Dear Fifth Estate: While I appreciate David Porter’s long and serious review of my book, Emma Goldman in Exile (see FE #333, Winter 1990), I’d like to take issue with some of his points. Porter criticizes my “intrusiveness” for allegedly …
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Emma Goldman and the Russian Revolution
by Alice Wexler, David Porter, Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
Emma Goldman: An Appreciation
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869-May 14, 1940) was known as “the most dangerous woman in America” by the press in such articles as those to the right which chronicled a visit by her to Windsor, Ontario, across the border from …
The Anarchist Spectre in Eastern Europe
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
Rarely is an entire region of the world so caught up in the collapse of hierarchical politics as Eastern Europe of a year ago. The infamous “spectre of anarchy” astonished and horrified Communist, dissident and Western politicians alike as millions …
Emma Goldman in Exile
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
a review of Emma Goldman in Exile: From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War, Alice Wexler, Beacon Press, Boston, 1989, 301 pp.
Spain ’36
by David Porter
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 …
May Days 1937
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
a review of The May Days, Barcelona 1937 by A. Souchy, B. Bolloten, Emma Goldman and Jose Peirats, Freedom Press, London, 1987, 128 pages, $5.00
Free Women of Spain
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
a review of Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women, by Martha A. Ackelsberg (Indiana University Press, 1991)
Will Franco Era Spanish Fascists Finally Be Brought to Justice?
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
On October 31, an Argentine judge, Maria Servini de Cabria, issued international arrest warrants and extradition requests to question and try 20 Spanish Franco-era officials accused of crimes against humanity from 1939 to 1975.
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 …
In Revolutionary Spain, Workers Made the Anarchist Vision Real
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
a review of Anarchism and Workers’ Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain by Frank Mintz. AK Press, 2013, 326pp., $19, akpress.org