The Final Straw Radio

Ongoing Sabotage and Resistance to War in Russia and Ukraine

17 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we're airing 2 interviews to do with the Russian war in Ukraine. Plus, Kevin Rashid Johnson talks about being denied medical care for his p...

Abortion, Family, Queerness and Private Property with Sophie Lewis

10 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Scott and William talk to Sophie Lewis, author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family and the soon-to-be-released Abolish The Famil...

Stop Cop City + Intl Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners

03 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Stop Cop City +David Campbell on Antifascist Prisoners This week's episode features two interviews. Stop Cop City Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (I...

On Nurturance Culture w Nora Samaran (rebroadcast)

26 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we're re-airing a 2019 conversation with Nora Samaran, author of the essay "The Opposite Of Rape Culture Is Nurturance Culture", which bec...

Rojava Again Under Threat of Turkish Invasion

19 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rojava Again Under Threat of Turkish Invasion [00:10:35 - 01:45:30] Emre, Rimac, Xero and Anya, members of the Emergency Committee for Rojava join us ...

Support Jessica Reznicek and Navigating Conflict in Movement

12 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the show, we're airing two portions. Transcript Jessica Reznicek Conflict In Movement PDF (Unimposed) – pending ZIne (Imposed PDF) ...

Anti-Repression, Supporting Uprising and Anarchist Prisoners

05 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the show, we're featuring a few segments. First up, Chazz speaks about the website UprisingSupport.org which shares the names and cases o...

The History of Black Bloc, plus Bad News!

29 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

First up, we're sharing a blast from the past blast from the past, an interview that we conducted in 2013 via our comrades from A-Radio Berlin with a ...

Dunstan Bruce on The Untold Story of Chumbawamba

22 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dunstan Bruce is perhaps most famous for his lead vocals and listing of libations in the Chumbawamba pop hit, Tubthumping. But there is so much more t...

Mutual Aid Under Attack: a conversation with the AVL Park Defendants

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For this special mid week podcast release, we are presenting a conversation with three defendants who are in an ongoing legal battle with the city of ...

Liaizon Wakest on Autonomous Social Media and the Fediverse

08 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we spoke with Liaizon Wakest. Liaizon grew up in an anarchist commune in rural America. They can be found climbing into dumpsters from Mexi...

Prisoner Solidarity, COVID, and Carcerality with IWOC

02 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week we are pleased to present an interview that Bursts did with two members of IWOC (the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee), Caroline wo...

Earthbound Farmers Almanac and Food Autonomy in Bulbancha

24 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We're joined this week by some of the folks behind the Earthbound Farmer's Almanac, a self-published annual collection of art, comics, facts, articles...

Strategies For Ecological Revolution From Below with Peter Gelderloos

17 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Final Straw, we're featuring a recent conversation with anarchist author and activist, Peter Gelderloos about his latest book, "The S...

The Interregnum: Roundtable with Vicky Osterweil

17 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week we are pleased to present something a little bit new for TFSR listeners. This is a kind of informal round table discussion that co host Scot...

Eric King Speaks | 2 Radical Ukrainian Voices

03 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Eric King Speaks | 2 Radical Ukrainian Voices This week, we're sharing 3 segments on this episode. Transcript (Eric King, found alongside 3/27/22 epi...

Merced Prisoner Hunger Strikes | Eric King Trial Ends

27 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week's episode has two segments... Merced County Prisoner Hunger Strikes This week, you'll hear a chat with California-based activist Victoria fr...

Updates from Afghanistan and Iran

20 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we're joined again by Aryanum, a member of the Federation of Anarchism Era (ASRAnarshism.Com), mostly made up of anarchists from Iran and A...

A Russian Anarchist on the Ukraine War

13 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we spoke with Petr, a Russian anarchist member of the group Autonomous Action, who is living in Europe right now. For the hour we speak abo...

Monarchy In The UK

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, you'll hear my chat with Jon Bigger about the status of the monarchy in the UK, the power it wields, the interventions it makes into parlia...

