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. // Share this on…
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WSF Caracas: Shroud for Venezuela’s social movements
by Rafael Uzcategui
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
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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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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, 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 …
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 …
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.” // Share this on…
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
Thursday November 28 AN ODE TO WILHELM REICH A sexual intellectual play in two acts. At the Red Roach Coffee House. 8:30 p.m. Plum St. at Filth St THANKSGIVING SPECIAL. The Underground Cinema will have two special showings at 7:30 …
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
For over five years, villagers in Portugal have been battling the mass planting of eucalyptus trees, a “quick money,” fast-growing, drought resistant tree which, according to its advocates, provides a good light fuel and prevents soil erosion. In reality, the …