Most Recent Additions
Various Authors
Letters to the Fifth Estate
In the Spring 2006 edition of FE, Fred from San Francisco wrote, “Congrats on changing anarchist to anti-authoritarian on your front page description,” and we asked, “Do readers have any thoughts about the change?” This issue, more readers responded, and so did we.
Recently, FE posed the question: Do readers have any thoughts about dropping anarchist from the masthead, and replacing it with anti-authoritarian?
Mar 12, 2015 Read the whole text...
Electronic Frontier Foundation
A Protester’s Guide to Cell Phone Use
Who’s Listening & What Can You Do?
FE Note: The police have always done surveillance of revolutionaries. What is new now is the technological capabilities of government snoops. Being noted on paper 3X5 cards didn’t stop our predecessors, and their electronic gadgets won’t deter us.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation defends civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, the San Francisco-based EFF states that it “champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development.”
Mar 11, 2015 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
FE Staffer Puts a Pie in God’s Face
The Ultimate in Disrespect for Authority
For fifty years, the Fifth Estate has reflected on the world’s most contentious social issues including critiques of religion and its appeal to those in need of justifications for their oppressive goals.
Those who question or show disrespect for the basis of their quest for domination suffer threats, ones which are often acted upon.
Mar 11, 2015 Read the whole text...
Various Authors
Letters
Our readers respond
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Mar 8, 2015 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
We Lose SchNEWS
Britain’s Action News Sheet
After 691 issues, SchNEWS, “The free weekly direct action newssheet published in Brighton, England since 1994” is no more. A mix of serious reporting and irreverent humor, it was born in a squatted courthouse as part of “Justice?”--Brighton’s campaign against the repressive British Criminal Justice Act.
Mar 8, 2015 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Books available from Black & Red
Momentos, Compendio Poetico by Federico Arcos
The Story of Tatiana by Jacques Baynac
The Wandering of Humanity by Jacques Camatte
Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship by N. Chomsky
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Worker-Student Action Committees: France, May ’68 by R.Gregoire & F. Perlman
Love & Politics by Judith Malina
Mar 7, 2015 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Call for Submissions
for Fith Estate Issue 375, Spring, 2007
Revelations
The word apocalypse, counter to centuries of disinformation, does not refer to the end of the world. The word’s actual meaning is “uncovering” — a revelation of truths that are concealed from the majority of the human population. This spring we suggest a rebirth of understanding about the world around us-through revelation.
Mar 7, 2015 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Selected books from Factory School
Vision Quest Guidebook
“The New Freedom”: Corporate Capitalism by Fredy Perlman
The Big Melt, President of the United Hearts
We Know You Are Watching by Surveillance Camera Players
The Modern School of Stelton: A Sketch by Joseph J. Cohen and Alexis C. Ferm
Facing Reality, Correspondence Publishing Committee
Mar 7, 2015 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
To Our Readers
Without you reading what we struggle to write and creatively present, there obviously would be no point in our effort. And, without the generous financial support many of you give, we wouldn’t be able to publish at all!
We’re at a critical period for print publications. All daily papers are reporting declines in their readership (of course, in their case, it’s probably desirable), and many radical and anarchist papers are either cutting back on their publication schedule because of financial difficulties, or note no increase in their circulation at a time when the empire is functioning at a particularly vicious level.
Mar 7, 2015 Read the whole text...
Rafael Uzcategui
Depolarization and Autonomy
Challenges to Venezuela’s social movements after Chavez’s election
Chavez’s original movement...becomes the face of the people’s malcontent, achieving legitimacy at the polls in 1999 by capitalizing on the prevailing wish for change that ran through the country, but also revitalizing the populist, statist and caudillista ethos so much a part of Venezuela’s historical make-up.
Mar 5, 2015 Read the whole text...
Anu Bonobo
Endgame
Book review
a review of
Endgame, Volume I: The Problem of Civilization, Volume 2: Resistance by Derrick Jensen. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2006
“Do not listen to me.”