Anarchists in Ukraine Against War

25 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On Thursday, February 24th, I spoke with Ilya, a Russian anarchist living and organizing in Kyiv, Ukraine. We spoke about the relationship between Rus...

Keith Lamar from Death Row / Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (rebroadcast)

20 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hey folks. This week, we're sharing our 2020 chat with Keith Lamar aka Bomani Shakur who is facing execution on November 16th 2023. We hope you enjoy...

Cory Doctorow on "Walkaway" and Post-Scarcity (rebroadcast)

13 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we are re-broadcasting an inteview with the sci-fi and picture book author, technologist and social critic Cory Doctorow.  Cory is an edit...

Abolition Mixtape with Chris "Time" Steel

06 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We are sharing a cross-over episode with the Time Talks Podcast (member of the Channel Zero Network alongside TFSR) where Chris "Time" Steel and Burst...

Tom Nomad on Conspiracism

30 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Nomad is an organizer based in the Rust Belt and the author of The Master's Tools: Warfare and Insurgent Possibility and Toward an Army of Ghost...

Anarchist Struggle in Rojava

23 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anarchist Struggle, or Tekoşîna Anarşist in Kurmanji, is an anarchist combat medic collective operating in Rojava since the time of the war against...

Exile, World Systems Analysis and Anarchism with Andrej Grubačić

16 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andrej Grubačić is a former teacher at the University of Rojava, founding Chair of Anthropology and Social Change at the California Institute of Int...

The Battle for Abortion and Reproductive Autonomy with Bay Ostrach

10 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the show, we sat down with Bayla Ostrach, an activist, anarchist, longtime defender, provider of and researcher around issues of reproduc...

William C. Anderson on The Nation on No Map (new book)

02 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week we are really pleased to feature Scott conducting an interview with author and activist William C. Anderson about his new book The Nation on...

Housing Struggles in Asheville

26 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the show, you'll hear from Doug, Onion & Papi, three folks involved in the Aston Park Build, a daily event to hold space in Aston Park in...

Ecological Uprising, Antifascism and Anarchist Organizing in Serbia

19 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Serbia has been rocked by recent, mass blockades in the streets to challenge changes to the Law of Expropriation which would allow the state to take f...

The Perils of Prison Mail Digitization

12 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Leigh Lassiter from prison books collective in Durham, North Carolina, a nonprofit project that sends zines and books to prisoners in Alabama in North...

Grief, Storytelling and Ritual in Liberation Struggle with adrienne maree brown

28 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're excited to share a conversation with adrienne maree brown, the writer of such books as Holding Change, We Will Not Cancel Us, Pleasure ...

Eric Stanley on "Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable"

21 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Scott spoke with Eric A Stanley about their new book, Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable, wh...

Mèo Mun: Anarchist Views from Vietnam

14 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mèo Mun is an anarchist collective working to make anarchist materials and ideas more accessible to a Vietnamese audience, together with providing an...

The Russian Political Landscape and Anarchist Prisoners

07 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're featuring 2 guests speaking about Russia. First up, John spoke with author and journalist Dmitry Okrest about the state of anarchist a...

Asheville Survival Program

31 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Asheville Survival Program is an autonomous mutual aid network formed in early 2020 at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in so-called Asheville, NC. ...

Support Ryan Roberts and #KillTheBill Bristol defendants!

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On March 21st, 2021, thousands entered the streets of Bristol in the UK to vent their anger at deaths in police custody, police violence on the street...

Fat Liberation for Revolutionary Leftists with Autumn

17 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week I am very excited to present an interview with Autumn (she/her/hers), who is an anarchist and scholar-activist, on Fat Liberation in all its...

"For Trans Liberation, Capitalism Must Be Abolished"

10 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're sharing a chat that Scott Branson had about Transgender Marxism (2021, Pluto Press) with Jules Gleeson (co-Editor, Contributor) and M....

