Fifth Estate, #393, Spring 2015, Vol. 50, No. 1
2 Letters
4 Anarchy in Kurdistan
Bill Weinberg
7 Eric McDavid Freed!
FE Staff
8 Armed Madhouse
Bryan Tucker
9 Justice for Franco Fascists?
David Porter
11 Sam Mbah Dies
Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
12 Florida’s Burnpile Press
Matt Keene
13 An Anarchist in Berlin
Rachael Stoeve
15 Society of the Spectacle
John Clark
18 Debt
Alex Knight
20 FE History: God Gets Pied
FE Staff
21 Protester Cell Phone Guide
Electronic Freedom Foundation
23 Autarky in Scotland
Retort
Anti-Marx Section 24-40
Marxism
Peter Werbe
The Myth of the Party
Murray Bookchin
Throwing Marx Out
Kevin O’Toole
Slick-City-Boy-Karly
Joseph Winogrond
The Practical Marx
John Zerzan
Marx Forgot Women
David Adams
36 Under the wall – Poetry
Lily So-Too
37 The Fall of Ekset City – Fiction
Margaret Killjoy
40 The Clash & Fifth Estate
Bill Blank
41 Live TV or Die
Andrew Smith
43 Riots & Black Block
Ruhe
45 The FE in Shorts
FE Staff
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This issue begins our 50th year of publishing a radical journal with a demolition of the theories of Marx. Plans are currently under discussion for a celebration in Detroit later in the year. We’ll keep you informed in subsequent issues and on our social media as a program develops and a date is set.
We should all be proud to have kept this magazine going with its unique voice of revolution when so many others have unfortunately fallen by the wayside. And, the “we” here includes not just the people who have produced it over the past half century, but those of you who are readers and supporters as well.
The future for this publication seems as bright as it has in a long time as movements of resistance and contestation continue to grow. And, our circulation expands even though print media is routinely pronounced as a curio from another era.
From its origins in 1965, the staff has always practiced engaged journalism, and will continue to be part of a grand refusal of submission, and at the same time hold up a vision of a different world not dominated by the state and capital.
Thanks to all who have made this anniversary possible.
COVER: Mabel Norman, in “A Noise from the Deep,” 1913
Cover design: Quincy B. Thorn