Max Shanly calls in from the UK to give his thoughts on the formation of the new party challenging Labor and Reform. Shanly argues that it should be modeled on the American DSA, with an eye towards renewing the Republican tradition in the UK.

support us at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage for the fun half, in which we talk about the social conservative and petit bourgeois elements in the party, why Corbyn's actions have been misguided so far, Max's opinion on what's fundamentally wrong with the US political structure, and our suggestions on what the new party should be called.

*Fall promotion*: For a FREE copy of Jarrod Shanahan's new book: Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms, subscribe or upgrade your subscription to annual Antifada supterstars tier (a 16% discount!), and include your mailing address in a DM. more info: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-promotion-138957785)

Some texts from Shanly:

https://medium.com/@maxshanly/towards-a-new-model-left-party-5947dc71b727

https://medium.com/@maxshanly/born-for-life-or-marked-for-death-a12d87220e42

https://medium.com/@maxshanly/drafting-the-future-adbce6f51aa4

Song: Dave Feat. Stormzy - Clash

Audio from our public reading + NYC Anarchist Bookfair afterparty at Book Row!

A celebration of the publication of Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms from @PMPress.

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

And for a FREE copy of Jarrod's book, subscribe or upgrade your subscription to annual Antifada supterstars tier (a 16% discount!)

more info: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-promotion-138957785

Order of readers:

Aristilde Kirby

O.K. Fox

Samantha Hinds

Heatwave Magazine

Antipolitika Journal

Payton McCarty-Simas

Jarrod Shanahan

Song: Chumbawamba - Give the Anarchist a Cigarette

A conversation with Chicago's Lake Effect Collective about the pro-Palestine University Occupations, the Chicago DNCs of 2024 and 1968, the current struggles against ICE, and their experience forming an organization.

Lake Effect's texts: UChicago Occupation: https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2024/08/01/reflections-on-the-uchicago-popular-university-for-gaza-encampment/

DNC: https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2024/09/07/seattle-is-never-coming-back/ ICE: https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/files/2025/03/previoustactics_FINALREAD.pdf

On organizing: https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2025/05/29/bring-the-ruckus-2008-notebook-on-cadre-revolutionary-organization/

https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2025/07/03/getting-organized/

Jarrod Shanahan's new book: Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms

For a FREE copy of the book, subscribe or upgrade your subscription to annual Antifada supterstars tier (a 16% discount!), and include your mailing address in a DM

(more info on Fall promotion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-promotion-138957785)

Song: Fall Out Boy - Lake Effect Kid

BASED Western Marxist Ross Wolfe EVISCERATES Domenico Losurdo for poor scholarship and neo-Stalinist zig-zagging.

For the full episode, including paywalled content about the conspiracy theories of Losurdists Gabriel Rockhill and the ACP, and some discussion of their hatred of Nietzsche and "going back to Marx," subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Part I: https://newintermag.com/against-losurdo/

Part II: https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/

Part III: https://newintermag.com/revisionism-revisited/

Song: Drope Soviético - Audi

Sean is joined by James Beard Nominated author, Rax King, to discuss her long-suffering hometown, Washington DC and the new trials it faces now that President DJT has decided to declare a crime emergency. The police have been federalized and the National Guard called in to suppress the lives of DC residents. How did this come to pass? What should we do about it? And how might DC be a portent of what we all might face soon enough?

Support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Mutual aid links:

Remora House

Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid

Ward 2 Mutual Aid

FLARE

Song: Chuck Brown - Wind Me Up

We celebrate 300 (+) Antifadas with a news episode and Q+A! New hits include Trump's Intel buy, the alt-right power and schisms within the Trump admin, ICE raid updates, and the theories of late capitalism and late fascism and if we're seeing the emergence of a late antifascism.

In the Q&A we talk about Grossmanism, TRPF, pre-politics, "partyism" and neo-kautskyism, our political trajectories historical moments that inspire us, and what we're reading/watching/listening to lately.

Subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada for the fun half, Discord access, and all bonus material!

Alberto Toscano on Late Fascism: https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/notes-on-late-fascism/

DJT state capitalism, our new stupid FDR: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/business/trump-intel-us-steel-nvidia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

ICE detentions dropping: https://journalistsresource.org/home/ices-recent-detention-data-what-journalists-need-to-understand/

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/ice-arrests-july-decline-immigrants

Did the alt-right win? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/us/politics/trump-far-right.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Sean is joined by Scott, Leo and Emily of the new nationwide initiative within the International Brotherhood [sic] of Electrical Workers called CREW. What made these union militants decide to organize for power within their union? How does business unionism let us all down? What sort of organizational principles should workers uphold? What would working class independence look like if we broke free from the politicians and the cartels? Join us for the coming out party of this new and exciting initiative.

Contact CREW and get involved: https://rankandfilecrew.org/

Music: 7 Seconds - The Crew

&y & &ers speculate on the deeper motives behind the move to end Home Rule in DC, then hop in Naomi Wolf's Apple Time Machine way back to THE YEAR 2000 to watch and discuss old Conan monologues and bits!

For the full episode, including a VIDEO version, support the show at http://www.patreon.com/c/theantifada

Audio from our live event! A panel about the way social media and technology effect our day to day lives and our future as a species with Eric-John Russell of Cured Quail, and Fiona Pearl Miller and Zoe Laris-Djokovic of Clocked Out Magazine. Recorded (mostly) last Friday, August 8 at Woodbine.

Support Antifada! http://patreon.com/theantifada

Buy Cured Quail volume 3: https://curedquail.bigcartel.com/

How to Smile Without Using You Eyes: https://curedquail.com/How-to-Smile-Without-Using-Your-Eyes

Preview of Platforms of Proletarianization: https://curedquail.com/Platforms-of-Proletarianization

Buy Clocked Out Magzine: https://clockedoutmagazine.com/purchase

Water Cooler Talk/Icarus Again: https://clockedoutmagazine.com/water-cooler-talk

Bottomless Wheatgrass Margaritas (and other apparatuses of deceit): https://clockedoutmagazine.com/bottomless-wheatgrass

Interview with Roy Lee: Maybe We'll Want to Be AI's Servant: https://clockedoutmagazine.com/roy-lee Song: Audrey Nuna & Niki - Clocked Out

Andy and Sean are joined by two anon members of the Heatwave Collective to discuss their new project: a better magazine for a worse world. How might we imagine the communist project under conditions of climate chaos? What does political economy tell us about the limits to capitalist politics in the current moment? How has history led us to such an impasse and what might we, as a class, do about it?

Become a patron of this podcast for bonus content, reading groups and more: www.patreon.com/theantifada

Subscribe to Heatwave to get print editions of the magazine delivered to your door: https://www.patreon.com/HeatwaveMag

Or by individual issues: https://shop.haters.life/products/heatwave-1

DFW Support Committee for arrested protesters and their fundraiser with updates: http://givesendgo.com/supportdfwprotestors

Song: Julien Baker - Heatwave