Belarusian Uprising Revisited

03 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Final Straw, we spoke with Vasili and Maria, two Belarusian anarchists living abroad about the aftermath of the 2020 Uprising in thei...

Stop The Mountain Valley Pipeline

26 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Mountain Valley Pipeline, or MVP is planned to be a 300 + mile pipeline 42 inches in diameter being built to transport compressed so-called Natura...

Firearm Safety and Education with Comrade Center

19 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the show, we spoke with folks involved with Comrade Center, a leftist project focused on accessible education around armed self-defense i...

Stop The Legal Lynching of Ernest Johnson

12 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On February 12th, 1994, Ernest Lee Johnson and his ex-girlfriends two sons participated in the botched robbery of Casey's General Store that took thre...

"Interpreting Realities": A Panel Discussion Supporting Jailhouse Lawyers Speak's #ShutEmDown2021

05 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second segment of a series of political discussions focused on building support for Jalihouse Lawyers Speak 2021 National call to action #...

"Representing Radicals" Lawyers' Guide from Tilted Scales

29 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Resisting state repression and surveillance is one of the cornerstones of The Final Straw and has been since the beginning of this project. Over the y...

"If You Want To Fight Fascism, You Cannot Rely On The State"

22 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the show, we share an interview with Sonja, an antifascist activist and researcher based in the state of Hessen, Germany, and involved in...

Swift Justice on Abolitionist Struggle in Alabama

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On this special midweek release, you'll hear Swift Justice, incarcerated Abolitionist in Alabama affiliated with the Alabama Resistance Movement and U...

Unity And Struggle Through The Bars with Mwalimu Shakur

15 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the show, you'll hear our conversation with Mwalimu Shakur, a politicized, New Afrikan revolutionary prison organizer incarcerated at Cor...

Combating Movement Misogyny

10 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the show, William and Scott are presenting an interview with Alice and Dolly, who are two people working toward Disability Justice and Ma...

Asheville's Policing Crisis with Ursula Wren of Asheville Free Press

01 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The city of Asheville likes to make headlines. The Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority, or TDA, has been working alongside other tourism ind...

Dixie Be Damned: a regional history of the South East through an Insurrectional Anarchist lens (rebroadcast)

25 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we're excited to (re-)present a 2015 conversation with Saralee Stafford and Neal Shirley, editors and authors of their book out from AK Pre...

Aishah Shahidah Simmons on Love WITH Accountability (Rebroadcast)

19 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we re-air an interview done with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, who is a writer, community organizer, prison abolitionist, and cultural worker who...

Federation of Anarchism Era on Iran and Afghanistan

11 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The collective we spoke to for this episode began as a series of remotely-hosted blogs and communication methods among Iranian anarchists at home and ...

Joshua Clover on Riots and Strikes

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joshua Clover is the author of seven books including Riot.Strike.Riot (Verso, 2016), which has been translated into six languages. Scott and Joshua t...

Free Xinachtli! and Updates from Greece

27 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we're featuring two main portions of the show. You'll hear updates from Greek comrades at 1431 AM free social radio in Thessaloniki and Rad...

Cindy Milstein On Mending The World As Jewish Anarchists

20 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we air a conversation between Scott and anarchist, author and organizer Cindy Milstein. The conversation is framed around the most recent c...

Eric Laursen on Modern Anarchist Conceptions of The State

13 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One thing that sets anarchism aside from other radical, egalitarian critiques of Power developed in the modern West is the conception of the State as ...

Making Links: June 11th, Long-term Prisoners, Anti-Repression Work

06 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

June 11th is the international day of solidarity with Marius Mason and all long-term anarchist prisoners. This year we want to explore the connections...

IDOC Watch, Leon Benson and Abolitionist Organizing in Indiana

30 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

First, you'll hear from Koby Bluitt talking about her father, Leon Benson and his struggle for release after 23 years in prison, 10 of which was in so...

Colectivo Subversión on Protest in Colombia and Global Battles for Dignity

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the show we are pleased to present an interview with María Kamila, who is a teacher and a popular journalist who works with the anarchis...

