At this writing it is completely unclear what to expect in Chicago. It looks like the YIP and the National Mobilization Committee, the group coordinating the political activity, is going to let everybody “do their own thing.” So YOU be …
FE Author: anon.
Year of the Bible or Year of the Computer
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
While Time magazine was announcing the computer as its Man-of-the Year, Ronald Reagan, a former B-movie actor presently in command of the most sophisticated computerized system of annihilation in history, had something else in mind.
Free the Five, protect the Earth
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
A wave of anti-anarchist hysteria, stage-managed by the government, is sweeping Canada as a result of the arrest of five Vancouver political activists accused of a “wide-spread campaign of sabotage.”
Chimpanzees Against the State
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
“The roots of politics are older than humanity,” writes Desmond Morris in his new book Chimpanzee Politics. He contends that chimpanzees have well-developed political systems, demonstrating that humans are not so much “fallen angels as they are risen apes.”
Occupied Iraq
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
“What are kingdoms but great robberies? Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by …
Rogue Statism
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
“The man without a country is a free man. ‘Country’ is a tenfold chain forged around our necks and feet by our forefathers, a prison and a pit.” –Herman Bang, Denied a Homeland (1906)
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 …
No Border Camp
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
As long as the US/Mexico border has existed, people have been struggling against it. It is a highly militarized, violent boundary marking an internal space of strict migration controls while allowing for unrestricted movement of capital and wealth. This border …
Anarchist Archive Needs Help
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
The CIRA (Centre International de Recherches sur Anarchisme) in Lausanne, Switzerland is a large archive and small research facility. It has existed for over 50 years, but today, its existence is threatened. The CIRA works to retain the memory of …
The Banning of the Mural
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
In fall 1997, in Sechelt, a small coastal town in southwest British Columbia, Canada, Jamie Elder, owner of the Unity Skateboard Shop and drop-in point for local youth, approached me about painting a mural on the side of the trailer …