Spring 2023
Fifth Estate #413
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CONTENTS
ANARCHIST REVIEW OF BOOKS
WORKS REVIEWED
The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism
JOHN P. CLARK
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
ROBIN WALL KIMMERER
Surrealism and Anarchism: Pietro Ferrua
edited by RON SAKOLSKY
Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror
JOHANNA ISAACSON
The Clash: All the Albums, All the Songs
MARTIN POPOFF
Divine Blue Light: for John Coltrane
WILL ALEXANDER
Welcome Home
CLARRIE AND BLANCHE POPE
Bloc by Bloc: Uprising The Insurrection Game
OUT OF ORDER GAMES
On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death
JACK Z. BRATICH
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
KELLY LYTLE HERNÁNDEZ
The Menu
Dir: MARK MYLOD
Spoor (Pokot)
Dir.: AGNIESZKA HOLLAND
Passages of Rebellion
FRAN SHOR
Breaking the Alphabet
SASCHA ENGEL
The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below
PETER GELDERLOOS
War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance
DANIEL AKST
ESSAYS
Issue Intro
FIFTH ESTATE COLLECTIVE
Anarchists & the War in Ukraine
THOMAS MARTIN
Move Over Nestor Makhno! Here Comes Marusya Nikiforova
NORMAN NAWROCKI
Is ChatGPT just a new tech toy or is it Skynet?
JESS FLARITY and PETER WERBE
Anarchism & the Vote
KATHY E. FERGUSON
Surrealist Collectivity: A Utopian Rhizome
STEVEN CLINE
The Cultural Avant-Garde & the Paris Commune
OLCHAR E. LINDSAN
Fifth Estate Archives: Preserving History
FIFTH ESTATE COLLECTIVE
Skate or Die!: Rebels on a Board
IAN BLUMBERG-ENGE
American River (poetry)
NICK DEPASCAL
Alfredo Cospito’s Struggle Against High Security Confinement
FIFTH ESTATE COLLECTIVE
Remembering Jen Angel 1975-2023
RYAN FLETCHER
This selection of Peter Werbe’s essays from the pages of the Fifth Estate explore some of the basic themes the publication addresses: anarchism, capitalism, technology, civilization, racism, patriarchy, politics, culture, music, the environment, his trips to Cuba, and other subjects.Order from the Fifth Estate online store. Check out our Specal Offers when you subscribe or renew.
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Application deadline: October 14, 2023
The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (MIATF), the only festival in the world dedicated to anarchist theatre, is currently seeking plays, monologues, dance-theatre, puppet shows, mime, etc., in English, French and other languages, on the theme of anarchism or any subject pertaining to anarchism, i.e. against all forms of oppression including the State, capitalism, war, patriarchy, etc.
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Summer on Fire: A Detroit Novel
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UKRAINE CRISIS BACKGROUND
The collapse of the Soviet system and its aftermath,
analyzed in the pages of Fifth Estate:
“So, for what it is worth now, the anarchists were right about marxism a century and a half before the rest of the world witnessed the collapse of the communist mystique and the lowering of the hammer and sickle from the towers of the Kremlin…” Read more in “The Triumph of Capital” in FE No. 339, Spring 1992.
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VIETNAM
The US assault and resistance to it from an anarchist/anti-authoritarian perspective: it’s all here at the Fifth Estate’s Vietnam Resource Page.
SPANISH REVOLUTION OF 1936-1939
Learn more about it and the important role of the anarchists….
at Fifth Estate’s Spanish Revolution Resource Page.