Art in this issue

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Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006

Cover: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/visfront/index.html Page 13: Peter Kuper, peterkuper.com Page 21: Nik Moore, maladroitdrone.org Page 24, 25, 32, 36: Private collection, Federico Arcos

Hate Mao; Hate Maoists

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Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006

A Chinese journalist was freed in February after spending nearly 17 years in prison for splattering paint on a portrait of Mao during the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square.

Spanish Revolution Bibliography

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Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006

José Peirats, The CNT in the Spanish Revolution, published by The Meltzer Press (Vol. 1) and Christie Books (Vol. 2). They are essential reading. Stuart Christie, We, The Anarchists, The Meltzer Press. A telling and thorough look at the FAI.

Upcoming Events

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Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006

New England Anarchist Bookfair. April 21-22. Boston Friday, 7pm-11pm, Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St. Mitchell Verter, editor of Dreams of Freedom, on Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magon and contemporary Magonism, a video and music.

About This Issue

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Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006

Welcome to the first issue in our 41st year of radical publishing. This edition, no different than the preceding 371, takes up our desire for revolution, one that ends the monstrous systems of capitalism and the state. It begins with …

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Contents of print edition

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Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015

Fifth Estate, #393, Spring 2015, Vol. 50, No. 1

Anarchy in Books

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Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015

Who’s Afraid of The Black Blocs?: Anarchy in Action Around the World, Francis Dupuis-Deri, 2013, PM Press pmpress.org The Watcher, Nicholas P. Oakley, 2014, See Sharp Press, SeeSharpPress.com (Sci-fi) The End of the World As We Know it?: Crisis, Resistance, …

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Books

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Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006

Black & Red Books Our friends at Black and Red Books–another radical publishing project from Detroit–have finally put their catalog online at http://blackandred.org. It’s now easier than ever to find titles like Society of the Spectacle; Against His-story, Against Leviathan; …

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Anarcho-shorts

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Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015

A valuable anarchist history resource, The Emma Goldman Papers archive, is being defunded by University of California, Berkeley, and will have to close if alternative funding can’t be found soon. The 34-year-old archive is currently the most comprehensive, organized collection …

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Call for Submissions

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Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015

Fifth Estate Summer 2015 (Issue 394) Deadline: May 1 Publication date: June 1 Vietnam! The war in Vietnam, the first great defeat of American imperialism, came to an ignominious conclusion 40 years ago, at the end of April 1975. The …

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