Fall 2023
Fifth Estate #414
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CONTENTS
ANARCHIST REVIEW OF BOOKS
WORKS REVIEWED
Abolish the Family
Sophie Clark
Polymath: Alex Comfort
Eric Laursen
Pets DC: Rise of the Pets
Ramon Dines and Kit Brixton
Resurgence
Jonathan Leake
Letterpress Revolution
Kathy E. Ferguson
This Rancid Mill
Kyle Decker
Karl Marx Private Eye
Jim Feast
Me, Mikko, and Annikki
Tiitu Takal
Red Squared Montreal
Norman Nawrocki
Present Continuous
David Grundy
Under the Banner of King Death
David Lester and Marcus Rediker
Carmen – film
Dir: Benjamin Millepied
SDS: Students for a Democratic Society
Kirkpatrick Sale
Black Mask from Art to Action
Nadja Millner-Larsen
Rattling Chains
Political Prisoners
On Community
Casey Plett
Eat the Rich
Peter Werbe
Anarchism: A Very Short Intro
Alex Prichard
Ohio
Sean Swain
Elite Capture
Olúfemi Táíwò
ESSAYS
Issue Into
Fifth Estate staff
A.I. Psychosis
Jess Flarity
Arrest in Jen Angel Killing
FE Staff
Even Without Clocks – Fiction
Zvi Baranoff
Burning Colonialism
Jeff Shantz
Remembering Ronald Creagh
FE Staff
Alfredo Cospito Hunger Strike
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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Happy Birthday, King Ludd!
The Luddites’ 200th birthday
In the waning moonlight, three bands of sullen men with ash-blackened faces stealthed through the woods and dales of central Yorkshire, one of the first counties in England to industrialize…The Luddites fought the imposition of new technology. The new weaving machines, by producing shoddy goods, were an affront to their craft standards. More importantly, the simple tasks of machine tending required little skill. As a result of the new technology, families and villages collapsed into a spiral of degradation… READ MORE FROM FE #386, Spring, 2012 IN OUR ONLINE ARCHIVE.
SEEKS PLAYS
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.
To learn more, visit www.anarchistetheatrefestival.com
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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.