Where’s my issue?
We’ve heard that question a considerable number of times recently from subscribers, bookstores, and distributors.
No, you haven’t missed an issue. The last one we published was our Summer 2024 edition. The one you are holding is Spring 2025.
This issue marks the beginning of our 60th year of continuous publication. We used to joke that the Fifth Estate was once a weekly in the early 1970s, but now our goal is a yearly. We met that criterion for 2024. If you are a subscriber, how often can you expect an issue? Subscriptions, which provide the basic finances for continuing publication, are for four issues regardless of when or how often we appear.
We realize that the number below one is zero, but our plans are to continue editing a unique and dynamic magazine that carries forth the ideas of the anarchist comrades who proceeded us and those active today.
Anarchist print publications, that once proliferated in our movement, are down to a handful, particularly in North America. We take production of each edition of the Fifth Estate as not only walking in the steps of those who have come before us, but with the same enthusiasm for the ideals of a world free of the state and capitalism.
“You can say I’m a dreamer…” as the song goes, but we continue on with “Un nuevo mun- do en nuestros corazones”—A new world in our hearts as our Spanish comrades promised almost a hundred years ago.
As always, this issue has been published by many hands and the support of its readers.