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The communist milieu lost a titan last week. Our kind friend and mentor, Loren Goldner (1949-2024), passed away on Friday, April 12th 3:00am, at age of 76. As a tribute to his life and legacy we were able to gather a handful of people who were close to him to share stories, memories and inspirations. Special thanks to Arya Zahedi, Zhana Kurti, Jarrod Shanahan, Joe Lombardo, Ross Wolfe and Billy O'Conner for coming on to memorialize a great thinker and a great friend.

Copious Loren Goldner Links:
Website archive https://breaktheirhaughtypower.org/category/articles/
Melville book https://libcom.org/article/herman-melville-between-charlemagne-and-antemosaic-cosmic-man-loren-goldner
Insurgent Notes Journal http://insurgentnotes.com/author/loren/
Articles mentioned in order
AryaTurkish history- https://libcom.org/article/agrarian-question-russian-revolution-material-community-productivism-and-back-loren-goldnerBolivia- https://libcom.org/book/export/html/58156Fictitious capital for beginners https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/fictitious-capital-beginners-imperialism-anti-imperialism-and-continuing-relevance-rosa-luxemburgRossRace and the enlightenment https://libcom.org/article/race-and-enlightenment-part-i-anti-semitism-white-supremacy-1492-1676Critic of post-colonial theory https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/the-universality-of-marx/Revolution in the Air critique https://libcom.org/article/review-revolution-air-max-elbaum-loren-goldnerSeanBordiga https://files.libcom.org/files/Loren%20Goldner%20-%20Amadeo%20Bordiga,%20the%20Agrarian%20Question,%20and%20the%20International%20Revolutionary%20Movement.pdf

Audio clips from: https://libcom.org/article/loren-goldner-audio
Songs: Monsieur Jack - The Internationale Leonard Cohen - Solidarity Forever

Enjoy this blast from the distant pass: January 2023!
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In light of the depressing denouement of 2022's railroad conflict, Sean and Matt sit down, in person at last, to discuss the deep history behind how American organized labor got so disorganized and why the labor movement hasn't moved in decades.
Why was it that, in the United States, workers institutions had trouble evolving past the infancy of narrow, sectoral, decentralized craft unionism towards broad-based, nationally-coordinated industrial unionism? How did capital, in the face of militant organizing, help choose the weaker of the two as their partner to bargain with? In what ways is worker self-organization in this country truly, as our enemies always say, anti-American? And importantly what is to be done now that private sector union density is so low, workers institutions so captured and the national labor relations regime has fallen apart?
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Part 2 of our discussion with Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes about the essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. He talks about the uprisings in Iran, including the murder of Mahsa Amini, and his feelings about Iran's role in the proxy wars surrounding the siege of Gaza.
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Read the essay here: https://illwill.com/iran

Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes discusses his new essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. In part 1, he talks about what the left gets wrong about Iran and its political history through the 1979 revolution, hostage crisis, and counterrevolution.
For Part 2 of the episode, about the uprisings against the Islamic Republic and expanding conflict in the Middle East today, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada
Read the essay here: https://illwill.com/iran
Song: Planet Smashers - Ska of Iran

Anselm Jappe is a professor of philosophy, former member of the Krisis Group, and author of the newly-translate book THE SELF-DEVOURING SOCIETY: CAPITALISM, NARCISSISM, AND SELF-DESTRUCTION with Eric-John Russell. The book’s tagline is: “Everyone can feel that the world is getting angrier. The Self-Devouring Society provides an original and rigorous explanation of why.”
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Song - Courtney Love - Miss Narcissist

For the first ever edition of Party Girls Zine Club, Sam and Jamie discuss Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy, a 2018 broadside (or little orange book, if you will) from Inhabit, which is not a mere media project, but "a collectively and anonymously written strategy emerging from a network of autonomous projects across North America." What do we make of Inhabit's steps to revolution? Why present speculative fiction in a programmatic context? What does this work of ultra-left thought get right, and where does it fall short? How many times have YOU gone to the antifa super-soldier gym this week?
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