On the morning of July 18, 1936 General Francisco Franco began the fascist rebellion against the Spanish Republican liberal bourgeois regime in Madrid. This move was immediately met by armed resistance of the urban proletariat who, after defeating the fascists …
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Change the World
by Norman Nawrocki
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
Imagine if more people believed in the power and the magic of collective creativity, what a crazy wonderful new anarchist world we could build. Under capitalism, any form of creativity is usually seen as an individual pursuit, the domain of …
Cuba: The Economy Changes
by Octavio Alberola
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
The Cuban state has usually been able to keep a tight lid on protests. Generally, it only allows demonstrations that have been organized by government ministries. However, during the fall and winter of 2020-21 the dissident San Isidro Movement in …
Grange Appeal
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
“The work we are going about is this, to dig up Georges Hill and the waste grounds thereabouts, and to sow corn, and to eat our bread together by the sweat of our brows.
Postscript for the anti-capitalist movement
by Jennifer Whitney, John Jordan
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
Argentina may well prove to be the crisis which irrevocably splits the ever-widening crack in the neoliberal armor, especially if things continue to unravel in other parts of Latin America. Recent events in Venezuela, and the possibility of left wing …
Global Days of Social Disobedience for Argentina
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
Groups in Argentina and across the globe are calling for global days of Action to demonstrate that those who are building alternatives to the dictatorship of the markets are not alone. On the 20th of December, a day when tens …
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From Economic Meltdown to Grassroots Rebellion
by Jennifer Whitney, John Jordan
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
The Tin Pot Insurrection December the 19th was the turning point, the day when the Argentinean people said “enough!” The stage was set the day before, when people began looting shops and supermarkets, so they could feed their families. …
Argentina’s New Forms of Struggle
by Patricio McCabe
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
In the late 1990s in Argentina, a new form of struggle emerged from the unemployed workers (who make up 20% of the people while another 20% are underemployed). This expression of resistance came from the provinces to the capital of …
Argentina’s Popular Rebellion
by David Solnit
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
The neighbors had broken into and occupied the bank building as I arrived in Parque Lezama. Middle aged and scruffy young activists carried out debris, scrubbed windows and floors and hung banners with the name of their assemblia popular and …
The Political Vision of David Graeber
by Marissa Holmes
Fifth Estate # 408, Winter, 2021
Throughout his life, David Graeber remained an eternal optimist who refused to accept the world as it is, and saw only what it could be. He envisioned international, directly democratic, and egalitarian politics. To achieve this required practice. An Hypothesis …