This Wreckage

Sean, Andy, and Dr. Z celebrate our favorite holiday by sharing our thoughts on the horror of You Can See Everything, Ken Russell's The Devils, and the post-Digger discourse around political cinema

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ILC Halloween party rsvp: partiful.com/e/La8RUfmMXdYMRHdtfhDM?c=iD-TRXTI

ILC Dumber and Worse movie night: https://www.instagram.com/p/De7EoF2q-IR/

CAPITAL CITY author Samuel Stein returns to the show for the first time in seven years to chat about his new book A Right To Housing?

Our discussion looks at the challenges of making progress on housing rights in New York, let alone decommodifying housing, and how to keep the faith against all doubts.

Interview with Woodbine: https://woodbinenyc.substack.com/p/take-back-the-city-an-interview-with

Song: Iggy and the Stooges - I Got A Right

On October 17th at Woodbine in Manhattan Sean KB of the Independent Labor Club of New York City hosted the following public assembly.

Guests were Gregory Butler of Gangbox News and IUOE, Leroy of IBEW Caucus of Rank and File Electrical Workers, Tom of TWU 100 and Transit Workers for a Fighting Union, and Joe M of Local Union 20 (Staten Island) and Carpenters Rank and File Together.

Join the Independent Labor Club, we have chapters in NYC, NJ, Chicago, Philadelphia, Puget Sound and Columbia River and are looking to start more with your help: https://ilclabor...

Sean and Varn continue to discuss the current energy crisis, broadening out from current events to talk about the context and ramifications: US blob's energy war against BRICS, European industrial collapse and bankruptcy of the Atlanticist center, bond market chaos and more.

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Joshua Frank, an investigative journalist and editor at Counterpunch, talks to us about his new book Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who Are Selling Off Our Future!

Support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage for the FUN HALF! in which we give our takes on the climate satire that's driving X dead-enders insane: DIGGER!

More from Joshua Frank at Counterpunch

Jasper Bernes piece mentioned: https://communemag.com/between-the-devil-and-the-green-new-deal/

Thea Riofrancos piece mentioned: https://viewpointmag.com/2019/05/16/plan-mood-battlefield-reflections-on-the-green-new-deal/

Song: Juice WRLD - Bad Energy<...

Get the Zine at https://www.patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping

Follow CommuNoid on X and read more at https://parapowermapper.substack.com/ and https://parapowermapping.com/

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Song: Anamanaguchi - Territorial Pissings (Nirvana Cover)

Our French correspondent, Henry JK Wallis calls in to talk about the student riots throughout France.

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The "RED ENGINEER" Nick Chavez returns to the Wreckage to discuss his Heatwave Magazine contribution, The Black Box of Production.

The essay explains how technical expertise is divided within the capitalist production process, and how it must be redistributed and transformed during revolution for the construction of communism.

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Read the essay at Heatwavemag.info: https://heatwavemag.info/magazine/issue03/black-box-of-production/

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Check out FOREST AND FACTORY: https://www.endnotes.org.uk/palabre/forest-and-factory...

Sean and Varn discuss the ongoing crisis in the Persian Gulf, bond market chaos and much more.

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An epic and impressively realistic depiction of the 1381 British Peasant's Revolt, or an anachronistic origin story of Robin as anti-Trump cautionary tale? British history enthusiasts Ross and Susannah watch THE UPRISING with us to help us decide!

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Rodney Hilton - Bond Men Made Free https://archive.org/details/bondmenmadefreem0000hilt

Jacobin review: https://jacobin.com/2026/09/film-uprising-peasants-revolt-liberalism

Greengrass & Garfield interview: https://deadline...

NEWS EP! AI apocalypse and regulation scenarios. Global shipping disrupted big time. Xi winning. Flights are grounded; nature is healing. AFD surge in Germany. All hail the Great and Powerful Theil!

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Show notes:

Riley on AI vs market capitalism: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/blind-guesses

China's AI Great leap forward: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/business/china-ai-economy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Global shipping in crisis: https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/5761d9f3-1150-4323-ab8e-41c9a56e3099<...

