Dear listeners of Coffee with Comrades, with special regard to the wonderful folks who support this program on Patreon, Hello! I hope that the autumnal season has brought crisp, cool air and abundant joy to you and yours. I write to you today with a bittersweet sense of pride and melancholy to announce Coffee with Comrades is officially coming to a…

CW: In this week's episode, we discuss anti-Semitic violence. Listener discretion is advised. Today, Ami Weintraub (he/they) joins us to discuss his new book To the Ghosts Who Are Still Living. In this joyous and melancholic discussion, Ami and I explore the essay collection in detail, touching on anti-fascism, anti-semitism, Jewish identity in dia…

This week, we're sharing a recent conversation with some of the organizers behind the International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & All Longterm Anarchist Prisoners. Check out June11.org and read this essay from CrimethInc. to learn more about the long-term struggles of anarchist prisoners. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us o…

We spoke with Mixæl Laufer of Four Thieves Vinegar Collective. Check it out! Follow Mixæl on Twitter and visit Four Thieves Vinegar Collective's website! Check out our previous episodes with Mixæl, too: Episode 14, 21, and 171. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Pick up a Coffee with …

This week, I hung out with Brenton Lengel to talk about Issue #2 of Durruti: Shadow of the People, a comic exploring the life and times of revolutionary Spain's Buenaventura Durruti! Pick up a copy of the Durruti, Issue #2 special variant to benefit folks displaced by the war in Ukraine Follow Brenton on Twitter. Check out our previous dialogue wit…

This week, I sat down with Michael Löwy and David Campbell to talk about the book Michael co-wrote and David recently translated into English, Revolutionary Affinities: Toward a Marxist Anarchist Solidarity. The three of us got into a lovely dialogue about the recent uprisings in France against the neoliberal Macron regime, as well as the painstaki…

This episode of the program features my conversation with Alex Knight, designer and developer of the board game Land and Freedom, inspired by the Spanish Revolution and Civil War. Check out Land and Freedom today! Pick up a copy of Land and Freedom. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Mastodon, Twitter and Instagram, and visit our…

This episode of Coffee with Comrades is dedicated to Tortuguita. Rest in Power, Tort. May we carry on the defense of Earth in your memory. Here are some ways to support the defense of the forest in Atlanta: Donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund to support legal costs for arrested protestors and ongoing legal action. Call on investors in the project…

This episode of Coffee with Comrades is dedicated to Tortuguita. Rest in Power, Tort. May we carry on the defense of Earth in your memory. Eros, a dear friend and comrade of Manny "Tortuguita" Teran, joins me to memorialize the dearly departed. Donate to the GoFundMe for Manny's family. Here are some ways to support the defense of the forest in Atl…

We are back with our first episode of 2023! This edition of Coffee with Comrades features a dialogue with my dear friend and comrade, Caleb Wexler. Our conversation is pretty wide-ranging. We spend the first half of the episode talking about Caleb’s housing cooperative—how it runs, how they make decisions, and what it looks like to exist in the lim…

This week, we are sharing a recent conversation I had with Chad Pearson about his book Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century. Chad and I chat about vigilante violence, the coercive nature of the law, the capaciousness of the term “terrorism,” and a whole lot more. Follow Chad on Instagram and pick up a…

Recently, I hung out with scholar and organizer Mohamed Abdou. We spoke at length about his book Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances. Follow Mohamed on Twitter and pick up a copy of Islam & Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances today! Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitterand Instagram, and visit our website. …

I recently sat down with the one and only Shane Burley to talk about his new edited anthology, No Pasarán: Dispatches from a World in Crisis. The book is a collection of essays by and interviews with antifascists: community-organizers, researchers, journalists, artists, and more. Shane and I have a pretty wide-ranging dialogue, touching on violence…

James Yeoman, author of Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915 joins me to talk about propaganda by the deed, violence, terror, education, and the anarchist printing press in Spain at the turn of the twentieth century. Pick up a copy of Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1…

I recently sat down with my dear friend and comrade, Jimmy Dunson, who put together an anthology on mutual aid, disaster relief, and building dual-power called Building Power While the Lights Are Out. The anthology is gripping and brilliant and the two of us have a wide-ranging conversation on a number of the essays contained within the anthology. …

