The Antifada

We're joined by Portland, Oregon organizers to talk about the revolutionary politics there over the last 25 years and related writings by Don Hamerquist of the Sojourner Truth Organization and Three Way Fight. Among other things we cover the IWW-initiated Burgerville Union, the battle of Longview, Occupy, massive black blocs following the 2020 George Floyd Uprising, state repression, and the mysterious George Sakai.Hear the full episode by supporting the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaMeet Luis and Amelia TODAY (6/21/23) at Word is Change bookstore for a discussion on the book with John Garvey and Mike Morgan from Hard Crackers MagazineBurgerville stuff: https://labornotes.org/blogs/2023/01/viewpoint-burgerville-workers-lessons-independent-unionshttps://bvwu.iww.org/https://nwlaborpress.org/Hamerquist stuff: Buy A Brilliant Read Thread: The Revolutionary Writings of Don Hamerquist https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/don-hamerquist http://www.unityandstruggle.org/tag/don-hamerquist/ Song: Coach & Ref - Longview

A news roundup--we start by talking about Sean's psychedelic encounter with a woke Civil War statue, the recent Supreme Court decisions on the Voting Rights Act and Teamsters, the West Coast port shutdowns and dynamics of portworker labor in the US, and the upcoming UPS strike as a potential opening salvo of the final battle of organized labor. We then discuss the recent trans panic in light of the history of queer liberation, and our cis blindspot on the issue.For the full episode, in which we discuss the legacy of Ted K in US anarchism, and a related analysis of AI, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaWest coast port slowdown links: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/06/05/tmau-j05.htmlhttps://lbbusinessjournal.com/ports/2-container-terminals-at-port-of-long-beach-closed-monday-at-least-1-to-be-closed-tuesday/https://www.axios.com/2023/06/06/whats-behind-work-stoppages-at-west-coast-portshttps://www.supplychainconnect.com/news-trends/article/21267198/west-coast-port-strike-update UPS strike: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/12/business/teamsters-ups-strike-possibility/index.htmlZerzan - Whose Unabomber? https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/john-zerzan-whose-unabomber NYT AI article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/technology/ai-humanity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Song: Marilyn Manson - Astonishing Panorama of End Times

As we take the week off to celebrate the marriage of Sean and Rax, enjoy this classic bonus from our 2019 trip to the UK to visit the Trash lads and drink many horrible cans of lager and read James Kirkup's dystopian fanfic "How the Lib Dems could seize power."Read along: https://unherd.com/2019/07/how-the-lib-dems-could-seize-power/Listen to all our drunken bonus material and contribute to the KB honeymoon fund: https://www.patreon.com/theantifada

For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifadaC. Derick Varn is back to discuss Sean's new article on China. What is the political economy of China? Was the 1949 revolution betrayed by capitalist roaders? What were the patterns of development that brought it into the world market? Should China be defended as a socialist project? Is it a model worth emulating? Lastly, does the working class of China, or anywhere for that matter, have a role to play still in history or will the future be market technocracy and slow growth forever?'Sean's substack article (free): https://seankb.substack.com/p/whither-chinaAudio recording of article available for patrons on patreon

Communist philosopher Søren Mau chats with us about his new book Mute Compulsion, an introduction to Marx's thought on the nature of economic domination under capitalism.Support us on our Patreon: http://patreon.com/theantifadaWilliam Clare Roberts' review in Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2023/03/mute-compulsion-soren-mau-book-reviewJasper Bernes essay on Revolutionary motives: https://endnotes.org.uk/articles/revolutionary-motives.pdfSong: Royksopp - Compulsion

STRIKE UPDATE! SEIU, WGA, AFL-CIO, PNWSU, MLBPA! Degrowth vs. workers' movement, WGA strike and culture production, the Player's Revolt against the National League, immanent critique of culture war, extinction rebellion as the zombie New Left, and much more!For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaAPOLOGIES for the echoey/murmury audio stuff. I messed up and i won't do it again :(AFL-CIO support Willow Project: -https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/bidens-decision-massive-alaska-oil-project-determine-climate-future-labor-presWGA Updates: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/los-angeles-hospitality-union-backs-writers-strike-1235483737/ https://www.vulture.com/2023/05/wga-2023-writers-strike-news-updates-day-10.htmlAndrea Vetter clip discussed on Left Reckoning: https://twitter.com/LeftReckoning/status/1653101121429200901Blue Bird EV buses unionize: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/us/politics/clean-energy-unions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShareRobert B. Ross - The Great Players' RevoltSong: 100 Gecs - Dumbest Girl Alive

At long last, Middle East historian Djene Bajalon of This Is Revolution talks with Sean and Andy about affairs international and internecine. Topics include: London vs Hull, Labor vs Tory, the deep fakes and stonings of the Turkish election, the way Turkish culture wars mask the class war, Erdogan and anti-imperialism, And in the second half for subscribers: Twitter files, Rojava update, autonomous regions and communism, Post-Bernie leftism, DEI for imperialism, and a sip of Sublation tea.Song: Mean Jeans - I Don't Care

David A. Banks, author of The City Authentic and co-host of the upstate-urbanist podcast Iron Weeds describes the rural gentrification of upstate New York and how the commodification of authenticity works. We also talk about the anti-work assault on the New College of Florida;For the full episode where we talk about upstate cults like Nxium support the show at patreon.com/theantifadaCigarettes After Sex - Apocalypse.

For full episode: http://patreon.com/theantifadaWe check in with labor reporter Alex Press about the Sean vanguard emerging in the UAW and Teamsters, if the the unions are moving left and if the left is moving closer to the working class, recent updates from Amazon, Starbucks, and Trader Joe's unionization drives, cross-border solidarity with Mexican and US autoworkers, reflections of striketober and the great resignation, something interesting Andy found in the trash, and much more!Articles by Alex Press:https://jacobin.com/2023/03/uaw-convention-bargaining-shawn-fain-reformhttps://jacobin.com/2023/03/amazon-third-party-sellers-small-businesseshttps://jacobin.com/2023/02/strike-increases-us-labor-movement-2022-statisticshttps://www.thenation.com/article/archive/construction-union-hudson-yards/https://newrepublic.com/article/153044/big-techs-unholy-alliance-pentagonhttps://jewishcurrents.org/from-the-ashes-of-the-oldhttps://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/01/nyregion/turbulent-labor-rally-snarls-midtown.htmlSong: The Press - Revolution Now!

Author and fellow Occupy-vet Malcolm Harris joins us to talk about his cursed hometown of Palo Alto and the many evil spirits that haunts it--mainly, Herbert Hoover.Buy the book at https://www.paloaltobook.com/Support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifadaSong: Radiohead - Palo Alto