In this bonus episode Andy and Sean are joined by roving media correspondent, Rax King, to get into some of the 80s/90s urtexts that created 21st century American culture: spoken word and standup comedy by Generation X luminaries Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins and Denis Leary. What do these cultural artifacts from a bygone era tell us about how all the highlights of organized American political life in this millennium - from Bush to Obama to Trump - came into being? Which aspects of what they critiqued are still discernable and which would be incomprehensible to a post-GFC, post-literate...

Sean and Andy are joined by historian Daniel Wortel-London to discuss his recent book The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development 1865-1981 out now from University of Chicago Press.

Without the taxes and jobs generated by wealthy firms and households, we are told, our communities cannot survive. But what if the costs of elite-driven growth outweighed its benefits? What if the wealthy were not the fiscal saviors of American cities, but their assassins? What if relying on the rich to “take care of everyone else” was neither politically nor financially sustainable? And...

&y, &ers Lee & a special SECRET guest (Jake Flores) compare some Zoomer 9/11 takes (via the Daily Wire) and the post-9/11 hot takes that got Susan Sontag, Amiri Baraka in some trouble.

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Brooklyn vs. Dallas. Brownstones vs McMansions. Jelly Roll Morton vs. Jelly Roll. The Braves vs. The Savannah Bananas.

The authors of "Alphabet America" (Liam and Jackson) claim that their theory of a cosmopolitan America A and a psuedo-rural America B is "the most explanatory method of understanding the cultural divide," and that " the vast majority of people, whether they can name it or not, experience life in America this way more than they do under any other schema of social categorization we have seen."

We define the two Americas, pick apart their origins, speculate on...

Audio from our LIVE SHOW in Chicago at the first national ILC Convention!

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Song: Chicago - Saturday in the Park

&ers makes some recommendations for Mamdani's approach to the NYPD, &y recaps is Irish dérive, & we read together some excerpts from the recently departed Raoul Vaneigem

&ers essay on police reform: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/zohran-mamdani-needs-to-fire-jessica-tisch-but-who-will-he-replace-her-with

& reply from Ant L.: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/letter-the-nypd-is-none-of-our-concern

Basic Banalties: https://libcom.org/article/basic-banalities-parts-i-ii-raoul-vaneigem

Revolution of Everyday Life: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/raoul-vaneigem-the-revolution-of-everyday-life

Vaneigem's address to Greek anarchists in 2010: https://illwill.com/the-state-is-nothing-lets-be-everything

Song: Pink Floyd - Time

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NEWS EP! We preview our coming events in Chicago and New York, and read about the United States' comic inability to make artillery shells.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

FRI 8/21 This Wreckage live event: https://luma.com/tc972eyv

SAT 8/22 UFOlogy to the People event at the Beach: https://www.instagram.com/thebeachchicago/

SUN 8/23 Metropolitans event at Pilsen Community Books: https://www.instagram.com/p/DcMgcU2GRvQ/

WEDS 8/26 Heatwave Magazine release party...

The boys are back, Sean interviews Varn on his recent tour with Daniel Tutt, What did they learn and what did they see? Next is a segment about the DSA, its strategy and factions, present and future. What might we imagine coming of winning on the Democrat ballot line?

In the bonus room we get real doomer talking about the climate crisis, Complexity theory, public/private debt, the inability of US capitalists to get their shit together and the vagaries of Trumpism. You'll want to stick around for the discussion of ILC, DSA and pre-politics.<...

Sean (car painter) sits down with Billy OC (rod buster) and Gregory A. Butler (UBC retiree, IUOE member) to discuss the latter's new book The Workerist Manifesto. This is part 1 of a miniseries devoted to Greg's books, his news service Gangbox News and his many years of experience working in the trades and thinking about working class emancipation.

Chicago: get tickets for the This Wreckage Live Show sponsored by ILC Chicago on Friday, August 21st https://luma.com/tc972eyv?lm_source=embed

Song: Nourished by Time - Workers Interlude

Audio from our live panel on Saturday, July 25 at Woodbine where we go deeper on Varn & Tutt's new book The People Are Not One, starting with some normie vs. Marxist LARPing and ending with a spirited Q&A featuring Ross Wolfe, Greg Butler, Platypus, Donald Parkinson, and more!

