundists, etc.Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifdada for the fun half, in which we speculate on Luigi's connection to this world, what's behind the assassination attempts on Trump, and if we should "buy the dip" on the technofuturist dystopiaread/subscribe to his substack: https://davidzmorris.substack.com/Especially on the Zizians: https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/deepseek-and-the-ai-murder-cultOn Tesla: ​https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/tesla-enters-its-memetic-death-spiralhttps://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/tesla-is-on-fireIn Luigi Mangione: https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/luigi-mangione-reformed-techno-rationalistExcerpt from his upcoming book on Sam Bankman-Fried: https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/the-ai-timelines-scam-expanded-free Song: Madvillain - Accordion

Transcribed - Published: 12 May 2025

Sean talks with Paris Marx about AIfor the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSong: Barry Manilow - Aye Caramba!

Transcribed - Published: 9 May 2025

Jasper Bernes chats with us about his new book on the history of revolution from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising and the task of communists today.Buy the book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/977-the-future-of-revolutionExcerpt: https://illwill.com/inquiry-and-organizationCheck out Red May: https://www.redmayseattle.org/BK Rail debates: https://brooklynrail.org/2025/05/field-notes/on-the-future-and-past-of-revolution/https://brooklynrail.org/2025/05/field-notes/workers-councils-solution-or-problem/https://brooklynrail.org/2025/05/field-notes/jasper-bernes-responds/Jasper’s critique of Bevins’ If We Burn: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/06/field-notes/What-Was-To-Be-Done-Protest-and-Revolution-in-the-2010s/Song: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Council Skies

Transcribed - Published: 5 May 2025

Tribute to a recently-departed comrade."nothing is over, that is the only certainty. the other certainty is that everything ends, even this" -Poem (Sept 26, 2023)Clip from Occupy Oakland: https://x.com/poetryc0mmunity/status/1917001969467838652Reading from The Totality for Kids at Bowery Poetry Club in 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgfMT58xkTgYoutube clip of Joshua talking about his book on the Modern Lovers' song Road Runner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6qc8EqN_XI&t=468sRiot. Strike. Riot pdf: https://fighttowin.noblogs.org/files/2020/06/riot-strike-riot-intro.pdfOn "Old Town Road": https://communemag.com/the-high-rise-and-the-hollow/Cleaning up fascist trash right up to the end: https://x.com/outsidadgitator/status/1916845565725520303 ideo/1Episode image from a painting by Dianna Settles: https://www.instagram.com/platonicyouth/Full Commie Camp episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-57-old-road-w-28280348Check out Jamie’s awesome new podcast Party GirlsSongs: Modern Lovers - Road RunnerJoshua Clover's sing-a-long cover of Old Town Road by Lil Nas X

Transcribed - Published: 30 April 2025

Sean and Varn catch up on the first 100 days or so of Trump 2.0, the inanities and indignities of history forced to move again in dumb, but possibly productive ways. Most of all this moment calls for humility amidst radical political and economic changes we might only be able to 'sane-wash' in 20 or 30 years, if ever. How have recent events challenged our priors as Marxists or as Millennials or as Americans? Even if the Left is largely powerless to affect global events, do we at least have the courage to situate ourselves and our own subjectivities within the massive changes of the last 10 to 15 years? How might the left wing of capital respond to the current chaos and how might we?To listen to the bonus portion of this episode (where all the deportable offenses might happen) become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada for this and all our great bonus content.To watch this episode on video become a patron of the excellent, independent Varn Vlog at www.patreon.com/varnvlog

Transcribed - Published: 23 April 2025

For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada&y & &ers smoke a joint and read Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of HistoryRead along: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/benjamin/1940/history.htm Song: Johnny Thunders - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory

Transcribed - Published: 21 April 2025

Alex Bazeley and Bobby Wagner of the labor-focused baseball podcast Tipping Pitches join Andy to chat about the 2025 season, the upcoming 2026 showdown by the players' union and owner on the salary cap, the gap between "rich" and "poor" teams, why we might miss the Yankee Empire one day, and why leftists stay interested in America's Pastime as America itself collapses.For the full episode, support the show or sign up for a FREE membership on our Patreon:: http://patreon.com/theantifadaSupport Tipping Pitches on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tippingpitchesSong: Simpsons - Talkin' Softball

Transcribed - Published: 14 April 2025

Sean and Andy discuss JDPon Don's Great Reset, the #HandsOff protests, the Mar-A-Lago accords, and the death of the American DreamIn the fun half, available for patrons, we chat about Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17 and it's sauce-obsessed Musk-Trump hybrid villain Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada!Ken Klip on Hands Off protest: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/i-went-to-the-anti-trump-protestSpeculation on Mar-A-Lago Accords: https://www.nordea.com/en/news/mar-a-lago-accord-explained-a-new-era-for-the-dollarKrugman and Klein: https://youtu.be/DhabG-dyQu0?si=UWMvD4m_JmqwWyPC Washington Post on Miran's tariff pans: https://archive.is/UYkXb https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/research/638199_A_Users_Guide_to_Restructuring_the_Global_Trading_System.pdf Fun half: https://jacobin.com/2025/03/bong-mickey-17-film-reviewhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/opinion/elon-musk-doge-technocracy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=189C7F22-A755-4591-95F4-C8714166236Dhttps://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-becoming-elon-musk-part-one/ Song: Kiska - Liberation Day

Transcribed - Published: 7 April 2025

This is a recording of the ILC's fourth public assembly at Woodbine Space in Queens on March 29th, 2025 featuring Cyrus Cappo of John Jay College CUNY, Daniel Jacobs of Sublation/Platypus Affiliated and Ryan Castello of the Maoist Communists Union.For more info on the Independent Labor Club of North America-including upcoming events, how to join, how to start a chapter, etc-visit the website at https://ilclabor.com/Song: Dodos - Trades and Tariffs

Transcribed - Published: 4 April 2025

To listen to the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaPolitical cartoonist and writer Eli Valley joins us to talk about his new book Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque, another Senate Antisemitism hearings, the future of the Israeli-American fascist alliance, and a bit about AI, Jabotinski, Betar, and Ezra Klein's Abundance agenda.In the fun half we talk about Eli's pre-cartoonist life giving tours in Europe and the movie A Real Pain, and where Eli draws the line with his political imagery.To listen to the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaBuy Museum of Degenerates from O/R Books: https://orbooks.com/catalog/museum-of-degenerates/ Song: Mad Magazine Off-Broadway Musical - Hate Song

Transcribed - Published: 31 March 2025

Preview of Part 2 in which we talk more with Jarrod and Zhana about the pitfalls of performatively moving on from identity politics, the Bukele-prison model of the fascist future, the historical anti-revolutionary basis of the 1798 Enemy Aliens Act, how a union protection racket in Chavez's Venezuela became the gang Trumpists believed were poised to takeover major metro regions of the United States, and why we should've been siding with the "woke left" all along.To listen to the episode and all our bonus content support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Transcribed - Published: 28 March 2025

Jarrod and Zhana return to talk about their new book "Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City"! We look at how the liberal apparatus used identity politics and divert the abolitionist movement to expand incarceration, and check in how the De Blasio-era plan to closer rikers and replace it with four "community" "justice hubs" has fared under the anti-Woke era of the Adams administration. Lastly, we talk about the the recent "Wildcat" CO strike in state prisons as a broader effort to roll back the reforms of the BLM and other anticarceral struggles, as a preview of the dark plans for expanded incarceration of the Trump 2.0In part 2 of the episode we talk about the counter-revolutoinary history of Tren de Aragua and the Enemy Aliens Act of 1798. to hear it, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaBUY the book from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2454-skyscraper-jailsAdams on new Manhattan jail developments: https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2025/01/18/rikers-manhattan-jail-contractMore info on MH jail redesign: https://newyorkyimby.com/2025/01/new-preliminary-renderings-revealed-for-manhattan-detention-center-at-124-125-white-street-in-chinatown-manhattan.htmlJarrod on upstate prison strike: https://truthout.org/articles/nys-prison-guard-strike-has-roots-in-decades-of-racialized-deindustrialization/Aziz Rana on Consitutional Crisis: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/constitutional-collapseOur early episode with Nadja Guyot from No New Jails: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-69-abolish-w-30401262 Song: Cock Sparrer - Out on an Island

