This Wreckage
Episodes
Ep 52 - MELTdown May w/ Cuban, VZ, and PNW anarchists/communists
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andy is back from presenting on Posadas at Cuba's first Trotsky conference and Red May in Seattle with four interviews: Isbel Diaz Torres from the ana...
BONUS PREVIEW - The Worst Room w/ Samuel Stein
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In which Sam returns to discuss with us our worst apartment experiences. Includes attempted murder, our landlord-in-chief, Great Americans and Lindsay...
Ep 51: The Housing Monster w/ Samuel Stein
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Samuel Stein, author of 'Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State' from Verso Books, comes on the pod to explain why neoliberalism will ...
BONUS PREVIEW - Handsy Joe w/ Katie Halper
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus, we debut a new parody song by Katie Halper (@kthalps) with an assist from Jamie. We also discuss the garbage musical Rent (and how its ...
UNLOCKED Antifada's Proletkult #1 w/ Stephanie Monohan
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You got your History is Weapon with Sean KB... you got your upcoming new film series (!) with Jamie Peck... and now we are proud to present the first ...
Ep 50 - The Dream of the 90s w/ Katie Halper
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Doyenne of the podcast left, @kthalps, joins Jamie and Sean to discuss 1990s nostalgia. Mostly we come up with reasons why the decade actually kinda s...
Ep 49: Breadtube Allstars w/ The Serfs, Non-Compete & Means.tv
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Every get the feeling that YouTube is a cesspool of corporate propaganda and right-wing nuttery? You're not wrong. Thankfully, the left is fighting ba...
BONUS preview: Tash2.0
26 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
More of our interview with Natasha Lennard about the antifas, social democracy, smooth bernies, and our political horizons Listen to the full episode...
Ep 48: 12 Rules for Non-Fascist Life w/ Natasha Lennard
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Good friend and all-around badass Tash rolls through once again to talk about her forthcoming essay collection from Verso Books, 'Being Numerous: Essa...
Ep 47: The Party Question w/ Famous Leftists (+ virgil texas)
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend was the biennial blast that is the Historical Materialism (@histmat) Conference NYC. Naturally, we took the opportunity to attend some pa...
BONUS - All About Us w/ Leslie Lee III
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Massive spoiler alert on this one, baby! @leslieleeiii of your favorite leftist culture podcast @strugglesesh joins the crew (in studio!) to talk abou...
Ep 46 - Ohio Operaismo w/ Street Fight Radio
06 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When @brettpain and @murderbryan from @streetfightwcrs are in town for their epic live show what the hell were we gonna do? Not have them on Antifada ...
Ep. 45 - Full Yellow Jacket w/ Rona Lorimer
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After a quick lesson on Fugazinomics, we talk with Parisian Rona Lorimer, author of the Yellow Vest Diaries from the new issue Commune Magazine, about...
Ep 44 - No Deal-With-It Brexit w/ Niral Shah
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Third-time (!) guest @niralshah jumps in to help us bang through some recent cancellations: Rachel Maddow, Barbara Streisand, the International Social...
Ep 43 - Give 'Em Enough Trope w/ Eli Valley
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by cartoonist, writer and all-around provocateur @elivalley to talk about his work, including recent online run-ins with fellow Jewish l...
Antifada: History is a Weapon #3 w/ Matt Christman
15 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Once more into the breach! @cushbomb is here to make history all the more weapony. In this episode, we discuss the 'controversial' French 'novel' that...
Ep 42 - Antifada's Baja Blast w/ The Crew
13 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie had a birthday weekend. Andy came back from Mexico. After the gang caught up a little, we listened to some interviews Andy got from migrants and...
Episode 41: There Is Power In A Union w/ Hamilton Nolan
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Folks, it finally happened: we royally fucked up the sound. Which is a shame, because we had a great conversation with Splinter News' Hamilton Nolan (...
Antifada ft. Will Menaker: Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism w/ Kim Stanley Robinson
28 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Are you a nerd like us? Do you read stories about robots and space, while also pondering a socialist future? Well, do we have an interview for you... ...