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The event was sponsored by ILC of NYC Song: Run the Jewels - Goonies vs. E.T.

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Our consortium of classicists and Western Marxists review Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, with the help of Adorno & Horkheimer's Dialectic of the Enlightenment

Song: Cream - Tale of Brave Odysseus

Andy reads the 99 page State Department report: "Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism.”

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Episode with Blowback: https://www.patreon.com/thiswreckage/posts/e324-blockade-w-149781067

2021 Cuban uprising episode: https://www.patreon.com/thiswreckage/posts/talkin-tina-of-76203208

Song: Suicide - Dream Baby Dream

An interview with Matthew Wolfe about his new book Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage

Support DFW defendants: https://prairielanddefendants.com/

Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers: https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund

Chopped Uncle Ted doc The Net: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn9BvNAUvcU

Song: Iskra - Ash and Ruin

The authors of The People Are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism join us to discuss their intervention against the electoral-populist trajectory of the US left, their debate with Geese, and their solutions for reviving a Marxist left. SEE Derick Varn and Tutt on their

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Book Tour!

Philadelphia — July 20 6:00 PM — RSVP Free Library of Philadelphia

Baltimore — July 21 7:00 PM — RSVP: Red Emma’s

Washington, DC — July 24 6:30 PM — RSVP: People’s Book

New York — Jul...

Audio from June 27, 2026 ILC of NYC panel and town hall event for pride month on LGBTQ workers self-organizing, past and present.

Watch and subscribe on ILC's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVfkabZCR04&t=4s

With the increase in anti-LGBTQ (and especially anti-trans) sentiment among American legislators, the Independent Labor Club views it as pressing to host a public conversation on issues facing LGBTQ workers. We are inviting historians and organizers in order to discuss the history of autonomous struggles and what lessons can the working class at large learn from their efforts.<...

NEWS EP! Andy's reportback from Summer of Ludd! Sean on the 42nd Street building collapse and its YIMBY origins! Finally, the war's back on. But did it ever end?

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Brooklyn Public Library event Monday: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/am-gittlitz-discusses-central-library-dweck-20260713-0600pm

Our visit to the Verso Archive. Use WRECKAGE at checkout for 50% off the books we mention: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/the-verso-archive-featuring-this-wreckage

Summer of Ludd schedule: https://buttondown.com/nycofftech/archive/summer-of-ludd-schedule/

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A chat with Freddy G, @orangefreddyg on IG, a Leftist/Antizionist Jewish comic and Content Creator for @trackaipac

Check out Freddy and Anders' DSA-benefit comedy show: @paidprotestcomedy

Some of his vids:

Birthright https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaVtPlwiuC7/

Watermelon: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYU7Op2hYC1/

Pod Save America: https://www.instagram.com/p/DaNxxXahCbg/

Land Auction: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZIviHVtxnv/

With Jacob berger: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYSkspoRzUW/

Song: Yung Lean - Metallic Intuition

Devin Thomas O’Shea stops by to chat about his new book The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis

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Peter Thiel's Dialog leak: https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/

Song: Bryan Ferry - In Your Mind

Sean reports back on Labor Note drama!

In the fun half, we listen to some of Graham Platner's town hall in an effort to redeem the term ULTRA. Sign up at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage to hear it!

For a Fighting Workers Movement, A Militant Critique of Labor Notes panel: https://youtu.be/lt5X16UQ6bA?is=T_W0N0gkrCqkl9Dw

NYT piece on how ultra is a slur: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/magazine/ultraprocessed-food-insult.html

Check out geese: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/enter-daedalus-2028 https://www...

Henry Wallis of the FORMS podcast returns to help us read through Books 10-19 of BOOK OF REVELATION!

We meet the whore of Babylon, the Beast, and 666 On the next episode, we’ll finish Revelation and move on to Capital Vol III!

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song: Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around

Thanks to friends in International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers: Caucus of Rank and File Electrical Workers, Sean was able to attend the 2026 Labor Notes convention in Chicago, Illinois. A bunch of fellow workers from ILC Chicago were also there so Sean sat down with them at a loud bar in the convention center hotel to discuss their experiences at various panels they went to.