Transcribed - Published: 24 March 2025

Our artificial intelligence miniseries returns with a guest spot by This Machine Kills cohost, Jathan Sadowski, about his brand new second book The Mechanic and the Luddite: a Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism.For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSong: Manuel Göttsching - E2 - E4

Transcribed - Published: 17 March 2025

Audio from a Twitch stream in which &ers & &y go through the history of the Minneapolis General Strike of 1934 and reflect on what lessons we can take from it as we approach the National Strike on May 1, 2028If you like what we do support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaPast episode of &&&: https://www.patreon.com/collection/500909https://libcom.org/article/minneapolis-teamsters-strike-1934-jeremy-brecherhttps://www.marxists.org/glossary/events/m/i.htm#minneapolis-teamsters-strikeshttps://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/usa/mpls01.htmhttps://cosmonautmag.com/2022/05/setting-the-record-straight-on-the-trotskyist-led-1934-minneapolis-teamsters-strike-the-teamsters-bureaucracy-its-aftermath/Closing song: Tex Williams - Teamster Power

Transcribed - Published: 12 March 2025

Sean is joined by old friend, John Garvey, to introduce our new miniseries: Garveyism! In this first episode we discuss some current events--the Ukrainian War as seen from Brighton Beach, horse racing subsidies and working class social life, and the first month of the Trump Administration. The series will continue monthly with bonus episodes featuring John talking about his experience in (and against) the New Left, prospects for class power in the current epoch and lessons learned in organizing in NYC over the last fifty years or so.To access the bonus portion of this episode and much more become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifadaMusic: King Tubby - John Garvey Dub Dr. Alimantado - Marcus Garvey School

Transcribed - Published: 5 March 2025

Sean and Andy chat with a worker organizer at one of the three Alamo Drathouse locations striking against seasonal firings. We cover how Barbenheimer weekend inspired the union effort, frustrating interactions with management, the weird subterranean Wall Street location, some ancient NYC organizing history, service sector organizing, and how a worker-run theater could make the nerdy-niche "experience" far better.All links for union press statements and fundraisers: https://beacons.ai/nycalamounited https://cwa-union.org/news/workers-alamo-drafthouse-fight-back-against-unfair-firingsAlamo now functionally BYOB: https://x.com/cleverrgirrl/status/1891656861939650579Audio: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGGgjriua4s/Song: Dolly Parton - 9 to 5

Transcribed - Published: 24 February 2025

Hinterland author Phil Neel returns to explain value-form to an American by asking us to imagine a burger.Listen to the full episode by joining our paid or free membership tiers at http://patreon.com/theantifadaPhil Neel's burger essays: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/12/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh/https://brooklynrail.org/2025/02/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh-2/Cuban hamburgerismo: https://www.sm28.org/articles/j11-the-return-of-the-cuban-proletariat/Song: Tyler the Creator - Burger

Transcribed - Published: 17 February 2025

NEWS EP! We sort out the class forces behind the Muskite restructuring underway, the meaning of the tariff trade war, and argue for why we should stay partisans of woke. For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaGanz: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happened-here-c9f Nolan: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dark-times-are-coming

Transcribed - Published: 10 February 2025

full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-our-lives-121342801Our guests from this week's AI episode stick around with Sean to continue the hijinks about our tech oligarchy and discuss the first couple of episodes of AppleTV's television show Severence about how working for a mid-20th century capitalist firm is creepy and kinda suss ngl.

