Final planning is in high gear for the 1989 Anarchist Conference/Festival to be held in San Francisco on July 20-25. Its theme and name are “Without Borders.” Over 3,000 anti-authoritarians and anarchists from around the world are expected to attend, …
I Voodoo is a colloquial corruption of Vodo, the name of an African godhead, the Holy Serpent. The practice of Voodoo has been, until recent years, the most consistently revolutionary and anti-establishment force among poor blacks in the United …
Israel, The U.S. in Miniature Much of the population of Israel, no different from people in the United States, denies its past as an invader/settler nation, is oblivious to the suffering which creates its plentitude, revels in self-generated myths …
Slobodan Milosevic has been at The Hague for a little more than a year, the first head of state to face a war crimes tribunal since the crime of genocide was codified in the UN Charter. The former autocrat stands …
First time in Afghanistan, late winter 1968/9, making the Overland Trail fast as possible through howling cold of Central Asian steppes. Minibus from Mashhad to Herat, arriving at the border crossing: dark, dusty, cold and bleak. (Later, I was to …
1. Burn your bibles, not your neighbors Now that a significant number of both patricians and plebes of the American metropole, from wealthy futures traders to dishwashers, have become collateral damage in the crossfire between Jihad and McWorld, it …
[Web Archive note: This centerfold insert is a two-sided 15 x 22 inch poster, of which this page can be considered the back side. The other side of the poster is rendered at https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/69-december-26-1968-january-8-1969/poetry-2/ .] The Consumer Society Must Die …
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FE Note: We are publishing this essay to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. It is a substantially revised version of two articles written in the wake of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in …
FE Note: About 100 anarchists joined an Oct. 17th demonstration at the Pentagon to protest U.S. intervention in El Salvador which has resulted in 65,000 deaths to date. The action entitled “Blockade the Pentagon,” resulted in 200 protesters being arrested …
Nationalism was proclaimed dead several times during the present century: —after the first world war, when the last empires of Europe, the Austrian and the Turkish, were broken up into self-determined nations, and no deprived nationalists remained, except the Zionists; …
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Three or four years ago we were a small group of punks who, in spite of drinking, smoking grass, listening to loud music and other hedonist activities, got the idea of changing the shifty normal life and existing system, which …
Punks in Cuba Radical anarchist and anti-militarist groups linked to the semi-taboo punk youth culture exist in Cuba. Members of one such group, Movimiento Pacifista Solidaridad y Paz (Solidarity & Peace Pacifist Movement), were sentenced to prison after a protest …
The following is from the Bulletin of Action, Anarchist news from Poland, Warsaw, July 1993.