Whither the Teamsters for a Democratic Union? Whither the labor movement? Is there a future for the types of left labor reform movements that Labor Notes calls for? Sean, Hope and Jamie Merchant...

The second episode from the Hyatt Regency in Rosemont, Illinois for Labor Notes 2026 convention. This time Sean sits down with fellow workers JoJo and Gav from ILC Chicago to discuss various panels that they had just seen. In a surprise appearance, friend from New York, Joyce of the dissident Teamsters Mobilize stops by to talk about the trouble their group had at the conference due to TM's adversarial stance towards the reigning Teamsters for a Democratic Union leadership.

Tune in to next week's new episode where Andy and Sean break down the counterprogramming event that occurred outside...

Sean is joined by favorite guest and wife Rax King to discuss her upcoming essay in journalism cooperative Flaming Hydra on why organizing in the food service industry is so difficult but also so vital. What will it take for labor to break through in this industry? What can restaurant work teach us about labor in general? Why are these restaurant owners always clenching their jaws and sweating so much? Answers to these questions, an introduction to Rax's patented Nine Rigors system of becoming a human, an old fashioned gripezone and more on this special, last minute episode.

As Sean and Varn reconvene we are faced with the unenviable task of trying to understand what the hell the Democratic Party is going to run on in 2026 and 2028, How to understand this economic moment? How to understand the various geopolitical crises around the globe? How are counterhegemonic actors like Graham Platner and Alex Jones going to politically confront the brave new world of AI? Stay tuned!

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NEW EP! Was Trump's China trip a Nothing Burger or a soy slop?

Why does the Deep State care so much about Taiwan?

And Sean's NY☭ hat came from WHERE?

All that plus choo-choo talk (LIRR Strike) in the bonus! For the full episode, sign up at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/nyregion/lirr-strike-long-island-rail-road.html

https://nypost.com/2026/05/16/us-news/hochul-pushed-lirr-strike-to-pick-up-votes-on-long-island-from-gop-opponent-transit-union-chief/

De-Tuckerized version of Sean's hat: https://www.neoliberalhell.com/shop/p/mysterious-hat

Song: Misfits - She (Demo version)

NEWS EP! Sean reports back from the a Beverly Hills Hedge Fund summit. Europe goes solar punk. US debt passes GDP as Project Freedom fails, and the Mideast bases lie in ruin. Is America through, or just through being cool?

Billionaires Unfazed by Iran: https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/19bda51e-fb62-4432-bc37-b9b425f19edd

Labor Market Unfazed by Iran https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/57482c61-164e-4f48-8214-370b269ac7b6

Europe Solar/Iran War: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/business/europe-solar-panels-iran-war.html

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We're joined by Henry Wallis of the FORMS podcast to guide us through one of the most obscure and challenging, yet arguably most consequential Biblical texts: the Book of Revelations.

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Written by a Christian exile on an Aegean Island in a time of intense imperial Civil War and internal repression of Jews and Christians, the text is interpreted by scholars as a coded polemic against tyranny and assimilation, and by end-times preachers (and...

Interviews from this past weekend's Upstate Anarchist Bookfair with Riot Act Books, Solarpunk writer Phoebe Wagner, Flock Off Ithaca, Bolshevik Tendency, and Warzone Distro

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At the end I include a snippet of our Armed Love interview with Ben Morea, who passed away this weekend. Check out the full interview here: Part 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65595770?collection=87680 Part 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65563424?collection=87680

Critique of "win" narrative in Minneapolis: https://illwill.com/proto-politics-in-purgatory

Song...

We take another break from WW3 and various attempted assassinations with a sojourn into some economic shit with our guest Nicolas D Villarreal, an independent researcher focusing on the capitalist political economy.

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Full piece: https://cosmonautmag.com/2026/04/the-capitalist-in-the-21st-century/

Response https://cosmonautmag.com/2026/04/letter-limiting-factors-in-capitalist-growth/

Counter-Response https://cosmonautmag.com/2026/04/letter-why-the-limit-is-not-a-lack-of-opportunity/

FT article in agricultural inflation: https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/e13369c2-edb8-4418-adfb-3496d2fae185

CBS News' penny pinching tips...