Fall 2025
Fifth Estate #417

Cover image, Issue 417. Cartoon shows a characterization of a modern urban protest scene

Follows Spring 2025

CONTENTS

WORKS REVIEWED

Anarchy in the Big Easy
Max Cafard

Ten Little Anarchists
Daniel de Roulet

Soccer for a Better World
Vasilis Kostakis

Nadja
Andre Breton

Stop Thief! Anarchism & Philosophy
Catherine Malabou

Animal Resistance
Sara Colling

Snow Day
Willow Page Delp

The Popular Wobbly 
T-Bone Slim 

Down by Law
Crimscapes Research Group

History of Anarchist Red Cross
Boris Yelensk

The Strait 2
Fredy Perlman

Hurt, Baby, Hurt
William Walter Scott III

All Will Be Equalized
Andrew Zonneveld

Jobs, Jive, and Joy
Bernard Marzalek

ESSAYS

Anarchist Dies in Ukraine
Norman Nawrocki

Doom Scroll of History
Deep Strawberry

Queerness &Prison Abolition
Max Reynard

Wooden Shoe Bookstore
Carl Craft

Plastic: The Slippery Slide
John Zerzan

Anarchist Poison Soup Plot
Stephen J. Taylor

Walls, Fences, and Resistance
Franklin López

Fighting on the Mexican Side
Fran Shor

AI is Not Empowering
Nick DePascal

Feral Pigs & Anarchy in Hawaii
Bjorn Olson

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Peace Island Gathering
Longtime anarchists and artist-performers Lenny and June are inviting like-minded people to the Peace Island Assemblage.

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Cover image, Eat the Rich and other interesting ideas: Selected essays of Peter Werbe

 

This selection of Peter Werbe’s essays from the pages of the Fifth Estate explore some of the basic themes the publication addresses: anarchism, capitalism, technology, civilization, racism, patriarchy, politics, culture, music, the environment, his trips to Cuba, and other subjects.
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VIETNAM
Anti-Vietnam War protest, April 27, 1968. Photo shows draft registration cards being burnt, one sign reads "Make Love Not War!"
The US assault and resistance to it from an anarchist/anti-authoritarian perspective: it’s all here at the Fifth Estate’s Vietnam Resource Page.

 

SPANISH REVOLUTION OF 1936-1939
Learn more about it and the important role of the anarchists….
at Fifth Estate’s Spanish Revolution Resource Page.