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Audio from our November 23rd event at Woodbine with Jamie Merchant about his new book Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline. He sketches the economic background of the rise of populist right internationally before we transition to questions about the current moment and WI2BD.

Jamie Merchant is a Chicago-based writer, contributor to Brooklyn Rail, Baffler, and In These Times, and a member of the Chicago chapter of the Independent Labor Club (@ilcofchi).

excerpt: https://brooklynrail.org/2022/03/field-notes/Endgame-Finance-and-the-Close-of-the-Market-System/

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Thanks to Mike, Peter, and Chris from ILC NYC for the recording!

Song: Natalie Merchant - This House is on Fire

In Part II, Henry discusses the New International article Erasing the Pregnant as a way into talking about religious politics and secularism in regards to issues like abortion, death with dignity, Zionism, and sex.

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Henry's Podcast with George Floyd's Pastor: https://www.formspodcast.com/episode-xiii-the-gospel-and-george-floyd

Song: KRS-ONE - Why Is That?

Henry's back for France Popular front updates to unveil his new journal, the New International!

From there, we discuss Andy and Varn's essay The Undying Appeal of Brunch, and if it conflicts with the organizational method of Henry's Party, France Unbowed.

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Follow Antifada on BlueSky New International editorial note: https://newintermag.com/our-goal/

Long-read on France Unbowed: https://newintermag.com/communism-lives-in-the-france-unbowed/

Henry's write-up on France Unbowed's structure: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zs2eG-GfiFTkXuXxPxJaJb9JDaAa7S9TD0rLuLLC-XI/edit?usp=sharing

Kristin Ross on the Commune Form: https://illwill.com/a-common-horizon-for-situated-struggles

Henry's podcast episode on Citizen Marx: https://www.formspodcast.com/episode-xxiv-citizen-marx

Song: X - Year One

Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century continue their reading of Dugin's Fourth Political Theory!

This is the section where it becomes clear that Dugin uses a different intellectual framework about civilizations than left anti-imperialists.

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See this episode and prior videos in this series on VarnVlog

A report from the Valencia inundation zone by B from the propaganda powerhouse Prole.info! We discuss the floods and the political aftermath, including mudslinging at the King and the future of the Spain's tenuous socialist government. From there were move on to his thoughts about Trump, the Democrats, and the second edition of the Housing Monster (with an intro by Sean! pre-order now from PM Press!).

Show notes:

https://schengen.news/spains-congress-approves-bill-to-cancel-golden-visa-program-in-january-2025/

https://jacobin.com/2024/05/spain-sanchez-psoe-vox-eu-elections

Housing Monster PDF: https://www.prole.info/pdfs/thm_english.pdf

All other prole.info material: www.prole.info

B on Twitter: https://x.com/@proledotinfo

Jazz and Blues Radio show from Ben Kritikos

https://buenavida.co.uk/red-white-blues/ Lazo Edicioneshttps://lazoediciones.blogspot.com/

Cuadernos de Negaciónhttps://cuadernosdenegacion.blogspot.com/

Song: Waka Flocka Flame - I Remember

On November 9th, 2024 the Independent Labor Club of NY hosted a panel at Woodbine in Ridgewood, Queens. Sean moderated this discussion between:

• Aaron Lelonde of the International Longshoremen's Association
• Sou Mi of WGA-East and Left Voice
• Gregory Butler of Int'l Union of Operating Engineers and Gangbox News
• Ellie Pfeffer of Maoist Communist Union, formerly of Amazonians United

What accounts for the realignment seen in 2024? Did large swathes of workers (including Black and Hispanic) vote Trump solely from racism and misogyny? What was the role of organized labor in the recent election? What effects might the results of the election have on the prospects for organizing labor in the future?

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The event was held @woodbine.nyc in Ridgewood, Queens Saturday November 9th. Contribute to Woodbine's Fall Fundraiser drive.

Song - Capital STEEZ x Joey Bada$$ - Survival Tactics

Our roundtable discusses the meaning of Trump's victory--the election's stakes, its international reverberations, what it tells us about the crisis of capitalist accumulation, how economics connect with the the race/class/gender demographic voting shifts, and the historic characters of the Republican and Democratic Parties.

In Part 2, available for patrons at http://patreon.com/theantifada, we plot THE RESISTANCE!

Panelists: C. Derick Varn Zhandarka Kurti Reid Kane

Song: Los 3 de La Habana - Cancion de Trump

Sean and Andy are joined by Sean, prolific poster and blogger and short fiction writer, to talk about the changes he has seen over the last decade as an expat worker in both mainland China and Hong Kong.

What shifts in politics, the economy and social life has he seen? What is the material basis for Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign? In what ways is the 'reform and opening up' period of 'market Stalinism' similar to Tony Blair's New Labour Britain? What does the imperial and post-imperial gaze on Hong Kong and the east more generally say about western precepts of China and Chinese capitalism? Is a new social explosion in China on its way or are we all, even in the west, lying flat for the foreseeable future?

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Sean is joined by labor activist and historian Jeff Schuhrke to discuss his new book Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade out now from Verso Books.

Why did American unions become a junior partner in US Empire during the Cold War ? How did anti-communists come to control US labor organizations in the 20th Century? What sort of high jinx were the AFL-CIO up to in Europe and the developing world? What did union activists do to expose this class collaboration and fight back against it? What might a reinvigorated working class internationalism look like in the 21st century? Join us for this great conversation about a great book that's absolutely essential reading for unionists and their allies.

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Buy Jeff's book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2979-blue-collar-empire

Get involved:

https://ilclabor.com/

https://rankandfileproject.com/

https://workerorganizing.org/training/

https://rankandfilecrew.org/

https://labornotes.org/

Song: Neil Young - Union Man

Aidan Beatty, author of The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism joins us to trainspot the British Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP), a Trotskyist cult that was tight with Qaddafi, boasted Vanessa Redgrave as a member, and collapsed after the revelation of years of its leader's sexual abuse of membership.

Sign up at http://patreon.com/theantifada for the bonus where we talk about Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon, the shared historical dynamics of the Irish and Jews, the WSWS's fascination with Woody Allen and Michael Jackson, and the macabre fate of Trotsky's death mask.

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Song: Pop Smoke - For the Night