- Apr 17, 2020Become a member of The Antifada in order to view this post
- Apr 15, 202000:00:0001:27:41
Trashifada continues with a deep dive on the origin of the Koch-funded British anti-PC-hysteria-hysteria blog Sp!ked. We go through their origins in seventies Trotskyism to the bizarre posh ultraleftism in the eighties until they emerged as the magazine Living Marxism, famous for satirizing the nanny state and denying the genocide of Bosnian Muslims. From there they formed the Institute of Ideas, a collection of tiny front groups that have helped them along to mainstream media prominence. But to what ends? We offer a range of theories.
Listen this Friday for a Bonus Real Sp!ked hours to hear some hot takes on goths, Karen-bashing, and Jimmy Saville.
Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
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Jenny Turner's fantastic essay on Institute of Ideas: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n13/jenny-turner/who-are-they
Account of RCP's political shift in the eighties: https://hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/the-revolutionary-communist-party-living-marxism-and-the-road-to-free-speech-absolutism/
Brendan on Dave Rubin calling himself a Marxist Libertarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHUjZd63z9U
Songs: Whistling in the Dark and Come out Fighting by Easterhouse
- Apr 8, 202000:00:0001:10:49
It's a Trash-a-Fada crossover extravaganza! We had a delightful discussion with Alice, Riley and Milo of TrashFuture about labour organising at the end of the world, and then we venture back into the mind of Toby Young as he weighs the lives of the British public against a feather and decides if they live or die to appease the great and powerful Economy.
Listen to TF: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/
Follow TF: @trashfuturepod
- Apr 1, 202000:00:0001:23:54
Jacobin columnist and Four Futures: Life after Capitalism author Peter Frase indulges us in some speculation about the world of tomorrow--which will be anything but a return to "normal."
Those changes will be dependent on type of class and ideological struggles that emerge in the next several months. With exterminationism looming around the ideology of "scarcity and hierarchy," it is up to us to imagine what kind of better reality might come out of this dark moment.
Frase's article from Jacobin, the Party of Death: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/03/coronavirus-economy-public-health-exterminism
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Closing song: Gun Club - Death Party
- Mar 25, 202000:00:0001:23:22
Amanda from Twitter Dot Com (@catcontentonly) was kind enough to break quarantine to sit down with Sean and discuss the politics of pandemic. How has the COVID-19 virus affected life in NYC? How seriously are people taking it compared to how seriously they should? How come our president is calling it The Chinese Virus? How is anti-Chinese xenophobia attached to the larger dynamic of power politics in a globalized capitalist world?
Follow Amanda: @catcontentonly
Outro: Bob Dylan - Shelter From The Storm
- Mar 20, 202000:00:0001:23:14
Teen Vogue politics editor Lucy Diavolo joins us to discuss what will hopefully be the story of this crisis: neighbors organizing themselves into mutual aid networks to support each other against the virus and the capitalist system's attempts to profit from the disorder. We talk about the concept of mutual aid historically, how it's emerged in the last 15 years in the front lines of disaster relief, and some of the new ways its emerging in these early days of the pandemic. There's a lot to cover, but we talk about grocery funds and distribution, food pantries, rent strikes, squatting, childcare, self-care, and much more. Then we talk a bit about the philosophy of mutual aid: does it provide an image of a better world, or just help us survive through the collapse of civilization?
Find Lucy's work @SatansJacuzzi or on Teen Vogue: https://www.teenvogue.com/contributor/lucy-diavolo
Her article we discuss: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/people-fighting-coronavirus-mutual-aid-efforts-help-each-other
Also see: https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/ and their Mutual Aid Safety Guide
https://gothamist.com/news/neighbors-mobilize-help-each-other-during-coronavirus-pandemic
Article in Commune about Rent Strike and disaster relief: https://communemag.com/rent-and-its-discontents/
Vacant homes seized in LA: https://itsgoingdown.org/a-dozen-vacant-homes-reclaimed-by-unhoused-tenants-in-la-as-calls-for-rent-strike-grow-across-us/
IGD round-up of mutual aid initiatives: https://itsgoingdown.org/autonomous-groups-are-mobilizing-mutual-aid-initiatives-to-combat-the-coronavirus/
LA Tenants Union demands: https://medium.com/@LATenantsUnion/declaraci%C3%B3n-sobre-el-covid-19-demands-in-response-to-the-covid-19-crisis-f7353925d298
Sex Worker Organizing Project mutual aid fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/z6w8v5
-Black and Pink penpal signup: https://www.blackandpink.org/penpal-sign-up
Anarchist Black Cross guide to letter writing: https://nycabc.wordpress.com/write-a-letter/
DSA grocery fund: bit.ly/covid19aid
Unity and Separation from Endnotes 4: https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/4/en/endnotes-preface
Closing song: Devendra Banhart and Beck - Life During Wartime
- Mar 17, 2020Become a member of The Antifada in order to view this post
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- Mar 11, 202000:00:0001:09:06
A wave of wildcat strikes, blockades, and general militant organizing is spreading the University of California system based on the demand that academic workers be paid a living wage. We're joined by three union members of UC Santa Cruz who were fired for refusing to turn in grades until their demands are met. We discuss the history of UC strikes starting with the 2009 occupations that were a precursor to Occupy Wall Street, how this struggle began, the meaning of Bernie's support, its broader political vision, and what lessons the broader working class can draw.
Support their strike fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-fund-for-striking-workers-at-ucsc
The roots of the strike: https://thefilemag.org/the-roots-of-the-santa-cruz-wildcat-strike/
Letter to UC President Napolitano: https://thefilemag.org/dear-president-napolitano/
The strike spreads: https://www.kqed.org/news/11805470/uc-berkeley-graduate-students-stage-walkout-push-for-strike-authorization?fbclid=IwAR2Z2XKKgHX-rzs6HtwFBfGnLIFbYNgNfH_guZVBC0fX55xBq6_R7NER0us
Another essay from a striker: https://communemag.com/become-unreasonable/
Closing song: Lost Kids - Cola Freaks
- Mar 6, 2020Become a member of The Antifada in order to view this post
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