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Spine Check 5 - Marx before Marxism: Value, Price and Profit

Andy and Sean are joined by Edwad @readcapital and Cordelia @cozyunoist, the confirmed superstars of #he...

Ep 120 - Bob's Bürgerlichs

Jamie and Sean vibe on a number of topics, not limited to but including: feeling depressed, #DefundNYPD canvassing, and the latest bad discourse around "connecting with the working class." What's going to happen to millennials' politics when some ...

Spine Check 4 - Society of the Spectacle w/ Eric-John Russel

The second half of our conversation with Eric-John Russel of Cured Quail about Society of the Spectacle. We define the spectacle, cover the abolition of time, do some close rea...

Ep 119 - Merci bad coup w/ Eric-John Russel

Scholar and madman Eric-John Russel joins us to discuss his journal the Cured Quail, the political origins of the Situationist International,  and Guy Debord's Society of ...

Angry Workers Part II: Essential Workers and Insurrection

In Part two of our discussion with the Angry Workers collective about their new book 2020-11-06 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Ep 118 - Class Power on Zero Hours w/ Angry Workers

We interview two authors of the new book "Class Power on Zero Hours" describing the Angry Workers' collective efforts of organizing, agitating, and working in the industrial fringes of west London.

“We are publishing this book at a time wh...

PROLETKULT 9 - The People's Beetlejuice w/ the LitCrit Guy

Happy Mischief Night! Andy is joined by Jon the Lit Crit Guy to discuss Tim Burton's 1988 horror comed...

Ep 117 - Talking Horror: 'Host' & 'Society' w/ Hether Fortune & Leslie Lee III

It's the most wonderful time of the year! 

Jamie is joined by returning guests Leslie Lee III (@leslieleeiii), of Struggle Session and Vampire Castle, and Hether F...

Real Maoist Hours - Shrek 2

We read a review of Shrek 2 by the Maoist International Party - Amerika, paying close attention to their theory of "gender aristocracy"...

Ep 116 - Apres Moi, Le Troika w/ Pavlos Roufos

Jamie, Andy and Sean are joined by political economist and author Pavlos Roufos to catch up Greece in the wake of the recent imprisonment of the leadership of the Golden Dawn fascist group and a return to the 'normalcy' of centrist governance.

UNLOCKED: On The Leftcom Question

Jamie and Sean continue the discussion of historical and contemporary left communism by addressing listener questions from Discord, Twitter, and elsewhere.

Outro: : Jeff Lewis - Big A Little A

Ep 115 - Bi Donnie and the Supreme Infants

First Sean and Jamie do a roundup of the news: Donnie is back and he appears to not be dead but bisexual; Dems get the Supreme Court they deserve and Sen Mike Lee outs himself as a Bordigist?

Next Sean does a non-leftcom's guide to left comm...

Swamp Trek: Past Tense (Part II)

Part two of collaborative commentary of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Past Tense w/ Swampside Chats! As the Bell Riots kick off, can the DS9 crew protect the revolutionary d...

Swamp Trek: Past Tense (Part I)

Our collaborative commentary  of S3ep11 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine w/ Swampside Chats! In this two part episode, the crew goes back in time to  a San Francisco...

Antifada's History is a Weapon 9.2: Q is You w/ Matt Christman

Part two of HIAW 9 continues with Sean and Matt discussion Q in light of the tradition of religion (and religious weirdness) in the USA, alongside the increasing estrangement of the American people from each other and from the American Dream.

Antifada's History is a Weapon 9: Q is You w/ Matt Christman

In the latest two part HIAW, Matt and Sean examine the political economy and pre-history of everyone's favorite far-right conspiracy movement. How has alienation and economic crisis combined to create a heady, and perhaps dangerous, mix of religio...

Vampire Castle - Vampire's Kiss and Bloodsucking Bastards

On this edition of Vampire Castle, Leslie and Jamie discuss two vampire flicks set in the workplace: Late '80s bizarro dark comedy Vampire's Kiss and office comedy turned splatfest Bloodsucking Bastards. 

Ep 114 - Posadist Trap House w/ Aaron Thorpe

Aaron Thorpe (@posadist_trapgd), former host of Vanguard Army and host of the upcoming podcast A Time Of Monsters, joins the Antifada crew to discuss topics including: The...

Bonus: Killer Cops and Killer Investments

Sean and Jamie stick around to talk about Louisville finally forced to admit civil culpability in Breonna Taylor's murder and humongous private equity firm Blackrock making a bet on the bottom of the rental market with its recent mobile-home park ...

Ep 113 - When Prairie Socialists Go MAGA & ICE's Eugenics Program

Jamie and Sean discuss what they've been reading and break down some news of the day: QAnon in Congress, the political transformation of a town in PA, and ICE's eugenics program. Just another fun, chill episode about rising fascism. 

So...

BONUS: Punk may actually be dead this time w/ Brace Belden

Brace sticks around to talk about our punk origin stories, the pros and cons of a tribal subculture like punk, the death of Maximum Rock N' Roll, the future of punk, and late-era Black Flag 

Opening song: Wild Child - You're a Punk

Ep112: The Belden Program w/ Brace Belden

Sean and Andy are joined with Brace from @trueanonpod to talk workers power, past and present: how unions are still central, how communist organizers like Harry Bridges, leader of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, exercised this pow...

Talkin' 'Tina 3 - The 18th Brumaire of Macho Camacho w/ José Lastra Zorrilla

On this edition of the Antifada side project on the politics of Latin America, we discuss the political situation in Bolivia, where last year riots against a supposed voter fraud lead to a coup of far-right evangelicals. Since then, they have mass...

Ep 111 - Pigs And Cows Have All The Luck

Sean and Jamie break down the tragic news out of Los Angeles, Kenosha and Portland, then broaden out the discussion to theories of political violence and revolutionary organization (and spontaneity). What is the least LARP-y line a communist might...

ep 110 - The Black Radical Tradition (Part 2) w/ Kazembe Balagun

We continue to discuss with Kazembe Balagun the black radical tradition with marxist feminists Angela Davis and Claudia Jones. We finish with a few questions about the conti...

ep 110 - The Black Radical Tradition (Part 1) w/ Kazembe Balagun

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 question...

Work Sucks (I Know): On the Politics of Work and Anti-Work

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! Join DSA Emerge for a teach-in on anti-work politics and the welfare rights movement with sociologist (and Antifada alum) Wilson Sherwin and moderated by fellow Antifada alum Simone Norman and the Antifada's own Jamie Peck. F...

Ep 109 - The ICE Bae Cometh

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 o...

Bonus: Antisocial Distancing w/ Virgil Texas

Virgil sticks around to talk about partying in the age of Corona, the government's handling of the crisis vis a vis the working class', and his plan for abolishing the police and prisons. 

Closing song: Tim Heidecker - Cain is Able ...

Ep 108 - Biden Time w/ Virgil Texas

The Beltway Garage's chief mechanic Virgil Texas takes us for a wonk on the wild si...