The Antifada

Jasper Bernes chats with us about his new book on the history of revolution from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising and the task of communists today.

Buy the book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/977-the-future-of-revolution

Excerpt: https://illwill.com/inquiry-and-organization

Check out Red May: https://www.redmayseattle.org/

BK Rail debates: https://brooklynrail.org/2025/05/field-notes/on-the-future-and-past-of-revolu...

Tribute to a recently-departed comrade.

"nothing is over, that is the only certainty. the other certainty is that everything ends, even this" -Poem (Sept 26, 2023)

Clip from Occupy Oakland: https://x.com/poetryc0mmunity/status/1917001969467838652

Reading from The Totality for Kids at Bowery Poetry Club in 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgfMT58xkTg

Youtube clip of Joshua talking about his book on the Modern Lovers' song Road Runn...

Sean and Varn catch up on the first 100 days or so of Trump 2.0, the inanities and indignities of history forced to move again in dumb, but possibly productive ways. Most of all this moment calls for humility amidst radical political and economic changes we might only be able to 'sane-wash' in 20 or 30 years, if ever.

How have recent events challenged our priors as Marxists or as Millennials or as Americans? Even if the Left is lar...

Alex Bazeley and Bobby Wagner of the labor-focused baseball podcast Tipping Pitches join Andy to chat about the 2025 season, the upcoming 2026 showdown by the players' union and owner on the salary cap, the gap between "rich" and "poor" teams, why we might miss the Yankee Empire one day, and why leftists stay interested in America's Pastime as America itself collapses.

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Sean and Andy discuss JDPon Don's Great Reset, the #HandsOff protests, the Mar-A-Lago accords, and the death of the American Dream

In the fun half, available for patrons, we chat about Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17 and it's sauce-obsessed Musk-Trump hybrid villain

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Ken Klip on Hands Off protest: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/i-went-to-the-anti-trump-protest

Speculation on Mar-A-Lago A...

This is a recording of the ILC's fourth public assembly at Woodbine Space in Queens on March 29th, 2025 featuring Cyrus Cappo of John Jay College CUNY, Daniel Jacobs of Sublation/Platypus Affiliated and Ryan Castello of the Maoist Communists Union.

For more info on the Independent Labor Club of North America-including upcoming events, how to join, how to start a chapter, etc-visit the website at https://ilclabor.com/

Song: Dodos - Tr...

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Political cartoonist and writer Eli Valley joins us to talk about his new book Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque, another Senate Antisemitism hearings, the future of the Israeli-American fascist alliance, and a bit about AI, Jabotinski, Betar, and Ezra Klein's Abundance agenda.

In the fun half we talk about Eli's pre-cartoonist l...

Preview of Part 2 in which we talk more with Jarrod and Zhana about the pitfalls of performatively moving on from identity politics, the Bukele-prison model of the fascist future, the historical anti-revolutionary basis of the 1798 Enemy Aliens Act, how a union protection racket in Chavez's Venezuela became the gang Trumpists believed were poised to takeover major metro regions of the United States, and why we should've been siding...

Jarrod and Zhana return to talk about their new book "Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City"! We look at how the liberal apparatus used identity politics and divert the abolitionist movement to expand incarceration, and check in how the De Blasio-era plan to closer rikers and replace it with four "community" "justice hubs" has fared under the anti-Woke era of the Adams administration.

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Audio from a Twitch stream in which &ers & &y go through the history of the Minneapolis General Strike of 1934 and reflect on what lessons we can take from it as we approach the National Strike on May 1, 2028

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Past episode of &&&: https://www.patreon.com/collection/500909

https://libcom.org/article/minneapolis-teamsters-strike-1934-jeremy-...

Sean is joined by old friend, John Garvey, to introduce our new miniseries: Garveyism! In this first episode we discuss some current events--the Ukrainian War as seen from Brighton Beach, horse racing subsidies and working class social life, and the first month of the Trump Administration. The series will continue monthly with bonus episodes featuring John talking about his experience in (and against) the New Left, prospects for cl...

Sean and Andy chat with a worker organizer at one of the three Alamo Drathouse locations striking against seasonal firings. We cover how Barbenheimer weekend inspired the union effort, frustrating interactions with management, the weird subterranean Wall Street location, some ancient NYC organizing history, service sector organizing, and how a worker-run theater could make the nerdy-niche "experience" far better.

All links for union...

Hinterland author Phil Neel returns to explain value-form to an American by asking us to imagine a burger.

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Phil Neel's burger essays: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/12/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh/

https://brooklynrail.org/2025/02/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh-2/

Cuban hamburgerismo: https://www.sm28.org/articles/j11-th...