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Independent Labor Assembly 4: Trump, Tariffs and the Working Class Apr 04, 2025

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This is a recording of the ILC's fourth public assembly at Woodbine Space in Queens on March 29th, 2025 featuring Cyrus Cappo of John Jay College CUNY, Daniel Jacobs of Sublation/Platypus Affiliated and Ryan Castello of the Maoist Communists Union.

For more info on the Independent Labor Club of North America-including upcoming events, how to join, how to start a chapter, etc-visit the website at https://ilclabor.com/

Song: Dodos - Trades and Tariffs

E284 - Betar, then Ezra w/ Eli Valley (Part 1) Mar 31, 2025

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To listen to the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Political cartoonist and writer Eli Valley joins us to talk about his new book Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque, another Senate Antisemitism hearings, the future of the Israeli-American fascist alliance, and a bit about AI, Jabotinski, Betar, and Ezra Klein's Abundance agenda.

In the fun half we talk about Eli's pre-cartoonist life giving tours in Europe and the movie A Real Pain, and where Eli draws the line with his political imagery.

To listen to the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Buy Museum of Degenerates from O/R Books: https://orbooks.com/catalog/museum-of-degenerates/

Song: Mad Magazine Off-Broadway Musical - Hate Song

E283- Once Upon a Time in Aragua (Part 2) Mar 28, 2025

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Preview of Part 2 in which we talk more with Jarrod and Zhana about the pitfalls of performatively moving on from identity politics, the Bukele-prison model of the fascist future, the historical anti-revolutionary basis of the 1798 Enemy Aliens Act, how a union protection racket in Chavez's Venezuela became the gang Trumpists believed were poised to takeover major metro regions of the United States, and why we should've been siding with the "woke left" all along.

To listen to the episode and all our bonus content support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

E283 - Prison Planet w/ Jarrod Shanahan, Zhana Kurti (Part 1) Mar 24, 2025

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Jarrod and Zhana return to talk about their new book "Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City"! We look at how the liberal apparatus used identity politics and divert the abolitionist movement to expand incarceration, and check in how the De Blasio-era plan to closer rikers and replace it with four "community" "justice hubs" has fared under the anti-Woke era of the Adams administration.

Lastly, we talk about the the recent "Wildcat" CO strike in state prisons as a broader effort to roll back the reforms of the BLM and other anticarceral struggles, as a preview of the dark plans for expanded incarceration of the Trump 2.0

In part 2 of the episode we talk about the counter-revolutoinary history of Tren de Aragua and the Enemy Aliens Act of 1798. to hear it, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

BUY the book from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2454-skyscraper-jails

Adams on new Manhattan jail developments: https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2025/01/18/rikers-manhattan-jail-contract

More info on MH jail redesign: https://newyorkyimby.com/2025/01/new-preliminary-renderings-revealed-for-manhattan-detention-center-at-124-125-white-street-in-chinatown-manhattan.html

Jarrod on upstate prison strike: https://truthout.org/articles/nys-prison-guard-strike-has-roots-in-decades-of-racialized-deindustrialization/

Aziz Rana on Consitutional Crisis: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/constitutional-collapse

Our early episode with Nadja Guyot from No New Jails: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-69-abolish-w-30401262

Song: Cock Sparrer - Out on an Island

AI Caramba 2: Crap Fartman vs Ned Ludd w/ Jathan Sadowski Mar 17, 2025

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Our artificial intelligence miniseries returns with a guest spot by This Machine Kills cohost, Jathan Sadowski, about his brand new second book The Mechanic and the Luddite: a Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism.

For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Song: Manuel Göttsching - E2 - E4

&&& - Minne&polis Te&mster Strike of 19&4 Mar 12, 2025

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Audio from a Twitch stream in which &ers & &y go through the history of the Minneapolis General Strike of 1934 and reflect on what lessons we can take from it as we approach the National Strike on May 1, 2028

If you like what we do support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Past episode of &&&: https://www.patreon.com/collection/500909

https://libcom.org/article/minneapolis-teamsters-strike-1934-jeremy-brecher

https://www.marxists.org/glossary/events/m/i.htm#minneapolis-teamsters-strikes

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/usa/mpls01.htm

https://cosmonautmag.com/2022/05/setting-the-record-straight-on-the-trotskyist-led-1934-minneapolis-teamsters-strike-the-teamsters-bureaucracy-its-aftermath/

Closing song: Tex Williams - Teamster Power

E282 - Garveyism 1 w/ John Garvey Mar 05, 2025

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Sean is joined by old friend, John Garvey, to introduce our new miniseries: Garveyism! In this first episode we discuss some current events--the Ukrainian War as seen from Brighton Beach, horse racing subsidies and working class social life, and the first month of the Trump Administration. The series will continue monthly with bonus episodes featuring John talking about his experience in (and against) the New Left, prospects for class power in the current epoch and lessons learned in organizing in NYC over the last fifty years or so.

To access the bonus portion of this episode and much more become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Music: King Tubby - John Garvey Dub

Dr. Alimantado - Marcus Garvey School

E281 - Remember the Alamo Workers w/ NYC Alamo United Feb 24, 2025

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Sean and Andy chat with a worker organizer at one of the three Alamo Drathouse locations striking against seasonal firings. We cover how Barbenheimer weekend inspired the union effort, frustrating interactions with management, the weird subterranean Wall Street location, some ancient NYC organizing history, service sector organizing, and how a worker-run theater could make the nerdy-niche "experience" far better.

All links for union press statements and fundraisers: https://beacons.ai/nycalamounited https://cwa-union.org/news/workers-alamo-drafthouse-fight-back-against-unfair-firings

Alamo now functionally BYOB: https://x.com/cleverrgirrl/status/1891656861939650579

Audio: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGGgjriua4s/

Song: Dolly Parton - 9 to 5

E280: Imagining the Burger Reich w/ Phil Neel Feb 17, 2025

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Hinterland author Phil Neel returns to explain value-form to an American by asking us to imagine a burger.

Listen to the full episode by joining our paid or free membership tiers at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Phil Neel's burger essays: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/12/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh/

https://brooklynrail.org/2025/02/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh-2/

Cuban hamburgerismo: https://www.sm28.org/articles/j11-the-return-of-the-cuban-proletariat/

Song: Tyler the Creator - Burger

E279: What's going on? Feb 10, 2025

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NEWS EP! We sort out the class forces behind the Muskite restructuring underway, the meaning of the tariff trade war, and argue for why we should stay partisans of woke.

For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Ganz: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happened-here-c9f

Nolan: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dark-times-are-coming

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