High Theory: Communization and its Discontents w/ Swampside Chats and Breht O'Shea
23 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Time to take a big ole bong rip! In a radical departure from our usual weekly content, Sean KB joined up with a bunch of commie pals to talk about C O...
PREVIEW: The Pam Anderson Node w/ Corey Pein
19 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
@CoreyPein sticks around to discuss The Californian Ideology, Baywatch & Julian Assange. Then we do a textual analysis of a LA Times puff piece a...
Ep 38: Off With Their Hogs! w/ Corey Pein
13 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Author, journalist and cat dad @coreypein joins us to gives us some important updates on what he described in last year's excellent 'Live Work Work Wo...
BONUS: Beach, Bookchin, Blair, and Bears (Preview)
11 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
AP Andy comes across a fellow radical exile Blair Taylor washed ashore on a beach in Nayarit, Mexico. The two post-anarchists discuss the life and wor...
Ep 37: All in the Antifada Family w/ The Supersoldiers
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A bunch of our die-hard listeners were in NYC, so we decided to have as many people as would possibly fit in the studio come on the show. Why the hell...
Ep 36: The Handmaid's Fail w/ Leslie Lee III
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 #resistanc...
Antifada's History is a Weapon #2 w/ Matt Christman
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 n...
PREVIEW: It's Beddie Bye Time, Trotsky
18 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ab...
Episode 35: Leon Thotsky w/ Alex Gendler
16 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
CONTENT WARNING: violence, war trains, choke sex, revisionism, does not pass Bechdel test To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Soviet Revoluti...
PREVIEW: Real Poly Hours™
14 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ove...
*PREVIEW* BONUS: Real Crimethinc/Jamie Peck GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN Hours
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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. Oth...
Episode 33: Insurgent Geographies w/ Nerve Macaspac
26 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ro...
BONUS PREVIEW: SJW Youtube Fail w/ Alex Ptak
24 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 d...
Episode 32 - Two Minutes Chait w/ Alex Ptak
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Episode 31: There is No Left Case Against Open Borders w/ Justin Akers Chacón
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 30: Mapache Guevara
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sean and Jamie are back from their magical Mexican vacation! We talk about why we love visiting Mexico, the legend of Trotsky's cookies, their Chiapas...
UNLOCKED! - Real (?) Moist Hours w/ AP Andy, Jamie Peck & Sean KB
28 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We've been on vacation for the last week and a half, so we've decided to unlock some premium content from a couple of months ago for our subscribers-s...
Wob Damn America
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sean joins the DAMNED in an Antifada crossover episode with Pod Damn America for a special History is a Weapon about the Industrial Workers of the Wor...
*BONUS episode preview* Audio Riot Porn
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Pavlos stays after-hours to indulge our wildest fantasies with his illicit tales of sultry Syntagma street action. The Hellenic hunk's voyeuristic rem...
Ep 29: A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past w/ Pavlos Roufos
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Psychedelic Bordigist, Pavlos Roufos (@PRoufos), joins us to talk about the years leading up to, the proximate causes of, and the aftermath of the Gre...
Episode 27: Who's Afraid of Gothic Marxism? w/ The Lit Crit Guy
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On this most terrifying Halloween episode, we are joined by the Lit Crit Guy (@TheLitCritGuy) for a discussion of Gothic Marxism, zombie neoliberalism...
PREVIEW Real (?) Moist Hours w/ AP Andy, Jamie Peck and Sean KB
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When the alleged 'Florida Communist Front' outlined a concrete proposal to begin, fight and win a Protracted People's War from the Everglades, Antifad...
Episode 26: Battle of the Andys w/ Shyam Khanna & Andy Battle
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the crew is joined by Shyam Khanna, EIC of Commune (@commune_mag), and Andy Battle, doctoral student in US History at CUNY, for a discussio...
Episode 25: True Grit w/ Jamie Peck, Sean KB & AP Andy
17 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this very interactive episode, the skeleton crew gives thanks to Comrade Gritty, the first sports mascot who is actually mocking the fans. We then ...
