Best Coffee With Comrades Podcasts (2023)

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Working Class History

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E79: Italian resistance, part 3 32:02

23h ago32:02

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Part 3 of our four-part podcast series on the Italian resistance to fascism in conversation with anti-fascist partisans themselves. In this episode, we look at the question of 'the resistance betrayed': the Togliatti amnesty, what happened to fascists and anti-fascists immediately after the war, and how Italy's fascist movement was allowed to rebui…

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Working Class History

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E78: Italian resistance, part 2 36:19

8d ago36:19

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Part 2 of our four-part podcast series on the Italian resistance to fascism in conversation with anti-fascist partisans themselves. In this episode, we discuss the participation of migrant partisans in the resistance, what the resistance looked like in the cities, the raid of the Jewish ghetto in Rome and, finally, liberation and the execution of M…

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Working Class History

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E77: Italian resistance, part 1 38:07

15d ago38:07

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The first of a four-part podcast series on the Italian resistance to fascism, both during World War Two and immediately after, in conversation with anti-fascist partisans themselves. In this episode, we look at the rise of fascism, the start of the resistance during World War Two, the partisan formations of the mountains and the participation of wo…

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Working Class History

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E76: Trinidad general strike, part 2 34:43

22d ago34:43

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Second of a double podcast episode about the Trinidad general strike of 1937, in conversation with Ryan Cecil Jobson. Our podcast is brought to you by our patreon supporters. Our supporters fund our work, and in return get exclusive early access to podcast episodes, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, free and discounted merchandise and other content…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 195: "The Earth Tells Our Story of Imperfect Beauty" ft. Ami Weintraub 58:31

1M ago58:31

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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…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 194: "Smashing the Surveillance State" ft. Chris Robé 1:18:13

2M ago1:18:13

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Working Class History

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E75: Trinidad general strike, part 1 40:33

2M ago40:33

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First in a double podcast episode about the Trinidad general strike of 1937, in conversation with Ryan Cecil Jobson. Our podcast is brought to you by our patreon supporters. Our supporters fund our work, and in return get exclusive early access to podcast episodes, ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, free and discounted merchandise and other content.…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 193: "Building Power in the Midwest" 1:00:30

3M ago1:00:30

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Working Class History

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E74: Ben Fletcher, part 2 52:36

3M ago52:36

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Concluding part of a double podcast episode about Ben Fletcher, a very important but little-known dock worker and labour organiser in the US with the Industrial Workers of the World union. In these episodes, we speak with historian Peter Cole, author and editor of Ben Fletcher: The Life And Times Of A Black Wobbly. We also hear words written by Fle…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 192: "Visions of Queer Futurity" ft. Scott Branson 1:30:15

3M ago1:30:15

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Working Class History

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E73: Ben Fletcher, part 1 39:46

4M ago39:46

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First in a double podcast episode about Ben Fletcher, a very important but little-known dock worker and labour organiser in the US with the Industrial Workers of the World union. In these episodes, we speak with historian Peter Cole, author and editor of Ben Fletcher: The Life And Times Of A Black Wobbly. We also hear words written by Fletcher, voi…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 191: "June 11th" 58:34

5M ago58:34

58:34

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…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 190: "Everything Grade B Sucks" ft. Mixæl Laufer 1:11:45

5M ago1:11:45

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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 …

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 189: "The Black Line of Liberty" ft. Brenton Lengel 1:19:02

6M ago1:19:02

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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…

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Working Class History

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E72: Swing Kids and Edelweiss Pirates 31:51

6M ago31:51

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Podcast episode about anti-fascist youth cultural movements in Nazi Germany before and during World War II. In particular we look at the German Edelweiss Pirates and Swing Kids, and in our patreon bonus episode we also speak about the French Zazous and the Austrian Schlurfs. Our podcast is brought to you by our patreon supporters. Our supporters fu…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 188: "The Future is Black & Red" ft. Michael Löwy and David Campbell 1:32:51

6M ago1:32:51

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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…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 187: "Gamifying History" ft. Alex Knight 1:00:35

