A wave of anti-anarchist hysteria, stage-managed by the government, is sweeping Canada as a result of the arrest of five Vancouver political activists accused of a “wide-spread campaign of sabotage.”
FE Author: anon.
Chimpanzees Against the State
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
“The roots of politics are older than humanity,” writes Desmond Morris in his new book Chimpanzee Politics. He contends that chimpanzees have well-developed political systems, demonstrating that humans are not so much “fallen angels as they are risen apes.”
Occupied Iraq
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
“What are kingdoms but great robberies? Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by …
Rogue Statism
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
“The man without a country is a free man. ‘Country’ is a tenfold chain forged around our necks and feet by our forefathers, a prison and a pit.” –Herman Bang, Denied a Homeland (1906)
Voting
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
On December 3, a month after the Republican Party was swept from control of the U.S. Congress, Hugo Chavez was overwhelmingly re-elected president of Venezuela for a third four-year term. On the night of his victory, in a speech to …
No Border Camp
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
As long as the US/Mexico border has existed, people have been struggling against it. It is a highly militarized, violent boundary marking an internal space of strict migration controls while allowing for unrestricted movement of capital and wealth. This border …
Anarchist Archive Needs Help
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
The CIRA (Centre International de Recherches sur Anarchisme) in Lausanne, Switzerland is a large archive and small research facility. It has existed for over 50 years, but today, its existence is threatened. The CIRA works to retain the memory of …
The Banning of the Mural
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
In fall 1997, in Sechelt, a small coastal town in southwest British Columbia, Canada, Jamie Elder, owner of the Unity Skateboard Shop and drop-in point for local youth, approached me about painting a mural on the side of the trailer …
Anarchy at the Left Forum!
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
The 2007 Left Forum was held March 9-11 in New York City’s historic Cooper Union, featuring 92 workshops, two plenaries, a film festival, two plays, and attended by 1,500 people. It is the largest annual North American gathering of left …
Abolish Restaurants
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
“When one comes to think of it, it is strange that thousands of people in a great modern city should spend their waking hours swabbing dishes in hot dens underground. The question I am raising is why this life goes …