The Antifada

A sneak peak at this new VarnVlog series featuring guest spots from Sean KB and Jason from great post-Trot podcast The Regrettable Century. We read Alexander Dugin's most famous work, 'The Fourth Political Theory' to understand why all sorts of people, from the right to the left, are looking to this eclectic, irrationalist Russian post-fascist to understand this particular moment in world history.For the full episode and much more bonus content, become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifadaThis is actually the second episode, with the introductory program with Jason appearing on the VarnVlog YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGVSZcFZHlQ

Vincent Bevins chats about lessons of the uprisings of 2010s, as outlined in his book If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing RevolutionFor the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSong: Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn

Sean KB and C Derick Varn return with part two of their series on nationalism and the nation state. In this episode, the discuss various Marxist conceptions of the state including Otto Bauer, Rosa Luxembourg but especially Vladimir Lenin. What is the relationship between people and nation? Class and nation? And what is to be done?This is an extended preview. For access to the entire two-hour audio episode become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifadaOr to view the video recording subscribe also to www.patreon.com/varnvlog

Anders & Andy interview the unmasked McKinsey whistleblower and journalist Garrison Lovely about consulting with Rikers and ICE. Other topics include bread fixing, opiates, McKinsey 4chan, and Mayor Pete. In the second Garrison takes our answers on being a leftist Effective Altruist.For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaGarrison's podcast: https://mostinterestingpeople.podbean.comOriginal whisteblower article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/02/mckinsey-company-capitals-willing-executionersRecent Nation article: ww.thenation.com/article/society/mckinsey-whistleblower-confessions/Jacobin interview: https://jacobin.com/2023/10/mckinsey-garrison-lovely-whistleblower-consulting-firmsSong: They Might Be Giants - Ampersand

Sean and Andy are joined by Volodymyr Ishchenko, Ukrainian Marxist and sociologist, to discuss his upcoming collection of essays "Toward the Abyss" from Verso Books. (You can and should preorder here.)How does a 'civilizational' or 'cultural' or 'decolonial' understanding of the Russia-Ukraine conflict obscure the underlying class conflict at its heart? What is the political economy of 'corruption' and anti-corruption? How has the delegitimization of the post-Soviet political capitalist ruling class led to stagnation and civil war? Why have their been a series of Occupys, EuroMaidans and Arab Springs that seem to change nothing?This is part one of an extended discussion. In the bonus we pose the question, "What does the left look like in Ukraine at the moment and how can internationalists help build a working class movement adequate to social revolution in a global capitalist social order in steep decline?" For access to this content and much more, become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifadaArticles:https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii138/articles/volodymyr-ishchenko-ukrainian-voiceshttps://jacobin.com/2022/10/russia-ukraine-war-explanation-class-conflictSong: RotFront - Sovietoblaster

Andy and Sean are joined by returning champion Jason Myles of This is Revolution podcast and industrial metal maniacs Bitter Lake to discuss his recent Damage Magazine article about Ibram X Kendi and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion grift. How has identity politics been used to subsume class politics? What's left of a socialist left after the failure of Sandersism? Without the crutch of a social democracy more impossible by the day what might we build?We also discuss the war on Gaza and why sometimes you have to walk off tour or storm out of a show when things get too woke. (details within)Song: Special Interest - LA Blues

We read chapters X and XI of Settlers about the decline of the CPUSA and postwar settlers parasitism on a global scale.For the full episode, support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifadaAnd find previous chapters of Reading Settlers on our Reading Settlers Collections page: https://www.patreon.com/collection/241791?view=expandedRead Along:https://readsettlers.org/ch10.htmlhttps://readsettlers.org/ch11.htmlInfo about Yokinen Trial./ White Chauvinism purges:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokinen_Show_Trialhttps://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/jacobs-oc/app-a.htmSong: UAW choir sings La Borinquena - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu5cL0-_VQk

For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaNEWS EP: Musk's trip Israel and the elections of Milei, Wildes, and the Dublin riots. Israeli labor shortage. How worried we should be about Trump's Plan 2025? Why Bidenist social-democracy won't help. Civil Socety vs. Social Humanity. PSL and block the boat criticism. The rise of AMLOnomics and Avocado wars in MexicoLabor shortage in Israel: https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/26/middleeast/israel-farms-foreign-workers-crisis-intl-cmd/index.htmlThe city where Mexico’s nearshoring hype is becoming reality https://on.ft.com/3RiM0T5Trump's plan to drain the swamp: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/opinion/trump-deep-state-schedule-f.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShareTheses on Feuerbach: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htmCriticism of Tacoma ship blockade: https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/the-boat-that-wasnt-blocked/Song: Gary Numan - OH! 2025

We visit Argentina, where the extremely online anarcho-capitalist Bolsonarista and MAGA Chud Javier Milei has just been elected their new president. Will it be a return to the Anti-communist dictatorship of the 70s and 80s, the neoliberal dollarization era of the 90s, or will it turn Argentina into one big AnarchApulco?To find out, Andy interviews members of anarchist-communist collective based in the Biblioteca y Archivo Alberto Ghiraldo from Rosario, Argentina. Recently they put out a new text on the Milei phenomenon called Contra el liberalismo y sus falsos criticos, or Against Liberalism and its False Critics.They are also involved with the journal Cuadernos de Negacion, and the newsletter La Oveja Negra.Talkin’ Tina! is the Antifada side project about the politics of America Latina! See all our back episodes here and subscribe to our patreon to support the show!Other texts mentioned:Wenüy. For the rebellious memory of Santiago MaldonadoLead and smoke. The business of Capital: https://lazoediciones.blogspot.com/2022/12/la-oveja-negra-plomo-y-humo-el-negocio.htmlOveja Negra no. 89, from September 2023Interview extracts from Bloombeg and Daily CallerSong: Guerra a la Burguesia, Tango Anarquista de 1901

Shadowy Antifa spokesperson and podcaster Jamie Peck returns to tell us about the Block Cop City action this week in Atlanta, and what comes next for the movement against Cop Cities in Atlanta and everywhere.Support the show by becoming a patron at http://patreon.com/theantifadaCoverage on Block Cop City: Natasha Lennard: https://theintercept.com/2023/11/15/cop-city-protest-police-atlanta-tear-gas/?NDN Collective: https://twitter.com/ndncollectiveJoin a weelaunee defense society: https://www.stopcopcitysolidarity.org/wdsSupport Stop Cop City political prisoners: https://www.stopcopcitysolidarity.org/free-the-weelaunee-political-prisonersWrite Victor Puertas: https://itsgoingdown.org/a-note-from-victor-on-indigenous-peoples-day/Biden's call on Cop City with Andrew Dickens: https://twitter.com/hannahcrileyy/status/1709363361618514368​​NYC's Cop City: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/17/nyregion/950-million-police-academy-simulates-the-mean-streets.htmlTurn-in day horrors: https://twitter.com/hannahcrileyy/status/1721521127044915527 https://twitter.com/juliaxdupuis/status/1721510393091133591Jamie's review of George Floyd Uprising book: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thinking-was-for-later-movement-was-for-now-on-the-vortex-groups-george-floyd-uprising/Everybody Loves Communism: https://www.patreon.com/everybodylovescommunismWoke Mob: https://www.youtube.com/@TheWokeMobSong: Bloc Party - Helicopter