These excerpts come from the English section of the El Libertario website. El Libertario is a collective in Venezuela that has been active for eight years now.
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WSF Caracas: Shroud for Venezuela’s social movements
by Rafael Uzcategui
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
FE Note: The following is taken from the El Libertario web site. See the above article on this page for their URL.
In Chavez’s Venezuela
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
Just the headline above alone probably condemns us to the gulag by uncritical leftist supporters of Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian socialist revolution. But like most issues that vex the left, a look beneath the surface always provides more than what initially …
Venezuela, Elections 2006
by El Libertario (Venezuela)
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
The Fifth Estate received this communication prior to the December 3 presidential election from the Venezuelan Commission of Anarchist Relations (Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas) and its organ, El Libertario. Hugo Chavez won handily against his opponent. Venezuelan government officials announced …
Report from Venezuela
by El Libertario (Venezuela)
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
Note. El Libertario, the voice of the Comision de relaciones anarquistas of Venezuela, analyzes the how and why of the increasing state repression against the growing social discontent that belies the pseudo-revolutionary discourse of the Chavez regime. See also: “In …
Venezuela
by Anne Carlson, Michael Staudenmaier
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
Note: This is a shortened version of an essay that can be found in several locations on the Internet. Some material is likely dated at this point, given the rapidly changing situation in Venezuela. Since the essay primarily has value …
Venezuela—An Anarchist at the World Social Forum
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
Barrel-assing around hair-pin turns at 6am in a crowded bus on a road with no barriers between us and a two thousand foot drop was not the manner in which I anticipated arriving in Venezuela for the Sixth World Social …
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Books that should have been reviewed in this issue
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 386, Spring, 2012
Most publications receive more books for review than they can possibly do. What’s needed is an Anarchist Review of Books [now, there’s a project waiting to happen]. We are often disappointed, to say nothing of the authors, when we cannot …
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Depolarization and Autonomy
by Rafael Uzcategui
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
Chavez’s original movement…becomes the face of the people’s malcontent, achieving legitimacy at the polls in 1999 by capitalizing on the prevailing wish for change that ran through the country, but also revitalizing the populist, statist and caudillista ethos so much …
Revolution as Spectacle
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
A review of Venezuela: Revolution as Spectacle by Rafael Uzcategui, Introduction by Octavio Alberola, Translated by Chaz Bufe, Tucson, See Sharp Press, 2011, 232 pages; seesharppress.com
Anarchist Festival in Barcelona
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
from our Barcelona Correspondent Barcelona, Spain—at one time known as “the fiery rose of anarchism”—was the site of a lively Anarchist International Exhibition Sept. 27 to October 10, 1993. Several thousand people attended, with the majority being young and audiences …
New World From Below
by Sarah Coffey
Fifth Estate # 384, Spring, 2011
Detroit–Some see a battered, blighted city here. Others see fertile ground for alternatives to capitalism and state structures by building our/their own infrastructures and networks as natural responses to a broken system.
Venezuelan anarchists see Noam Chomsky as Chavez’s Clown
by Octavio Alberola
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
FE Note: The comrades of Venezuela’s El Libertario magazine are unrelenting in their criticism of what they call the myth of Hugo Chavez’s “Eco-socialism of the XXI Century.”
Rocky’s Rum Trip
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
HONDURAS: turmoil unleashed, one student demonstrator killed COSTA RICA: 2,000 students demonstrated PANAMA: National Guard on duty COLOMBIA: 20,000-man special security force tried to control student strikes and heavy street fighting ECUADOR: ten striking students killed by police…Rocky’s car nearly …
Voting
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
On December 3, a month after the Republican Party was swept from control of the U.S. Congress, Hugo Chavez was overwhelmingly re-elected president of Venezuela for a third four-year term. On the night of his victory, in a speech to …
Portrait of a Snitch
by Margaret Killjoy
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
a review of Informant: A documentary directed and written by Jamie Meltzer. Information at informantdoc.com; also Netflix.
About This Issue
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
Welcome to the first issue in our 41st year of radical publishing. This edition, no different than the preceding 371, takes up our desire for revolution, one that ends the monstrous systems of capitalism and the state. It begins with …
Bring the War Home
by Chuck 0
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
The latest escalation of the fighting in Iraq is a clear sign that the people of Iraq reject their “liberation.” The United States, led by the Bush regime, can’t decide why it invaded Iraq and refuses to pull out of …
Anarchism in Latin America
by Rafael Uzcategui
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
Rafael Uzcategui is a member of the editorial collective of the anarchist magazine El Libertario, published in Caracas, Venezuela. The below has been excerpted from an entry which originally appeared on his June 2016 blog in Spanish & has been …