a review of Jobs, Jive, & Joy: An Argument for the Utopian Spirit by Bernard Marszalek …
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Mutual Aid
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
a review of Fight for a New Normal? Anarchism and mutual aid in the Covid-19 pandemic …
Alex Comfort’s Joy of Sex was Matched by His Joy of Anarchism
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 414, Fall 2023
a review of Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr. Alex Comfort, Author of ‘The Joy …
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The Life of Anarchist Octavio Alberola
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of The Weight of The Stars: The Life of Anarchist Octavio Alberola. Written and …
The Return of the irrepressible
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
“The question is always how to move from a social insurgency to an anarchistic society?” —Voline, …
Life in an Autonomous Zone
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
The lynching of a black man, George Floyd, by a white Minneapolis policeman on May 25, …
Seattle Far-Right Shooter’s Trial Ends in Hung Jury
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
Following the recent dismissal of charges against a right-wing woman who shot an anarchist anti-fascist activist …
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Struggles Against Capitalist Rule in Modern China
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
a review of China On Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance edited by Hao Ren; English edition …
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George Orwell & Alex Comfort’s World War II Debate
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
a review of The Duty to Stand Aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George …
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May Made Me (review)
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
a review of May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France by …