Sean and Varn are back to get to the basics and discuss first principles for communist organizing, What organizational form is adequate to working class power in the present moment? On what basis might class autonomy politics and at the point of production be achieved? How do we relate to our past: our successes and many failures? For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada SHOW DETAILS with MINION DEATH CULT, POD DAMN AMERICA, and WELL THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM (philly only)!!!! NYC Sept 10: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-tickets-691958234707  Philly SEPT 12: w/WTYP https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/496996-well-theres-your-problem

Diving into the Wreckage 7.3: Beginnings of a Positive Orientation

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We report on our visits to pro-Palestine encampments and take listener questions  Join our Discord community by signing up to our Patreon! http://patreon.com/theantifada  Check out the ILC BBQ in McCarren park in Williamsburg 3-7 followed by a party/screening at Woodbine: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6Rj8UzuoYs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh;=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==  First We Take Columbia text: https://illwill.com/columbia https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2979646/pro-palestinian-activists-spread-occupation-guidebook-overrun-schools/ Communique From an Absent Future: https://illwill.com/print/communique-from-an-absent-future Adam Tooze - Columbia University's "crisis" - a political economy sketch map https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-279-columbia-universitys  Unrest in the MLBPA: https://theathletic.com/5352704/2024/03/18/mlbpa-unrest-players-bruce-meyer/  Big Sean - Control

E247 - May Day Q&A w/ Jaylien

Boris and Rey from the anti-nationalist Empire Never Ended podcast and Antipolitika journal chat about the far rights in the US and ex-Yugoslavia, the legacy of Balkan nationalism, cursed Balkan Youtube comments and Greater Idaho. For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada Empire Never Ended patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tenepod Antipolitika journal: Read: https://antipolitika.noblogs.org/ Buy: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p;=1440  Songs: Infracrvena - Politika Ultima Videosex - Detektivska Priča

E246 - Cursed Balkan Comments w/ Empire Never Ended / Antipolitika Journal (first half)

And(y) & And(ers) smoke a hash joint and read selections from the "Protocols of Drug Experiments" in which German Marxist  philosopher Walter Benjamin ate a hash edible and wandered around Marseille being weird. For the full episode subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada PDF: https://anarch.cc/uploads/walter-benjamin/on-hashish.pdf New Yorker review of On Hashish: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/21/the-philosopher-stoned 

The communist milieu lost a titan last week. Our kind friend and mentor, Loren Goldner (1949-2024), passed away on Friday, April 12th 3:00am, at age of 76. As a tribute to his life and legacy we were able to gather a handful of people who were close to him to share stories, memories and inspirations. Special thanks to Arya Zahedi, Zhana Kurti, Jarrod Shanahan, Joe Lombardo, Ross Wolfe and Billy O'Conner for coming on to memorialize a great thinker and a great friend.  Copious Loren Goldner Links: Website archive https://breaktheirhaughtypower.org/category/articles/ Melville book https://libcom.org/article/herman-melville-between-charlemagne-and-antemosaic-cosmic-man-loren-goldner Insurgent Notes Journal http://insurgentnotes.com/author/loren/ Articles mentioned in orderAryaTurkish history- https://libcom.org/article/agrarian-question-russian-revolution-material-community-productivism-and-back-loren-goldnerBolivia- https://libcom.org/book/export/html/58156Fictitious capital for beginners https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/fictitious-capital-beginners-imperialism-anti-imperialism-and-continuing-relevance-rosa-luxemburgRossRace and the enlightenment https://libcom.org/article/race-and-enlightenment-part-i-anti-semitism-white-supremacy-1492-1676Critic of post-colonial theory https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/the-universality-of-marx/Revolution in the Air critique https://libcom.org/article/review-revolution-air-max-elbaum-loren-goldnerSeanBordiga https://files.libcom.org/files/Loren%20Goldner%20-%20Amadeo%20Bordiga,%20the%20Agrarian%20Question,%20and%20the%20International%20Revolutionary%20Movement.pdf  Audio clips from: https://libcom.org/article/loren-goldner-audio Songs: Monsieur Jack - The Internationale Leonard Cohen - Solidarity Forever

E245: RIP Loren Goldner

Enjoy this blast from the distant pass: January 2023! Check out all the other Histories is a Weapon on our patreon In light of the depressing denouement of 2022's railroad conflict, Sean and Matt sit down, in person at last, to discuss the deep history behind how American organized labor got so disorganized and why the labor movement hasn't moved in decades. Why was it that, in the United States, workers institutions had trouble evolving past the infancy of narrow, sectoral, decentralized craft unionism towards broad-based, nationally-coordinated industrial unionism? How did capital, in the face of militant organizing, help choose the weaker of the two as their partner to bargain with? In what ways is worker self-organization in this country truly, as our enemies always say, anti-American? And importantly what is to be done now that private sector union density is so low, workers institutions so captured and the national labor relations regime has fallen apart? STAY TUNED AFTER THE OUTRO MUSIC FOR A SPECIAL LAST MINUTE ADDENDUM

Diving into the Wreckage 7.3: Beginnings of a Positive Orientation

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