This is Hell! Radio has been broadcasting and podcasting from Chicago and “manufacturing dissent” since 1996. Between 2014 and 2021, Antidote Zine transcribed over two hundred of their in-depth interviews with scholars, activists, revolutionaries, and journalists on a variety of topics. This is of course only a tiny fraction of the fascinating material they have released, and still release on a regular basis.
Original audio and links to the show’s website are included in each post. Support This Is Hell! on their patronage site! And let us know if there are additional interviews of theirs you would like to see here in text form: antidote[at]riseup[dot]net.
In broad swathes of the United States, government policy towards Indian land has been to try to take as much of it away as possible. It could now be easier for tribes to reclaim and protect their land. We have to fight for every single inch.
Making Land Back Real Read More »
Police unions represent the most powerful yet reactionary and racist aspects of police departments and police officers.
Police Unions, Politics, and Power Read More »
I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to validate women’s anger, and what it has the potential to do. Women’s anger functions in potentially transformative ways which often go under the radar.
Being Too Much On Purpose Read More »
Romanticism is a crucial component of modern culture. It conveys something to us of the beyond, the divine. We are still enchanted by the natural world. We do love it. A lot of us do sense something in the beyond.
Money, Divinity, and the Conflict of Enchantments Read More »
As we rolled back the welfare state, policing became a primary way of controlling dispossessed populations while at the same time shoring up the interests of the middle class.
Ending Inequality, Ending Police Read More »
These are uprisings. These are rebellions. These are revolts. These are part of a necessary process to transform the conditions in society. People have tolerated as much as they possibly can.
Who Are the Real Looters? On Theft and Violence in a White Supremacist State Read More »
It’s now become so brutalizing and so cruel, and so obvious and so visible, that it makes no apologies: some people should die so that the GDP can go up and the stock market can revive itself. Can you imagine?
Coronavirus and the Entrenchment of Neoliberal Fascism Read More »
This approach to managing migration makes sure that the borders are closed and militarized, and that third countries take the “burden” of dealing with people who are trying to escape war, poverty, and absolute destitution.
Fortress Europe, a Deadly Liberal-Fascist Balancing Act Read More »
Disasters like a hurricane or an earthquake are localized. They happen in one place and everyone floods to that place and figures out how to work together. Now with the pandemic, it’s generalized. It’s throughout the city, it’s national, and it’s global.
We Take Care of Us Read More »
We are past the stage where we can say if we just change the government it will be fine. We need a more radical system change. More and more people are understanding that. It will—it must—be led by the youth and the women.
Rojava Persists: “How about we protect life?” Read More »