7M ago1:00:35

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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…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 186: "Bite Back" ft. Shannon Clay 1:23:03

8M ago1:23:03

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Working Class History

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E71: Working Class History Map, with Coffee with Comrades 55:04

8M ago55:04

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We chat with Pearson from the Coffee with Comrades podcast about our new web apps: the Working Class History Map and Stories app. This episode has been timed to coincide with the public launch of our web apps on January 31. Our podcast is brought to you by our patreon supporters. Our supporters fund our work, and in return get exclusive early acces…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 185: "The Cartography of Struggle" ft. Working Class History 1:08:47

8M ago1:08:47

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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…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 184: "Little Turtle" RIP, Manny 30:52

8M ago30:52

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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…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 183: "Just Past the Next Horizon" ft. Caleb Wexler 1:41:34

9M ago1:41:34

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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…

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Working Class History

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WCL6: DD Johnston's proletarian apocalypse, part 2 32:36

10M ago32:36

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Concluding part of our double-episode in conversation with author, DD Johnston, about his new novel, Disnaeland. In this part, Darren discusses the novel’s relationship to the Scots language, the apocalyptic prophecies of radical, pre-Enlightenment Christianity, and his focus on mutual aid as a response to disaster. Darren also performs two further…

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Working Class History

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WCL5: DD Johnston's proletarian apocalypse, part 1 48:26

10M ago48:26

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The first of a two-part episode, Working Class Literature speak to DD Johnston about his new novel, Disnaeland, about a working-class Scottish community's response to societal collapse. We also discuss his previous novels and his participation in McDonald's Workers' Resistance, a radical collective of angry employees at the world's biggest fast foo…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 182: "The Lapdogs of Capital" ft. Chad Pearson 57:15

10M ago57:15

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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…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 181: "Anarcha Islām" ft. Mohamed Abdou 1:27:04

11M ago1:27:04

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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. …

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 180: "Solidarity Begins at Home" ft. carla bergman 1:24:25

11M ago1:24:25

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 179: "No Pasarán!" ft. Shane Burley 1:12:08

11M ago1:12:08

1:12:08

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…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 178: "Tierra y Libertad" ft. Jim Yeoman 1:17:39

12M ago1:17:39

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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…

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Working Class History

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E49: Anti-Racist Action in Minneapolis 56:18

12M ago56:18

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Rerelease of our episode 49 about Anti-Racist Action in Minneapolis, because we are currently trying to co-publish a book, We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action, which is the definitive history of the group across the US. To fund its publication, we are currently running a Kickstarter campaign so please do check it out here, and supp…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 177: "Kin-Making in Disaster's Wake" ft. Jimmy Dunson 1:01:36

12M ago1:01:36

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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. …

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 176: "The Power of Story" ft. Margaret Killjoy 1:11:52

1y ago1:11:52

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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…

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Coffee with Comrades

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BONUS: "Free Dan Baker!" 1:12:20

1y ago1:12:20

1:12:20

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…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 175: "Deathways" ft. Nash Flynn 1:28:10

1y ago1:28:10

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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…

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Overcritical

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Ready Player One: Nostalgia & Futurelessness feat. Aaron Thorpe 1:16:28

1y ago1:16:28

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Ready Player One is one of those movies that's fun and pretty on the surface but leads to some interesting - and even some troubling - ideas about nostalgia and what sort of future we're walking into. My special guest, Aaron Thorpe, joins me for a meandering conversation about what "the good old days" really means for a generation that increasingly…

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Working Class History

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E70: Howard Zinn 100, part 2 42:02

1y ago42:02

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Second in a double podcast episode about the life and work of Howard Zinn, historian, World War II veteran and activist, in his own words, 100 years since his birth. Our podcast is brought to you by our patreon supporters. Our supporters fund our work, and in return get exclusive early access to podcast episodes, bonus episodes, free and discounted…

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Coffee with Comrades

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Episode 174: "Children's Liberation, Now!" ft. Srsly Wrong 1:17:31

1y ago1:17:31

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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…

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