This Wreckage
Communist podcast exploring political economy, history and the class struggle with AP Andy, Sean KB and guests. Become a patron to enjoy bonus content, access to our Discord community and more at: https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage
Episodes
CAPITAL CITY author Samuel Stein returns to the show for the first time in seven years to chat about his new book A Right To Housing?
Our discussion looks at the challenges of making progress on housing rights in New York, let alone decommodifying housing, and how to keep the faith against all doubts.
Interview with Woodbine: https://woodbinenyc.substack.com/p/take-back-the-city-an-interview-with
Song: Iggy and the Stooges - I Got A...
On October 17th at Woodbine in Manhattan Sean KB of the Independent Labor Club of New York City hosted the following public assembly.
Guests were Gregory Butler of Gangbox News and IUOE, Leroy of IBEW Caucus of Rank and File Electrical Workers, Tom of TWU 100 and Transit Workers for a Fighting Union, and Joe M of Local Union 20 (Staten Island) and Carpenters Rank and File Together.
Sean and Varn continue to discuss the current energy crisis, broadening out from current events to talk about the context and ramifications: US blob's energy war against BRICS, European industrial collapse and bankruptcy of the Atlanticist center, bond market chaos and more.
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Joshua Frank, an investigative journalist and editor at Counterpunch, talks to us about his new book Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who Are Selling Off Our Future!
Support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage for the FUN HALF! in which we give our takes on the climate satire that's driving X dead-enders insane: DIGGER!
More from Joshua Frank at Counterpunch
Get the Zine at https://www.patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping
Follow CommuNoid on X and read more at https://parapowermapper.substack.com/ and https://parapowermapping.com/
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Song: Anamanaguchi - Territorial Pissings (Nirvana Cover)
Our French correspondent, Henry JK Wallis calls in to talk about the student riots throughout France.
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The "RED ENGINEER" Nick Chavez returns to the Wreckage to discuss his Heatwave Magazine contribution, The Black Box of Production.
The essay explains how technical expertise is divided within the capitalist production process, and how it must be redistributed and transformed during revolution for the construction of communism.
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Read the essay at Heatwavemag.info: https://heatwavem...
Sean and Varn discuss the ongoing crisis in the Persian Gulf, bond market chaos and much more.
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An epic and impressively realistic depiction of the 1381 British Peasant's Revolt, or an anachronistic origin story of Robin as anti-Trump cautionary tale? British history enthusiasts Ross and Susannah watch THE UPRISING with us to help us decide!
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Rodney Hilton - Bond Men Made Free https://archiv...
NEWS EP! AI apocalypse and regulation scenarios. Global shipping disrupted big time. Xi winning. Flights are grounded; nature is healing. AFD surge in Germany. All hail the Great and Powerful Theil!
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Show notes:
Riley on AI vs market capitalism: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/blind-guesses
China's AI Great leap forward: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/business/china-ai-ec...
In this bonus episode Andy and Sean are joined by roving media correspondent, Rax King, to get into some of the 80s/90s urtexts that created 21st century American culture: spoken word and standup comedy by Generation X luminaries Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins and Denis Leary. What do these cultural artifacts from a bygone era tell us about how all the highlights of organized American political life in this millennium - from Bush to O...
Sean and Andy are joined by historian Daniel Wortel-London to discuss his recent book The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development 1865-1981 out now from University of Chicago Press.
Without the taxes and jobs generated by wealthy firms and households, we are told, our communities cannot survive. But what if the costs of elite-driven growth outweighed its benefits? What if the wealthy were not th...
&y, &ers Lee & a special SECRET guest (Jake Flores) compare some Zoomer 9/11 takes (via the Daily Wire) and the post-9/11 hot takes that got Susan Sontag, Amiri Baraka in some trouble.
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Brooklyn vs. Dallas. Brownstones vs McMansions. Jelly Roll Morton vs. Jelly Roll. The Braves vs. The Savannah Bananas.
The authors of "Alphabet America" (Liam and Jackson) claim that their theory of a cosmopolitan America A and a psuedo-rural America B is "the most explanatory method of understanding the cultural divide," and that " the vast majority of people, whether they can name it or not, experience life in America this way mor...
Audio from our LIVE SHOW in Chicago at the first national ILC Convention!
For the full episode, including our panel with Jamie Merchant and 3 delegates from ILC locals, support us on patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage
Song: Chicago - Saturday in the Park
&ers makes some recommendations for Mamdani's approach to the NYPD, &y recaps is Irish dérive, & we read together some excerpts from the recently departed Raoul Vaneigem
&ers essay on police reform: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/zohran-mamdani-needs-to-fire-jessica-tisch-but-who-will-he-replace-her-with
& reply from Ant L.: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/letter-the-nypd-is-none-of-our-concern
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NEWS EP! We preview our coming events in Chicago and New York, and read about the United States' comic inability to make artillery shells.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
FRI 8/21 This Wreckage live event: https://luma.com/tc972eyv
SAT 8/22 UFOlogy to the People event at the Beach: https://www.instagram.com/thebeachchicago/
The boys are back, Sean interviews Varn on his recent tour with Daniel Tutt, What did they learn and what did they see? Next is a segment about the DSA, its strategy and factions, present and future. What might we imagine coming of winning on the Democrat ballot line?
In the bonus room we get real doomer talking about the climate crisis, Complexity theory, public/private debt, the inability of US capitalists to get their shit togeth...
Sean (car painter) sits down with Billy OC (rod buster) and Gregory A. Butler (UBC retiree, IUOE member) to discuss the latter's new book The Workerist Manifesto. This is part 1 of a miniseries devoted to Greg's books, his news service Gangbox News and his many years of experience working in the trades and thinking about working class emancipation.
Chicago: get tickets for the This Wreckage Live Show sponsored by ILC Chicago on Fr...
Audio from our live panel on Saturday, July 25 at Woodbine where we go deeper on Varn & Tutt's new book The People Are Not One, starting with some normie vs. Marxist LARPing and ending with a spirited Q&A featuring Ross Wolfe, Greg Butler, Platypus, Donald Parkinson, and more!
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The event was sponsored by ILC of NYC Song: Run the Jewels - Goonies vs...
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