It’s hard not to be distracted by the right wing Shit Show presently playing in the White House with its daily exposures of corruption, racism, xenophobia, and discrimination.
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Russia Revolution Books – Review
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
a review of Bloodstained: One Hundred Years of Leninist Counterrevolution eds. Friends of Aron Baron; Luigi Fabbri, Rudolf Rocker, Nestor Makhno, Iain McKay, Alexander Berkman, Maurice Brinton, Ida Mett, Otto Wile, Emma Goldman, et al. AK Press akpress.org, 2017
Anarchy on the printed page
by Lena Kafka, Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
Newspapers and magazines have been a part of the anarchist movement since its inception.
No Heroes Needed
by Jordan Flaherty, Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
The Fifth Estate spoke with journalist and author, Jordan Flaherty, at Detroit’s Source Booksellers. His latest book, No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality, examines how often people of privilege makes things worse when they try to help …
Back to the Stone Age?
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
a review of “The Politics of Ethnopoetics” in The Old Ways, Six Essays, Gary Snyder, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 40077 “(Reckoning roughly from the earliest cave paintings)”, 96 pp.
History of the Fifth Estate
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
“The Fifth Estate supports the cause of revolution everywhere.” —FBI Report In my estimation, the above twelve-word summary by the nation’s secret police serves adequately as an abbreviated history of this paper on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.
Hiroshima, First Shot of World War III
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
The barbarity of the nation-state since its emergence 8,000 years ago has only been limited in its intensity by a lack of the technological means needed to perpetrate horrors upon humanity. By the advent of World War II, science and …
A New World in Our Hearts
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
a review of A New World in Our Hearts: Eight Years of Writing from the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation, edited by Roy San Filipo. AK Press, 2003, San Francisco, 139pp. Letters to a Young Activist, Todd Gitlin, Basic …
James Baldwin
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
a film review of “I Am Not Your Negro” (2016). Director: Raoul Peck; Writer: James Baldwin; Narration: Samuel L. Jackson. 135 min.
The Struggle to Get Back to Zero
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
There have been long standing political and theoretical debates about whether a particular political movement or leader is fascist. In the article before this one, as Bill Weinberg attests in the previous pages, it can come down to hairsplitting. Is …