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Search results for: Neither East Nor West

Neither East Nor West

by Bob McGlynn

Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!

During the Cold War period, there was a sector of anarchists/left-libertarians in the West who took special interest in developments and repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries. Their interest was in part due to the ultra-closed nature …

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Poor People Lose Out in West Central Elections

by Frank H. Joyce

Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967

Detroit is a killer city. It is a city in which radicals and reformers of various political stripes have found it nearly impossible to survive.

At Northland Theatre

by Joe Fineman

Fifth Estate # 23, February 1-15, 1967

Once, one approached Truffaut with satiate expectancy, awaiting only to be chewed up and spat upon beneath the marquee. In stark wonderment and in bitter tears one expected to be engulfed by the pleasures of cinema at its best. The …

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East/West World Dominance Game

by Bill Weinberg

Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022

a review of Ukraine & the Empire of Capital: From Marketisation to Armed Conflict by Yuliya Yurchenko. Pluto Press, 2018

The beasts of the Southwest desert have a message for us

by Jason Rodgers

Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022

a review of A Desert Pilgrim’s Bestiary by Anthony Walent, author; Maurice Spira, Illustrator. Eberhardt Press, 2019

Being able to say neither/nor

by Cynthia Cockburn

Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999

< Kosovo: The Empire at War Women in Black is against the whole continuum of violence, from male violence against women, to militarism and war. It is for justice and peace. It is for multi-ethnic democracy. It is for nonviolent, …

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Anarchy in the Midwest

by Rob Blurton

Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020

When 17th century Europeans arrived in the Great Lakes region, they discovered Native Americans living in what today we would call an anarchist society. These Lake natives had horizontal social relationships governed by kin obligations and employed consensus decision-making.

Norman Mayer and the Missile X

by George Bradford (David Watson)

Fifth Estate # 311, Winter, 1983

Norman Mayer tried to stop the Missile X and failed. On the morning of December 8 the 66-year-old Miami man drove his van up to the Washington Monument, threatening to blow up the structure with 1,000 pounds of dynamite. Not …

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The Anarchist Spectre in Eastern Europe

by David Porter

Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91

Rarely is an entire region of the world so caught up in the collapse of hierarchical politics as Eastern Europe of a year ago. The infamous “spectre of anarchy” astonished and horrified Communist, dissident and Western politicians alike as millions …

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Westinghouse Wildcat

by Peter Rachleff

Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976

By the beginning of the second shift on Monday July 12, the huge East Pittsburgh Works of the Westinghouse Electric Company was shut tight by a wildcat strike of production workers.

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