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E250: La CUNY Lucha Continúa w/ Carolyn Hietter & Ian J. Seda-Irizarry

Sean KB welcomes to the show two teachers (Carolyn Hietter and Ian Seda) from the John Jay College De...

Diving into the Wreckage: Specters of Left Melancholia w/ C. Derick Varn

It's been four years since the demise of Sandersism in the United States. It's been two years since the COVID-19 crisis upended society and Russia invaded Ukraine. Socialist politics is, if anything, even more fractured and impotent than it was la...

E249 - Raising Debs w/ Reid Kane

Sean and Andy are joined by Reid Kane to discuss the tortured legacy of the Socialist Party of America. Why doesn't the United States have a nominally working class p...

E248 - Grossman's Revenge w/ Ted Reese

Sean is joined by friend of the show, Ted Reese, to discuss his brand new book: Abundant Material Wealth for All. How does Henryk Grossman's breakdown theory help us ...

ARMED LOVE 10 - The Cultural Revolution w/ Ralf Ruckus

For the tenth episode of our series about the revolutionary culture of the sixties, Andy talks to China scholar Ralf Ruckus about the Cultural R...

E247 - May Day Q&A w/ Jaylien

Happy May Day! We report on our visits to pro-Palestine encampments and take listener questions

Check out the ILC BBQ in McCarren park in Williamsburg 3-7 followed by a party/screening at Woodbine: 2024-05-01 09:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

E246 - Cursed Balkan Comments w/ Empire Never Ended / Antipolitika Journal

Boris and Rey from the anti-nationalist Empire Never Ended podcast and Antipolitika journal ...

🔥&&&🌿4/20 Special🔥: Walter Benjamin's On Hashish on hashish

And(y) & And(ers) smoke a hash joint and read selections from the "Protocols of Drug Experiments" in which German Marxist philosopher Walter Benjamin ate a hash edible and wandered around Marseille being weird.

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E245: RIP Loren Goldner

The communist milieu lost a titan last week. Our kind friend and mentor, Loren Goldner (1949-2024), passed away on Friday, April 12th 3:00am, at age of 76. As a tribute to his life and legacy we were able to gather a handful of people who were clo...

E244 (Pt. 2) - Veiled Threats w/ Arya Zahedi

Part 2 of our discussion with Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes about the essay 2024-04-03 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

E244 (Pt. 1) - Ayatollah Assahola w/ Arya Zahedi

Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes discusses his new piece 2024-04-03 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

E243 - Fight the Narcissystem w/ Anslem Jappe

Anselm Jappe is a professor of philosophy, former member of the Krisis Group, and author of the newly-translate book THE SELF-DEVOURING SOCIETY: CAPITALIS...

Party Girls Zine Club #1 - Inhabit

For the first ever edition of Party Girls Zine Club, Sam and Jamie discuss Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy, a 2018 broadside (or little orange book, if you will) from Inhabit, which is not a mere media project, but "a collectively and anonymous...

E242 - Escaping the Hamster Wheel w/ Ignacio Choi

IfNotNow activist Ignacio Choi chats about the Pro-Palestine movement, which has, like 2024-03-20 09:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Diving Into the Wreckage: Nationalism, Liberalism and the State 4 w/ C Derick Varn

Sean and Varn return with part four of their series on nationalism and the nation state. This episode is about the vexing questions of class and nation that arose in the 20th century and are unresolved today. Why did both the reformist and revolut...

E241 - March Sadness

NEWS EP! We discuss Aaron Bushnell, voting uncomitted and hopelessness, UAW and Starbucks union victories, the MTA wildcat strike and working-class demands for safety. 

Aaron Bushnell / Gaza:
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Ep 240: Our Social Hell w/ William Clare Roberts

Sean is joined by political theorist William Roberts to discuss his excellent 2017 book, 2024-02-28 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

As_A_Substack 2: The Left Undead w/ Sean KB

In which Sean writes another Substack article and reads it out for patrons on the feed! 

This time about the republican comm...

E239: Prisoner With the Antifa Face Tattoo w/ Eric King

An interview with Eric King, who was recently released after being incarcerated since 2014, five of those in segregation. He was charged with using an incendiary de...

E238 - The Renegade Century w/ Mike Macnair

Sean and Andy are joined by Mike Macnair, member of the Provisional Central  Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain, columnist at Weekly Worker and author of R...