Palestine and Challenging Settler Colonial Imaginaries

16 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the show, we're airing a portion of our 2018 interview with filmmaker and activist Yousef Natsha about his film about his hometown, Hebro...

Shane Burley on "Why We Fight"

09 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we present a conversation with Shane Burley, author of the new AK Press book, "Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving ...

Max Fox on Chitty's "Sexual Hegemony"

02 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, you'll hear Scott's chat with Max Fox, editor of the late Christopher Chitty's book, "Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy and Capital in th...

An Indian Anarchist on Anti Caste Organizing and More

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we are very happy to present an interview with Pranav Jeevan P, who is a student, a writer, an anti-caste activist, and an Indian anarchist ...

Veronza Bowers, Jr: 47 Years of Justice Denied

18 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Veronza Bowers, Jr: 47 Years of Justice Denied This week, we're airing a conversation recorded by Eda Levinson on September 12th, 2002, with political...

Alive With Resistance: Diasporic Reflections on the Revolt in Myanmar

11 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is a conversation with Geoff Aung (@Rgnhardliner on twitter), a Burmese American Marxist anthropology Phd candidate at Columbia University living...

Queer Activist Perspectives from Southern Appalachia

04 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the show, we bring you the audio of an activist panel from the recent Queer Conference held online by University of North Carolina, Ashev...

Shut Em Down 2021: Jailhouse Lawyers Speak

28 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the show, I spoke with Comrade Chux, a member of Jailhouse Lawyers Speak. JLS is an autonomous network of incarcerated activists from acr...

Steve Martinez Still Resists Grand Jury Related To Dakota Access Pipeline Struggle

21 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's been nearly half a decade since thousands of indigenous water and land defenders and their accomplices and allies weathered a difficult winter an...

An Ethiopian Anarchist Perspective on the War in Tigray

14 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we spoke with Anner, an Ethiopian member of Horn Anarchists, an anarchist group based in east Africa, particularly in Ethiopia and the Ethi...

Aric McBay on "Full Spectrum Resistance"

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we are re-airing a conversation that Bursts had last year with Aric McBay, who is an anarchist, organizer, farmer, and author about his most...

In Defense of Looting with Vicky Osterweil

28 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Defense of Looting with Vicky Osterweil This week we are getting the chance to air a conversation that we had with writer, anarchist, and agitator ...

Chronicling Prisoner Uprisings During Pandemic

21 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The last year has been a trying time for everyone. Hardest hit have been prisoners who have seen increasing infections of the covid-19 virus brought i...

adrienne maree brown on Cancellation, Abolition and Healing

14 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Final Straw, we feature a conversation between our occasional host, Scott, and adrienne maree brown. For the hour, Scott and adrienne...

Building Working Class History

07 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Building Working Class History [00:05:53] This week, I spoke with John from the Working Class History collective and host of their WCH podcast. We spo...

The Security State, Far Right and Media Post-January 6th

24 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Security State, Far Right and Media Post-January 6th This week on the show, you'll hear two segments: chat with Spencer Sunshine on the far right ...

ShineWhite on Turning Razor Wire Plantations Into Schools of Liberation

17 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

ShineWhite on Turning Razor Wire Plantations Into Schools of Liberation The following is a conversation with ShineWhite. ShineWhite is the former spok...

Organizing To End Prison Slavery with Bennu Hannibal Ra Sun

10 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Organizing To End Prison Slavery with Bennu Hannibal Ra Sun [starts at 00:02:37] This week, Bursts spoke with Bennu Hannibal Ra Sun, co-founder of the...

Prison Bars Won't Stifle These Hearts

27 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Prison Bars Won't Stifle These Hearts This week, we're presenting three segments, all related in some way to prison. We hear an essay by an anarchist ...

Organizing in "No Chance Alamance" County

20 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Organizing in "No Chance Alamance" County This week on the show I'm speaking with three folks engaged in organizing in the rural Alamance County, Nort...

