Jarrod and Zhana return to talk about their new book "Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City"! We look at how the liberal apparatus used identity politics and divert the abolitionist movement to expand incarceration, and check in how the De Blasio-era plan to closer rikers and replace it with four "community" "justice hubs" has fared under the anti-Woke era of the Adams administration.

Lastly, we talk about the the recent "Wildcat" CO strike in state prisons as a broader effort to roll back the reforms of the BLM and other anticarceral struggles, as a preview of the dark plans for expanded incarceration of the Trump 2.0

In part 2 of the episode we talk about the counter-revolutoinary history of Tren de Aragua and the Enemy Aliens Act of 1798. to hear it, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

BUY the book from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2454-skyscraper-jails

Adams on new Manhattan jail developments: https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2025/01/18/rikers-manhattan-jail-contract

More info on MH jail redesign: https://newyorkyimby.com/2025/01/new-preliminary-renderings-revealed-for-manhattan-detention-center-at-124-125-white-street-in-chinatown-manhattan.html

Jarrod on upstate prison strike: https://truthout.org/articles/nys-prison-guard-strike-has-roots-in-decades-of-racialized-deindustrialization/

Aziz Rana on Consitutional Crisis: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/constitutional-collapse

Our early episode with Nadja Guyot from No New Jails: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-69-abolish-w-30401262

Song: Cock Sparrer - Out on an Island

Our artificial intelligence miniseries returns with a guest spot by This Machine Kills cohost, Jathan Sadowski, about his brand new second book The Mechanic and the Luddite: a Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism.

For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Song: Manuel Göttsching - E2 - E4

Audio from a Twitch stream in which &ers & &y go through the history of the Minneapolis General Strike of 1934 and reflect on what lessons we can take from it as we approach the National Strike on May 1, 2028

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Past episode of &&&: https://www.patreon.com/collection/500909

https://libcom.org/article/minneapolis-teamsters-strike-1934-jeremy-brecher

https://www.marxists.org/glossary/events/m/i.htm#minneapolis-teamsters-strikes

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/usa/mpls01.htm

https://cosmonautmag.com/2022/05/setting-the-record-straight-on-the-trotskyist-led-1934-minneapolis-teamsters-strike-the-teamsters-bureaucracy-its-aftermath/

Closing song: Tex Williams - Teamster Power

Sean is joined by old friend, John Garvey, to introduce our new miniseries: Garveyism! In this first episode we discuss some current events--the Ukrainian War as seen from Brighton Beach, horse racing subsidies and working class social life, and the first month of the Trump Administration. The series will continue monthly with bonus episodes featuring John talking about his experience in (and against) the New Left, prospects for class power in the current epoch and lessons learned in organizing in NYC over the last fifty years or so.

To access the bonus portion of this episode and much more become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Music: King Tubby - John Garvey Dub

Dr. Alimantado - Marcus Garvey School

Sean and Andy chat with a worker organizer at one of the three Alamo Drathouse locations striking against seasonal firings. We cover how Barbenheimer weekend inspired the union effort, frustrating interactions with management, the weird subterranean Wall Street location, some ancient NYC organizing history, service sector organizing, and how a worker-run theater could make the nerdy-niche "experience" far better.

All links for union press statements and fundraisers: https://beacons.ai/nycalamounited https://cwa-union.org/news/workers-alamo-drafthouse-fight-back-against-unfair-firings

Alamo now functionally BYOB: https://x.com/cleverrgirrl/status/1891656861939650579

Audio: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGGgjriua4s/

Song: Dolly Parton - 9 to 5

Hinterland author Phil Neel returns to explain value-form to an American by asking us to imagine a burger.

Listen to the full episode by joining our paid or free membership tiers at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Phil Neel's burger essays: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/12/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh/

https://brooklynrail.org/2025/02/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh-2/

Cuban hamburgerismo: https://www.sm28.org/articles/j11-the-return-of-the-cuban-proletariat/

Song: Tyler the Creator - Burger

NEWS EP! We sort out the class forces behind the Muskite restructuring underway, the meaning of the tariff trade war, and argue for why we should stay partisans of woke.

For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Ganz: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happened-here-c9f

Nolan: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dark-times-are-coming

full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-our-lives-121342801

Our guests from this week's AI episode stick around with Sean to continue the hijinks about our tech oligarchy and discuss the first couple of episodes of AppleTV's television show Severence about how working for a mid-20th century capitalist firm is creepy and kinda suss ngl.

Sean didn't have the guts to name this new podcast series about AI as Rax, Mattie and Jaya would have it: Unintelligent Fartelligence. Feel free to boo him in the comments.

For the bonus episode support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Song: Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4

Sean, Andy, and Varn scan the sectarian terrain of the US today as a prelude into our (part 2) discussion of drama in MAGA communism.

For part 2, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Read along: https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1973/xx/microsect.htm

Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage