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Ukraine

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022

As we write at the end of March, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is at full fury with deaths and destruction increasing daily. By the time you read this, the conflict will hopefully have ended. If not, any number of …

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Anarchists & The War in Ukraine

by Thomas Martin

Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023

Despite the appeal of nationalism among today’s Ukrainians, the legacy of anarchism in that tormented region has not been forgotten. In fact, it is resurgent, though not always in ways that anarchists in more comfortable lands might like.

East/West World Dominance Game

by Bill Weinberg

Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022

a review of Ukraine & the Empire of Capital: From Marketisation to Armed Conflict by Yuliya Yurchenko. Pluto Press, 2018

Ukrainian and Russian Repression

by anon.

Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017

Over the past year, ruling elites in Russia and Ukraine—often in collaboration with fascist gangs—intensified active repression of those who dare to express dissident points of view on a wide range of topics, from workers’ demands for back pay, to …

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Move Over Nestor Makhno!

by Norman Nawrocki

Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023

She was known as either Maria or Marusya Nikiforova, a fearless and feared, bad-ass Ukrainian anarchist warrior who led her own army during the Russian Civil War and peasant rebellions in the early 20th century. But few people have heard …

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The Return of the irrepressible

by Rui Preti

Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022

“The question is always how to move from a social insurgency to an anarchistic society?” —Voline, The Unknown Revolution

Issue Intro

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022

Welcome! Welcome to another issue of the Fifth Estate Anarchist Review of Books. We haven’t changed our title permanently; just letting readers know what to expect inside this edition. We also haven’t changed our belief that it is direct action …

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Good-bye to the Draft?

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021

The Selective Service Repeal Act of 2021 was introduced in Congress on April 14 with bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate. If this becomes law, registering for the hated draft will no longer be required. The draft …

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Letters

by Various Authors

Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022

Send letters to fe@fifthestate.org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220. All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten. Letters may be edited for length. CHOMSKYIAN Your editorial on the Ukraine war in FE #411, Spring 2022 starts out promising, …

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The Calm before…What?

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024

Sharks dive deeper before hurricanes. Wolves howl when a storm is approaching. Snakes slither away from earthquakes. Something’s happening here, and definitely, what it is ain’t exactly clear. Unfortunately, our intellects don’t provide us the instinctual early warning system our …

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Clinton Greater Danger to Peace

by Peter Werbe

Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018

It’s hard not to be distracted by the right wing Shit Show presently playing in the White House with its daily exposures of corruption, racism, xenophobia, and discrimination.

Who Was Emiliano Zapata?

by Daily Barbarian, George Woodcock

Fifth Estate # Daily Barbarian Number 8

Who Was Emiliano Zapata? by Daily Barbarian, George Woodcock Daily Barbarian >Who Was Emiliano Zapata? Emiliano Zapata was born in 1879 in Morales, Mexico. In 1911, when popular demands for land reform were dismissed by Mexico’s then dictator Porfioro Diaz, …

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Gallows Humor, Beauty in Resistance

by Eric Laursen

Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025

a review of World War 3 Now? World War 3 Illustrated, Issue #54 by Jordan Worley, Nicole Shulman, Seth Tobocman, Sue Simensky Bietila, eds. AK Press, 2024

Ammunition Books

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 271, April, 1976

The revolution is a thing of the people, a popular creation; the counterrevolution is a thing of the State. It has always been so and will always be so, whether in Russia, Spain or China. –Anarchist Federation of Iberia (FA …

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Forget about theories

by David Gribble

Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004

Anarchist practice in education is emerging throughout the world, but it tends to describe itself as “democratic” to avoid the negative reaction which the word “anarchist” so often arouses. The name of the annual International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC) was …

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They once were rebels

by Bill Weinberg

Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024

a review of Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century by Raoul Vaneigem, translation by Bill Brown. ERIS, 2023 While evangelical Protestantism has for generations overwhelmingly been a force of deep reaction …

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Bits of the World in Brief

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979

HOPE FOR DOPE — High Times magazine reports that the recent Paraquat scare is just that and “not to believe the government.” Paraquat paranoia developed a few months ago when it surfaced that the U.S. had financed the spraying of …

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In Havana?

by Peter Werbe

Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020

It seems improbable that a conference was held in Havana last May to examine the life and ideas of the Russian Bolshevik, Leon Trotsky. One would think the Cuban Stalinist bureaucracy would be averse to allowing a gathering sympathetic to …

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Paul Avrich (1931-2006)

by Julie Herrada

Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006

A beloved comrade and renowned scholar of 19th and 20th century anarchism passed away on February 17 at his home in New York City. Paul Avrich was author and editor of dozens of influential books and articles on the history …

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The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival

by Norman Nawrocki

Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025

A longer version of this article is available on the Fifth Estate site at https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/416-spring-2025/the-montreal-international-anarchist-theatre-festival/the-montreal-international-anarchist-theatre-festival-long-version/ Despite being one of the most misunderstood political ideologies of our times, anarchism has a long and beautiful history of developed political thought, well-organized and …

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