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Psycho Killer with Juno Aventurine

Fucking Cancelled — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:11:20 GMT

A classic cancel culture episode. Clementine and Jay are joined by conflict mediator and zinester Juno Aventurine to talk about the relationship between trauma and cancel culture, the shadowiest of shadow parts, and the moral ambiguity of the human animal. We also talk about the stubborn spectre of identitarianism and the trials and tribulations of exit…

Constitutionally Incapable with Christopher Curtis

Fucking Cancelled — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:24:54 GMT

The governing party in Quebec, the CAQ, continues its death spasms with yet another project no one asked for and everybody hates: a new constitution for Quebec, decided on with no mandate and written without any popular consultation. In Episode 91 Jay sits down with Christopher Curtis, founder of independent journalism outlet The Rover, to unravel the insane tangle of arrogance, corruption and stupidity that is the Quebec political class. Plus: Chris reveals the secret behind Montreal’s comically (some might say criminally) bad roads.

Show Notes

Christopher Curtis on Instagram

The Rover

Bill 1 (Québec Constitution Act 2025)

The CAQ (Coalition Avenir Quebec)

The PQ (Parti Québécois)

Laïcité (French secularism)

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Links

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Here Where We Live is Our Country

The Bund, the Zionists and the Socialism of Fools with Molly Crabapple

Fucking Cancelled — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:08:57 GMT

In the dying days of the Russian Empire, tens of thousands of working-class Yiddish-speaking Jews, radicalized by the triple oppression of capitalism, Tsarism and antisemitism, formed an anti-Zionist socialist party called the Jewish Labour Bund. Hugely influential on the worldwide socialist movement and at its height the largest socialist organization in Russia, the Bund remains for many anti-Zionist Jews (and other socialists) an inspiring example of bravery and committed internationalism in the face of impossible odds. In Episode 90, author and artist Molly Crabapple joins Jay to talk about her new book on the Bund, Here Where We Live is Our Country. In the process of researching this fantastic book, Molly taught herself Yiddish and pored through original sources originally belonging to her great-grandfather, himself a Bundist in his youth. We also discuss the state of antisemitism, real and imagined, in the wake of the Gaza genocide.

Show Notes

Molly’s website

Molly’s Instagram

Defiance by Loubna Mrie

Theodor Herzl on Wikipedia

The Pale of Settlement on Wikipedia

Yiddish on Wikipedia

History of Liberia on Wikipedia

Links

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Domestic Terror

Fucking Cancelled — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:00:10 GMT

In Episode 89, Erica, Roger and Jay get together to talk about ICE as the MAGA paramilitary, the ‘don’t tread on me’ to ‘please tread on me’ pipeline, the ideological emptiness and racially diverse character of contemporary American fascism, liberal myths about reality, and what is — and is not — a general strike.

Erica Thomas is a labour organizer, professor and artist. Roger Peet is an artist, writer and head of comms for the Portland DSA.

Show Notes

Erica’s IG

Episode 82 with Erica Thomas

Roger’s IG

Episode 74 with Roger Peet

Tom Homan

The Glooper

Carney’s speech at Davos

Join DSA

Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature by Alyssa Battistoni

All Fours by Miranda July

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Hopelessness Can Turn to Hope Pretty Quick with Eric Blanc

Fucking Cancelled — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:11:15 GMT

In Episode 88 we’re joined by Eric Blanc, author of We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. We talk about the importance of unions in confronting the many problems of this dystopian timeline and how the model of worker-to-worker unionism is necessary to scale up unionization and create an effective labour movement. We also discuss the recent uptick in labour organizing in North America, including high-profile union drives at Starbucks and Amazon, and what workers are doing to win these struggles. We finish off with a little discussion of Young Cardamom, AKA Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York City.

Show Notes

Eric’s book We Are the Union

Eric’s Substack, laborpolitics.com

Eric’s Instagram

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)

Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Points the Way Forward, by Eric Blanc, in Jacobin

Votez Pour Sergio (et Craig) with Craig Sauvé (and Sergio Da Silva)

Fucking Cancelled — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:20:34 GMT

On November 2, 2025, Montreal heads to the polls. We talk to Craig Sauvé, leader of the new left-wing party Transition Montreal, and punk rock candidate for city councillor, Sergio Da Silva. We discuss left-wing proposals for public safety, public workers for public works, what to do about housing and homelessness, and how to save nightlife in Canada’s cultural capital.

Show Notes

Transition Montreal’s website

Transition Montreal’s Instagram

Craig’s Instagram

Sergio’s Instagram

Cult MTL on the election

TVA calling Sergio’s neck tattoo controversial

The Charbonneau Commission

Links

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Owned by the Libs with Isaac Peltz

Fucking Cancelled — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 01:22:45 GMT

In Episode 86 we’re joined again by journalist Isaac Peltz to catch up on some Canadian politics. The new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, wants to read your mail and access your internet data without a warrant, while Quebec wants to abolish your right to strike and Ontario wants to turn the habitats of endangered species into Special Economic Zones where corporations don’t have to follow laws.

Show Notes

The ‘Strong Borders Act’

Bill 5, the ‘Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act’

Quebec’s new law limiting strikes

Jay’s article ‘Green’ Elites vs Left Green Populism

René Lévesque

Maurice Duplessis

Quebec’s Quiet Revolution

Isaac Peltz on Instagram

Isaac Peltz on TikTok

Isaac’s LinkTree

Isaac’s Substack

Links

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Cecilia on Episode 72: Organizing the South

The LA Rebellion with Cecilia Guerrero

Fucking Cancelled — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:01:39 GMT

The first real, proletarian resistance to the second Trump administration kicked off last week in LA as thousands of working people flooded the streets, responding to the increasingly brutal terrorism they are being subjected to by US security forces. Returning guest Cecilia Guerrero joins us to discuss the LA rebellion, the state of organized resistance to Trump in the US, the socialist position on mass migration, and why you need to learn Spanish immediately. Cecilia is an organizer in Nashville, Tennessee, where she works with A Luta Sigue, the Tennessee Drivers’ Union, Nashville People Power and the Southern Youth Solidarity Network.

Show Notes

David Huerta, President of SEIU California

Trump ends ‘humanitarian parole’ for citizens of 4 countries

What is imperialism?

The Mexican-American War

Links

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Thinking About Solidarity with Sarah Schulman

Fucking Cancelled — Thu, 22 May 2025 08:56:05 GMT

Award-winning author and historian Sarah Schulman joins us in Episode 84 to talk about her new book, The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity. We talk about what solidarity means in the context of today’s neoliberal hellworld and how to be in solidarity across differences in power. We also talk about Sarah’s process of debrainwashing from Zionism, how she has learned to be in solidarity with Palestinians, and the importance of telling the truth no matter what.

Show Notes

Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman on Twitter

The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity by Sarah Schulman

alQaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society

ACT UP

Conflict is Not Abuse by Sarah Schulman

Pride (2014)

Links

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Tech Won't Liberate Us with Paris Marx

Fucking Cancelled — Tue, 06 May 2025 09:34:49 GMT

As the tech oligarchs dream of subjecting us all to their sick fantasies and their pet governments pave the road to hell with bad intentions, the sycophantic press breathlessly praises each new ‘advancement’ in dystopian tech — and each new phony scam as well. In Episode 83 we’re joined by Paris Marx, technology critic, author and host of Tech Won’t Save Us, one of the most important podcasts of the Canadian Left. We discuss technopessimism, fully-automated luxury space communism, whether sentient AIs will ever be a thing, and what, behind all the smoke and mirrors, the evil techlords are actually trying to accomplish.

Show Notes

Tech Won’t Save Us

Disconnect

Parismarx.com

Paris on Instagram

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation by Paris Marx

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

Red Enlightenment with Graham Jones

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IHRA definition of antisemism

A Secret Third Thing with Erica Thomas

Fucking Cancelled — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 21:05:47 GMT

As the masked goons of the MAGA nanny-state continue to disappear students for holding views upsetting to hysterical Zionists and their sweaty, senile leader continues to rule by deranged ~~imperial decree~~ executive order, we sit down with Erica Thomas, a union organizer, professor and artist, to talk about what’s going on in our increasingly unhinged southern neighbour, the USA. We talk about the Portland police force’s weird attempt to join the Oregon labour movement, the enshittification of higher education and everything else, and the state of Palestine organizing on campuses today. We also talk about union art, the Democratic Socialists of America, and the possibility, at long last, of the emergence of a true third party in US politics.

Show Notes

Erica’s website

Erica’s IG

Portland’s police union is trying to use the labor movement to avoid budget cuts

Five Things I Did This Week by Laurie Wimmer

The Palestine Exception by Jan Haaken and Jennifer Ruth

Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee for new unionization support and general how-to-union basic education

Jane McAlevy

Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns

General Strike 2028

Join DSA

Bread & Roses - the Marxist caucus of DSA

The Bread & Roses reading list

The Bread & Roses blog

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

Free Pre-K in Oregon

Councilor Mitch Green, District 4, Portland

Portland city councilor threatens PSU project funding over response to pro-Palestinian library takeover

Federal investigation into 5 universities for “antisemitism” which targeted Portland State and 4 others

Links

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Resisting Climate Apocalypse with Last Generation

Fucking Cancelled — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:14:45 GMT

Depressing but true: we’re hurtling toward human-caused climate collapse and our political-economic system, captured by capitalist elites intent on squeezing out profits until the day our civilization collapses, is effectively incapable of responding by itself. It must be forced: but how? Petitions haven’t worked. Rallies haven’t worked. Posting on Instagram hasn’t worked. And ****ing up pipelines, sexy though it might be, hasn’t worked. So while purists call for mass eco-insurgency and liberals circulate change.org petitions, the A22 Network has responded by organizing and mobilizing huge numbers of committed militants around the Western world, using large-scale civil disobedience as a tactic to push governments to adopt basic climate policies. These tactics have been controversial but successful: Just Stop Oil, the British branch of A22 perhaps best known for throwing soup at a Van Gogh, recently disbanded itself because its main demand — that the UK government cease approving any new oil and gas exploitation projects — has been adopted. In Episode 81 we chat with Laura Sullivan, a spokesperson for Last Generation Canada, which is the Canadian branch of the A22 Network. We talk about Last Generation’s demands, the tactics used by the group, combating the freeze response often provoked by discussions of climate collapse, and preparing for revolutionary conditions as things inevitably deteriorate.

Show Notes

lastgenerationcanada.ca

Last Generation’s Instagram

Last Generation’s Facebook

a22network.org

The Guardian - ‘Just Stop Oil to “hang up the hi-vis” after three years of climate action’

Links

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Psychiatry, Psychedelics and the Maps We Carry with Rose Cartwright

Fucking Cancelled — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:51:24 GMT

Plagued from a young age by disturbing intrusive thoughts and unable to control dangerous compulsive behaviours, 3 Body Problem screenwriter and best-selling author Rose Cartwright was immensely relieved to learn that she had a disease called OCD, which was caused by a chemical imbalance in her brain and could be easily treated with a pill. She became the UK’s poster girl for recovery from OCD, and even wrote a book called Pure—later adapted into a TV show—about the success of the psychiatric model in treating her disorder. But years later, having sunk back into chronic suicidality, she struggled with the fact that this model hadn’t really produced any kind of long term relief. Then she discovered something astounding: that there is no biological basis for most of the disorders in the DSM, and the ‘chemical imbalance’ theory of mental illness had been quietly discredited years ago. She embarked on a quest to understand what was going on, resulting in her groundbreaking book The Maps We Carry: Psychedelics, Trauma, and Our New Path to Mental Health. In Episode 80, we talk to Rose about her story and her research, getting into the failures of the medical system to treat mental illness effectively, the amazing properties of psychedelics in this field, and the question of how to give working class people access to these new, important tools.

Show Notes

Rose Cartwright’s website

Rose’s Instagram

Her book The Maps We Carry

Her BBC radio series on psychedelics and trauma

Study about dance and depression

Gabor Mate’s book The Myth of Normal

Links

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2020 Can't Save Us Now

Jay Lesoleil — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:15:45 GMT

In the aftermath of the American identitarians losing their minds about Vivek Chibber’s calmly articulated post-mortem of ‘social justice’ culture on his podcast Confronting Capitalism, we ask if this really is the beginning of the end for ‘social justice’, what that would mean, and most importantly, what comes next. This is a paid episode, but half of …

Writing About Incest With Kelsey Zazanis

Jay Lesoleil — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:43:08 GMT

When survivors of incest act in the ways any sexually abused child would act, they are psychiatrized and medicated, and often returned to their abusers. When they grow up and search for resources on what happened to them, what they are most likely to find is terabytes of pornography. When they write about their experiences, they are siloed into the realm of self-help and excluded from the realm of politics. In episode 78 we talk with writer Kelsey Zazanis about the epidemic extent of incest child sexual abuse, the rights of children, and incest as a site of feminist political struggle. We also get deep into Jungian psychology and discuss spirituality as a way of making sense of the world.

Show Notes

Kelsey Zazanis on Instagram

Kelsey Zazanis on Substack

Buy Kelsey’s book

Kelsey’s GoFundMe

Sharon Meglathery’s website about RCCX Theory

Links

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Federal MPs Landlords and Assets Spreadsheet

Housing Sucks Because Everyone in the Government is a Landlord with Isaac Peltz

Jay Lesoleil — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:26:01 GMT

If you’ve ever wondered why the government can’t seem to do anything about the cost of housing, it’s because it would go directly against their interests: most of them are landlords and the rest are landowners, and journalist Isaac Peltz can prove it. Our guest today has been pissing off government lawyers across the land with their pesky Access To Information requests about the assets of politicians and their uncomfortable viral videos about chronic landlordocracy. We chat about why it’s important to get this information into the hands of working class voters, gonzo journalism in the age of social media, and why leftists need thicker skins if we plan on winning a future worth living in.

Show Notes

Isaac Peltz on Instagram

Isaac Peltz on TikTok

Isaac’s LinkTree

Isaac’s Substack

Links

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The Closest You Can Get to Punching Jeff Bezos in the Face with Felix Trudeau and Louisa Worrell

Jay Lesoleil — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 01:07:26 GMT

Get in babe we're boycotting Amazon! These criminal American parasites retaliated against workers for unionizing their warehouse outside Montreal by firing their entire Quebec workforce and closing all their facilities in the province. This scorched-earth union-busting strategy is both illegal under Quebec law and an insult to all members of the working class. In Episode 76 we talk to Félix Trudeau, president of the Amazon Labour Union-CSN, and Louisa Worrell, spokesperson of the boycott campaign Içi, on boycotte Amazon, about what happened, what organized labour in Quebec is doing about it, and what you can do to support the workers and stick it to the sick fucks at Amazon.

Show Notes

Içi, on boycotte Amazon - Website

Içi, on boycotte Amazon - Instagram

Içi, on boycotte Amazon - Facebook

Download posters or flyers

CSN’s statement on Amazon

Links

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The Theology of Exile with Juno Zavitz

Jay Lesoleil — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 20:49:56 GMT

If God’s law is to love one another radically, then the various forms of exile and dehumanization practised by human beings through the ages may constitute a kind of ‘cultural sin’, a deviation we keep coming back to over and over as a species because it feels good. Not only might this practice lead us further from love, and not only might it not even work to give us justice, but it might also inflict a moral injury upon all of us. In Episode 75 we’re joined by Juno Zavitz, student of divinity, former social worker, and owner of Aporrai Counselling, to discuss the theology of exile — as well as the epidemic of wreckerism sweeping through the nonprofit world.

Show Notes

Juno’s Instagram

Links

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