a review of True Stories: Tales from the Generation of a New World Culture by Garrick Beck. iUniverse, 2017
FE Author: Bill Weinberg
Impossible Revolution
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
a review of Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy by Yassin al-Haj Saleh. Haymarket Books 2017
Red-Brown Politics
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
Fascists are seeking to exploit and co-opt anti-war forces in the US, and build support for war criminals like Assad and Putin. Anarchists have a responsibility to reject such overtures and offer solidarity to those resisting in Syria.
Positively Quilca Street
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
When Lutxo Rodríguez recalls the local punks and social outcasts of the downtown Lima, Peru district he habituates “dressing in black in the ’80s,” I smile wryly, remembering the Lower East Side of my own youth. But the urban decay …
In Defense of Tactical Voting
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
My attitude about voting has been like the old Jewish joke about chicken soup when you’ve got a cold—it may not help very much, but it can’t hurt. The more ideological argue that voting legitimizes the system, and they’ve got …
The Anarchist Alternative in Cuba
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
A former community center that hosted a youth rock scene is now being occupied by activists, seemingly ignored by the authorities. A few blocks away, urban farms are bright patches of green in the landscape, producing vegetables and fruits for …
A Fascist by Any Other Name
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
In the streets of Washington DC on Inauguration Day, Black Bloc protesters notoriously smashed windows and set a limousine on fire. Fortunately, I wound up on the other side of the police lines when the cops sealed off the area …
Bob McGlynn Dies at 60
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
Bob McGlynn, a longtime fighter, organizer and visionary in New York City’s anarchist scene, who became known internationally for his solidarity work with activists in the East Bloc, died of a heart attack Aug. 23 at his home in Yonkers. …
How the American Left Abets Genocide in Syria
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
Today, many American leftists are accepting and even promoting the propaganda of the dictatorial regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. They overwhelmingly stand on the side of fascism and genocide in that ravaged country.
Clinton Threatened Nukes in Gulf
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
Amid all the media saturation about oral sex in the Oval Office, it went almost unnoticed that Bill Clinton considered use of nuclear weapons against Iraq to take out Saddam Hussein’s underground complexes, or to retaliate for an Iraqi chemical …