--Derrick Jensen, Endgame
Derek Jensen, author of A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe, has become a best-selling author and a popular lecturer at conferences and campuses. If mainstream environmentalists would reform industrial civilization through sustainable practices, Derrick Jensen wants to destroy it by any means necessary. No pacifist with illusions about transforming civilization into a wild, primal culture through love and nonviolence, he fantasizes about blowing up dams. He’s sticking it to the man to save the salmon. Jensen wants a wild world, and he demands doing “whatever it takes to get there.”
Mar 5, 2015 Read the whole text...
Julie Herrada
Sacco and Vanzetti
DVD Review
A review of
SACCO AND VANZETTI, Directed by Peter Miller, Willow Pond Films, www.willowpondfilms.com
To many anarchists, there are few more sympathetic characters in our movement’s history than Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Mar 5, 2015 Read the whole text...
El Libertario (Venezuela)
Venezuela, Elections 2006
Anarchists Say No to Chavez
The Fifth Estate received this communication prior to the December 3 presidential election from the Venezuelan Commission of Anarchist Relations (Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas) and its organ, El Libertario. Hugo Chavez won handily against his opponent. Venezuelan government officials announced that 70 percent of eligible voters had cast ballots.
Mar 5, 2015 Read the whole text...
Sunfrog (Andy “Sunfrog” Smith)
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
The First Ten Years (DVD review)
“A little duct-tape, a little cardboard, and it’s a show.”
--Stephanie Monseu aka Philomena Bindlestiff, co-founder of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
Around the same time I learned that revolution shouldn’t sell selfless sacrifice if it wanted to gain any self-interested revolutionaries, I also discovered dangerous devotees of dissent inside the proliferating avant-garde arts. A fire-breathing follow-up to the performance scene, a traveling anarchist circus was an obvious offshoot from the standard stock of shock that shot us with performance artist Karen Finley and crushed us with the neotribal music of Crash Wosrhip. Founded by Kinko and Philomena Bindlestiff (aka Keith Nelson and Stepahnie Monseu), these veterans of visionary weirdness admit, “Cirkus is hard.” The first decade of Keith and Stephanie’s death-defying adventures are captured in a new DVD documentary.
Mar 4, 2015 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Bits & Pieces from the World
November 11th was the 120th anniversary of the hangings of the anarchist Haymarket martyrs in Chicago, Illinois. Albert Parsons, August Spies, Adolph Fischer and George Engel were hung (and Louis Lingg committed suicide) after a bomb killed police at a labor rally. There was no evidence against them and all were convicted solely on the basis of their anarchist ideas.
Mar 4, 2015 Read the whole text...
Spencer Sunshine
Brad Will, 1970–2006
I found out that Brad Will had been shot to death from a message that went out over New York City email lists on October 27. It simply said, “Fuck, ya’ll, fuck,” followed by a link to an Indymedia story describing the events of that day. Soon, it was confirmed that Will, an IMC journalist and ever-present figure in the New York anarchist scene, had been gunned down in Oaxaca in southern Mexico where he had been chronicling the revolutionary upsurge building there since April 2006.
Mar 4, 2015 Read the whole text...
Jim Feast
Mass Media and the Crests of Human Destruction
Cultural theorist Raymond Williams has suggested that the technology for television was available years before it was utilized. It was held back because the conditions for it were not ripe yet.
Those conditions were urbanization (which masses an audience in one place), the regularization of employment, the homogenization of culture and the concurrent erosion of communities, the need for communication to customers of large concerns (such as department stores) and the need for insipid entertainment for drones whose jobs leave them physically unimpaired but mentally drained.
Mar 4, 2015 Read the whole text...
anon.
No Border Camp
Calexico/Mexicali, Fall, 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 exists in a global context of apartheid borders and restriction of movement. For years around the world people have been tearing down fences, freeing detainees and fighting for the rights of migrant people. A global movement against borders and migration controls is rising. One of many tactics in this movement is the no border camp--a space for direct action and building community. Join us for a transnational no border camp on the Mexico/US border.
Mar 4, 2015 Read the whole text...
H. Read
Remaining ELF Defendants Plead Guilty
But Refuse to Snitch
A surprise plea bargain was announced at a November pre-trial hearing for four environmental activists charged with a variety of Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and Animal Liberation Front (ALF) actions which had been carried out since the late 1990s. The defendants were arrested between December 2005 and February 2006, as part of the FBI’s “Operation Backfire,” which sought to cripple major ELF and ALF cells.
