a review of Freedom in Solidarity: My Experiences in the May 1968 Uprising by Kadour Naimi; Translation and foreword by David Porter. AK Press, 2019 akpress.org
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Anarchist Cuba
by SK
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
a review of Anarchist Cuba: Countercultural Politics in the Early Twentieth Century by Kirwin Shaffer. PM Press 2019
Cuba: Independent Self-Activity vs. the State
by SK
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
This May was a very exciting time for anarchists in Cuba, full of both inspiration and anxiety. On the positive side, the Anarchist Social Center and Library (ABRA: Centro Social y Biblioteca Libertaria) hosted the Fourth Libertarian Spring Conference in …
Looking Back at France, May 1968
by SK
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
Fifty years ago France was on the verge of social revolution, with millions of workers on strike, factories occupied, and students striking and occupying universities and high schools all over the country. Anarchists and anti-authoritarians were deeply involved in this …
Between myth and reality: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War
by SK
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
The International Brigades came to Spain to fight fascism, but helped crush the anarchist social revolution.
We don’t Forget
by SK
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
January 20, 2017, the day Trump officially became President of the United States, was filled with many acts of defiance as well as foreboding.
The Russian Revolution Unfinished
by SK
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
“Whether one chooses to examine the opening phases of the French Revolution of 1789, the revolutions of 1848, the Paris Commune, the 1905 revolution in Russia, the overthrow of the Tsar in 1917, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the French …