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Ex-Militant of the Homosexual Front of Revolutionary Action (FHAR) Lola Mieseroff is our guest on this installment of the Antifada sideproject on the revolutionary culture of the sixties. We talk about growing up in gay South France in the sixties, her experience in May '68 and after, the resonance of Stonewall, what it meant to be a pro-situ and her run-in, with Debord, the revolutionary politics of homosexuality and queerness, her relationship with Guy Hocquenhghem and the rest of the revolutionary left, and her perspectives on the queer revolutionary movements today, right-wing reaction, the potential of revolution in these bleak times, and the phrase "Be Gay, Do Crime"For all back episodes of ARMED LOVE check our Collections Page and support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifadaBuy FAG HAG from PM Press: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1501Your Place or Mine? A 21st Century Essay on (Same) Sex by Gilles Dauvé: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1270Baedan Journal: https://baedan.noblogs.org/The Screwball Asses by Guy Hocquenghem: https://selforganizedseminar.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/hocqueghem_screwball_asses.pdf Lola's first book, Voyage en outre Gauche: https://books.google.com/books/about/Voyage_en_outre_gauche.html?id=xRRSDwAAQBAJSong: Chant du FHAR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BGHWw6wsmc

In part two of our discussion on the essay Forest and Factory, we foray into fourierism and the whimsical world of life under global communism. Topics include: the mushroom mafia, nomadic pleasure duels, gender orgies, capitalist fantasy camp, and communist santa!For the full episode, sign up on patreon!If you sign up at the at the discounted $10/month annual membership and DM your address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions by Andy and many past and future friends of the show!

What will production, consumption, supply chains, and climate policy on a global scale look like under communism? Phil Neel and Nick Chavez has published a compelling vision of the future in their Endnotes essay Forest and FactoryAlso check out Nick Chavez's piece Technical Expertise and Communist Production in Brooklyn RailFor part 2 of the episode, sign up on patreon!If you sign up at the at the discounted $10/month annual membership and DM your address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions by Andy and many past and future friends of the show!Song: The Cure - A Forest (Tree Remix)

News episode! We start 2024 by talking about Houthis and global shipping, the Uniparty, the Harvard presidency, and the backlash against Pro-Palestinian protesters as part of the broader backlash against progressive liberalism.*NEW YEARS PROMOTION!* Sign up or upgrade your membership at the discounted $10/month annual membership and DM your address on Patreon for a free postage paid copy of the PM Press George Floyd Uprising book, with contributions by Andy and many past and future friends of the show!Or sign up at any level at http://patreon.com/theantifadaNotes: Crisis on the seas: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/business/red-sea-shipping-houthi.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShareE. Minassian on Gaza: https://brooklynrail.org/2023/12/field-notes/Gaza-An-Extreme-Militarization-of-the-Class-WarGlobal reordering on formerly tense borders: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/business/china-russia-trade.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShareSong: Hounds of Hate - Wages of Sin

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