This Wreckage

Sean, Andy, and Dr. Z celebrate our favorite holiday by sharing our thoughts on the horror of You Can See Everything, Ken Russell's The Devils, and the post-Digger discourse around political cinema

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ILC Halloween party rsvp: partiful.com/e/La8RUfmMXdYMRHdtfhDM?c=iD-TRXTI

ILC Dumber and Worse movie night: https://www.instagram.com/p/De7EoF2q-IR/

CAPITAL CITY author Samuel Stein returns to the show for the first time in seven years to chat about his new book A Right To Housing?

Our discussion looks at the challenges of making progress on housing rights in New York, let alone decommodifying housing, and how to keep the faith against all doubts.

Interview with Woodbine: https://woodbinenyc.substack.com/p/take-back-the-city-an-interview-with

Song: Iggy and the Stooges - I Got A Right

On October 17th at Woodbine in Manhattan Sean KB of the Independent Labor Club of New York City hosted the following public assembly.

Guests were Gregory Butler of Gangbox News and IUOE, Leroy of IBEW Caucus of Rank and File Electrical Workers, Tom of TWU 100 and Transit Workers for a Fighting Union, and Joe M of Local Union 20 (Staten Island) and Carpenters Rank and File Together.

Join the Independent Labor Club, we have chapters in NYC, NJ, Chicago, Philadelphia, Puget Sound and Columbia River and are looking to start more with your help: https://ilclabor.com/

Sean and Varn continue to discuss the current energy crisis, broadening out from current events to talk about the context and ramifications: US blob's energy war against BRICS, European industrial collapse and bankruptcy of the Atlanticist center, bond market chaos and more.

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Joshua Frank, an investigative journalist and editor at Counterpunch, talks to us about his new book Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who Are Selling Off Our Future!

Support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage for the FUN HALF! in which we give our takes on the climate satire that's driving X dead-enders insane: DIGGER!

More from Joshua Frank at Counterpunch

Jasper Bernes piece mentioned: https://communemag.com/between-the-devil-and-the-green-new-deal/

Thea Riofrancos piece mentioned: https://viewpointmag.com/2019/05/16/plan-mood-battlefield-reflections-on-the-green-new-deal/

Song: Juice WRLD - Bad Energy

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Follow CommuNoid on X and read more at https://parapowermapper.substack.com/ and https://parapowermapping.com/

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Song: Anamanaguchi - Territorial Pissings (Nirvana Cover)

Our French correspondent, Henry JK Wallis calls in to talk about the student riots throughout France.

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The "RED ENGINEER" Nick Chavez returns to the Wreckage to discuss his Heatwave Magazine contribution, The Black Box of Production.

The essay explains how technical expertise is divided within the capitalist production process, and how it must be redistributed and transformed during revolution for the construction of communism.

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Read the essay at Heatwavemag.info: https://heatwavemag.info/magazine/issue03/black-box-of-production/

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Check out FOREST AND FACTORY: https://www.endnotes.org.uk/palabre/forest-and-factory and our episode on it: https://www.patreon.com/thiswreckage/posts/e236-forest-and-96073396

Song: The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field

Sean and Varn discuss the ongoing crisis in the Persian Gulf, bond market chaos and much more.

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An epic and impressively realistic depiction of the 1381 British Peasant's Revolt, or an anachronistic origin story of Robin as anti-Trump cautionary tale? British history enthusiasts Ross and Susannah watch THE UPRISING with us to help us decide!

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Rodney Hilton - Bond Men Made Free https://archive.org/details/bondmenmadefreem0000hilt

Jacobin review: https://jacobin.com/2026/09/film-uprising-peasants-revolt-liberalism

Greengrass & Garfield interview: https://deadline.com/2026/09/the-uprising-paul-greengrass-andrew-garfield-interview-1237068407/

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