Transcribed - Published: 7 February 2025

Sean didn't have the guts to name this new podcast series about AI as Rax, Mattie and Jaya would have it: Unintelligent Fartelligence. Feel free to boo him in the comments.For the bonus episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSong: Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4

Transcribed - Published: 3 February 2025

Sean, Andy, and Varn scan the sectarian terrain of the US today as a prelude into our (part 2) discussion of drama in MAGA communism. For part 2, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaRead along: https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1973/xx/microsect.htmSong: Gary Numan - This Wreckage

Transcribed - Published: 27 January 2025

D-Rock and J-Bone are back to join us in a reading of the ICC's classic essay about gangsta rap and Eminem: https://en.internationalism.org/wr/242_eminem.htmFor the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifadaSong: Eminem - President Mathers

Transcribed - Published: 24 January 2025

Drawing from their own experiences of incarceration, authors Jarrod Shanahan and David Campbell offer an unprecedented look inside New York's notorious Rikers Island jail in their compelling new book "City Time." They meticulously document how incarcerated people construct complex social systems and survival strategies within an environment defined by structural racism and institutional neglect. Through their intimate perspective as former detainees, they reveal the intricate unwritten rules, relationships, and daily rituals that emerge among those serving "city time" - sentences that, while too brief for state prison, expose the profound dysfunction of America's carceral system.Buy the book from NYU Press:https://nyupress.org/9781479828999/city-time/and free William Banks!Music from The Nightcrawlers - Alone in the Dark

Transcribed - Published: 20 January 2025

Sean and Andy (recovering from various ailments) are joined by political theorist, Bruno Leipold, to discuss his excellent new book Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought from Princeton University Press on how Marx and Engels developed their theories within and against an 18th century republican pollical milieu that is largely lost to history and the histories of Marxism.What is republicanism? What distinguishes it from liberalism? How did real world experience with the reactionary Prussian state temper Marxism's preoccupation with civil rights? (How was that preoccupation submerged within Actually Existing Socialism of the 20th century?) How did Marx build upon and surpass republicanism by synthesizing it with communism and large defeating antipolitical strains of socialism?In the bonus we discuss what is left in the 21st century of republican social theory: the universalizing of capitalist private property as opposed to its abolition. How does this middle class 19th century political economy survive down to this day in republics like the United States? Broadly, what is the relevance of this republican revival for groups like the Independent Labor Club and others who seek a revival of communist politics on a broad basis?To access this bonus and years more of excellent content become a patron today at patreonsong: Nas - Black Republican

Transcribed - Published: 15 January 2025

Sean and Andy (recovering from various ailments) are joined by political theorist, Bruno Leipold, to discuss his excellent new book Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought from Princeton University Press on how Marx and Engels developed their theories within and against an 18th century republican pollical milieu that is largely lost to history and the histories of Marxism.What is republicanism? What distinguishes it from liberalism? How did real world experience with the reactionary Prussian state temper Marxism's preoccupation with civil rights? (How was that preoccupation submerged within Actually Existing Socialism of the 20th century?) How did Marx build upon and surpass republicanism by synthesizing it with communism and large defeating antipolitical strains of socialism?In the bonus we discuss what is left in the 21st century of republican social theory: the universalizing of capitalist private property as opposed to its abolition. How does this middle class 19th century political economy survive down to this day in republics like the United States? Broadly, what is the relevance of this republican revival for groups like the Independent Labor Club and others who seek a revival of communist politics on a broad basis?To access this bonus and years more of excellent content become a patron today at patreonsong: Nas - Black Republican

