Winter 2025
Fifth Estate #417Follows Spring 2025

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1. Spain ’36, Fifth Estate #323, Summer, 1986 Imagine the United States split regionally into conservative-fascist and leftist popular front-anarchist zones. Civil war rages at the shifting boundary lines with half the country under the domination of an insurgent military right-wing junta determined to destroy the elected government and all individuals and organizations of the left. Then imagine that simultaneously, behind the lines in the popular front zone (say, most of the East and West coasts), there are widespread decentralized efforts to transform the society through economic and social collectivization in producers’ cooperatives, free schools, free health centers, neighborhood councils, local popular assemblies-the assumption of community self-responsibility through direct action from the bottom up. READ MORE

2. The Spanish Revolution, Pura & Federico Arcos, & the Fifth Estate: How two Spanish exiles made a revolution real to us and our readers, Fifth Estate #395, Winter 2016 The ideas and the practices of solidarity and mutual aid learned from the Spanish anarchists who lived through that moment taught people at the Fifth Estate and many others a lot that shaped who we are now. Knowing people like Federico and Pura Arcos, both veterans of the Spanish struggle who lived in Windsor, Ontario across the river from Detroit, helped younger anarchists think of an anti-authoritarian revolution of everyday life as a real possibility. READ MORE

MARIUS MASON RELEASED!

Anarchist trans prisoner Marius Mason has finally been released after seventeen years of a twenty-two year sentence!

Marius is an anarchist, environmental and animal rights activist as well as a loving parent, artist, poet, and musician who was given a brutal sentence for acts of property destruction. No one was hurt, no individual targeted, and yet he was given a heavy sentence with a “terrorism enhancement.” His arrest was based on snitching (including his then spouse) and FBI harassment of activists. Marius was shuffled around between prisons, isolating him from family and outside friends, but he is resilient, and despite all the challenges being incarcerated creates he has fought tirelessly for trans prisoner rights.  READ MORE

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CRISIS IN IRAN—
NONE FOR ME, THANKS
Fifth Estate #300, December 4, 1979

As in all modern crises, the institutions of domination—the political state, capital, and in this case, religion—stand illuminated in such a manner as to make their social function obvious to all who are willing to drop the mystifications of this society. However, for those willing to continue behind the definitions of social reality and the crisis as posed by the leaders of nations, they are condemned to simply act out the age-old patterns of rulers and ruled. READ FULL TEXT IN OUR ARCHIVE.

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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

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
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