Category Archives: History

Antifa, Author, fascism, History, Immigration, Ireland, Nazis, Racism, UK

Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc on June ‘26 Anti-Immigrant Pogroms in Belfast, Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Ireland

book cover of "Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland featuring a photo of right wing riots and fire, plus "TFSR 7-12-26 | Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc on June ‘26 Anti-Immigrant Pogroms in Belfast, Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Ireland"
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This week, an interview with Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc about the June 2026 anti-immigrant pogroms in Belfast, a bit about the sectarian legacy they operated in, anti-immigrant riots in the north and south of Ireland, overlaps with fascist organizing locally and abroad as well as antifascism and how it relates to Irish Republicanism. We invite you to check out other books by Pádraig and recent interviews he’s conducted, linked below.

Books (some may not be available new in the US at this time from the link)

Other interviews mentioned

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Support Flora Anarchist Space in Valparaiso, ¢hile

The Flora Anarchist Space is requesting help staying open. The space for meeting, organizing, and struggle in Valparaíso, a territory dominated by the Chilean State began as an initiative of the 2019 uprising and plays an important role in ongoing community rebelliousness: https://www.firefund.net/espacioflora

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activism, Author, Chicago, Haymarket Books, History, Police

Flint Taylor of the Peoples Law Office on Challenging Chicago PD Violence and Government Corruption In Courts

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This week, Ian spoke with G. Flint Taylor of People’s Law Office in Chicago and his new book, The Conviction Machine: Prosecutors, Politicians, and Police Violence in Chicago, out now from Haymarket Books.

The conversation vacillates between the past and the present as Taylor talks about the misconduct and cover-up by the FBI and Chicago PD in the assassination of Chicago Black Panther’s Leader Fred Hampton, the forty year effort to free Jackie Wilson, the tradition of movement lawyering, and the legacy of the People’s Law Office.

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Author, Capitalism, History, Sports, Transcribed, United States

Jules Boykoff on Sportswashing and the 2026 FIFA World Cup

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This week, as the 2026 FIFA World Cup looms across Turtle Island, we’re pre-sharing an interview with Jules Boykoff about one of his latest books about international sports spectacles, the upward money flow and authoritarian political power they facilitate but also a bit about the folks that are fighting back entitled Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine (O/R Books, 2026).

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This conversation falls into the same series as the recent interview with Kristian Williams and Sam Schmidt as regards evacuation of public spaces and attacks on community by the state and capital in the aid of police state capitalism.

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The Religious Function of Whiteness and Mass Criminalization in the US (with Andrew Krinks)

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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Andrew Krinks, author of White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization from NYU Press, 2024. For the chat, we speak about taking a theological lens to the question of what ties exclusive private property, white masculinity, police impunity and mass incarceration in the US. We discuss aspects of Christian thought, employ concepts borrowed from the Black Radical tradition and try to get closer to the root of the sickness in our culture that flourishes from others pain.

To check out a Firestorm book event with the author and others about the book and related topics, check out this video!

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Author, General, History, Law, Police, Prisons, Racism, Transcribed, United States, zine

Dr. Terence Keel on U.S. Deaths in Custody and Public Accountability

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This week, we’re sharing this interview with Dr. Terence Keel, author of The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence (Beacon Press, 2025). We speak about the book, the BioCritical Studies Lab that Dr. Keel founded, what public records exist of deaths at the hands of police, jails and prisons and some efforts to record names and circumstances in hopes of accountability and closure. You can find Dr. Keel at TerenceKeel.com

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Anarchist, Anarchist Media, Author, Germany, History, Labor, Transcribed, United States, zine

The Life and Ideas of Johann Most (with Tom Goyens)

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An interview with Tom Goyens, professor of history at Salisbury University and author of Johann Most: Life of a Radical, out last year from University of Illinois Press speaking about the life and times of the atheist and propagandist (notably through his journal, Freiheit) and his development from social democrat parliamentarian to socialist revolutionary to anarchist. For the chat we talk about Mosts’s life, development and legacy, from the mid-1800’s in Bavaria up to his death in 1906.

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Anarchist, Asia, Capitalism, Elia J. Ayoub, History, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Politics, Transcribed, United States, war, zine

The US-Israeli War with Iran Spreads, Nuclear Weapons, Lebanon and Anti-Imperial Solidarity (with Elia Ayoub)

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This week, we’re sharing our interview with Elia Ayoub, an anti-authoritarian historian and essayist originally from Lebanon, co-founder of From The Periphery media collective, co-host of The Fire These Times podcast and many more things. We spoke about the US and Israeli war on Iran, it’s escalations into the wider region of west Asia, the Axis of Resistance, nuclear weapons, motivations of the various actors involved and thoughts on where that leaves anti-authoritarians in the imperial core countries like the US.

Elia links

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Mutual Aid in Lebanon

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Anarchist, Author, History, Philosophy, Transcribed, zine

Science, Radical Realism, and Anarchy (with William Gillis)

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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Will Gillis, author of the recently published book Did The Science Wars Take Place: The Political and Ethical Stakes of Radical Realism, published via C4SS 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 liberation.

You can read more of William’s writings at https://humaniterations.net and https://c4ss.org

A few links to further scientific education:

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Black Arms To Hold You Up (with Ben Passmore)

In this episode, we have two segments.

Ben Passmore

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First up, Ian talks with Philadelphia-based cartoonist Ben Passmore about his new book, Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance. 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:

Mikolo Dziadok

Then we’ll hear a brief interview with Mikola Dziadok, a Belarusian journalist, anarchist activist, blogger, and former political prisoner. Mikola is now about 3 months out of prison and starting a new life in exile. The interview was conducted in mid-November by comrades from Frequenz-A and appears in the December 2025 episode of B(A)D News from the A-Radio Network. Check our show notes for links on how to support Mikola’s next stage of life

Follow Mikola’s Channel in YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Radixbel

Support Mikola financially (it is needed for setting up life in a new country):

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Anarchist, Antifa, Author, Communism, fascism, General, History, Race, Racism, repression, Transcribed, United States, zine

Tariq D. Khan on Americanism and Red Scares

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A conversation with Tariq D. Khan, author of The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression, out from University of Illinois Press in 2023. In this conversation we talk about the connections between the anti-Indigenous motivations of the genocidal frontier wars in the US and the inward turn to heretical movements pushing for freedom for the laboring classes through the great upheavals of the period known as the Nadir, between the end of post-Civil War Reconstruction and the 1920’s. We talk about the roots of anti-Leftist violence of the various Red Scares and intersections with the institutions and psychology of white supremacy settler colonialism as well as the importance of resistance and education.

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A couple of podcasts we like (that have patreons where you get extra goodies) that have with related episodes:

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