Transcribed - Published: 15 January 2025

Audio from a talk held by Woodbine's December 22nd Research Group facilitated by Malek Rasamny and Arya Zahedi. What are the horizons, opportunities and challenges amidst the collapse of the Iranian-led order? Over the past few months Israel’s genocidal assault in Gaza has more fully expanded into a regional conflict with what has been referred to as the “axis of resistance”, led by Iran. Its fall has been decisive, with the destruction of much of the senior leadership of Hezbollah, including the assassination of secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah on September 27th; and the collapse of the Assad regime on December 7th, after a lightning fast four-day offensive led by rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). BIOS: Malek Rasamny is the co-director of the research project The Native and Refugee, and the documentary film Spaces of Exception. Both seek to juxtapose and parallel the communities, spaces and struggles of American Indian reservations and Palestinian refugee camps. He is currently completing his doctoral research project on the relationship between reincarnation and the communal memory of the Lebanese Civil War amongst the Druze community. Arya Zahedi is a teacher and writer who lives in Baltimore, MD. He is a PhD candidate in Politics at the New School for Social Research, and has written a number of works on the class struggle and revolutionary movement in Iran. Aziz Alhamza is a Syrian journalist, human rights activist, and founder of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS) Referenced readings:-Understanding the rebellion in Syria - Joseph Daher, 2024: https://tempestmag.org/2024/12/understanding-the-rebellion-in-syria/ -Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran - Arya Zahedi, 2024: https://illwill.com/iran -Building Alternative Futures in the Present: the Case of Syria’s Communes - Leila Al-Shami, 2021: https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/the-paris-commune-and-the-world/building-alternative-futures-in-the-present-the-case-of-syrias-communes -The Revolution Post-Explosion - Malek Rasamny, 2020: https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/the-revolution-post-explosion/ Song: Syrian Revolutionary Dabke

Transcribed - Published: 10 January 2025

We talk about the Cybertruck psyop with Insurgent Notes, Race Traitor, and Hard Crackers vets John Garvey and Zhana Kurti.In the fun half, available to subscribers at http://patreon.com/theantifada, we read the prophecies of alien intervention and free energy by the Balkan Nostradamus Baba Vanga, and hear Sean's interpretation of Charli XCX's Brat.Song: Kendrick Lamar - wacced out murals

Transcribed - Published: 6 January 2025

This is a short preview of the paywalled portion of the long discussion between Sean and Varn about the 2024 election and the end of the Long Twentieth Century. To access the entire audio file and a bunch more bonus content become a supporter of the show at www.patreon.com/theantifada in the New Year.

Transcribed - Published: 3 January 2025

Stroky Sean and cancer-free Varn are reunited to dive back into the wreckage. This is part one of over three hours of conversation about just about everything under the sun (what happens when we take a several month break from these things) including political economy, current events, intra-Marxist rivalry and analysis. Mostly we bid adieu to the Long Twentieth Century. Turns out it expired for real this time not on 9/11/01 but 11/5/16. We are in a new epoch and its time to start acting like it!To check out a couple more hours of this kind of thing you can become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifadaTo check out of couple more hours but on video (!) you can become a patron at www.patreon.com/varnvlogSong: Gary Numan - This Wreckage

Transcribed - Published: 1 January 2025

Music journalist Liz Pelly joins us to discuss her new book The Mood Machine the Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist. How did the DIY culture of mixtapes and file sharing move towards massive streaming platforms? And with nearly every song freely accessible why are so many listening to elevator music instead? You can listen to this full episode gratis by signing up at our free membership tier over at patreon.com/theAntifadaLinks to Liz's work:https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/https://thebaffler.com/downstream/big-mood-machine-pellyhttps://thebaffler.com/downstream/streambait-pop-pellyhttps://thebaffler.com/downstream/wrapped-and-sold-pelly https://thebaffler.com/latest/podcast-overlords-pellyCheck out the Art and Labor PodcastMusic/image: Lo-Fi Girl

Transcribed - Published: 30 December 2024

Merry Christmas, everyone! This year, the Santifada is bringing you the same present as always: an episode about the themes of Jewish identity and antisemitism! We discuss Brady Corbet's new epic film, The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody as a Bauhaus architect and Holocaust survivor trying to rebuild his life in the absurd New World of America.In the first half of the episode, our brutalism scholar guests, Ross and Susannah, explain what brutalism is and how it relates—or doesn’t relate—to Brody's character, Laszlo Toth, and the themes of the movie in general.In the second half, available for subscribers at patreon.com/theantifada, we discuss the film's final chapter and epilogue, which features an infuriating, although perhaps excusable, political twist ending.Music for the episode is mostly from the brutalist soundtrack by Daniel Blumberg. Closing song is La Bionda - One For You, One For Me

Transcribed - Published: 25 December 2024

For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaThe Antifada sideproject about the paranormal, the parapolitical, science fiction, and science futurism returns to check in on the New Space Age! While the left typically perceives Elon Musk as an all-talk grifter, our guest Beka Valentine argues his Starship program will make many off-earth industries, like drug manufacturing and solar harvesting, inevitable through dramatically lowering the cost of launching to low-Earth orbit. Could his and Bezos's fantasies of colonies on the moon, Mars, or in asteroid belts be far behind?If so, what happened to the late-2010s enthusiasm for "Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism"? Is the left now anti-space, and is that position leaving the future entirely in the hands of capitalists and imperialist states? In her new essay for Strange Matters, Valentine argues we should begin strategizing for this new era so we don't get stranded from Elysium.Guest co-host Nick Chavez gives the engineer's perspective, and describes his critique of ME Obrien and Eman Abdelhadi's vision of expropriating a SpaceX-like factory in their speculative novel Everything for Everyone.Beka Valentine's essay in Strange Matters: https://strangematters.coop/political-economy-of-near-future-space-industries/Inside Musk's Starfactory: https://wccftech.com/spacex-is-using-robots-to-make-starship-rockets-in-texas-shows-footage/Nick Chavez's review of Everything for Everyone: https://designformanufracture.com/2023/01/25/review-everything-for-everyone-an-oral-history-of-the-new-york-commune-2052-2072-by-m-e-obrien-and-eman-abdelhadi/Don't Let Them Leave! zine: https://ia903003.us.archive.org/20/items/dontletthemleave/Dont-Let-Them-Leave-zine-unimposed%20.pdfPast episodes of Proletkult: https://www.patreon.com/collection/87627 Song - Giorgio Moroder - Racer

Transcribed - Published: 18 December 2024

Andy and Sean read about Prospera, a libertarian City State in Honduras that is attempting to abolish death and bankrupt the country in the process. Then sean reads Ross Douthat's analysis of the Trump administration's Musk and Vance wings.For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Transcribed - Published: 13 December 2024

Sean is BACK from hopital with Stroke Updates + Syria, South Korea, UHC Shooter and other political assassinationsListen to Part 2 and support Sean and the show by signing up at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSong: The Strokes - Reptilia (Stroked and Reverbed)

Transcribed - Published: 9 December 2024

&y and &ers Lee read Leon Trotsky's predictions about the glorious future of a 1930s Soviet America, in which tipping and chewing gum have been abolished. For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Transcribed - Published: 6 December 2024

Audio from our November 23rd event at Woodbine with Jamie Merchant about his new book Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline. He sketches the economic background of the rise of populist right internationally before we transition to questions about the current moment and WI2BD. Jamie Merchant is a Chicago-based writer, contributor to Brooklyn Rail, Baffler, and In These Times, and a member of the Chicago chapter of the Independent Labor Club (@ilcofchi).excerpt: https://brooklynrail.org/2022/03/field-notes/Endgame-Finance-and-the-Close-of-the-Market-System/For all bonus material and Discord access support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSupport Woodbine: https://www.patreon.com/woodbineThanks to Mike, Peter, and Chris from ILC NYC for the recording!Song: Natalie Merchant - This House is on Fire

Transcribed - Published: 4 December 2024

In Part II, Henry discusses the New International article Erasing the Pregnant as a way into talking about religious politics and secularism in regards to issues like abortion, death with dignity, Zionism, and sex.For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada. We now offer a free membership tier and 7-day trials!Henry's Podcast with George Floyd's Pastor: https://www.formspodcast.com/episode-xiii-the-gospel-and-george-floydSong: KRS-ONE - Why Is That?