Class Power on Zero-Hours: A chat with Angry Workers

13 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, you'll hear Kiran and Marco of the Angry Workers, a collective of anti-authoritarian communists struggling to think through and build worke...

Daryle Lamont Jenkins: Defend DC, December 11 and 12th (plus Updates from Slovenia and Greece)

06 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, you'll hear a full show, including a segment by Sean Swain [00:01:38 - 00:07:54] Defend DC, 12/11-12/12 [00:07:52 - 00:51:28] Our main co...

Uncovering Spy Cops in the UK

29 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, I spoke with Dónal O'Driscoll, an animal rights activist and anarchist from the UK talking about the work of the Undercover Research Group...

The Uprising In Belarus

22 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Belarus is continuing to experience a revolt against the 26 year dictatorship of the post-Soviet dictator, Alexander Lukashenko. The situation came to...

Eviction Defense, Community Resiliency, and Getting Free

15 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week I got the chance to sit down with Olive and Yousef of the Durham NC based eviction defense group HEDS-Up! HEDS-Up! stands for Housing Evicti...

Cora Borradaile on Phone Extraction, Cloning and Keyword Warrants

08 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the The Final Straw you'll hear me speaking with Cora Borradaile, who sits on the advisory board of the Civil Liberties Defense Center an...

Certain Days: Freedom For Political Prisoners Calendar 2021

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Certain Days: Freedom For Political Prisoners Calendar 2021 For the release of the 2021 Certain Days: Freedom For Political Prisoners Calendars we cau...

Resisting State Repression Panel

01 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Resisting State Repression Panel The following is a conversation between folks involved in anti-repression work in 5 parts of the so-called US. The go...

How Do We Stop A Coup? (with Unity & Struggle)

25 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Final Straw Radio, we spoke with Dylan and Enzo of Unity & Struggle. Unity & Struggle, or U&S, is an anti-state communist collective ...

The Right To Rebel Against Slavery: The Case of Ruchell Cinque Magee

18 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, you'll hear Ruchell Magee speak about his struggle over 57 years to be heard in the California court system and appeals to US Federal court...

NIne Tenths of the Law: Hannah Dobbz on US Squatting (2013)

11 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we're sharing an interview that I did with Hannah Dobbz, author of "Nine-Tenths of the Law: Property and Resistance in the U...

Mark Cook of the George Jackson Brigade (Burning Books Lecture Series)

07 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we're airing a presentation by Mark Cook from Burning Books bookstore in Buffalo, NY. This was recorded on February 18th, 2016. From the an...

Lorax B. Horne on BlueLeaks

27 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Final Straw, we present a conversation that I had with Lorax B. Horne, a non-binary writer and journalist from Canada, Ecuador and th...

The Struggle for Likhtsamisyu Liberation Continues, Updates from Delee Nikal

20 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we had the opportunity to connect with Delee Nikal, who is a Wet'su'weten community member, about updates from the Gidimt'en Camp that was c...

The Intertwined Histories of Queerness and Anarchism; Guest Interview with Kristian Williams about his new book on Oscar Wilde

13 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we are pleased to present a guest interview with author Kristian Williams about his new book Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarch...

Prison By Any Other Name: Vikki Law on Toxic Reforms

06 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Prison By Any Other Name: Vikki Law on Toxic Reforms This week we speak with author and activist, Vikki Law about the book Prison By Any Other Name: T...

Aric McBay on Ecology and Strategies for Resistance

30 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we are airing a conversation that Bursts had a few weeks ago with Aric McBay, who is an organizer, farmer, and author about his most recent ...

History Repeats Itself?: Peter Gelderloos On Where We're At

23 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Its not uncommon to hear pundits and regular folks making comparisons between the crises we are now facing and other historical moments, such as the 1...

We Need To Spread This Freely: JN On HK Under National Security Law

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We Need To Spread This Freely: JN On HK Under National Security Law This week, I speak with JN, an anarchist who works with the decolonial, leftist H...