This Wreckage

Scholar and madman Eric-John Russel joins us to discuss his journal the Cured Quail, the political origins of the Situationist International, and Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle.

After that Sean and Andy discuss Trump's low-energy coup attempt, especially why so many anticipated it and why it doesn't seem to be working.

Support the Antifada by becoming a Patron for the full Spine Check episode on Society of the Spectacle, released Friday.

Get Cured Quail 1 and preorder Cured Quail 2 at https://curedquail.com/

Society of the Spectacle pdf: https://libcom.org/files/The%20Society%20of%20the%20Spectacle%20Annotated%20Edition.pdf

Eric-John Russel's forthcoming book on Debord and Hegel:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/spectacular-logic-in-hegel-and-debord-9781350157637/

Recent SI reader from Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338897/the-situationist-international/

Don Hammerquist's essay on right populism and international capital: https://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2018/10/new-stuff-from-old-guy-part-1.html

Matthew Lyons - Resisting Trump's Coup https://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2020/09/resisting-trumps-coup.html

Business leaders plan response if Trump disputes election results:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/06/business/business-groups-election-results/index.html

music:

Refused - Rather be Dead

Stone Roses - Bye Bye Badman

In Part two of our discussion with the Angry Workers collective about their new book Class Power on Zero Hours, we talk about the new cycle of unrest spreading the world: riots against police brutality, racism, and renewed lockdowns in Europe. We close with a discussion of the tasks a workers' revolution will need to accomplish to succeed, and how we can get from here to there.

For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada

Angry Workers' Insurrection and Production essay

We interview two authors of the new book "Class Power on Zero Hours" describing the Angry Workers' collective efforts of organizing, agitating, and working in the industrial fringes of west London.

“We are publishing this book at a time when many on the left are licking their wounds, despondent at their missed opportunity to implement a socialist program through the Labour Party," they write in the intro, calling instead for more focus on daily worker activity for autonomy, and theorizing how solidarity between essential workers can point the way to revolution.

Part two of the episode, released Friday on Patreon, will discuss that program as well as anti-lockdown riots and BLM.

Read the full introduction: https://classpower.net/intro/

Buy Class Power on Zero Hours from PM Press: https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1164

Angry Workers’ essay on insurrection:

https://angryworkersworld.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/insurrection-and-production/

Correspondence with Insurgent Notes: http://insurgentnotes.com/2020/09/introduction-to-discussion-of-class-power-on-zero-hours/

Closing song: Sleaford Mods - Jobseeker