Mar 4, 2015 Read the whole text...
Onto
Solidarity, Immigration and Border Regimes
“If it’s a war the anarchists want, then damn it, it will start here.”
-- Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minutemen Project, quoted in the Sacramento Bee, 10/30/05, in reference to the anti-minutemen demo at the capitol building.
There’s a fire going on. It’s destroying your home, your land. You want to stay and fight it, but you’re suffocating, you need fresh air. You try to leave, but the doors are locked, bolted shut. There’s a long line of other people waiting to get out too. You start waiting, but realize you’ll never get there. Some people are breaking windows, jumping through; some make it, others die on the way out. There are men with guns waiting outside the windows, another obstacle. You make it out, past the gunmen, falling into another house, through another window. You are welcome here, as long as you don’t talk, just cook and clean. Some people want you to leave, to jump back into the fire. Others want to help you, but they don’t know how. They try talking to the landlords. They try fighting the people who want to kick you out. They try building another house within the house. You appreciate the help, but you’re not sure who to trust, not sure what you want. Do you want to stay here, or go back home? The ground is familiar, but the house is different. The fires here are different, much slower then at home. But they are starting up again. In this house? Even here, you start smelling gasoline again. This time you see it coming, joining with others like you to call “FIRE” before it hits. Some people notice. The gasoline covers too much and splashes on some others; they’re angry as well. People are saying that you started the fire, that we need more doors and locks, fewer windows, in order to stop more firebrands like you from entering. You know this is a lie. Now you’re caught between fires, between doors, desiring the one thing that no-one is willing to do: to stop these fucking fires. But you can’t seem to find who started them. Everyone has a different answer.
Mar 4, 2015 Read the whole text...
Sureyyya Evren
Twenty Years of the Black Flag in Turkey
The first anarchists on the land which is today Turkey were probably Armenians. Active during the fin-de-siecle of the great Ottoman Empire, they included prominent figures such as Alexander Atabekian, who published pamphlets, participated in Armenian revolutionary organizations and most likely traveled to Istanbul and Izmir to promote anarchism in Armenian circles. The Armenian anarchists mixed anarchism and nationalism, although this exact relationship — and their broader relations with various nationalist and modernist activities — still needs to be looked at more closely. (Although there may be more detailed sources about Atabekian’s anarchist activities, a general picture can be found at http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=3771)
Mar 4, 2015 Read the whole text...
Cookie Orlando
Unlocking the Girl Lock
Gender Trouble at Burning Man
For two weeks after Burning Man, I felt like I was glowing, radiating spirals of energy that warbled just below the visible range. The constant brutality of the state, the frantic pace of life, the social isolation--none of these things could get me down. For years, I had heard about this experimental arts and cultural festival held annually on the playa on the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. I went for the first time this year and look forward to going again.
Mar 4, 2015 Read the whole text...
anon.
Voting
No, in Venezuela; Yes, in U.S.?
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 thousands, Chavez said Venezuelans should expect an “expansion of the revolution” aimed at redistributing the country’s oil wealth among the poor.
Mar 4, 2015 Read the whole text...
Jack Bratich
Becoming Seattle
The State of Activism and (Re)Activity of the State
One characteristic that seems pervasive recently among many political actors (including anarchists) is a fixation with the State’s incessant “failures.” From the vulnerability that the State experienced on 9/11/01 to the breakdown of the State during Hurricane Katrina, there is a palpable sense that we are witnessing a “crisis” that is strategically exploitable. But who finds this account compelling? It is no revelation to say that State “failure” is often a way of developing a more powerful State. This narrative fuels Leninists and other shadow-dwellers waiting to seize opportunities for a revolutionary moment. Failure can happen within capitalist states (e.g. “failure of communication” among intelligence agencies leading to more integration via the Department of Homeland Security) or within a Marxist critique (“your State and its service-providing function has failed you, we will enter and fill the lack with our bigger State provider”).
Mar 1, 2015 Read the whole text...
