Month: August 2021

Ep. 145 of Coffee with Comrades features a conversation with Geo Maher, author of the new book A World Without Police: How Communities Make Cops Obsolete. Geo and I discuss abolition as presence, connect the history of reconstruction to the present, examine the obstacles presented by the Fraternal Order of Police in order to explore strategies to “break the spinal column of police power,” chat about community self-defense, and close with a dialogue about abolition as a central facet of revolutionary social transformation. Pick up a copy of A World Without Police: How Communities Make Cops Obsolete. Follow Geo on Instagram and visit his website! Attend the special book release event on Sept. 1, 2021. Support Coffee with Comradeson Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Coffee with Comradesis a proud member of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee with Comrades is an affiliate of the Firestorm Books & Café. Check out our reading recommendations! Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

I recently sat down with Jay Dragon, lead designer behind Possum Creek Games and developer of the new tabletop roleplaying game, Wanderhome. The two of us proceeded to have quite a lovely conversation that I’m so excited to share with you today. Jay is wonderful and the insight, passion, and heart Jay brought to this dialogue was beautiful to behold. Jay and I talk a lot about the mechanics behind Wanderhome, discuss the “GM agnostic” systems of Wanderhome, get into the weeds of the different philosophies behind game design, discuss the pastoral, gentle adventures of player-characters in the world of Hæth, and speak at length about queerness in the tabletop gaming space. I cannot recommend Wanderhome enough, regardless of whether you’re a veteran TRPG player or a total novice! Visit Possum Creek Games’ website and pick up a copy of Wanderhome today! Follow Jay on Twitter. Follow Grub on Twitter. Check out Kazumi’s Twitter, as well. I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thorn A Dozen Fragments on Playground Theory by Jay Dragon What’s the Point if We Can’t Have Fun? by David Graeber Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Coffee with Comrades is a proud member of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee with Comradesis an affiliate of the Firestorm Books & Café. Check out our reading recommendations! Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

I recently sat down with Robert Ovetz to chat about his book Workers Inquiry and Global Class Struggle! The conversation jumped around a bunch. We chatted about the strike as a tactic, the  unique types of struggle that are occurring in places like China and Argentina, and the necessity of international solidarity as we fight to abolish capitalism. Follow Robert on Twitter! You can check out his essays and journal articles, as well. Pick up a copy of Workers’ Inquiry & Global Class Struggle! Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitterand Instagram, and visit our website. Coffee with Comrades is a proud member of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee with Comrades is an affiliate of the Firestorm Books & Café. Check out our reading recommendations! Our logo was designed by Sydney      Landis. Support her work, buy some      art.

I recently caught up with my comrade Cory, who hosts the show The Mind of a Skeptical Leftist. The two of us chatted over a coffee about why SWERFs suck, how awful Joe Biden is, and some other fun stuff. The discussion was engrossing and we had a blast. I hope you’ll enjoy the chat, too. Follow Cory on Twitter and Instagram and subscribe to their YouTube You can also support them on Patreon! Support Coffee with Comradeson Patreon, follow us on Twitterand Instagram, and visit our website. Coffee with Comradesis a proud member of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee with Comradesis an affiliate of the Firestorm Books & Café. Check out our reading recommendations! Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

On this week’s edition of Coffee with Comrades, we’re doing something a little special. In the first part of Ep. 141, I sat down with Scott Branson to talk about the new English language version of a book they translated for AK Press, The Abolition of Prison, by French revolutionary and prison abolitionist Jacques de la Haye. Scott and I talked about their work translating the new edition, the capaciousness of anarchism and abolition, as well as the cancerous forms of carceral logic that plague the left even to this day. In the second part, I include an English language rendition of a conversation with Jacques de la Haye himself! Then, finally, we close with a French version of that same dialogue. Below are the time stamps for each of the three parts: 6:05 – Interview with Scott Branson 53:32 – English Language Interview with Jacques de la Haye 1:02:21 – French Language Interview with Jacques de la Haye I also want to give a big shout-out to Scott, who translated Jacques’ answers and my comrade, Travis, who leant his voice-acting skills to read out Jacques’ replies for our English-speaking audience. Pick up a copy of The Abolition of Prison! You can follow Scott Branson on Twitter. You can also find a digital transcript for our interview with Jacques Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitterand Instagram, and visit our website. Coffee with Comradesis a proud member of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee with Comradesis an affiliate of the Firestorm Books & Café. Check out our reading recommendations! Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.