This Wreckage

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C. Derick Varn is back to discuss Sean's new article on China. What is the political economy of China? Was the 1949 revolution betrayed by capitalist roaders? What were the patterns of development that brought it into the world market? Should China be defended as a socialist project? Is it a model worth emulating? Lastly, does the working class of China, or anywhere for that matter, have a role to play still in history or will the future be market technocracy and slow growth forever?'

Sean's substack article (free): https://seankb.substack.com/p/whither-china

Audio recording of article available for patrons on patreon

Communist philosopher Søren Mau chats with us about his new book Mute Compulsion, an introduction to Marx's thought on the nature of economic domination under capitalism.

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William Clare Roberts' review in Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2023/03/mute-compulsion-soren-mau-book-review

Jasper Bernes essay on Revolutionary motives: https://endnotes.org.uk/articles/revolutionary-motives.pdf

Song: Royksopp - Compulsion

STRIKE UPDATE! SEIU, WGA, AFL-CIO, PNWSU, MLBPA! Degrowth vs. workers' movement, WGA strike and culture production, the Player's Revolt against the National League, immanent critique of culture war, extinction rebellion as the zombie New Left, and much more!

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APOLOGIES for the echoey/murmury audio stuff. I messed up and i won't do it again :(

AFL-CIO support Willow Project: -https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/bidens-decision-massive-alaska-oil-project-determine-climate-future-labor-pres

WGA Updates: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/los-angeles-hospitality-union-backs-writers-strike-1235483737/ https://www.vulture.com/2023/05/wga-2023-writers-strike-news-updates-day-10.html

Andrea Vetter clip discussed on Left Reckoning: https://twitter.com/LeftReckoning/status/1653101121429200901

Blue Bird EV buses unionize: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/us/politics/clean-energy-unions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Robert B. Ross - The Great Players' Revolt

Song: 100 Gecs - Dumbest Girl Alive

At long last, Middle East historian Djene Bajalon of This Is Revolution talks with Sean and Andy about affairs international and internecine. Topics include: London vs Hull, Labor vs Tory, the deep fakes and stonings of the Turkish election, the way Turkish culture wars mask the class war, Erdogan and anti-imperialism, And in the second half for subscribers: Twitter files, Rojava update, autonomous regions and communism, Post-Bernie leftism, DEI for imperialism, and a sip of Sublation tea.Song: Mean Jeans - I Don't Care

David A. Banks, author of The City Authentic and co-host of the upstate-urbanist podcast Iron Weeds describes the rural gentrification of upstate New York and how the commodification of authenticity works. We also talk about the anti-work assault on the New College of Florida;

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Cigarettes After Sex - Apocalypse.

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We check in with labor reporter Alex Press about the Sean vanguard emerging in the UAW and Teamsters, if the the unions are moving left and if the left is moving closer to the working class, recent updates from Amazon, Starbucks, and Trader Joe's unionization drives, cross-border solidarity with Mexican and US autoworkers, reflections of striketober and the great resignation, something interesting Andy found in the trash, and much more!

Articles by Alex Press:

https://jacobin.com/2023/03/uaw-convention-bargaining-shawn-fain-reformhttps://jacobin.com/2023/03/amazon-third-party-sellers-small-businesses

https://jacobin.com/2023/02/strike-increases-us-labor-movement-2022-statistics

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/construction-union-hudson-yards/

https://newrepublic.com/article/153044/big-techs-unholy-alliance-pentagon

https://jewishcurrents.org/from-the-ashes-of-the-old

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/01/nyregion/turbulent-labor-rally-snarls-midtown.html

Song: The Press - Revolution Now!

Author and fellow Occupy-vet Malcolm Harris joins us to talk about his cursed hometown of Palo Alto and the many evil spirits that haunts it--mainly, Herbert Hoover.

Buy the book at https://www.paloaltobook.com/

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Song: Radiohead - Palo Alto

A NEWS EP so timely we decided to release early. We talk about the strikes and riots in France, A DNA Mist that reveals forced labor in the supply chain, And Andy's review of How to Blow up A Pipeline, Subscribe to the show on Patreon and you'll hear the full episode, with: thoughts on raving, Taibbi Derangement Syndrome, ChatGPT's solutions for sublating the New Left, and the Israeli secrets revealed in the recent US Intelligence leaks.

Articles mentioned about France:https://www.seattletimes.com/business/france-guardian-of-egalite-leads-the-list-of-ultrarich/

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/drowning-in-deposits

https://twitter.com/proufos/status/1643991308485414916?s=46&t=VVQ2vdGVkxcBV4MIWyMr6A

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pension-reform-protesters-briefly-invade-paris-blackrock-building-2023-04-06/

https://crimethinc.com/2023/03/30/france-in-flames-macron-attempts-to-crush-the-movement-against-the-pension-reform-with-lethal-violence-1

https://jacobin.com/2023/04/france-pension-protests-movement-long-rebellion-neoliberalism-emmanuel-macron

AI DNA Mist: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/business/economy/ai-tech-dna-supply-chain.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleSharelntel

leaks: https://www.nytimes.com/explain/2023/russia-ukraine-war-documents-leak?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Song: France Gall - Boom Boom

Welcome to Proletkult! The Antifada sideproject about the paranormal and the parapolitical. Today we’ll be talking to Wu Ming 1, of the Italian writing collective Wu Ming about their origins in the Italian revolutionary milieu, the Satanic Panic pranks played by their associates the Luther Blisset Project in the 90s, their novel Q, and their theory that it inspired QAnon. We’ll also talk about their novel UFO78, and their political analysis of the recent UFO news.

In the full episode available to patrons at Patreon.com/theantifada, you'll hear MY analysis of the recent UFO news, which, until we actually make contact with the space comrades, will be the LAST UFO news we should ever care about again.

Check out Wu Ming's new essay UFOs and the Longing for the Unidentified at Ill Will Editions

Songs:Giorgio Moroder - Racer

Blink 182 - Aliens Exist

Lana Del Rey - When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing

Sean and Varn return to their miniseries on the global debt crisis with a very topical bank failure episode.Since Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and Credit Suisse went belly up the last couple of week capital and the state have scrambled to contain the damage to the financial system and the 'real' economy. Why is an adequate explanation for inflation important? Does the Federal Reserve Bank itself even have one? If Fed policy is blowing up banks and barely even working is there some other reason (class based, perhaps?) to induce an economic slowdown?For patrons: what 'Marxism-Leninism in the Age of Multipolarity' gets very wrong; how the shadow banking sector might be the next shoe to drop; notes on the Brenner-Riley NLR article; on blue-collar toxicity and middle class racism; doomerism, socialism and hope.Sign up at www.patreon.com/theantifada for the full episode (over two hours long!) and a ton more content from our bonus archive.