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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
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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.
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
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SPANISH REVOLUTION OF 1936-1939
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