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PREVIEW - Killer Cops and Killer Investments Sep 18, 2020

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Sean and Jamie stick around to talk about Louisville finally forced to admit civil culpability in Breonna Taylor's murder and humongous private equity firm Blackrock making a bet on the bottom of the rental market with its recent mobile-home park investment.

Outro: Spits - Police

Ep 113 - When Prairie Socialists Go MAGA & ICE's Eugenics Program Sep 17, 2020

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Jamie and Sean discuss what they've been reading and break down some news of the day: QAnon in Congress, the political transformation of a town in PA, and ICE's eugenics program. Just another fun, chill episode about rising fascism.

Sorry this went up late, we aren't feeling very well. :(

Bonus on killer cops (and killer investments) out Friday, 9/18

Outro music: Big Black - Jordan, Minnesota

Rest in power, David Graeber (1961-2020)

BONUS: Punk may actually be dead this time w/ Brace Belden (PREVIEW) Sep 11, 2020

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Brace sticks around to talk about our punk origin stories, the pros and cons of a tribal subculture like punk, the death of Maximum Rock N' Roll, if punk has a future, and late-era Black Flag

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Ep 112: The Belden Program w/ Brace Belden Sep 09, 2020

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Sean and Andy are joined with Brace from @trueanonpod to talk workers power, past and present: how unions are still central, how communist organizers like Harry Bridges, leader of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, exercised this power in the past, and how we can fight to bring it back today. We end with a call to Build The (not necessary electoral) Party.

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Outro music: Harry Bridges - Rancid

Talkin' 'Tina 3 - The 18th Brumaire of Macho Camacho w/ José Lastra Zorrilla (Preview) Sep 04, 2020

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On this edition of the Antifada side project on the politics of Latin America, we discuss the political situation in Bolivia, where last year riots against a supposed voter fraud lead to a coup of far-right evangelicals. Since then, they have massacred protesters, clamped down on free speech, and cancelled election after election. Spanish historian José Lastra Zorrilla uses the method of analysis of Marx's 18 Brumaire describe the origins of the coup, the failures of Morales and MAS, and how the Bolivian campesinos and workers continue to struggle against the new regime, even as the pandemic rages.

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For the original article and other works by Zorrilla: https://libcom.org/library/bolivia-s-18th-brumaire

Ep 111 - Pigs And Cows Have All The Luck Sep 02, 2020

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Sean and Jamie break down the tragic news out of Los Angeles, Kenosha and Portland, then broaden out the discussion to theories of political violence and revolutionary organization (and spontaneity). What is the least LARP-y line a communist might take in this day and age? Also: Down with eco-yogic slumlords!

In the second half, Jamie speaks with three worker/organizers about the union-busting activities of No Evil Foods, a vegan food company with radical branding but extremely capitalist labor practices. What's up with faux-cialist scabs naming things after the Zapatistas?!

Follow our soy-slinging comrades at MoEvilFoods.com, @BirdieGregson and @MoEvilFoods on Twitter, and @soevilfoods and @moevilfoods2 on Instagram.

Outro music: Gorilla Biscuits - Cats and Dogs

ep 110 - The Black Radical Tradition (Part 2) w/ Kazembe Balagun Aug 28, 2020

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We continue to discuss the black radical tradition with Kazembe Balagun. In this episode we cover marxist feminists Angela Davis and Claudia Jones. We finish with a few questions about the continuation of these struggles into BLM and the George Floyd uprising, including a certain infamously cancelled Zoom call.

Many of the texts in question can be found in the Communist Research Cluster Black Radical Tradition reader: https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2020/06/02/black-revolutionaries-in-the-united-states/

Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf

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Idris Robinson Red May speech: https://illwilleditions.com/how-it-might-should-be-done/

Closing song: Elaine Brown - Until We're Free

ep 110 - The Black Radical Tradition (Part 1) w/ Kazembe Balagun Aug 26, 2020

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This week we bring you a two part series on the American black radical tradition. Joined by educator and activist Kazembe Balagun we discuss some of the fundamental questions of black marxism and revolution leading to the current day. In this episode we talk about the Haitian revolution, Harriet Tubman, WEB Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Harry Haywood, CLR James and the Johnson Forest Tendency, James and Grace Lee Boggs, DRUM, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and the Black Panther Party.

Many of the texts in question can be found in the Communist Research Cluster Black Radical Tradition reader: https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2020/06/02/black-revolutionaries-in-the-united-states/

Other referenced texts:

CLR James and Grace Lee Boggs - Facing Reality https://libcom.org/files/James%20-%20Facing%20Reality.pdf

Finally Got the News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FarGHAO7h-c

Excellent analysis of Huey P Newton's conception of intercommunalism: https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/06/11/intercommunalism-the-late-theorizations-of-huey-p-newton-chief-theoretician-of-the-black-panther-party/

https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/06/11/intercommunalism-1974/

Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation by Angela Davis - https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/davispoprprblli.html

Viewpoint Mag reader on whiteness:

https://www.viewpointmag.com/2020/08/05/beyond-guilt-and-privilege-abolishing-the-white-race/

Closing song: Joe L. Carter - Please Mr. Foreman

Ep 109 - The ICE Bae Cometh Aug 19, 2020

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OG Antifadas Jamie and Sean plunk down on the podcasting couch for a light chat about two topical topics: the USPS and fascism.

How worker struggle created the modern USPS and how the Democrats shot themselves in the ass with decades of bipartisan attacks on it. Oh no, ICE Bae has an Onlyfans. Fascism: how does it work? Fascism and neoliberalism. Is Trump a fascist? Is Amerikkka? Various thinkers' attempts to define the big F. Maybe the real fascism was the enemies we made along the way.

Article Jamie referenced on fascist economics: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-supermanagerial-reich/

Outro song: The Postal Service - Brand New Colony

Antisocial Distancing w/ Virgil Texas (Preview) Aug 14, 2020

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More discussion of these strange times: partying in the age of Corona, the government's handling of the crisis vis a vis the working class', the international bourgeoisie's quest for stability, and Virgil's plan for abolishing the police and prisons.

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Closing song: Tim Heidecker - Cain is Able

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