In this episode Andy and Sean sit down with Phil A. Neel, author of 'Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict' to talk about his work and travels and how they helped him reconceptualize working class life in the United States and abroad.
We discuss the particular geog...
2021-03-17 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie and Leslie are back with a hot, fresh VC to sink your teeth into! On this edition, they discuss Jim Jarmusch's stylish vampire slice-of-life movie "Only Lovers Left Alive" (2013), as well as Ana Lily Amirpour's Iranian vampire Western "A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night" (2014). <...
2021-03-12 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Author Bini Adamczak discusses her newly translated book Yesterday's Tomorrow, a haunting meditation on the history of coun...
2021-03-10 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
After we ended the episode, Bradley Greene and Touissant Losier stayed on the line to talk more about some particularities of the film, including the shootout at 58th street and Calumet, Fred Hampton's time in Menard Prison, and the racist violence in Cairo, Illinois.
Music: H.E.R. - ...
2021-03-05 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Joining us to discuss the new movie “Judas and the Black Messiah" are Afro-American studies professor Dr. Toussaint Losier and Bradley Greene, a Chicago Black Panther. Greene tells us what life was like in the B...
2021-03-03 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Part 2 of our review of with Adam Curtis' new BBC series Can't Get You Out of My Head with the Woodbine's podcast. Topics include ...
2021-02-26 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Part 1 of a crossover episode with Woodbine's podcast about Adam Curtis' new BBC series, Can't Get You Out of My Head. We talk abo...
2021-02-24 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie and Sean host Marcus and Lorax of leftist veteran co-op LeftFlankVets (@leftflankvets) to talk about their media project, their experiences in the military, and the potential for revolutionary organizing within the ra...
2021-02-17 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Kay Gabriel (@unit01barbie), of DSA Emerge and the #DefundNYPD campaign, stops by to give a counterpoint to some of our previous guests' takes on cutting police budgets as part of the road to abolition. Equal time doctrine, ...
2021-02-10 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Jason sticks around to discuss retail traders, the end of the beginning of Trumpism, the legacy of Obama and what, if anything, can be taken from last week's Reddit vs Wall Street battle.
Closing song: Roger Miller - Not in Nottingham
2021-02-05 11:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Political economist Jason Smith, (@profitratedown) author of 'Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in and Age of Stagnation', joins Sean to give us all an update on how that dang line is doing.
What is the source of all of America's various morbid symptoms the last 12 to 40 years? Ho...
2021-02-03 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie, Jarrod, and Zhana from Hard Crackers talk more about the realistic possibilities of defund, abolition, non-reformist reformers, and an anti-carceral popular front.
Closing song: Prison Blues (performed by uncredite...
2021-01-29 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
**Sorry the audio wasn't in the post before, fixed now!**
Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti of 2021-01-27 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie is joined by Aaron Thorpe (@posadist_trapgd) of Trillbilly Workers Party and A Time Of Monsters and Andray Domise (@andraydomise) of The Drop ...
2021-01-20 11:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
What does the 1861-65 conflict and its aftermath tell us about the role that the proletariat must take in the coming months and years? And what are the stakes of the coming rupture? Arturo and Shemon give us their thoughts.
Outro: Pete Seeger - John Brown's Body
2021-01-15 10:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Our friends Arturo and Shemon stop by to discuss the George Floyd rebellion and how it might go from a series of isolated insurrections to a glorious proletarian revolution. Radical geography, looting caravans, white accomplices, organized labor, and the black counter-insurgency as viewed through...
2021-01-13 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Douglas Lain of Zer0 Books chats with us slightly youngsters about zines, indymedia, adbusters anti-globalization, anti-war, and the world this radicalism has left us with. Was it all radical liberalism or did 2008 break part o...
2021-01-11 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Cushbomb comes by our weekly Wednesday twitch show to talk about the chud invasion of the capital. Was it a grassroots uprising, an attempt coup, or a co...
2021-01-07 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The editor of Zer0 Books and host of Zer0 Squared talks about his recent video that was too hot for Youtube. What is "the Great Reset," what...
2021-01-06 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy New Years' to all our Patrons! Attached is a "zip" file containing a year-end mixtape, featuring 19 tracks that closed out our episodes this year. It's guaranteed to be a hit at your illicit NYE party or solo doomer night stroll.
Track listing:
1. The Queers - “Like a Parasite”...
Jamie and Andy sit down with the great Marxist historian, author, activist and urban theorist Mike Davis to review the year that was. Topics include the California wildfires, the Covid-19 pandemic, the George Floyd uprising, and that wet fart of an election. Why is everything so terrible and what...
2020-12-30 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a reminder that we're streaming every Wednesday at 7pm, including in *checks watch* 8 minutes from now!
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2020-12-23 23:53:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Santa visits us to deck the halls with boughs of... holly. We talk about the left "negationists" and their defenders like Noam Chomsky, the Faurrison affair and connection with current culture wars about free speech, and the Bo...
2020-12-23 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings, supersoIdiers. The soft Iaunch continues tonight at 7pm ET (so, Iike, a coupIe hours from now) with a super chiII Iivestream featuring the fuII Antifada cru pIus speciaI guest Jake FIores. We wiII be taking your questions and vibing on various topics of the day. You can watch it Iive a...
2020-12-16 22:37:41 +0000 UTC View Post
In order to discuss the appalling ways that poor white people are portrayed in the United States, we had to have on Tarence (@tarenceray) from the Trillbilly Workers Party. We all watched JD Vance's execrable 'Hillbilly Elegy' so you don't have to.
Out of this came a great discussion about ...
2020-12-16 17:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A Covid vaccine is coming (for the rich). Uber gets owned. Real estate tycoons make record profits. Amazon workers organize. And much, much more.
Here's the article Jamie forgot to link last time: 2020-12-09 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron sticks around with Jamie and Sean to discuss the political implications of his work on automation and the future of work. If UBI and Keynesian stimulus is insufficient, what sort of movements and measures might be adequate to the present moment?
Outro: Rolling Stones - Luxury
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2020-12-04 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Sean and Jamie speak with Aaron Benanav (@abenanav), currently a researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin, about his new book, "2020-12-02 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Our series about Latin America returns with an episode on Brazil with Amauri Gonzo of Brasil Wire, 2020-11-27 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post