This Wreckage

Jamie and Sean are schooled by the master of critical analysis @leslieeiii from Struggle Session on what is good and what is not good about #resistance media in the age of Drumpf. Join us as we dissect the dystopian world of The Handmaid's Tale, the ur-text of liberal anxiety around the impending neo-theocratic counter-revolution. How does the Hulu series stand up to Margaret Atwood's 1985 masterpiece? What does the show tell us about donut Twitter and Hillary dead-enders? Can anything be redeemed? Next, Leslie turns us onto some much more effective resistance in the form of the ongoing Purge film series. Is this universe a better representation of actually existing material/social conditions that lead to dystopia...or already have? Are the lessons better? And can Staten Island ever be the center of a cross-racial working class alliance to overthrow the capitalist system? Tune in to find out. Check out Leslie's podcast at patreon.com/strugglesession Outro music: The Toasters - Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down Become a supporter at patreon.com/TheAntifada to unlock bonus episodes, our Discord community, and more!

AP Andy is in Mexico researching Posadism. Jamie is wherever goth socialists go to do goth-soc things. So Sean KB recorded an ep with fellow history nerd, Matt Christman of The Chapo Trap House, who is similarly tyrannized by the weight of dead generations. The question: Why, of all advanced capitalist countries, is the United States unique in its historical failure to form a bone-fide Labour/Socialist party organically tied to the union movement as an institutionalized political expression of working class interests? The answers may surprise you. The Antifada is an ultraleft-wrecker podcast of which History is a Weapon is an ongoing series. To support our subversion of American values and get a lot of cool stuff in return (bonus episodes, stickers, discords!) subscribe today at www.patreon.com/theantifada You can likewise support Matt Christman's excellent comedy/politics podcast at www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse and find him on twitter @cushbomb Closing music: Ｂｉｌｌｙ Ｊｏｅｌ － Ｗｅ Ｄｉｄｎ＇ｔ Ｓｔａｒｔ ｔｈｅ Ｆｉｒｅ （Ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅ）

Alright, so Jamie left everyone hanging with that inside joke in the main episode... but behind the wall Alex Gendler and Antifada can tell stories about Hasidic craigslist subs who only want to show the hog, cult party Jim Jones cosplay and romantic sex-slave encounters. We should really only make this bonus available to the $100 paypig tier patrons, but those worms don't even deserve that shit. Oh yeah, we also do a Real Trotsky-Train Hours where the man himself describes his Cossack-destroying, Knight Rider-esque Chad train that won the Russian Civil War. Become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada Outro - Soft Cell: Sex Dwarf

CONTENT WARNING: violence, war trains, choke sex, revisionism, does not pass Bechdel test To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Russian state television created an 8-part miniseries on the life of Leon Trotsky in which he spends half the screen time violently fucking on a war train dressed like a revolutionary leather daddy. And that's the least revisionist aspect of this stunningly anti-Semitic and reactionary tour-de-force. Alex Gendler, who grew up in the waning years of the USSR, puts this objet d'art into the context of Putin's neoliberal, authoritarian Russia while the rest of us ponder how one man could lay so much pipe and still have time to plot an entire revolution. Outro - The O'Jays: Love Train Become a patron at patreon.com/theantifada to access bonus content, discord community, and more!

We leave it to our patrons to guess what picante takes we have on polyamory. Is it bourgeois decadence that serves only to aggrandize our tech bro overlords? Or is it a totally normal and fine life choice that haters should stfu about? Article: https://qz.com/1501725/polyamorous-sex-is-the-most-quietly-revolutionary-political-weapon-in-the-united-states/?utm_source=reddit.com Sign up to become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada to hear this and more fun bonus content.

