The Antifada

Good friend and all-around badass Tash rolls through once again to talk about her forthcoming essay collection from Verso Books, 'Being Numerous: Essays On Non-Fascist Life.' We discuss anti-fascism in theory and practice, the promise and pitfalls of radical love, and the role of capital and the state in ratifying and distorting our desires, and whatever the opposite of "enforced monogamy" is. We also try not to have a take on the Notre Dame fire, but ultimately cannot help ourselves. C'est la vie! To access bonus episodes, our Discord server and more you can patronize us at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada Check out 'Being Numerous,' available May 1st: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2949-being-numerous The episode of Regrettable Century on post-fascism we mentioned: http://bit.ly/2KY1b3W Outro music: Cellular Chaos, 'James Baldwin' https://cellularchaos.bandcamp.com/track/james-baldwin

This weekend was the biennial blast that is the Historical Materialism (@histmat) Conference NYC. Naturally, we took the opportunity to attend some panels and interview old friends and new. Several we interviewed tipsy in an NYC public school and others we talked to rather drunk at the @commune_mag loft down by the railroad tracks. A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL FAMOUS LEFTISTS: George Ciccariello-Maher (@ciccmar) on the coup in Venezuela Jasper Bernes (@outsidadicator) on communization Michelle O'Brien (NYC Trans Oral History Project) on abolishing the bourgeois family Callum Cant (callumcant1) & Jamie Woodcock (@jamie_woodcock) on workers inquiry, militant unionism in the UK and V I D E O G A M E S Malav Kanuga (@CommonNotions) on why Niral Shah is #canceled Shyam Khanna (@dollarpizza1) on the joys of sects Virgil Texas (@menswearhouse) finally coming clean about his political tendency For bonus content, access to our Discord and more become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada Support everyone!!! communemag.com/subscribe www.versobooks.com/books/2337-building-the-commune patreon.com/notesfrombelow www.commonnotions.org/ www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/vx021f35z www.gameworkersunite.org/

Massive spoiler alert on this one, baby! @leslieleeiii of your favorite leftist culture podcast @strugglesesh joins the crew (in studio!) to talk about Jordan Peele's sophomore offering, the blockbuster social-critique/horror film 'Us'. Sean, Jamie and Andy offer their weird opinions on the deeper meaning of the film... then Leslie, as always, schools everyone with his vast cinematic knowledge. Fun and talking shit on Breitbart happens along the way! To access this and other bonuses, along with our Discord server and other goodies, become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada If you're foolish enough to not be a patron of Struggle Session, atone for your sins at www.patreon.com/strugglesession

When @brettpain and @murderbryan from @streetfightwcrs are in town for their epic live show what the hell were we gonna do? Not have them on Antifada to talk workers inquiry, kratom and small business tyrants? Fat chance, bosses... Early access for patrons! If, for some strange reason, you're not an avid listener to America's #1 anarcho-comedy radio show here's a link: http://www.streetfightradio.com/ Please support the local work of Columbus, Ohio comrades at https://actionnetwork.org/groups/peoples-justice-project Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada

@commune_mag editor Shyam @dollarpizza1 joins us for what was meant to be a friendly chat about Issue 2 of Antifada's favorite publication... then things went horribly wrong. Is Shyam cancelled? Tune in to find out. To listen to this and other bonus content, along with access to our Discord server, consider supporting our work at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada Subscribe to Commune Magazine today at https://communemag.com/subscribe/ to get great analysis and help make a communism or two.

