The Antifada

Our mysterious Anarcho Film Critic returns to debate EDDINGTON, Ari Aster's new Western farce set in a small New Mexico town experiencing the pandemic, George Floyd Uprising, and the rise of an AI data facility outside town. Is it a nihilistic farce with no message, or a powerful rebuke to impoverished mainstream narratives?

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Sophie Lewis essay: https://communemag...

Malcolm Harris, author of Kids These Days and Palo Alto returns to talk about his new book What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis--a trip through the three leftist conceptions of how to survive the climate crisis with recommendations for the present.

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Article about Shell consulting gig: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/shell-climate-change.html

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Z's back to dive deep into Trump's BBL, Alligator Alcatraz and future detention centers, LA and Chicago's immigration showdowns, and the Brandon Johnson's failed campaign against the restaurant from The Bear.

In the fun half we talk about if the Cuomo-voting Bronx will join the New York Commune, and share some HILARIOUS Hot Commie Summer tips from McSweeney's.

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As history repeats itself, we dissect Zohran Mamdani's stunning Democratic primary victory over former Governor Andrew Cuomo in NYC's mayoral race—a win that sent shockwaves through Wall Street and sparked what hedge fund CEO Dan Loeb dubbed "Hot Commie Summer." How did the Democratic Socialist candidate pull of one of the biggest political upsets in recent New York history? And what potentials does the win provide outside politic...

Our final predictions and analysis for the 2025 NYC Democratic mayoral primaries with Mattie Lubchansky of the No Gods, No Mayors podcast.

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Modern Ferret Monthly: https://web.archive.org/web/20070610044439/http://www.modernferret.com/pressreleases/nyc05212001.html

McMansion Hell endorsement: -https://mcmansionhell.com/post/786540193484341248/mcmansion-hell-urges-all-new-yor...

Part 2 of our April, 2024 discussion with Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes about the essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. He talks about the uprisings in Iran, including the murder of Mahsa Amini, and his feelings about Iran's role in the proxy wars surrounding the siege of Gaza.

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Report-back from the streets of LA with Victor Artola, author of Los Angeles, Or the End of Assimilation from Ill Will Editions.

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Further reading: https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/08/los-angeles-stands-up-to-ice-a-firsthand-report-on-the-clashes-of-june-6

TACO Trump backing down at behest of farm and hotel lobby: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-ice-raid...

Sean and Andy chat with S.H. Fernando Jr., aka Skiz, the author of Chronicles of DOOM Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast. We cover some hip hop history, DOOM's origins in underground hip hop and his emergence as crossover phenomenon in the aughts, his Nuwaubian background, getting kicked out of the US, and much more!

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The following is the audio from the Independent Labor Club of New York's assembly on Education and Labor:

Education in the US is at a crossroads. In recent months the Trump administration has proposed to abolish the Department of Education, and has threatened to rescind federal grants to universities across the country unless they accede to its demands. Meanwhile...

John returns for our special miniseries discussing his decades of experience theorizing and organizing, current events and life/work in New York City. On this episode he and Sean talk about this article from Dandy Andy at Three Way Fight, John's historical taxi driver organizing campaign and what it takes for commies to be accepted at the workplace.

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Our French correspondent joins us to talk about the SLAP heard 'round the world. We also get some updates on Melanchon's US tour, discuss Hasan Piker's detainment, death with dignity, the abundance agenda, Zohran, Robert Moses vs. Tammany Hall, the 5 year anniversary of the George Floyd Uprising.

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Malek Rasamny walks us through the moving gears of Middle East geopolitics in the wake of Trump's visit to Riyadh, opening relations to the Syrian regime under Ahmed Al-Saraah (fka Mohammed al-Julani), nuclear talks with Iran, PKK disarmement, the current situation in Lebenon, and much more.

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Tech and finance writer David Z. Morris talks us through the mental illness behind Silicon Valley's fascist immortalists, rationalists, effective altruists, abundists, etc.

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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.

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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...