Episode 24 Bonus w/ Jacob Blumenfeld (PREVIEW)
12 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this patrons-only bonus, we chat with Jacob (@cominsitu) about how a book he translated, "Communism for Kids" and his guerilla reading of...
Episode 24: A SpOoOoKy Halloween Antifada with Drs. Bones and Blumenfeld
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Since Halloween starts Oct 1, our episode begins with the spook-buster himself, Max Stirner. In a much anticipated meeting of the minds the two most p...
Episode 23: Creating Space To Dream In Puerto Rico w/ Molly Crabapple
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week journalist and artist Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) drops by to talk Puerto Rico, SESTA/FOSTA, and much more. Highlights: Jamie and Mo...
UNLOCKED! History is a Weapon #1: Historical Materialism w/ Sean KB
01 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the first installment of our new history and theory series "History is a Weapon," Sean breaks down historical materialism, a thing we tal...
Episode 22: Secrets of the Illuminati w/ Tanz
27 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this very conspiratorial episode, the crew is joined by Tanz, writer, researcher, and PhD candidate in the CUNY Grad Center's social psychology pro...
Episode 21: Russia Russia Russia w/ David Klion
20 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The gang is joined by writer David Klion (@DavidKlion) to talk New York's Democratic primaries, the socialist read on Trump/Russia, and the need for a...
Episode 20 Bonus w/ Jake Flores (PREVIEW)
17 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this patrons-only bonus, Jake (@feraljokes) tells a touching tale about chasing Joe Rogan around LA trying to get on his show like Captain Ahab cha...
Episode 20: Pop Save America w/ Jake Flores
13 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Antifada crew is back from vacation and ready to pop off once more. This week, we are joined by fellow Goth socialist podcaster Jake Flores (@fera...
History is a Weapon #1 (TEASER): Historical Materialism w/ Sean KB
10 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the first installment of our new history and theory series "History is a Weapon," Sean breaks down historical materialism, a thing we tal...
Cats, Communism & Community: Andy Reports From Queens' Woodbine Space
06 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the second edition of The Antifada's new interview series, Andy interviews Matt and Vanessa from the Queens communist project Woodbine at one of th...
Punk Rock, Breast Milk & Situationism: Jamie Interviews Nora Singh of Hit Bargain
06 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
While on vacation last week, the Antifada crew decided to mix it up a little by each doing a standalone segment. For her contribution, Jamie spoke wit...
Episode 19: No War But The Class War w/ Spenser Rapone
22 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Militant Minority Report, we get even more seditious than usual with the help of army resister Spenser Rapone (@punkproletarian). Mi...
Real Posadist Hours (TEASER) w/ Comrade Communicator
18 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After recording episode 18 with Comrade Communicator of the Intergalactic Workers League, Andy compelled us to engage with a previously unpublished wo...
Episode 18: Posadism for Regular-Ass People w/ Comrade Communicator (IWL-P)
15 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After our intended guests fell through, we were surprised and pleased to be joined by Comrade Communicator of the Intergalactic Workers League, who wa...
Episode 17 : Bonus Material (PREVIEW) w/ Matt Christman & Virgil Texas
11 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We left a few choice gems from the full episode on the cutting room floor: Japanese culture is both really weird and possibly the best case scenario ...
Episode 17: The Working Class Goes to Hell w/ Matt Christman & Virgil Texas
07 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this very special Antifada offering, Andy, Jamie and Sean are joined by your favorite sons: Matt Christman and Virgil Texas of Chapo Trap House. G...
Episode 16: (((Globalist))) Uprisings w/ Brandon Jourdan
02 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie, Sean, and Andy are joined by militant documentarian Brandon Jourdan of globaluprisings.org. Brando discusses life as an expat, the indymedia n...
Episode 15: Welfare Rights & Nutcrackers (& the Feminazis Who Love Them)
27 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Gang talks Notorious F.F.P. (Francis Fox Piven) and Glen Beck's hate-on for her. Wilson breaks down the true origins and political economy of frozen, ...
