The Cuban state has usually been able to keep a tight lid on protests. Generally, it only allows demonstrations that have been organized by government ministries. However, during the fall and winter of 2020-21 the dissident San Isidro Movement in …
FE Author: Octavio Alberola
Farewell Comrade
by Octavio Alberola
Fifth Estate # 408, Winter, 2021
Perpignan, 18 September 2020 The untimely death of anthropologist and activist David Graeber has triggered a wave of emotion in social networks and, in the world press, generated headlines recognizing the intellectual worth of his wide-ranging work and militant activism. …
Venezuelan anarchists see Noam Chomsky as Chavez’s Clown
by Octavio Alberola
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
FE Note: The comrades of Venezuela’s El Libertario magazine are unrelenting in their criticism of what they call the myth of Hugo Chavez’s “Eco-socialism of the XXI Century.”