Sean is joined by labor activist and historian Jeff Schuhrke to discuss his new book Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade out 2024-10-30 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Friend of the show, Rax King, is doing an intensive in-person writing course in Brooklyn next week and still has a few spots open!
If anyone in the NYC area wants to sign up, you can follow this link right here: http://raxkingisdead.com/classes
She is a great w...
2024-10-29 15:13:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Aidan Beatty, author of The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism joins us to trainspot the British Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP), a Trotskyist cult that was tight with Qaddafi, boasted Vane...
2024-10-23 10:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
We talk about the box office disaster Joker 2 in the second part of Fight Club Club. Is it all a big joke on Joker 1 fans? How did Todd Phillips go from GG Allin and John Wayne Gacey to Joker? How does Harley Quinn match up with Marla Singer? And what will the Joker Revolution be like?
New Yorker article on Fight Club, Joker, and th...
Jason, Daniel, and Andy talk about Fight Club to celebrate to the 25th anniversary of the movie and the Battle of Seattle that followed it. We look at the history of the book and Chuck Palahniuk's situationist influence and his embrace of his rightwing fans, the Gen-X ennui behind the creation of Tyler Durden, the politics of Project Mayhem, and...
2024-10-21 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Sean and Andy are joined by returning guest and cofounder of ILC-Chicago Jamie Merchant (@pathtopraxis) to discuss his new full-length monograph, out now from Reaktio...
2024-10-15 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
&nders Lee and AP &y guest on the Quorators podcast to field questions about UFOs, cyptids, Pompeii, and, of course, ampersands.
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udhh...
NEWS EP! We talk about the hurricane disaster, the Middle East disaster, the Ukraine disaster, and the Longshoremen's strike as a prelude to the war on Christmas. In the bonus we look at a proletarian get-rich quick scheme, an LAPD robbery gone wrong, and speculate on the REAL reason the Feds are taking down Mayor Eric Adams.
Organized ab...
While Marxist friend and historian Cosimo Pataleoni was in town from Italy, Sean decided to bring along Ross Wolf to get a taste of some badass history of piracy.
We discuss Cosimo's work on the Uskoks, Cr...
2024-09-24 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Sean and Varn are joined by special guest, A.P. Andy of the Antifada podcast, to round out their previous conversation on current impasses on the left.
How did Andy’s Platypus Affiliated Panel go? What’s new with the American Communist Party and how have they Stalinized Bordigism? What has happened to make Marxism-Leninism into an ana...
2024-09-18 10:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
NEWS ep! We talk about Sean's upcoming well-deserved Alaska vacation before shifting into some preliminary analysis on Israel's brief anti-Netanyahu general strike, the contradictions of the Israeli working-class and war economy, and the legacy of labor Zionism.
In the second half we talk about AfD's victory in Thuringia and the mean...
2024-09-09 10:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Rachel Kushner joins us to talk about her new novel Creation Lake--the story of an American agent-provacateur infiltrating a rural commune in France...
2024-09-04 10:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
REUPLOAD of our 2020 collaborative commentary with Swampside Chats! of S3ep11 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
In this two part episode, the crew goes back in time to a San Francisco homeless camp at the time of the a riot against neo-liberalism on S...
2024-09-01 15:44:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Enjoy this seventh episode of a sideproject with Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century, where they "explain right-wing thought to you so you can actually do something with it."
In this episode they read chapter...
2024-08-30 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Bronx expat Zhana Kurti reports back from the Chicago DNC and the protests against it. We go through the context of the 1924 and 1968 DNCs, the issues of Palestine and race in the election, how the left should relate to the elections, and if we should even be talking about it all.
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Situ-Punk Bill Brown of "NOT BORED!" zine fame chats with Andy about Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life and its influence on the punk counterculture from the seventies to the hipster aughts. Towards the end of the episode we talk about his Vaneigem's predictio...
2024-08-21 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Sean and Varn are back to talk about the various paroxysms of the American left: why are the sects getting weirder and weirder? Why do we have to pay attention to capitalist politics while realizing we have no stake in it? Why do we focus on labor and what the hell is the Independent Labor Club trying to do?
Song: Gary Numan - This ...
2024-08-14 10:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Ross Wolfe, Alex Gendler, Morgan, and Matthew Donovan join us for an extensiv...
2024-08-09 10:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Our France correspondent Henry J. Wallis returns to give updates since the New Popular Front's surprise victory on July 7. Will Macron block them from power after the Olympics? Will the French return from vacation in fighting mode? And how does Kamala's emergence compare to...
2024-08-05 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Our favorite engineers of the fouriest future return! We talk about an obscure marxist concept, dispels some myths of multipolarity, and provide some updates on the US Fire Festival-esque attempts to onshore/friendshore/reshore tech manufacturing.
In the bonus half we share our utopian visions for the world to come when the children of Bor...
2024-07-31 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
The world is ending. Home Depot workers are responsible, and Alexander Edward and Tony Boswell of Minion Death Cult join Sean to document it.
2024-07-26 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
&ers, &y, and Sean look at the career of New Left sociologist JACK SCOTT, who founded a "Jock Liberation Army," overhauled the Oberlin Athletics Department, and linked up with the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Jack Scott:
2024-07-24 10:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Sean sits down with Los Angeles-based Antifada political economy correspondent, Jason Smith of the Brooklyn Rail, to discuss demographic decline, a hot button issue relatively untouched by the Marxist ...
2024-07-17 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Audio from ILC's first Independent Labor Assembly July 7th, 2024 assembly at Talon Bar in Brooklyn with guest Gregory Butler
We consult with our Berliner Critical Theorist rabbi Jacob Blumenfeld about his recent Cured Quail essay Managing Decline. How do we shift the climate crisis from disaster communism and inhabitable barbarity to a communism of repair?
Read and preorder: https://cure...
2024-07-03 10:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Our France correspondent/flaneur Henry J. Wallis takes us on a leisurely derive through the French political spectrum and explains his support as an Appelist for the Popular ...
2024-06-26 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Enjoy this fifth episode of a sideproject with Varn, Sean, and Regrettable Century, where they "explain right-wing thought to you so you can actually do something with it."
In this episode they read chapters ...
2024-06-21 15:36:29 +0000 UTC View Post
NEWS EPISODE! We talk about the the 4hr Star Wars Youtube video, and strike updates, Russian War Keynesian updates, COVID propaganda updates, and a preview of Sean's new AI show.
Spectacular Failure of Star Wars Hotel: https://www....
2024-06-17 09:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Daniel returns to tell us about the Chicago encampments, Andy reports back from the New School occupation, and we re-read two Moishe Postone essays on anti-zionism and anti-semitism in light of the new movement.
New School divestment vote:
Anarcho-Anon Film Critic Daniel and Andy discuss the politics of Furiosa and the rest of the Mad Max franchise through the theories of Pierre Clastres, Donna Haraway, Maggie Nelson, Bruno Latour, Nick Land, Hillary Clinton, punk, and disaster anarchism. I considered calling this episode "Anya Taylor Armed Joy" but decided against it.
2024-06-07 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post