In 2024, following the United Healthcare CEO incident, James released a deck of cards on his store inspired by the “Iraq’s Most Wanted” cards provided to the US Military during the Iraq invasion which depicted “wanted” Iraqi government officials.

Comrade’s cards featured CEOs instead, with information about each of them and the ways in which they’ve used their power and wealth to immiserate working people and poison the environment.

No threats were made in the cards, implied or otherwise. They were merely an educational tool.

However, this joke-y deck of cards would prove too much for the billionaire bootlickers in the media and law enforcement.

Within days, James’ face was plastered on the front page of the New York Post, which was then trotted out by NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch (yes, of the billionaire Tisch family) in a press conference.

James' store was shut down. Social media accounts banned. Payment processors pulled out, banks refused to work with him.

 

As a long-time collaborator and friend of Means Cooperative, together they devised Means Workwear in an effort to clear his name and get the man making shirts again.

James' remaining Comrade Workwear inventory is now for sale once again as the Comrade In Exile collection on Means Workwear.

Check it out and support this artist being punished for expressing his First Amendment rights and loudly declaring, “Fuck CEOs, they’re all bastards, and if we want any sort of moral or decent society, there can’t be millionaires, billionaires, or fucking CEOs.”

For those who thought they wouldn’t be able to get his designs anymore, it lives on here—because repression can’t kill solidarity, and the fight doesn’t stop just because they want it to.