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 contextualizes this occupation with some history of the modern university: its roots, its social function, and how it has developed as a site of struggle. What happened in the '70s and '80s that made college so expensive, yet also so necessary? The through-lines from the student occupations of the 1960s to Occupy Wall Street to the Bernie Sanders campaign. Sean and Andy reminisce about their own college years and reveal how they met.

Sorry for the poor sound quality, it was our first time recording outside the studio!

Info on the current New School Occupation: https://www.facebook.com/occupiedcafeteria/ @NewSchoolReds

More on the '08-'11 occupations: http://reocuppied.wordpress.com

Intro music: original theme by Jamie Ingalls

Interstitial music: World/Inferno Friendship Society - Fiend in Wien

End music: Idles - Mother

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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 spicy debate around Bernie 2020.

The gang tackles the van attack in Toronto, the "incel rebellion" and why dudes who can't get laid and complain about it online are a kind of hate group. The political economy of angry young misogynists and what to do with them. How to keep those on the fence from turning into Pepes? Jamie's personal story of educating someone. The impact of technology on sex and dating (Sean shows his age). Why everyone will have better sex under socialism. Some social reproduction and historical materialism talk, because why not?

Check out the podcast Andrew produces, 'Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything' at theoryofeverythingpodcast.com

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If you're in New York, check out the DSA Community Healthcare Fair Jamie helped put together! The panel (featuring m4a activist Tim Faust, Soc Fem WG's Emma Caterine, and State Senate candidate Julia Salazar w/ moderation by Michael Brooks) will be live streamed for those who can't make it. facebook.com/events/1888194218137462

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 generations within the minds of our listeners.

Ross discusses how Sean nearly came to blows with famous fashy troll Kantbot at a Verso Books party. Jamie informs Sean that she thought he was a violent horror man when they first dated. We debate the monetary value of a human rib if it's broken within a police riot and subsequent lawsuit.

Crew gets down to discussing the political economy of architecture, the merits of grandiosity in construction and the mercenary optimism of high modernist internationalism. Ross explains the evolution of the #doom meme and origins of Yacht Communism.

Antifada then does another deep dive into 20th century theory and practice in a wide-ranging discussion of anarchism, council communism, Bordiga, bourgeois barbarism and communization. We all end up slightly depressed at the end, but in different and interesting ways.

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Here's the hilarious Kantbot video: https://youtu.be/iOk6HB609po

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-not ruling class monster-person Barbara Bush... leading Jamie to use the strongest genital-related epithet in the English language.

Asher presents two articles by Vivek Chibber and Charlie Post that debate the tactics, strategies and horizons of radical struggle. Oh yeah, and the Antifada reveals it's modest proposal for a kinder, gentler gulag.

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Articles: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/12/our-road-to-power https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/02/socialist-organization-strategy-electoral-politics

Musical interlude: This is My Fist! - "Voice from Occupationland" https://thisismyfist.bandcamp.com/track/voice-from-occupationland

In 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, "Asking for a Friend."

Jamie almost sells out, but mistakes ice cream for soap so w/e. Sean reminds us that leftists don't make heroes of i-banking cops like James Comey. Doug and Liza talk about how they met and their philosophy on makin' red diaper bbs. Jamie and Liza admit they're only in it for the Bernie bro boyfriends.

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Check out Doug Henwood at lbo-news.com and on his weekly radio show and podcast, "Behind the News": https://kpfa.org/program/behind-the-news/

Liza Featherstone's new book, "Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation" is available from Or Books: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/divining-desire-liza-featherstone/

Check out Liza's "Asking for a Friend" column at The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/asking-for-a-friend/

For comments or suggestions, feel free to email us at antifadamindset at gmail.com

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 socialism. We discuss our lame faves. Jamie cucks Sean thrice.

Uber-producer Matt couldn't make it, so we screwed up the levels. Sorry!

Sean 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.

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 managing editor of Blunderbuss Magazine, to talk hasbara hack Bari Weiss, no platforming, and the collapse of respectable centrist discourse.