The Antifada

Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti of Hard Crackers Journal inaugurate our new era of unrest! We talk about the origins of the journal in the white abolitionist work of Noel Ignatiev, race treason in the George Floyd uprising, and finally the January 6th Capitol Siege and how the left can take insurrectionism back from the trumpist pretenders. Read, order, and/or donate to Hard Crackers at https://hardcrackers.com/ Subscribe for bonus content and Discord access at Patreon.com/TheAntifada Work by Jarrod and Zhana: https://brooklynrail.org/2020/07/field-notes/Prelude-to-a-Hot-American-Summer https://hardcrackers.com/the-big-takeover/ https://hardcrackers.com/last-stand-freedom-america/ https://hardcrackers.com/stopthesteal/ https://hardcrackers.com/remembering-noel-ignatiev-jarrod-shanahan/ https://hardcrackers.com/white-people-discussion-race-class-police-violence/ Opening music: Second South Carolina String Band - Hard Crackers Come Again No More Closing music: Blood for Blood - White Trash Anthem

Jamie is joined by Aaron Thorpe (@posadist_trapgd) of Trillbilly Workers Party and A Time Of Monsters and Andray Domise (@andraydomise) of The Drop Squad on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to discuss the first volume of Barack O'bummer's serial killer memoir "A Promised Land." What is 44 trying to do here? Is he Lena Dunham, Walter White, or a perfect synthesis of both? And what's so bad about going to therapy that men will literally run for president to avoid it? Apologies for the poor sound quality on Jamie's end, she forgot to check the input settings and feels very bad. The Drop Squad: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-drop-squad/id1523282652 A Time Of Monsters: https://www.patreon.com/atompod Trillbillies: https://soundcloud.com/user-972848621-463073718 Aaron's substack: https://spacelight.substack.com/ Become a member at patreon.com/theantifada to unlock bonus content and our Discord community!

Our guests from episode 127 stick around to discus a topic that's floating around more and more these days: civil war. What does the 1861-65 conflict and its aftermath tell us about the role that the proletariat must take in the coming months and years? And what are the stakes of the coming rupture? Become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada today Outro: Pete Seeger - John Brown's Body

Our friends Arturo and Shemon stop by to discuss the George Floyd rebellion and how it might go from a series of isolated insurrections to a glorious proletarian revolution. Radical geography, looting caravans, white accomplices, organized labor, and the black counter-insurgency as viewed through a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air lens. Stay tuned for Friday's bonus in which we discuss the chud riot at the capitol and what lessons we can take from the American Civil War. Articles referenced: https://illwilleditions.com/theses-on-the-george-floyd-rebellion/ https://illwilleditions.com/the-rise-of-black-counter-insurgency/ https://illwilleditions.com/the-return-of-john-brown-white-race-traitors-in-the-2020-uprising/ https://illwilleditions.com/prelude-to-a-new-civil-war/ https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/cars-riots-black-liberation https://itsgoingdown.org/fire-on-main-street-small-cities-in-the-george-floyd-uprising/ Outro song: Dj Screw - Sittin on Top of the World (Big Floyd aka George Floyd verse) Become a member at Patreon.com/TheAntifada to unlock bonus content and our Discord community!

Douglas Lain of Zer0 Books chats with us slightly youngsters about zines, indymedia, adbusters anti-globalization, anti-war, and the world this radicalism has left us with. Was it all radical liberalism or did 2008 break part of the counterculture towards a revolutionary path? For the full episode support us at Patreon.com/TheAntifada Closing song: Jimmy Buffet - Cheeserburger in Paradise

Cushbomb comes by our weekly Wednesday twitch show to talk about the chud invasion of the capital. Was it a grassroots uprising, an attempt coup, or a color revolution in the making? How should the left respond? For the full podcast and all our bonus material support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada Also joining us was french-based comrade Henry J Wallis and Remi from Cosmonaut Magazine and the Marxist Center For more with Henry and Remi watch the full stream free: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/864250811 And follow/subscribe to our Twitch channel!

The editor of Zer0 Books and host of Zer0 Squared talks about his recent video that was too hot for Youtube. What is "the Great Reset," what does Christopher Lasch's "The Revolt of the Elites" have to say about (via Paul Sweezy and the Johnson-Forest Tendency), and how did that critique not go far enough? We also discuss Doug's sectarian background and new media strategies for the left in general. Watch the banned video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/christopher-paul-44266732 Another good convo on Lasch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1zO1SAdCRE Support the show at http://Patreon.com/TheAntifada And check out our Twitch streams on Monday, Weds, and Friday nights around 7 pm EST at Twitch.tv/TheAntifada Closing song: Brockhampton - Weight

Jamie and Andy sit down with the great Marxist historian, author, activist and urban theorist Mike Davis to review the year that was. Topics include the California wildfires, the Covid-19 pandemic, the George Floyd uprising, and that wet fart of an election. Why is everything so terrible and what should anti-capitalist organizers be focusing on going into 2021? All will be revealed. Articles referenced: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii126/articles/mike-davis-trench-warfare https://lithub.com/how-a-pandemic-happens-we-knew-this-was-coming/ https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/california-fire-drought-climate/ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-arellano-malibu-burn-20181114-story.html Outro song: Michael Martin Murphy - Wildfire Become a member at Patreon.com/TheAntifada to unlock tons of bonus content and our Discord community!

Santa visits us to deck the halls with boughs of... holly. We talk about the left "negationists" and their defenders like Noam Chomsky, the Faurrison affair and connection with current culture wars about free speech, and the Bordigist critique at their heart of their milieu. Scholar of religious discrimination Dave Silverberg then presents his thesis that Marx's On the Jewish Question is misread as an antisemitic text. Finally, we draw some conclusions about labor party expulsions and other contemporary controversies surrounding antisemitism. Merry Christmas! Original Bordigist essay: http://libcom.org/library/auschwitz-big-alibi Introduction to French Ultra-Left and Faurisson: https://libcom.org/library/john-gray-introduction-question-state Thread on Bordiga, Dauve, Guillaume and Auschwitz: https://libcom.org/forums/theory/bordigism-anti-fascism-01032012 Anti-semitism and National Socialism - Moishe Postone https://libcom.org/library/anti-semitism-national-socialism-moishe-postone Closing song: Weird Al - The Night Santa Went Crazy

In order to discuss the appalling ways that poor white people are portrayed in the United States, we had to have on Tarence (@tarenceray) from the Trillbilly Workers Party. We all watched JD Vance's execrable 'Hillbilly Elegy' so you don't have to. Out of this came a great discussion about deindustrialization, rural poverty, the opioid epidemic and media portrayals of that figure of derision and fear, 'the white working class'. What changes to US political economy caused widespread immiseration over the last 50 years in places like Appalachia? How have politics failed the workers in these communities? And what dark visions do the Charles Murrays and JD Vances of the world have for a solution to the rural poverty problem? Outro song: Total Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Heart - Bonnie Dauvé Become a member at Patreon.com/TheAntifada to access bonus content and our Discord community!