Transcribed - Published: 29 November 2024

Henry's back for France Popular front updates to unveil his new journal, the New International! From there, we discuss Andy and Varn's essay The Undying Appeal of Brunch, and if it conflicts with the organizational method of Henry's Party, France Unbowed.For Part II of this episode and Discord access, support the show at: http://patreon.com/theantifada. We now have a free membership tier and 7-day trials! Follow New International on Twitter and BlueSky Follow Antifada on BlueSky New International editorial note: https://newintermag.com/our-goal/Long-read on France Unbowed: https://newintermag.com/communism-lives-in-the-france-unbowed/ Henry's write-up on France Unbowed's structure: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zs2eG-GfiFTkXuXxPxJaJb9JDaAa7S9TD0rLuLLC-XI/edit?usp=sharingKristin Ross on the Commune Form: https://illwill.com/a-common-horizon-for-situated-strugglesHenry's podcast episode on Citizen Marx: https://www.formspodcast.com/episode-xxiv-citizen-marxSong: X - Year One

Transcribed - Published: 27 November 2024

Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century continue their reading of Dugin's Fourth Political Theory!This is the section where it becomes clear that Dugin uses a different intellectual framework about civilizations than left anti-imperialists.Patrons can listen to full episode here (we now offer free 7 day trials!): https://www.patreon.com/posts/boundless-and-114052745See this episode and prior videos in this series on VarnVlog

Transcribed - Published: 22 November 2024

A report from the Valencia inundation zone by B from the propaganda powerhouse Prole.info! We discuss the floods and the political aftermath, including mudslinging at the King and the future of the Spain's tenuous socialist government. From there were move on to his thoughts about Trump, the Democrats, and the second edition of the Housing Monster (with an intro by Sean! pre-order now from PM Press!). Show notes: https://schengen.news/spains-congress-approves-bill-to-cancel-golden-visa-program-in-january-2025/ https://jacobin.com/2024/05/spain-sanchez-psoe-vox-eu-elections Housing Monster PDF: https://www.prole.info/pdfs/thm_english.pdf All other prole.info material: www.prole.info B on Twitter: https://x.com/@proledotinfoJazz and Blues Radio show from Ben Kritikos https://buenavida.co.uk/red-white-blues/ Lazo Edicioneshttps://lazoediciones.blogspot.com/ Cuadernos de Negaciónhttps://cuadernosdenegacion.blogspot.com/ Song: Waka Flocka Flame - I Remember

Transcribed - Published: 18 November 2024

On November 9th, 2024 the Independent Labor Club of NY hosted a panel at Woodbine in Ridgewood, Queens. Sean moderated this discussion between:Aaron Lelonde of the International Longshoremen's AssociationSou Mi of WGA-East and Left VoiceGregory Butler of Int'l Union of Operating Engineers and Gangbox NewsEllie Pfeffer of Maoist Communist Union, formerly of Amazonians UnitedWhat accounts for the realignment seen in 2024? Did large swathes of workers (including Black and Hispanic) vote Trump solely from racism and misogyny? What was the role of organized labor in the recent election? What effects might the results of the election have on the prospects for organizing labor in the future?If you like what you hear, support our podcast and access great bonus content: www.patreon.com/theantifadaIf you're interested in joining the ILC, we have chapters across the country and in Australia: https://ilclabor.com/The event was held @woodbine.nyc in Ridgewood, Queens Saturday November 9th. Contribute to Woodbine's Fall Fundraiser drive.Song - Capital STEEZ x Joey Bada$$ - Survival Tactics

Transcribed - Published: 13 November 2024

Our roundtable discusses the meaning of Trump's victory--the election's stakes, its international reverberations, what it tells us about the crisis of capitalist accumulation, how economics connect with the the race/class/gender demographic voting shifts, and the historic characters of the Republican and Democratic Parties.In Part 2, available for patrons at http://patreon.com/theantifada, we plot THE RESISTANCE!Panelists: C. Derick Varn Zhandarka Kurti Reid KaneSong: Los 3 de La Habana - Cancion de Trump

Transcribed - Published: 8 November 2024