NEWS EP! Government Shutdowns past and present, ICE in Chicago, Trump vs. Big Capital, and Sean's essay on the implications of the international spread of the American petit-bourgeois.

We discuss the essay in detail in the fun half! read along: https://seankb.substack.com/p/gadsdens-over-rio

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Song: Digital Octopus - Don't Tread on Me

We discuss our new podcast name, and Paul Thomas Anderson's new film, One Battle After Another.

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A member of DFW Defendants Support reports from the first court hearing for 17 activists being charged with terrorism after attending a July 4 noise demo in Dallas gone very wrong. While details of the events are limited, it has been centrally cited by the Trump admin to justify their assault on protest and dissent, offering some clues of how similar prosecutions might proceed in the future, and highlighting the necessity of solidarity with those targeted for their political beliefs and associations.

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Fundraiser for defdants

DFW Support Comittee IG

Des’ support committee IG

NLG Statement

Final Straw interview with Moira Meltzer-Cohen

Info on the pro-Palestine activist mentioned: https://www.keranews.org/criminal-justice/2025-09-24/tarrant-county-raunaq-alam-perjury GF Uprising support Free Casey Goonan

Image from YDSA Texas

Catching up on the news, and announcing the show's rebrand! A must listen for all longtime friends and fans.

Bailing out Argentina: https://on.ft.com/4nmFPei

Dysphoria Dimes’ take on Trans terror designation: https://www.instagram.com/p/DO6EqTYjqT_/

Klip on Dallas shooter's motives: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-shooters-motive

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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.

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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.

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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

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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?

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Mutual aid links:

Remora House

Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid

Ward 2 Mutual Aid

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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