Jean Leason
Music on the March
How Protest Learned to Dance
Another Saturday afternoon rally. Signs wave above the Crowd. Someone has been speaking semi-audibly through a borrowed PA system.”\What do we want” they shout. “Fill in the blank!” cries the crowd, a little bored. A bass drum becomes audible a block away, and people begin to tap their toes. As it comes closer, people begin to shift their balance in time with the tune. Why not wave that banner like a flag? Why not dance instead of shuffle? As a festive mood rises, the band leads the rally down the street.
Mar 1, 2015 Read the whole text...
Will Weikart
All Gods, All Masters
Immanence and Anarchy/Ontology
Almost all contemporary radical thought is marked by dialectics. Classical anarchism, Marxism (in all its variants), and the Situationists owe a huge debt to the thought of German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel, and hence, to dialectics. For example, the political thought of anarchist and anti-authoritarian theorists such as Mikhail Bakunin, Guy Debord, Murray Bookchin and Fredy Perlman all rely on dialectical thinking. Poststructuralist social theorist Michel Foucault even characterized Hegel’s theories as the ghost that prowls through the 20th century. In fact, dialectics are so hegemonic in radical circles that a common objection to a perspective is that it is “insufficiently dialectical.”
Feb 28, 2015 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Introduction to Fifth Estate Issue 374
Welcome to the New York City issue of Fifth Estate. The editorship of the magazine now rotates, and two of us in NYC have stepped in to give the peops in Detroit and Tennessee a rest (making this the first issue in 41 years that has been produced in the northeast!). The people that put out this publication have a variety of views and backgrounds (we range in age from our 20s to 70s, and live across North America); this issue reflects our reality and issues here in NYC.
Feb 28, 2015 Read the whole text...
David Meesters
Letter From Appalachia
On Primitivism, Participation, and Tactical Retreat
Tonight I am alone, which is rare, and the air is cold and clear, so I blow out the oil lamp and make my way down to the clearing to take in the new moon, the milky way, and the unsilent forest. It’s autumn, the season when we harvest the last of it from our gardens and the rest becomes compost to build on next year. It’s a natural time to look around, evaluate what we’ve been doing, and think about where we might go from here.
Feb 28, 2015 Read the whole text...
Various Authors
Letters
Our readers respond
The Fifth Estate welcomes letters at PO Box 201016, Ferndale MI 48220, or fe-AT-fifthestate-DOT-org
I am no fan of the United States Government, nor of any of its agencies, including the FCC. As far as I can tell, we have government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich, and only a revolution in the human psyche will change that. Nevertheless, I found much to disagree with in Ron Sakolsky’s article “No More Safety Valves” (#372, Spring, 2006).
Feb 28, 2015 Read the whole text...
Mitzi Waltz
Making Room for Difference
An Anarchist Response to Disability
I won’t name the city or the group--it isn’t necessary. Similar situations have occurred in every anarchist community. A middle-aged man with obvious mental health difficulties attached himself to an anarchist activist project in a major city. He had time and energy to spare. He also had difficulties managing his behavior sometimes. A group of young women thought his occasionally aggressive words and actions were threatening, and they were lobbying for his expulsion from the collective. Others grumbled that his personal hygiene was lacking, and that his presence drove away potential members.
Feb 28, 2015 Read the whole text...
Cara Hoffman
The Food Court at Guantanamo
Philosophers Discover Thousands of Miles of Intellectual Dead Zones Caused by American Cultural Practices
The release of several reports this fall concerning environmental collapse has introduced us to a new and powerful way to discuss nature, one that we may have overlooked in our concern for life.
The destruction of the natural world, as it turns out, is going to be expensive. No, silly, not like you’re thinking--loss of human and animal lives, loss of culture, loss of pleasure, loss of hope. Not those expenses. I’m talking about money.
Feb 28, 2015 Read the whole text...
Stevphen Shukaitis
Whose Precarity Is It Anyway?
“The condition today described as that of the precarious worker is perhaps the fundamental reality of the proletariat. And the modes of existence of workers in 1830 are quite close to those of our temporary workers.”
-- Jacques Ranciere, The Nights of Labor: The Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth Century France
Feb 28, 2015 Read the whole text...
