The United Auto Workers union is striking General Motors in the largest work stoppage since the same union struck in 2007. Andy and Sean jump on mic with an emergency pod to discuss the context of this job action, how the left might relate to the recent upsurge in labor militancy, and what labor history tells us about how to organize and win!

Show notes:

UAW workers on strike: https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2019/09/16/strike-uaw-workers/2338281001/

UAW Corruption cases complicate bargaining: https://www.labornotes.org/2019/09/corruption-cases-auto-workers-complicate-bargaining

GM Workers have one chance: Vote No https://labornotes.org/2019/09/gm-strikers-have-one-chance-vote-no

Detroit DSA call to action: https://twitter.com/detroitdsa/status/1173379608063946757

Teamsters refusing to transport GM vehicles: https://www.foxbusiness.com/industrials/teamsters-refusing-transport-gm-vehicles-solidarity-with-uaw

https://www.viewpointmag.com/2019/05/16/plan-mood-battlefield-reflections-on-the-green-new-deal/

Support us on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theantifadaShow notes:

UAW workers on strike: https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2019/09/16/strike-uaw-workers/2338281001/

UAW Corruption cases complicate bargaining: https://www.labornotes.org/2019/09/corruption-cases-auto-workers-complicate-bargaining

GM Workers have one chance: Vote No https://labornotes.org/2019/09/gm-strikers-have-one-chance-vote-no

Detroit DSA call to action: https://twitter.com/detroitdsa/status/1173379608063946757

Teamsters refusing to transport GM vehicles: https://www.foxbusiness.com/industrials/teamsters-refusing-transport-gm-vehicles-solidarity-with-uaw

https://www.viewpointmag.com/2019/05/16/plan-mood-battlefield-reflections-on-the-green-new-deal/

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Sophie Saint Thomas visits us to talk about Jamie's LA trip, hurricane sex, PUA magic, octopus weed, relationship bordigism, and Alexandra Kollontai's Make Way for Winged Eros

Check out Sophie on Twitter: @TheBowieCat

And read more of her work here: https://sophiesaintthomas.com/

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And come see our live show with Pod Damn America October 12th at Littlefield in Brooklyn!

https://www.littlefieldnyc.com/e/the-goth-socialist-variety-hour-with-the-antifada-and-pod-damn-america-72206061273/

Closing Song: Vivian Girls - Something to Do

We cut out some of our favorite conspiracy theories from the Gladio episode, including New Criticism, Operation Bloodstone, the mysterious deaths of Francis Parker Yockey and Allan Francovich.

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Audio taken from: https://www.military.com/video/guns/pistols/cias-secret-heart-attack-gun/2555371072001

In this special crossover of Antifada, Proletkult, History is a Weapon, and Parallax Views we take a dive into the "stay behind operations" after World War II designed to protect Western Europe from leftist victory at any cost--including coups, assassinations, and false flag terror plots. Conspiracy theory? Nope! PARAPOLITICS.

Bibliography:

Phillip Welan - Puppetmasters

Marcelo Laraquy - Lopez Rega

Pasolini - What is this coup d’état? I know

https://overland.org.au/2012/03/what-is-this-coup-detat-i-know/

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey & The Postwar Fascist International by Kevin Coogan

The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine

The Ghost by Jefferson Morley

In Danger: A Pasolini Reader, edited by Jack Hirschman

The Black Terrorist International by Jeffrey M. Bale - https://www.economicsvoodoo.com/wp-content/uploads/DISSERTATION-The-Black-Terrorist-International-Neo-Fascist-Paramilitary-Networks-Strategy-of-Tension-in-Italy-1968-1974_Jeffrey-Bale.pdf

Check out way more parapolitics at J.G. Michaels Parallax Views:

https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/ep-65-alexander-stille/

https://www.patreon.com/parallaxviews/posts

https://twitter.com/viewsparallax?lang=en

Editors of PINKO, the new journal of GAY COMMUNISM, join us to talk about their kickstarter stretch goals, contents of the new issue, meta-pinkwashing, and space colonialism. In the second half of the episode we do a reading of their awesome editorial statement and Jasmine gives us a crash course in Philly slang.

Follow Pinko on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/pinkomagazine

Help fund the magazine:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pinko/pinko-magazine

Closing song: KOTA the Friend - Philly Jawn

In this patrons-only bonus, Molly Crabapple (@MollyCrabapple) translates some choice lyrics from the official song of the protests in Puerto Rico, "Afilando los Cuchillos" by Residente, iLe and Bad Bunny. Turns out it bangs even harder when you understand all the sick owns!

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Friend of the show Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) joins us to talk about getting arrested with a bunch of her fellow Jews at last week's Amazon/ICE protest, the Punisher logo, and the importance of antifascism. She then gives us an overview of the protests in Puerto Rico that exploded when now-former governor Ricardo Rosselló's ghoulish frat boy chat logs were leaked to the press. Asambleas! Flags! The nationalism of the colonial subject! Ricky Martin!

Read Molly's illustrated report here:

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/08/09/a-peoples-cry-of-indignation-a-dispatch-from-puerto-rico/

Support our Puerto Rican comrades:

Colectiva Feminista en Construction

https://www.facebook.com/Colectiva.Feminista.PR/

Taller Salud

https://www.tallersalud.com/

Centro de Apoyo Mutuo Caguas

https://www.facebook.com/Centro-de-Apoyo-Mutuo-2033558466880656/

Jornada: Se Acabaron Las Promesas (anti austerity protest group)

https://www.facebook.com/seacabaronlaspromesas/

Casa Pueblo

http://casapueblo.org/

And for NYC folks:

https://twitter.com/AsambleaNyc

Outro music -- Residente, iLe and Bad Bunny, 'Afilando los Cuchillos'

Simone discusses her viral "praxis" video. More irony talk, anti-intellectualism on the left, and the pitfalls of "normie socialism." We conduct a worker's inquiry into Simone's nanny job and her experience with Gen-Z, a group of kind and rational humans we are definitely not afraid of being turned into pelts by. Andy spills the beans about his online chess habit.

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Actress, comedienne and commie organizer Simone Norman (a.k.a. #praxis girl) joins us for a chat. We recap the DSA convention in Atlanta including resolutions on open borders, sex work decrim, and "Bernie or bust," and the manufactured drama that was clap-gate. Plus: Close The Camps NYC's non-violent direct action, white supremacist violence and its connections to capitalism, and the uses and abuses of irony. You know, girl stuff.

Follow Simone at @whysimonewhy

Visit CloseTheCamps.us to get involved with immigrant justice actions in your area!

Outro music: Lifetime - Irony is for suckers

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