The Antifada

Mar 05 2025 521 ep. 54 mins 3k

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Communist podcast exploring political economy, history and the class struggle with AP Andy, Sean KB and guests. Become a patron to enjoy bonus content, access to our Discord community and more at: www.patreon.com/theantifada twitter: @the\_antifada @baseprole @as\_a\_worker email: antifadamindset at gmail streaming: twitch.tv/theantifada

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E282 - Garveyism 1 w/ John Garvey

Mar 05 2025 58 mins

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 experie

E281 - Remember the Alamo Workers w/ NYC Alamo United

Feb 24 2025 72 mins

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 nerd

E280: Imagining the Burger Reich w/ Phil Neel

Feb 17 2025 56 mins

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/theantifadaPhil 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

E279: What's going on?

Feb 10 2025 51 mins

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/theantifadaGanz: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happened-here-c9f Nolan: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dark-times-are-coming

BONUS: Severance Season 2 w/ Rax King, Mattie Lubachansky & Jaya Saxena

Feb 07 2025 15 mins

full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-our-lives-121342801Our guests from this week's AI episode stick around with Sean to continue the hijinks about our tech oligarchy and discuss the first couple of episodes of AppleTV's television show Severence about how working for a mid-20th century capitalist firm is creepy and kinda suss ngl.

AI Caramba 1: The Martin Files w/ Rax King, Mattie Lubchansky, Jaya Saxena

Feb 03 2025 88 mins

Sean didn't have the guts to name this new podcast series about AI as Rax, Mattie and Jaya would have it: Unintelligent Fartelligence. Feel free to boo him in the comments.For the bonus episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaSong: Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4

DITW: Anatomy of the Micro-sect (Part 1)

Jan 27 2025 91 mins

Sean, Andy, and Varn scan the sectarian terrain of the US today as a prelude into our (part 2) discussion of drama in MAGA communism. For part 2, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaRead along: https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1973/xx/microsect.htmSong: Gary Numan - This Wreckage

BONUS: Real Ultraleft Gangsta Rap Kritik Hours w/ David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan

Jan 24 2025 15 mins

D-Rock and J-Bone are back to join us in a reading of the ICC's classic essay about gangsta rap and Eminem: https://en.internationalism.org/wr/242_eminem.htmFor the full episode support the show at patreon.com/theantifadaSong: Eminem - President Mathers

E278: Living on Island Time w/ Jarrod Shanahan and David Campbell

Jan 20 2025 54 mins

Drawing from their own experiences of incarceration, authors Jarrod Shanahan and David Campbell offer an unprecedented look inside New York's notorious Rikers Island jail in their compelling new book "City Time." They meticulously document how incarcerated people construct complex social systems and survival strategies within an environment defined by structural racism and institut

E277: Citizen App Marxism w/ Bruno Leipold

Jan 15 2025 50 mins

Sean and Andy (recovering from various ailments) are joined by political theorist, Bruno Leipold, to discuss his excellent new book Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought from Princeton University Press on how Marx and Engels developed their theories within and against an 18th century republican pollical milieu that is largely lost