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I love the Tens pt. 3 w/ Simone Norman, Jake Flores Jan 08, 2020

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We close out our three-part recap of the decade that was with 2015-now. Jake gives his grand unified theory of the black and blue dress (or is it white and gold?!). Rachel Dolezal. Trump's epic pwnage of Hillary Clinton and us, and the even more embarrassing rise of the #resistance. The libs go un poco loco. Mask off time. The gang gets sincere. And more.

Thanks for all your support this decade, fam!

Closing song: Drake - Headlines

BONUS: I Love the Tens pt. 2: Simone's 2014 Jan 03, 2020

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Ebola, the Fappening, ISIS, The Ice Bucket Challenge, #Doom. Simpler times: 2014!

Listen to the full episode at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Ep. 80 - I Love the Tens! pt. 1 w/ Jake Flores, Simone Norman Jan 01, 2020

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Obamacare! Occupy! The Tea Party! Taylor Swift! ISIS!!!!!! An epochal Antifada spectacular! The whole crew + Jake and Simone take on the decade year by year. In Part 1 we go from 2009-2013. Simone's 2014 will be released Friday, and we get caught up with the rest next Wednesday.

Closing song: Kanye West, Jay Z - No Church in the Wild

The Antifan Who Stole Christmas w/ Minion Death Cult Dec 25, 2019

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HⒶ HⒶ HⒶ! Ⓐnti-Saint Nick here with an XMas Xpost of Andy and Sean's recent appearance on Minion Death Cult! Alex and Tony lead us in a reading of what is sure to become a holiday classic, a 2017 piece from the Boston Police Union magazine titled, "The Antifan Who Stole Christmas."

"A reaction to the enormous anti-racist Boston protest held directly after Charlottesville, "The Antifan" chronicles a pesky critter who wishes to destroy the town of Bhlueville and their holiday celebration."

Then we read some reactions to a National Catholic Register article titled "Bernie Sanders Says Christians Need Not Apply For Public Office."

Catch up with Minion Death Cult at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult

Closing Music: Low - Just Like Christmas

Ep 79 - Uncontrollable Serge w/ Mitch Abidor Dec 18, 2019

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Writer, translator, and historian of the revolutionary left Mitch Abidor joins Andy and Sean to discuss the life, legacy, and relevance of "The Bolshevik's Pet Anarchist" Victor Serge!

An illegalist anarchist turned anarcho-syndicalist, turned Bolshevik, turned left-oppositionist before being completely blackpilled, Serge is a rare example of a revolutionary who jumped from tendency to tendency while still maintaining his principals. Abidor and Richard Greenman recently translated Serge's 1936-1947 notebooks, written mostly while in exile in Mexico watching the dream of proletarian revolution unravel.

Find more Abidor's work at Marxists.org and the New York Review of Books

Talkin' Tina 2 - Peru Talkin' to me? Dec 16, 2019

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In episode 2 of @spaceprole's side project on contemporary and historical political issues in Latin America. This month we have Camilo Gómez, a Peruvian writer with bylines at Counterpunch and the Center for a Stateless Society, and the host of the History and Politics podcast.

Listen to the full podcast at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada

We discuss how the lavajato spilled into Peru, making anti-corruption a focus of the upcoming legislative elections. Gomez goes into details on the 3-4 currents of the divided Peruvian left, before going into a history of the armed struggle movement that culminated in the Shining Path. We talk about a couple other idiosyncratic Peruvian tendencies, like the Trotskyist ecosocialism of ex-Posadist Hugo Blanco and the UFO leftism of Alfa y Omega.

Finally we talk about "market socialism" in the Peruvian context and have a little debate over whether markets are ever something worth defending.

You can find Camilo's writing and podcasts here:

https://www.spreaker.com/show/historyandpolitics

https://c4ss.org/content/52487

Ep 77: People's Republic of Toontown w/ donoteat1 Dec 04, 2019

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Have you ever asked yourself what weird 1980s Hollywood live-action/cartoon crossover films have to say about the infamous General Motors Streetcar Scandal of the mid-20th century? Well do we have a film for you!

Sean sits down with fellow socialist railfan Justin Roczniak, AKA donoteat1, to get at the real and sordid history behind Robert Zemekis' 1988 blockbuster Who Framed Roger Rabbit? How the hell was this crazy film made? What does it tell us about the history of public transit in Los Angeles and elsewhere? Why is Elon Musk full of shit? How would rail fit into the Green New Deal and socialism broadly? Most importantly, how did our fans get us to watch hentai?

BONUS- Real Kollontai Hours #2 w/ Rachel Rabbit White & Oyster (PREVIEW) Nov 29, 2019

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In our second Real Kollontai Hours, Rachel Rabbit White (@rabbitwhite) and Oyster (@oyster_nyt) take up Alexandra Kollontai's 1921 essay "Prostitution and Ways of Fighting It." Was Kollontai right about the evils of prostitution, or should we say "okay boomer" to this outdated comintern moralism as we move toward our glorious FALC future? Most importantly, whomst among us is going to incorporate "fucking for sacks of flour" into their sexy roleplaying from now on?

listen to the full episode and all other bonus content here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-real-hours-31932435

Closing song: Hole - Teenage Whore

Ep 76 - Let Them Sit Cake w/ Rachel Rabbit White, Nina Luo & Oyster Nov 27, 2019

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Sex workers of the world, unite! Jamie and Andy are joined by poet/journo Rachel Rabbit White (@rabbitwhite), organizer Nina Luo (@theninaluo) and whore-of-all trades Oyster (@oyster_nyt) to talk organizing in the world of sex work and why any socialist worth their clever display name should care. What's Decrim NY and what are they after? How has sex trafficking discourse been used to enforce borders and police the marginalized? What can the average person do to facilitate the self-liberation of the twerking ass? And what's the deal with whippets? After dropping several metric tons of knowledge, the guests humor us as we play our favorite game "After the Rev" and imagine how the vocation formerly known as sex work might fit into our glorious fully automated gay luxury space communist future.

Check out Rachel's poetry book, "Porn Carnival":

https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781732090026/porn-carnival.aspx

And her recent article in Commune Mag, "Strippers On Strike":

https://communemag.com/strippersonstrike/

Follow @DecrimNY to learn more and get involved:

https://www.decrimny.org/

Outro music: Carmen - Lana Del Rey

Bonus preview: Real Lib Dem Hours w/ Trash Future Nov 22, 2019

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Trash Future leads us in a reading of James Kirkup's dystopian fanfic "How the Lib Dems could seize power." Excuse the laddery we were many cans deep.

Read along: https://unherd.com/2019/07/how-the-lib-dems-could-seize-power/

Listen to the full episode at: https://www.patreon.com/theantifada

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