After our intended guests fell through, we were surprised and pleased to be joined by Comrade Communicator of the Intergalactic Workers League, who was inspired appear by the troubling news of Trump's weird Space Force proposal.
Seems dumb, but how about the extraterrestrial militarization o...
2018-08-15 17:50:15 +0000 UTC View Post
We left some choice gems from the full episode on the cutting room floor.
Here's some bonus content for the enjoyment of our patrons:
Japanese culture is both really weird and possibly the best case scenario for the senescent end stage of capitalist development; those shitty ads by Fiv...
2018-08-11 19:45:06 +0000 UTC View Post
In this very special Antifada offering, Andy, Jamie and Sean are joined by your favorite sons: Matt Christman and Virgil Texas of Chapo Trap House.
Gang begins by addressing the central questions of our hyper-digital age: what if God friended you on Facebook? Is QAnon just a benign hobby for bored...
2018-08-07 19:49:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie worked really hard on this story. It's about how the US carceral state compounds the opioid crisis by criminalizing addiction. It will make you mad, but it's important. Take care of one another. <3
2018-08-02 17:42:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie, Sean, and Andy are joined by militant documentarian Brandon Jourdan of globaluprisings.org.
Brando discusses life as an expat, the indymedia<...
2018-08-02 04:22:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Gang talks Notorious F.F.P. (Francis Fox Piven) and Glen Beck's hate-on for her. Wilson breaks down the true origins and political economy of frozen, alcoholic street drinks. We all lament, as usual, that NYC is way lamer than it used to be. Jamie spills more tea on the neoliberal nigh...
2018-07-27 01:07:53 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we are joined by returning guest Niral Shah (@NiralShah) and Soviet agent Alex Gendler (@Romanovs100) to talk music and Musk. (No Andy this week...he's away at commie camp polluting his mind with cultural Marxism.)
Nazi numerology. Abolish ICE, but only after one last special deportation...
2018-07-19 19:56:35 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a relaxing day drinking nutcrackers at the beach, Aaron of the ISO and the Antifada crew hit the studio to podcast and chill. Our hate was impure. Then things went horribly wrong.
We start on a bright enough note with DSA's Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez's stunning victory in the BX/QNS primary. Th...
2018-07-04 23:25:50 +0000 UTC View PostBrett from Revolutionary Left Radio and The Guillotine joins The Antifada in a special collaborative episode to discuss the current state of the US left and the future of global capitalism!
We had a blast talking with our new friend and comrade. If you dig the unabashedly anti-capitalist Antifada,...
2018-06-28 23:53:33 +0000 UTC View Post
We finish out our discussion on race, identity politics, organizing, and DSA. Then the crew punches left by dragging on socialist thinker Elon Musk.
Join today starting at just $2/month to access this episode and other premium content!
2018-06-27 15:51:43 +0000 UTC View Post
In part one of a monster episode, we sit down with Justin Charles of North Brooklyn DSA and the AfroSocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus.
Sean is scarred by a perilous bus journey. Rachel Maddow and the libs freak out about potential peace (oh no!) on the Korean Peninsula. Democrats 'Russia R...
2018-06-20 21:28:46 +0000 UTC View Post
On this special premium episode of the Antifada, we take a bunch of questions from our Patreon subscribers. Is it better to forward left politics through the lens of material self-interest or notions of collectivity? What's the best first wave goth band? Which was our favorite revolutionary movement...
2018-06-11 03:30:09 +0000 UTC View Post
On this special premium episode of the Antifada, we take a bunch of questions from our Patreon subscribers. Is it better to forward left politics through the lens of material self-interest or notions of collectivity? What's the best first wave goth band? Which was our favorite revolutionary movement...
2018-06-10 00:24:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The AF crew takes on Jonathan Chait's recent word turd: the things he's wrong about re: "the radical left," as well as the things he's right about but which ar...
