Winter 2019, FE #402
(follows Summer, 2018 issue)
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CONTENTS
Ice Cream, Anarchy & Forgotten Workers!
D. Sands
Just published: Fredy Perlman Anthology
FE Staff
Anything Can Happen–Or Not!
John Clark
The Mystification of Voting–Why I don’t vote: an anarchist critique
Clara Mystif
Elections have consequences, but only direct action will get you satisfaction
Paul Walker
Alt-Right Brain Drain
Nick Oltmann
Anti-Fascist Theme at Montreal Theatre Fest
Excerpt
Cuba Turns ‘Green Scare’ Fugitive Over to US
Bill Weinberg
Is political and social chaos an opportunity for revolution or for further clampdown?
Jack Bratich
TransMountain Pipeline Suspended but Resistance Must Continue
Jeff Shantz
World-Wide Anarchist Radio
Z (Anarchist Radio Berlin)
Dismantling The Biomechanical Leviathan
Jason Rodgers
POETRY
Gentrification
Tolbert Small
The stories are where healing lies
Mbeke Waseme
On 5 pm – and being told…
Brad Evans
Bikes for Peace
Gregg Williard
100 Years Later, Government Repression has not Stopped the IWW
Eric Thomas Chester
Occupy ICE Portland Goes to the Movies
Muriel Lucas
AK Press & Anarchist Publishing
Interview
Philippines Comrades Skilling up for the Long Haul
FE Staff
John Brown’s Raid & Space Ships Dot an Alternative History
Review by RB
Someone is Trying to Kill Rask Harp who is Dying of AIDS
Review by Barbara Henning
Chiaroscuro
Fiction by Karin L. Frank
Cops are the Heroes in Spike Lee’s film
Review by Peter Werbe
Mbeke Waseme in Malacca, Malaysia
Stories of Education in the UK
Mbeke Waseme
All J20 Charges Dropped!
FE Staff
George Orwell & Alex Comfort’s World War II Debate
Rui Preti
Federico Comes Home to Barcelona
David Watson
Unabomber Cops a Plea
David Watson (reprint from Summer 1998 FE)
The Privatization of the Welfare State
PG
Fuck Authority & How to do it
Review by Mike Wold
Anything Can Happen at the End of the World
Review by RB
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