Episode 14: Bowie/Musk 2020 w/ Niral Shah & Alex Gendler
19 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are joined by returning guest Niral Shah (@NiralShah) and Soviet agent Alex Gendler (@Achilleselbow) to talk music and Musk. (No Andy thi...
Episode 13: Janus & Juice w/ Aaron Petcoff
04 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After a relaxing day drinking nutcrackers at the beach, Aaron of the ISO and the Antifada crew hit the studio to podcast and chill. Our hate was impur...
The U.S. Left & the Future of Capitalism w/ Revolutionary Left Radio
28 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Brett from Revolutionary Left Radio and The Guillotine joins The Antifada in a special collaborative episode to discuss the current state of the US le...
Episode 11, part 2: The Left's Identity Crisis w/Justin Charles (Teaser)
27 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We finish out our discussion on race, identity politics, organizing, and DSA. Then the crew punches left by dragging on socialist thinker Elon Musk. ...
Episode 11, part 1: The Left's Identity Crisis w/Justin Charles
20 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In part one of a monster episode, we sit down with Justin Charles of North Brooklyn DSA and the AfroSocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus. Sean i...
Episode 10: Patron Q&A #1 (Teaser)
11 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On this special premium episode of the Antifada, we take a bunch of questions from our Patreon subscribers. Is it better to forward left politics thro...
Episode 9.5: Kill All Norms
03 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The AF crew takes on Jonathan Chait's recent word turd: the things he's wrong about re: "the radical left," as well as the things he's right...
Episode Nine: Violence - Humans in Dark Times w/ Natasha Lennard
23 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our friend and comrade Natasha Lennard joins us for a discussion themed around her forthcoming book with Brad Evans, "Violence: Humans in Dark Ti...
Episode Eight: The University & Its Malcontents w/ Anonymous New School Student
17 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie, Sean and Andy take a field trip to the occupied New School to interview "K," an anonymous student, about New School students' latest ...
Real Tankie Hours: The Immortal Science of Incel Thought (Teaser)
13 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A brief taste of our premium content, which can be yours for as little as $2/month!
Episode Seven: Virginity in Theory and Practice w/ Andrew Callaway
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest canceled so Jamie picked up a rando at the DSA convention to fill in. Thanks for being such a good sport, rando! Jamie and the rando — wh...
Episode Six: Brutalism, Infantilism and #Doom w/ Ross Wolfe
30 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you thought last episode was arcane, get a load of this shit! We sit down with Ross Wolfe of https://thecharnelhouse.org to venture into the farthe...
Episode Five: Antisocial Democracy w/ Asher Dupuy-Spencer
25 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the most cerebral episode yet of The Antifada, Jamie and Sean welcome old friend Asher Dupuy-Spencer of Verso Books into the studio. The gang talk...
Episode Four: Liberal Derangement Syndrome w/ Doug Henwood and Liza Featherstone
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In The Antifada's HARD LAUNCH episode, Jamie and Sean speak with socialist power couple Doug Henwood and Liza Featherstone about aggression in Syria, ...
Episode Three: Punk, Riotgrrl, & Other Opiates of the Masses w/ Aaron Petcoff
14 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Up the punx! Jamie, Sean and guest Aaron Petcoff of the ISO discuss music, religion and sacred cows. We talk shit on Fiverr. Sean confuses Epitaph wit...
Episode 2.5: Real Tankie Hours w/ Niral Shah
14 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sean delves deep into tankiebook and brings back some scintillating slash fic about Comrade Stalin. Tankie Lena Dunham is introduced. The guys get exc...
Episode Two: Bari Weiss, Campus SJWs, & The Free Exchange Of Ideas
14 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody knows that legendary soul singer Barry White and Zionist writer Bari Weiss are not the same person. What this episode presupposes is, maybe ...
Antifada Episode One: International Women's Strike w/ Tatiana Cozzarelli
14 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In our FIRST EVER episode, we talk to DSA member, grad student, and Leftvoice editor Tatiana Maria Cozzarelli about the International Women's Strike, ...