The government: we all hate it. But what happens if it just decides to go away? Recently Jamie joked on the Majority Report that it would be cool. Others, like the anarchist collective Crimethinc, have argued this point in earnest. We read their article and point out some flaws in their reasoning. While we agree with their vision of a self-organized, stateless society, we have a long way to go. Access the full episode, our Discord commune, and get DR. ANTIFADA'S PROPAGANDA PACK by supporting our show at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada Read the full article here: https://crimethinc.com/2018/01/19/anarchists-government-shutdown-doesnt-go-far-enough-make-the-shutdown-comprehensive-and-permanent Closing music: Zegota - Laika https://crimethinc.bandcamp.com/album/movement-in-the-music

We're joined by geographer and filmmaker Dr. Nerve V. Macaspac to talk about the history of the Philippines, its Maoist insurgency, and the rise of Rodrigo Duterte. We also talk Amazon, red-lining, Marxist geography, and Presidential foot fetishism. The last part of the episode is a discussion of Nerve's work on autonomous territories in Colombia, Mexico, and the Philippines that have earned some form of autonomy after decades of brutal armed struggle. A long episode just too good to cut down! A 50th Anniversary of the foundation of the Filipino Communist Party spectacular! Read Nerve's essay on "Insurgent Peace" https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KFRJSbvZkwAfB2sKpxGn/full Support the show! Help us get to 666 followers by May Day 2019 and get bonus content, discord access, and Dr. Antifada's propaganda pack at patreon.com/theantifada Closing music is Namatay Sa Ingay - Panimula and Berdugo https://namataysaingay.bandcamp.com/ (all sales of this album go to victims of the drug war)

The AntiFaPDA (That's Antifada + Pod Damn America, not a new anti-masturbation campaign) continues with our guest Alex Ptak and a deep dive into the depths of SJW Youtuber Marla Mae Fish! We defend Tim Burton and his goth babe characters from her bad liberal takes. Is this the foundation of an Internationalist Dark Web? Enjoy Mary Mae Fish's YT account here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChBD4NpITiW2CzIz5GwppDA Then watch some Contrapoints instead

Comedian Alex Ptak (@ptakjokes) of Ballin' Out Super and fam-cast Pod Damn America popped into the studio for a free-wheeling exchange of ideas. We confronted the most pressing issues of the day: How many radicalized Wine Moms will it take to bring on the rev? Now that Teen Vogue is anarchist and Penthouse is fash, which basic-ass mag will be the next to pivot? Why did Amazon think they could bring their subsidized helipad HQ to NYC with no consequences when this is a GODDAMN union town? And is Jonathan Chait the scabbiest scab who ever scabbed? All this and an update on merch! Become an Antifada patron to access our upcoming bonus episode with Alex, our archived premium content and much more at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada Get your dose of Ptak: http://alexptak.com https://soundcloud.com/ballin-out-super https://soundcloud.com/user-423070290 Outro: Redskins - Go Get Organized https://youtu.be/sBquv9EcVWk

Justin Akers Chacón, a person who actually knows what he's talking about, joins us to discuss the left case for actually knowing that the hell you're talking about. After some opening thoughts on the 'Yellow Vest' movement in France (which Sean mistakenly calls the 'Yellow Jackets' at least 4 times bc he clearly has some unresolved childhood bee issues) we dive into the migration maelstrom. Are borders good for unions? Has appealing to state repression been totally awesome for the labor movement? Does creating a criminalized minority of precarious workers help to bring the socialism? Can we trust Hillary Clinton, Emmanuel Macron and Tony Blair to triangulate us out of this mess we're in? Will the transnational working class ever be able to organize in an era of racial fear-mongering, militarized borders and the unfettered flow of capital? (That last one was a trick question. Justin gives us amazing examples of how transnational organizing can happen, has happened and is an absolute fucking necessity. Enjoy!) Become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada Follow us @the_antifada @jamie_elizabeth @spaceprole Good essay on Gilet Jaunes from Lundi Matin, translated by Ill Will Editions: http://ill-will-editions.tumblr.com/post/180774090884/next-stop-destitution-published-on-lundi-matin Textual riot porn and analysis from Crimethinc: https://crimethinc.com/2018/12/06/the-movement-as-battleground-fighting-for-the-soul-of-the-yellow-vest-movement Video of Paris Antifa running Action Francais out of Gilet Jaunes https://twitter.com/enough14/status/1071388684606418949 Check out Justin's work: Ownage https://socialistworker.org/2018/11/27/the-case-against-the-case-against-open-borders 'No One is Illegal' with Mike Davis https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1086-no-one-is-illegal-updated-edition 'Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class' https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/987-radicals-in-the-barrio Become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada Follow us @the_antifada @jamie_elizabeth @spaceprole Outro: Haircut - Gritona https://haircutva.bandcamp.com/