Today, we’re sharing an interview with the all-around-badass Margaret Killjoy. Margaret is a writer of fiction, a musician in multiple bands, and she is also the host of two great podcasts: Live Like the World is Dying and Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. And that’s an inexhaustive list. Margaret joined me to talk about her new book, We Won’t Be Her…

In this special bonus edition of Coffee with Comrades, I sit down with Tallahassee, FL-based artist and community-organizer, Eric Champagne, to talk about the life and plight of Dan Baker. Dan Baker is a YPG veteran, yoga instructor, and anarchist who was arrested for posts he made on social media in the wake of the January 6th insurrection. Stay t…

This week, I am sharing a dialogue I recently had with my new friend Nash Flynn. Nash is a comedian, historian, and host of the podcast Death and Friends. In our dialogue, we talk about death. A lot. Like, a whole helluva lot. So keep that in mind as you wade into this discussion. We chat about the death of non-human animals, climate change, the in…

Shawn of Srsly Wrong joins me for a discussion inspired by two books: Escape from Childhood by John C. Holt, and Raising Free People by Akilah S. Richards. In our expansive dialogue, we talk about climate anxiety, raising kids, studenthood, the abolition of family, and the process of teaching yourself how to treat children with respect. Support Srs…

In this week's special, collaborative episode of Coffee with Comrades, Parker from Overcritical joins me to discuss the "most watched" television phenomenon of all time: Squid Game (2021). Follow Overcritical on Twitter and Instagram. While you're at it, follow Parker, too! Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitterand Instagram …

In this edition of Coffee with Comrades, we talk with Dr. Mixæl Laufer about Four Thieves Vinegar Collective's most recent DIY, autonomous medicine shenanigans. Mixæl walks us through abortion pills that've been transposed to business cards. We talk about 4TVC's revamp of the Microlab Suite, which now features an intuitive system for researching me…

Today, we’re sharing an interview with Tallahassee-based poet, essayist, and social ecology community organizer, Adrien. You might know Adrien better by their pen-name, Cybele. Recently, Adrien put out a new essay called (Re)Growing Communal Life: Preparing the Soil for Revolution. I’d recommend checking it out, if you got a sec. The essay is prett…

Today, I'm joined by labor organizer Tom Wetzel, author of the new book Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the Twenty-First Century. Pick up a copy of Tom's book, Overcoming Capitalism. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Pick up a Coffee with Comrades shirt or co…

In this edition of Coffee with Comrades, we sit down with Kristian Williams, author of the new book Gang Politics: Revolution, Repression, and Crime. Kristian and I explore the long history of counterinsurgency, the emergence of gang-style political formations in the imperial core, the efficacy of community armed self-defense, and so much more. Pic…

I recently sat down with Bruce E. Levine to talk about his new book A Profession without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment. In my conversation with Bruce, we touched on a whole host of things: freethinking, care work, peer-to-peer mutual aid groups of psychiatric s…

Today, I’m very excited to share a conversation with you that I had with Peter Gelderloos, author of the new book The Solutions Are Already Here, available now through Pluto Press. Peter and I talk about why “climate change” doesn’t quite capture the urgency of ecological catastrophe, why a fixation on “fossil fuels” is a strategic error, the kinsh…

In this week’s edition of Coffee with Comrades, I’m joined by writer, artist, and game designer Gareth Damian Martin, developer of the new indie RPG Citizen Sleeper. Gareth and I talk about Citizen Sleeper’s systems, structures, and mechanics, its vast cast of NPCs, themes of precarity and symbiosis, and the importance of mushrooms. Like Gareth’s g…

Chris, a psychotherapist with sixteen years in the field, joins me to critique the psych profession. We explore the history of psychology and psychiatric coercion, the violence and carceral logic implicit in locking away the "insane." We discuss the ways in which neurotypicality is constructed to serve the hegemony of the ruling class. Chris and I …

On this week's edition of Coffee with Comrades, I am joined by carla bergman to discuss the pamphlet she co-authored with scott crow, Just anarchy. carla and I explore intergenerational struggle, burnout, the general utility of peer-to-peer mentorship, anarchist conceptions of authority, trusting kids, cultivating kinship, and a whole lot more. Fol…

