a review of “The Politics of Ethnopoetics” in The Old Ways, Six Essays, Gary Snyder, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 40077 “(Reckoning roughly from the earliest cave paintings)”, 96 pp.
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History of the Fifth Estate
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
“The Fifth Estate supports the cause of revolution everywhere.” —FBI Report In my estimation, the above twelve-word summary by the nation’s secret police serves adequately as an abbreviated history of this paper on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.
Hiroshima, First Shot of World War III
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
The barbarity of the nation-state since its emergence 8,000 years ago has only been limited in its intensity by a lack of the technological means needed to perpetrate horrors upon humanity. By the advent of World War II, science and …
A New World in Our Hearts
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
a review of A New World in Our Hearts: Eight Years of Writing from the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation, edited by Roy San Filipo. AK Press, 2003, San Francisco, 139pp. Letters to a Young Activist, Todd Gitlin, Basic …
James Baldwin
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
a film review of “I Am Not Your Negro” (2016). Director: Raoul Peck; Writer: James Baldwin; Narration: Samuel L. Jackson. 135 min.
The Struggle to Get Back to Zero
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
There have been long standing political and theoretical debates about whether a particular political movement or leader is fascist. In the article before this one, as Bill Weinberg attests in the previous pages, it can come down to hairsplitting. Is …
Fifth Estate a-gassed
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
There is a Hebrew idiomatic expression, K’ninah Houra, which Joel Altus explained to me as sort of being equivalent to saying knock on wood after telling of some good fortune you have incurred and you want it not to change. …
“Get the big stuff”
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
“The chickens are coming home to roost” —Malcolm X, Nov. 22, 1963 Malcolm was right, of course, and the chickens have come home so many ways since that grim day four years ago. Vietnam, Malcolm’s own death, riots across the …
[Cuba] The Train to Matanzas
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
On March 15, our last day in Cuba, my wife and I boarded the Hershey Electric Railway in Casablanca, across the harbor from Old Havana, for a 57-mile trip to the town of Matanzas. We were flying back to Toronto …
How I Stopped Recycling
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
Recycling is a classic case of co-optation. The title of this article is somewhat misleading since I continue to recycle a portion of the waste produced daily by my household. What has changed is my previous diligence in making certain …