This Wreckage

Sean and Jamie break down the tragic news out of Los Angeles, Kenosha and Portland, then broaden out the discussion to theories of political violence and revolutionary organization (and spontaneity). What is the least LARP-y line a communist might take in this day and age? Also: Down with eco-yogic slumlords!

In the second half, Jamie speaks with three worker/organizers about the union-busting activities of No Evil Foods, a vegan food company with radical branding but extremely capitalist labor practices. What's up with faux-cialist scabs naming things after the Zapatistas?!

Follow our soy-slinging comrades at MoEvilFoods.com, @BirdieGregson and @MoEvilFoods on Twitter, and @soevilfoods and @moevilfoods2 on Instagram.

Outro music: Gorilla Biscuits - Cats and Dogs

We continue to discuss the black radical tradition with Kazembe Balagun. In this episode we cover marxist feminists Angela Davis and Claudia Jones. We finish with a few questions about the continuation of these struggles into BLM and the George Floyd uprising, including a certain infamously cancelled Zoom call.

Many of the texts in question can be found in the Communist Research Cluster Black Radical Tradition reader: https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2020/06/02/black-revolutionaries-in-the-united-states/

Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf

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Idris Robinson Red May speech: https://illwilleditions.com/how-it-might-should-be-done/

Closing song: Elaine Brown - Until We're Free

This week we bring you a two part series on the American black radical tradition. Joined by educator and activist Kazembe Balagun we discuss some of the fundamental questions of black marxism and revolution leading to the current day. In this episode we talk about the Haitian revolution, Harriet Tubman, WEB Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Harry Haywood, CLR James and the Johnson Forest Tendency, James and Grace Lee Boggs, DRUM, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and the Black Panther Party.

Many of the texts in question can be found in the Communist Research Cluster Black Radical Tradition reader: https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2020/06/02/black-revolutionaries-in-the-united-states/

Other referenced texts:

CLR James and Grace Lee Boggs - Facing Reality https://libcom.org/files/James%20-%20Facing%20Reality.pdf

Finally Got the News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FarGHAO7h-c

Excellent analysis of Huey P Newton's conception of intercommunalism: https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/06/11/intercommunalism-the-late-theorizations-of-huey-p-newton-chief-theoretician-of-the-black-panther-party/

https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/06/11/intercommunalism-1974/

Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation by Angela Davis - https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/davispoprprblli.html

Viewpoint Mag reader on whiteness:

https://www.viewpointmag.com/2020/08/05/beyond-guilt-and-privilege-abolishing-the-white-race/

Closing song: Joe L. Carter - Please Mr. Foreman