Today, we’re sharing an interview with Jay Dragon and Mercedes Acosta, two of the developers, designers, and writers behind the brand new TRPG Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast which, as of today, is officially available to support on Indiegogo! We had a really lovely conversation about sanctuary, refuge, transgender characterization, seeing elements of you…

This week, I am joined by my friend and comrade Charli Ash to talk about, well, a whole helluva lot. In this dialogue, Charli lays out trans* history, including how transgender folks have been pathologized, how trans* folks have accessed medical care for transition, the pathologization of transness, and a whole bunch more. Then, we transition to lo…

I recently caught up with Tim Holland Pacal Bayley, better known as Sole and DJ Pain 1, to chat about their forthcoming record, Post-American Studies, out this week on the record label Emergency Hearts. Tim, Pacal, and I had a humorous, wide-ranging chat about the record, its themes, and the artists’ shared musical history. Pick up a copy of Post-A…

On this week's edition of Coffee with Comrades, I sit down with Margaret Killjoy to discuss the new edition of A Country of Ghosts, an anarchist utopian fantasy novel. Pick up a copy of A Country of Ghosts! Follow Margaret on Twitter and listen to Live Like the World is Dying. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instag…

In this episode of Coffee with Comrades, T.L and Greg, designers of the forthcoming third edition of Bloc by Bloc: Uprising join me to discuss the game’s revamped mechanics, new and emergent gameplay, mutual aid, insurrection, and so much more. In many ways, this conversation functions as a follow up to an earlier episode of Coffee with Comrades, E…

This week, I’m sharing a conversation I had with my family about children’s liberation and parenting as radicals. The dialogue is pretty wide-ranging. We talk about the “bedtime discourse” that sparked the idea for this episode, chat about unschooling, the limitations of “abolishing the family,” parenting as anarchists, how to be good models as adu…

Did you know that “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” is secretly a song about stealing from the rich? Did you know the “Lord of Misrule” was the original holiday party animal? Did you know solidarity and justice are the real reason for the season? “Bread Santa” is a holiday special, a people’s history of Christmas. Liz, of Rebel Steps, joins us to dis…

This week, I had a chance to hang out with my pal, Amy, and talk about the benign anarchy of Alcoholics Anonymous. We talk about the beauty and allure of voluntary association, why coercion doesn’t help addicts recover, why seeing addiction as an “individual failing” rather than a systemic healthcare issue is facile and vacuous, and levy a whole bu…

Recently, I had the chance to read a wonderful graphic novel put together by my friends nicole and Hugh called Wonder Drug: LSD in the Land of Living Skies. I sat down with the two of ‘em to discuss the history of LSD research, psychedelics, hippies, capitalism, therapy, and a whole bunch more. I think the comic is lovely and I hope you’ll pick up …

This week, we don’t have a new interview for you but we do have a bunch of rad announcements, some of which are time-sensitive. If you’re a Coffee with Comrades Patron (or you’ve ever considered becoming one,) this is definitely a 13 min. episode you don’t wanna miss! · Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, an…

This week, we share an interview with communist rapper JJ Demon. We touch on a whole host of topics: the prison industrial complex, capitalism as capital murder, solidarity, intersectionality, class war, and JJ's new LP, ghost gun Red Menace. Follow JJ Demon on Twitter and stream ghost gun Red Menace wherever you get your favorite music. Support Co…

Recently, all of anarchist Twitter lit up like the Minneapolis Third Precinct when AK Press shouted out the forthcoming comic book, Durruti: Shadow of the People. I had the good fortune to sit down with Brenton and chat about the graphic novel, as well as the life and times of Beunaventura Durruti, the struggles of the anarchists and socialists aga…

I recently sat down with Andy from The Poor Proles Almanac to discuss, well, a whole bunch of shit. We talked about firearms, guerilla gardening, permaculture, and raising chickens. Andy even had the audacity to defend the Pumpkin Spice Latte on a podcast called Coffee with Comrades. Truly, the nerve… Support Poor Proles' Almanac on Patreon, follow…