Spring 2023
Fifth Estate #413
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Cover image, Issue 413, Spring, 2023. A cartoon shows a young woman reading a book with a circle-A on its cover. As she reads she is raising a fist in the air. A speech baloon reads, "No Gods!" Nearby, a black cat is shown, with its speech baloon reading, "No Masters!"
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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

Marusya Nikiforova, mug shot, front and side portrait, age 19
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

Meet The Commander (An excerpt from the unpublished novel, “Don’t take too much sunlight for yourself”)
RICO CLEFFI

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

Image adapted from France, May-June 1968 shows the profile of a group of workers. Text reads, "Subscribe Today!" Original 1968 text read, "We are the Power!"

 

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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
Anti-Vietnam War protest, April 27, 1968. Photo shows draft registration cards being burnt, one sign reads "Make Love Not War!"
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.