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.

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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!

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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.

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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

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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?

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

Song: Julien Baker - Heatwave

Our mysterious Anarcho Film Critic returns to debate EDDINGTON, Ari Aster's new Western farce set in a small New Mexico town experiencing the pandemic, George Floyd Uprising, and the rise of an AI data facility outside town. Is it a nihilistic farce with no message, or a powerful rebuke to impoverished mainstream narratives?

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Sophie Lewis essay: https://communemag.com/the-satanic-death-cult-is-real/

Thomas Chatterton Williams book: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/22/summer-of-our-discontent-by-thomas-chatterton-williams-reivew-a-muddled-take-on-us-race-politics-and-class

Shemon & Arturo texts: The Return of John Brown: White Rice Traitors in the 2020 Uprising: https://illwill.com/the-return-of-john-brown-white-race-traitors-in-the-2020-uprising

On car caravans: https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/cars-riots-black-liberation

The Revolutionary Meaning of the George Floyd Uprising Book

George Floyd Uprising book by Vortex Group

Song: Bonnie Gentry - Courtyard

Malcolm Harris, author of Kids These Days and Palo Alto returns to talk about his new book What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis--a trip through the three leftist conceptions of how to survive the climate crisis with recommendations for the present.

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Article about Shell consulting gig: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/shell-climate-change.html

Emmanuel Carrere on the G7: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jul/15/my-trip-g7-summit-emmanuel-macron-emmanuel-carrere

Tooze's NYT review that calls Harris “ the left-wing alter ego to the liberal journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson": https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/books/review/whats-left-malcolm-harris.html

Song: The Walters - What's Left

Sarah Schulman chats about her latest book "The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity", a meditation on the category of solidarity informed by her decades of experience as a writer, academic and activist.

Also by Sarah Schulman and mentioned in the episode: "Conflict Is Not Abuse," "Let the Record Show," an oral history of ACT UP, "The Gentrification of the Mind," and the lesbian noir Maggie Terry.

Song: Black Uhuru - Solidarity

&ers & &y talk about James Gunn's woke, punk, millennial, pro-Palestinian, anti-ICE Superman!

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Resources on Communization: https://thecharnelhouse.org/2017/02/28/resources-on-communization/

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Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage