On October 12, 1995, our community lost another elder and member of a generation of anarchist revolutionary veterans now passing into history. Purificación Pérez Benavent (Pura Arcos), companion of FE staff member Federico Arcos, was born June 26, 1919 in …
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The Spanish Revolution, Pura & Federico Arcos, & the Fifth Estate
by Sylvie Kashdan
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
Next year will mark the eightieth anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Revolution, an event which most of those involved with the Fifth Estate only learned of in the 1970s, but one which profoundly contributed to what the paper …
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Revolutionary Education
by Lynne Clive (Marilynn Rashid)
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
a review of The Modern School Movement: Historical and Personal Notes on the Ferrer Schools in Spain, Contributions by Pura Perez, Mario Jordana, Abel Paz and Martha Ackelsberg, published by Friends of the Modern School, c/o Abe Bluestein, 55 Farmington …
Contents of print edition
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
4 The Future is Now! Jesús Sepúlveda 7 Sabotage & the Flows of Capital Jeff Shantz 10 Transgender Struggle in Prison Anonymous
Federico Arcos
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
As we go to print, it is with great sadness that we report the passing of our compañero, amigo, padre, and abuelo, Federico Arcos, in Windsor, Ontario, at the age of 94. The last several months were very difficult for …
Spanish Revolution Resource Page
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
Home > Archive > Learn more about the Spanish Revolution of 1936 and the important role of the anarchists…. Articles published in Fifth Estate related to the Spanish Revolution (in date order) Notes on the Death of Franco (Part I) …
Other remembrances
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # Remembering Federico Arcos
< Back to Remembering Federico Arcos by David Watson Robby Barnes & Sylvie Kashdan Séamas Cain Frank & Marilyn Crosswell Anatole Dolgoff Federico’s nephew Juan Manuel David Furer Manuel (Manolo) Carlos García Dieter Gebauer Manel Aisa Pàmpols David Porter Paco …
Writing on Fire
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
Studying in Paris during the intense final year (1961 through 1962) of the Algerian war for independence, I became hooked on Algeria and the potentials of revolutionary politics. In 1965 through 1966, I pursued on-site doctoral research on Algeria’s most …
Federico Comes Home to Barcelona
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
In June and July, during a visit to Spain, my partner Marilynn Rashid and I spread some of the ashes of Federico Arcos, a companero, friend, and mentor to many of us in Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, including those on …
Remembering Federico Arcos
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
See also: Other remembrances of Federico Arcos (online only) Introduction Federico Arcos (July 18, 1920-May 23, 2015), a lifelong anarchist, participated in the Spanish Revolution and Civil War in the 1930s, and later took part in the antifascist underground there. …
Lessons from Spain’s Mujeres Libres
by Martha Ackelsberg
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
In 1936, groups of women in Madrid and Barcelona founded Mujeres Libres, an organization dedicated to liberation from their “triple enslavement to ignorance, as women, and as producers.” While it lasted for less than three years (its activities in Spain …
Bibliography 1995-2005
Fifth Estate # Archive
Fifth Estate Issues 346-369 Incomplete (ProQuest source is incomplete) PART ONE: TITLE INDEX “100th anniversary of the automobile: Kill the Car–No More Roads! ” Fifth Estate [Detroit] 1 Oct. 1996, 4. “35 Arrests at Windsor OAS Protests.” Fifth Estate [Detroit] …
Momentos
by Federico Arcos
Fifth Estate # Remembering Federico Arcos
MOMENTOS Compendio PoéticoFederico Arcos Ilustraciones de Alfredo Monrós 1976 A life, gone, into eternal sleep… A body, lying in state…Perhaps, to die, is to be free. F.A. Esta labor ha sido realizada con trabajo voluntario, comprendida la labor artística hasta …
Notes toward a history of the Fifth Estate
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
“Only movement can know movement.” –Herakleitos Someday, if anything is left of any of this, and this epoch’s fascination with historical records and documentation endures, I imagine some historian, grad student, or amateur archivist will write a text detailing, accurately …