Fall 2021
Fifth Estate #410
CONTENTS
ANARCHIST REVIEW OF BOOKS
Always Coming Home / Ursula K Le Guin
JOHN CLARK
Big Girl / Meg Ellison
JESS FLARITY
Secolo Nuovo / Fulvia Ferrari
MARIEKE BIVAR
We’re Not Here to Entertain / Kevin Mattson
BILL BROWN
Five Wives / Martha Ackelsberg
MARTHA ACKELSBERG
Dreams of Anarchy / Ron Sakolsky
STEVEN CLINE & JASON ABDELHADI
Dissent During World War I / Eric T. Chester
FRAN SHOR
Poems of Katerina Gogou
ROBERT KNOX
Underground Asia / Tim Harper
BILL WEINBERG
Pandemic Solidarity / Marina Sitrin, ed.
BRUCE TRIGG
The Daring Life of Eve Adams / Jonathon Ned Katz
KATHY E. FERGUSON
Constructing Ecoterrorism / John Sorensen
NOAH JOHNSON
Holding Change / adrienne maree brown
MARIUS MASON
Architecture & Anarchism / Paul Dobraszczyk
F. MICHALSKI
Urgent Publishing / Paul Soulellis
RICH DANA
Prophet Against Slavery / David Lester
SEAN CLEARY
Nomadland / Jessica Bruder
MIKE WOLD
No More Mushrooms / Kirkpatrick Sale
ERIC LAURSEN
The Bittersweet Science / Gerald Horne
PETER WERBE
Catastrophic Thinking / David Sepkoski
THOMAS MARTIN
Champavert: Immoral Tales / Petrus Borel
OLCHAR E. LINDSANN
Codename Arthur / Nick Lowles
GARETH HENRY
The Haymarket Affair / Corrine J. Naden
CHRIS CLANCY
Workers Inquiry / Robert Ovetz, ed.
MHB
Ben Fletcher: Black Wobbly / Peter Cole
ROBERT OVETZ
Red Nation Rising / Nick Estes
MICHAEL BEYKIRCH
Hand to Hold / Samir Shaheen-Hussain
MARIEKE BIVAR
Mutual Aid / Peter Kropotkin
KIM A. BROADIE
Zippie / Michele Dawn Saint Thomas
DAVID SANDS
When We Are Human / John Zerzan
JASON RODGERS
The Brickeaters / The Residents
BEN OLSON
The Operating System / Eric Laursen
PETER WERBE
Earth First! Journal
BOB STERN
33 Revolutions / Canek Sánchez Guevara
SYLVIE KASHDAN
Plus
Farewell Elka Schumann
Plus
Poetry and fiction from
Byron López Ellington
vincent a. cellucci
Karin L. Frank
Andrei Codrescu
Katerina Gogou
Hazel C. Cline
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MONTREAL’S 15th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ANARCHIST THEATRE FESTIVAL May 2022, seeks plays!
Application deadline: November 30, 2021
The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (MIATF), the only festival in the world dedicated to anarchist theatre, is currently seeking plays, texts, monologues, dance-theatre, puppet shows, mime, in English and French, 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. We will also consider pieces exploring ecological, social and economic justice, racism, feminism, poverty, class and gender oppression from an anarchist perspective. We welcome work from anarchist and non-anarchist writers.
Application form & guidelines: www.anarchistetheatrefestival.com
Reading about Afghanistan and Iraq in the Fifth Estate, 2002
“Do the massive (and lucrative) US arms transfers to corrupt and repressive regimes in the Middle East…and the monstrous sanctions against the people of Iraq help in any way to explain why the bin Ladens of the world can recruit young men to kill themselves and others in a jihad? Is there no relationship between the profound injustices this empire has unleashed, or ignored, or to which it has actively contributed, and the nihilism of the enemies that such injustice spawns?” (“Catastrophe as a way of life: an anti-imperialism for the twenty-first century,”) Read more…
No money, no barter, no authoritarian control:
Read our 1968 interview with the Living Theatre in the Fifth Estate Archive.
VIETNAM
The failed US war 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.