2018-06-03 05:15:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Our friend and comrade Natasha Lennard joins us for a discussion themed around her forthcoming book with Brad Evans, "Violence: Humans in Dark Times."
Tash's thoughts on the royal wedding. The US media's problematic framing of the most recent killings in Gaza. Angela Davis on the viole...
2018-05-23 23:23:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie, Sean and Andy take a field trip to the occupied New School to interview "K," an anonymous student, about New School students' latest direct action in solidarity with cafeteria workers (repped by UNITE HERE Local 100) and grad students (SENS-UAW).
Later, back at the ranch, the gang con...
2018-05-17 23:54:19 +0000 UTC View PostA brief taste of our premium content, which can be yours starting at just $2/month!
2018-05-13 20:32:24 +0000 UTC View PostIn the second episode of the special series Real Tankie Hours and first patrons-only offering, Jamie and Sean hunker down in the studio for a romantic late-night reading of advanced critical theory. At the present moment no dialectical synthesis could be more timely and valuable than the aufheben of...
2018-05-13 00:01:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Our guest canceled so Jamie picked up a rando at the DSA convention to fill in. Thanks for being such a good sport, rando!
Jamie and the rando — whose name, it turns out, is Andrew Callaway — recap a bit of what went down at the convention, including a "turn-to-industry" proposal and a s...
2018-05-10 23:00:49 +0000 UTC View Post
If you thought last episode was arcane, get a load of this shit! We sit down with Ross Wolfe of https://thecharnelhouse.org to venture into the farthest, darkest reaches of left theory... in order to resurrect the nightmares of dead...
2018-04-30 01:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In the most cerebral episode yet of The Antifada, Jamie and Sean welcome old friend Asher Dupuy-Spencer of Verso Books into the studio.
The gang talks about Jamie's near death experience at a nazi swimming hole in New Hampshire. We celebrate the memory of all-around feminist icon and totally...
2018-04-25 20:22:50 +0000 UTC View PostIn The Antifada's HARD LAUNCH episode, Jamie and Sean speak with socialist power couple Doug Henwood and Liza Featherstone about aggression in Syria, the governor's race in New York, and liberal derangement syndrome. Liza does an on-air version of her socialist-feminist advice column in The Nation, ...
2018-04-17 22:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We've recorded with Doug Henwood and Liza Featherstone so Episode 04 will drop in the next day or so. You can now go check us out at the iTunes Store and listen to TAF on your preferred podcast app.
Thanks to our patrons and fans for all your support.. it's all happening!
2018-04-16 19:03:35 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode three has dropped, number four is in the bank and our hard-launch is just a couple of weeks away. Soon we will be found in the iTunes Store and will be compiling special Patron-only content. Exciting!
As promised, we have created a Discord for our Comrades and Supersoldiers. It will become...
2018-04-08 19:30:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Up the punx! Jamie, Sean and guest Aaron Petcoff of the ISO discuss music, religion and sacred cows. We talk shit on Fiverr. Sean confuses Epitaph with Hellcat records like an old idiot. Jamie revisits one of her childhood favorites. We try nuance for the first time with regard to religion and socia...
2018-04-08 18:24:38 +0000 UTC View PostSean delves deep into tankiebook and brings back some scintillating slash fic about Comrade Stalin. Tankie Lena Dunham is introduced. The guys get excited and talk over Jamie. Whatever.
2018-03-28 21:59:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Everybody knows that legendary soul singer Barry White and Zionist writer Bari Weiss are not the same person. What this episode presupposes is, maybe they are?
Jamie, Sean and Matt sit down with Niral Shah, DSA member and managi...
2018-03-18 18:44:26 +0000 UTC View PostIn our FIRST EVER episode, we talk to DSA member, grad student, and Leftvoice editor Tatiana Maria Cozzarelli about the International Women's Strike, building a feminism for the 99%, and women's contributions to labor struggles worldwide. ALSO: What we can learn from the West Virginia teachers' stri...
2018-03-08 21:18:32 +0000 UTC View Post