Labor Resistance on Vinyl (with Josh MacPhee + Kennedy Block)
Release Date: 07/20/2025
Science, Radical Realism, and Anarchy (with William Gillis)
The Final Straw Radio
This week, we’re sharing an interview with Will Gillis, author of the recently published book , published via where Gillis holds the position as The Voltairine de Cleyre Chair in Centrifugal Studies and technical coordinator. For the hour we talk about the so-called Science Wars of the 1990’s, debates involving scientific approaches and shared understandings of a a measurable physical reality, post-modernism, the roles leftists and anarchists played in the debates and how cults and authoritarians employ anti-realist explanations of the world to limit their subjects’ moves toward...
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Ketino of the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation on Anarchism, Anti-Imperialism & Internationalism
The Final Straw Radio
This week on The Final Straw Radio, we’re featuring a conversation with our guest, Ketino, to speak about Especifist anarchism and anarchist approaches at anti-Imperialism. Ketino is a member in Florida of the Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation and they grew up in Cuba. You can learn more about Black Rosa, or BRRN, at Other links: Black Rose’s by CALA (member groups listed) and sibling, BRRN ICOA -- International Coordination of Organized Anarchism (including ICOA-related signatories) – South Africa CES (a project offering education in Especifismo): First up,...
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Anarchists At War in Spain, Myanmar and Rojava (with James Stout)
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This week, an interview with James Stout on his upcoming AK Press book: , due out early January. You may recognize James as a contributor to the Cool Zone podcast (including the recent four parter, "Darién Gap: One Year Later" December 1-4th episodes, 2025), distributed by IheartMedia. For this episode, we talk about the idea of anarchist armies, discuss those three conflicts, left libertarian approaches to formalized armed resistance beyond a guerrilla unit, some of the novel technologies and international solidarities that have developed and a lot more. Other podcasts James has...
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The Political Repression and Resistance of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, Oaxaca
The Final Straw Radio
This week, an interview we just conducted with Madeleine Wattenbarger and Axel Hernández of the Cooperativa de Periodismo in Mexico and Ambar Ruiz of Radio Zapote about the case of autonomous resistance and repression in the Mazateca community of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón in Oaxaca, Mexico, so named for being the birthplace of the Cipriano Ricardo Flores Magón, revolutionary Mexican anarchist who was murdered by medical neglect by the US prison system in 1922 (check out our on the history). PDF (Unimposed) - pending Zine (Imposed PDF) - pending We talk about the rise to economic and...
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Black Arms To Hold You Up (with Ben Passmore)
The Final Straw Radio
In this episode, we have two segments. Ben Passmore First up, Ian talks with Philadelphia-based cartoonist Ben Passmore about his new book, . They discuss the research and making of the book, Passmores anarchism, the themes of inter-generational struggle, contextualizing history through lived experience, and the pitfalls of mythmaking. In addition, they spend some time discussing Ben's martial arts practice and the legacy of Assata Shakur in light of her recent passing. Other titles by Ben: Patreon: Instascam BluesKry: Fedbook Fumblr Mikolo Dziadok Then we’ll hear a brief...
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Leila Al-Shami with Updates from Syria + The Peoples Want
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This week, we’re sharing a recent chat with , co-author of and host of , to give us an assessment and update on situations in Syria since our last episodes on the subject, as well as an introduction to , an initiative towards a new anti-authoritarian internationalism in which Leila is a participant. PDF (Unimposed) – pending Zine (Imposed PDF) – pending Links Our with Leila Al-Shami and Elia Ayoub Last year's interviews with a member of and another with the Leila's on a year since Assad on From The Periphery short film on The Peoples Want Interstices-Fajawat blog (with an...
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Michael DeForge on Art and Organizing + Xinacthli Medical Emergency
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Michael DeForge This week we’re sharing Ian’s talk with cartoonist Michael DeForge about the intersection of organizing and art. The conversation touches on Michael's recent organizing efforts in solidarity with Mskwaasin Agnew, who was among those detained by Israel as part of the Flotilla to bring aid to Gaza. They also discuss the good and bad of instructive political stories and Michael shares details about his upcoming collection ("") from Drawn and Quarterly, scheduled for release in early 2026. Links: Bluesky: @michaeldeforge.bsky.social Instagram:@michaeldeforgecomics...
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Signal Contingency Plan (Delta Chat with Fanny and Mary)
The Final Straw Radio
This week, an interview we did with a couple of smart friends about the question: what would those of us who rely on encrypted messaging do if that service were disabled in the US. First up, all participants in this discussion agree that Signal is amazing and always getting better, so this is not a take down of that app or it’s developers. But the buds do think that the weakest point for Signal is the centralization of infrastructure with US-based companies. My friends did some thinking and research and put it into a website called and made a zine discussing it and what they consider the...
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Palestine Action Prisoner Hunger Strikes, Elbit Systems and UK Complicity In Gaza (with Francesca)
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This week, we’re joined by , a member of who is a former prisoner herself who speaks about Palestine Action, a group proscribed in the UK as a terrorist organization at the behest of the Israeli state and Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems for their successful direct actions against Elbits war profiteering and the UK’s role in assisting the genocide in Gaza. Currently, 6 incarcerated members of Prisoners For Palestine are on an open-ended hunger strike against their conditions and the continued operation of Elbit which has garnered support from around the world. This last week,...
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Voices in Brazil for Radical Ecological Struggle (feat. Peter Gelderloos and Gah Te Iracema)
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This week, we’re featuring three segments. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) Peter Gelderloos of Weaving Paths to Ecological Revolution First up, you’ll hear from anarchist and author speaking about his ongoing trip to Brazil as a member of Weaving Paths to Ecological Revolution to listen to and network with indigenous, anarchist, autonomous, ecological and land reclamation projects in that country, coinciding with the COP30 UN climate conference. Article about Weaving Paths to Ecological Revolution: Article about Peters time so far in Brazil: Antimidia: ...
info_outlineThis week, we’re sharing a recent interview with Kennedy Block and Josh MacPhee, editors of Strike While The Needle Is Hot: A Discography of Workers Revolt from Common Notions. We speak about audio strike records, their role, what they tell us about the struggles they cover or were produced to amplify, and a bit about where music and popular resistance stand today.
Until the end of the month, the book is available from CommonNotions.org with a 15% discount if you check out using the code: strike15 .
Josh can be reached on instagram via @jmacphee or via email at josh@justseeds.org
They’re also both involved with Interference Archive (which produced audio of this collection of Stop Cop City communiques for their podcast, Audio Interference), and Josh is a co-founder of JustSeeds.Org, produces Signal Journal (he was interviewed by Ian for the show on the topic)
Free Jack, Free The Airwaves zine can be found here
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Featured Tracks:
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De Bons Travailleurs [start and end]
- Sciopero Interno by Fausto Amodei from Sciopero Interno, 1968, Italy [ 00:17:04 ]
- More Percent by Kirk Thorne from Songs from the NCU Strike, 1987, UK [ 00:36:11 ]
- A Year and a Bit by The Hindle Strikers with TBE from Part of the Union!, 1984 , UK[ 00:58:04 ]
- Viva La Huelga! by Polibio Mayorga from La Huelga, 1982, Ecuador [ 01:18:12 ]