After a quick lesson on Fugazinomics, we talk with Parisian Rona Lorimer, author of the Yellow Vest Diaries from the new issue Commune Magazine, about the origins of the Gilet Jaunes movement, its politics and potentials. [Note: in the intro Sean confuses the Provos (Irish Republicans) with the Ulster Volunteer Forces (anti-Catholic, loyalist murderers) like an idiot. Big apologies to all on the screw up!] Read Rona's article here: https://communemag.com/yellow-vest-diaries/ We mention/stole a title from this: http://ill-will-editions.tumblr.com/post/182503015824/full-metal-yellow-jacket-al%C3%A8ssi-dellumbria There's so much talk about we unfortunately barely make it past December, so please check out these updates from our comrades in France: A lot of translated material here: https://yellowvests.wtf/ https://yellowvests.wtf/media-archive http://ill-will-editions.tumblr.com/post/183586570914/paris-is-ours-acta-collective-2019-first http://dialectical-delinquents.com/france/france-2019-2018/ For French readers: https://lundi.am/ Support us on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theantifada Closing music: D1ST1 - Gilet Jaunes

Third-time (!) guest @niralshah jumps in to help us bang through some recent cancellations: Rachel Maddow, Barbara Streisand, the International Socialist Org... and Great Britain as a viable/sane bourgeois democratic state. Since we couldn't get any limeys to come on and talk UK politics, we had to do our best to Yank-splain what the hell is happening on the other side of the pond: Why is a Brexit? What's at stake in this slow-motion train wreck for Corbyn and the left? How come - as Jordan Peterson would say - the whole thing is crazy? As usual, it's the political-economy, stupid. You can support our podcast at www.patreon.com/theantifada Novara Media has been our go-to leftist outlet for UK news/analysis, support them here: https://novaramedia.com/ This is the great Paul Mason 'Tysky Sour' ep we mention: https://bit.ly/2uuI0U7 Outro - Destructors - Fuck the E.U.

We are joined by cartoonist, writer and all-around provocateur @elivalley to talk about his work, including recent online run-ins with fellow Jewish luminaries Ben Shapiro, Meghan McCain and Chelsea Clinton. Eli discusses the ways in which his art lampoons the fraught and contentious relationship between Israeli/Christian Zionists and the largely liberal/leftist Jewish diaspora. Lots of good talk in here about xenophobic right-wing forces abroad allying with Likudniks and Kahanists in Israel, the war over Jewish identity, and the contradictions that lie at the heart of the Zionist project. We also address the Christchurch massacre and how the Shapiros of the world are going to deal with a certain presidential candidate from Vermont. Please listen until the end as we remember Raghav Mehta, a comrade and compatriot who tragically passed away last week. Transition Music: Shalom Hanoch - Moshiach Lo Ba Outro Music: Mystic Inane - Eggs Onna Plate

Once more into the breach! @cushbomb is here to make history all the more weapony. In this episode, we discuss the 'controversial' French 'novel' that is 'just asking questions' about the Migrant Invasion, the Great Replacement, and Yt Genocide. How did a 1970s book by some grenouille asshole named Jean Raspail become a prophetic lodestar for an ascendant white nationalist movement? How does a historical materialist analysis help us understand why dickheads like Steve Bannon and Marine Le Pen are lauding this novel 50 years later? Ultimately, we ask wtf is up with French politics/development that they could vomit up filth so enduring as to still be 'relevant' in 2019? We read it so you don't have to... Note: this was going to be released as a premium episode for patrons, but in light of the white nationalist terror attack in NZ on 3/15/19 we decided to release it early. Hopefully this ep might help provide context for this horrific massacre and the ones that will surely come unless we collectively confront the wellspring of this reactionary ideology.

Jamie had a birthday weekend. Andy came back from Mexico. After the gang caught up a little, we listened to some interviews Andy got from migrants and their supporters in Tijuana, MX. The stories are heartbreaking and the situation is dire, but we give some practical advice on how to show solidarity with working class brothers and sisters in desperate need of political and material support. Enclave Caracol - https://enclavecaracol.wordpress.com/ Al Otro Lado - https://alotrolado.org/who-we-are/ Support the Comedor! http://gofundme.com/tijuana-kitchen More info on solidarity with the caravan: http://commotion.world Interlude - Distorted Head Outro - Death Grips "Guillotine"