In 1970, Chileans elected a social-democratic government headed by Salvador Allende. On September 11, 1973 it was overthrown by a CIA-sponsored military coup, ushering in the brutal dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. The new regime instituted draconian free market policies …
FE Author: Jesús Sepúlveda
Anti-authoritarian Portugal
by Jesús Sepúlveda
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
Last June, I was invited by the anarchist publisher, Textos Subterraneos, to speak about the newly-published Portuguese edition of my book, The Garden of Peculiarities, in Lisbon and Oporto. Of interest to FE readers, TS has also put out an …
The Animal Hungers
by Jesús Sepúlveda
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
The animal hungers for light and strength He hungers . Killing himself while hunting Groaning fatally and the last . Hunger springs Sleepless . There are beasts without burden that dance / grow fiery They warily drink water . Famine …
People of the Earth
by Jesús Sepúlveda
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
During his visit to Chile in January 2018, Pope Francis officiated a mass in the Araucania region—the ancestral territory of the Mapuche people.
Pulling Back the Veil of the Vile
by Jesús Sepúlveda
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
In Memoriam Luis Ortiz Puppo* Populism is the manifestation of political demagogy that combines financial power and indoctrinated populations. Propaganda is used to indoctrinate the mob.
Deterritorializing the Nation
by Jesús Sepúlveda
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
In order to deterritorialize the state it is imperative to oppose militarism and its ideological base, the idea of the nation state. If it were possible to suppress the imaginary of the imagined community, those which exist in the diverse …
Waiting for the Barbarians
by Jesús Sepúlveda
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
In August 2015, as refugees broke through a line of Macedonian police at the border between Greece and Macedonia going toward Western Europe, a phrase from the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) came forcibly to mind: “the barbarians are coming …
The Future is Now!
by Jesús Sepúlveda
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
Sales Santos-Vera and Itziar Madina-Elguezabal live in the heart of the Basque Mountains, where the borders between France and Spain are blurred and the mists hide the paths once serving smugglers and antifascist guerrillas. Sales moved here from Extremadura along …