Summer 2024
Fifth Estate #415
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CONTENTS

ANARCHIST REVIEW OF BOOKS

WORKS REVIEWED

Pirate Enlightenment, or the New Libertalia
DAVID GRAEBER

Human Rewilding in the 21st Century: Why Anthropologists Fail
JAMES M. VAN LANEN

Reeling
LOLA LAFON

A Cultural History of The Punisher: Marvel Comics and the Politics of Vengeance
KENT WORCESTER

Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades that Changed the Country & Its Sounds
MICHAEL BROYLES

Surrealism and the Anarchist Imagination
RON SAKOLSKY

Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century
RAOUL VANEIGEM, translation by BILL BROWN

Stay and Fight
MADELINE FFITCH

Manufacturing the Threat
Dir: AMY MILLER, 2023

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
BRIAN MERCHANT

Poetic Reason in the Age of Digital Control
JESÚS SEPÚLVEDA

Chevengur
ANDREY PLATONOV

End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
PETER TURCHIN

Notes from a Holocaust: 20 Songs
DAVID ROVICS

It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History
Editors: Moe Bowstern, Mic Crenshaw, Alec Dunn, Celina Flores, Julie Perini, and Erin Yanke
We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action
Shannon Clay, Kristin Schwartz and Michael Staudenmaier

Anti Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape
ACID HORIZON

Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners
Editors: Eric King and Josh Davidson; forward by Angela Davis

ESSAYS

The Calm before. . .What?
FE STAFF

End Game in the Levant: One-State, Two-State, No-State Solution? Maybe No Solution
PETER WERBE

Gazan Youth Manifesto for Change
GAZA YOUTH BREAKS OUT

Non Serviam (poetry)
JOHN G. RODWAN, JR.

The Alchemy of Revolt
STEVEN CLINE

Alfredo Bonanno, insurrectional anarchist 1937-2023
ANDREA CHERSI

A Fair Question: Why translate a 600-page book about ancient Christian rebels?
BILL BROWN

Photo-Senryu (A haiku in Irish and English)
GABRIEL ROSENSTOCK

Florida bans books? Firestorm brings them right back!
FE STAFF

The New Epoch (poetry)
MYCLE

Eric King: Free at Last
FE STAFF

Anarchism & Science Fiction: Some Suggested Best Reads
BEN BECK

John Sinclair, poet, author, activist, Fifth Estate writer dies at 82
PETER WERBE

Change the World–have fun, be creative
NORMAN NAWROCKI

MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL ANARCHIST THEATRE FESTIVAL
After 18 years of incredible anarchist theatre, the Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival collective has decided to stop producing the festival. We want to thank all the artists, volunteers, former collective members and the public who attended, for their generous contributions and support. This was an all-volunteer festival with no government or corporate sponsorship. We will gladly assist other anarchists who would like to mount another festival.
—The FITAM collective

 

DON’T CRITICIZE DETROIT!
Poster Image, R. Crumb cartoon, "Don't criticize Detroit!" FE Issue 86 cover.The Fifth Estate was born and raised hell in Detroit.
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Gazan Youth’s
Manifesto for Change
2011

Fuck Hamas. Fuck Israel. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA! We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international community! We want to scream and break this wall of silence, injustice and indifference… READ MORE IN FIFTH ESTATE #385, FALL 2011.

 

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HOW DEEP
IS DEEP ECOLOGY?

From the 1970s on the Fifth Estate has been publishing writings about the crisis of Western civilization and its industrial/technological plague.
The essay How Deep is Deep Ecology? (FE #327, Fall, 1987) began a detailed discussion of these and related issues, a conversation that is at least as relevant today as it was decades ago.
See also the related debate in Was Malthus right? (FE #328, Spring, 1988) and its continuation in Letters to the Editor.

 

Cover image, Eat the Rich and other interesting ideas: Selected essays of Peter Werbe

This selection of Peter Werbe’s essays from the pages of the Fifth Estate explore some of the basic themes the publication addresses: anarchism, capitalism, technology, civilization, racism, patriarchy, politics, culture, music, the environment, his trips to Cuba, and other subjects.
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VIETNAM
Anti-Vietnam War protest, April 27, 1968. Photo shows draft registration cards being burnt, one sign reads "Make Love Not War!"
The US assault 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.