Alex Knight
Debt
& the Movement That Is Challenging it
a review of
The Debt Resisters’ Operations Manual, Strike Debt, PM Press, 2014, 256pp. Available online from strikedebt.org or PMpress.org
The good people of Strike Debt have revised and expanded their very popular “Debt Resisters’ Operations Manual,” (DROM) into a full-length book. It is half political and historical analysis of how indebtedness has come to define so many aspects of our lives and half a practical how-to guide for people struggling with various forms of debt to seek individual relief and collective action.
Feb 27, 2015 Read the whole text...
Rachael Stoeve
An American Anarchist in Berlin
FE note: Berlin is a city whose rich history rings with memories of anarchist martyrs who organized clandestinely against the Nazi and communist East German regimes, suffering tremendous repression. Since WWII, Berlin anarchists have been at the forefront of militant activities opposing the state and are known for their networks of communal, often squatted buildings.
Feb 26, 2015 Read the whole text...
Matt Keene
Burnpile Press
Jacksonville’s Anarchist Collective
Anarchists sweat in Florida. Dumpstered foods spoil quicker, black bloc protests require balaclavas made with moisture-wicking, breathable materials, and mosquitoes relentlessly target the sugary-sweet blood of anti-capitalists.
Out of this sultry subtropical environment has sprouted Burnpile Press. Founded in 2012, Burnpile is an informal, community supported project dedicated to producing, printing, and distributing radical literature free-of-charge. They often distro as many as 200 Fifth Estates each issue as well as Berkeley’s Slingshot periodical, and many other radical used books, zines, and accessories at no cost to the reader. With no current info-shop location, all material is literally hand distributed through face to face interactions with those living in the region.
Feb 26, 2015 Read the whole text...
Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
Sam Mbah Dies
1963–2014
Sam Mbah, Nigerian activist, journalist, lawyer, and co-author of African Anarchism: The History of a Movement, passed away November 6, after suffering unexpected complications from a heart condition for which he had recently undergone surgery.
Mbah was an outspoken advocate of anarchist alternatives to global capitalism, and dedicated his life to providing anarchist models of organizing against government corruption, militarism, climate change, and other social and environmental issues.
Feb 26, 2015 Read the whole text...
John Clark
The Society of the Spectacle Reconsidered
Good Marx or Bad Marx?
a review of
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Newly translated & annotated by Ken Knabb,
Bureau of Public Secrets, 2014, 150 pages. $15. bopsecrets.org
For those interested in Situationist ideas, this is an auspicious time to reconsider Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, originally published in 1967. Ken Knabb’s recently revised translation is a valuable resource for the study of Debord and the Situationists.
Feb 26, 2015 Read the whole text...
Bryan Tucker
Armed Madhouse
Reflections on Mass Shootings
As the disturbing trend of mass shootings has steadily become a staple of American society, they serve as one extreme example of the collapsing modern social order.
Factors related to the rampages are isolation, hierarchy, the nature of school (where spree shootings often occur), militarization, and language.
Feb 25, 2015 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Green Scare Prisoner Eric McDavid Freed From Prison
Served nine years for a crime that was never committed
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.--On January 8, Green Scare prisoner Eric McDavid was ordered released from prison after nine years because the government admitted to withholding documents from the defense at his 2007 trial.
Feb 25, 2015 Read the whole text...
David Porter
Will Franco Era Spanish Fascists Finally Be Brought to Justice?
Including for the ghastly death of anarchist Salvador Puig Antich
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.
Spanish General Francisco Franco led the Nationalists, a military/fascist rebel group, to eventual victory in a civil war (1936 to 39), overthrowing the democratically elected republican government and quashing revolutionary social change led by anarchists and others.
Feb 25, 2015 Read the whole text...
anon.
Anarchist Archive Needs Help
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 anarchist movement.
For 50 years they have collected texts written by anarchists from all over the world which are available for militants, researchers, and the curious. The collection includes nearly 20,000 books and brochures, hundreds of titles of magazines (the oldest of which is from 1848), films, and a personal archive of militants’ correspondence, etc., in over 20 languages.
Feb 24, 2015 Read the whole text...
Anu Bonobo
Anarchy in Murfreesboro
Emma Goldman & Zines Come to Tennessee
Murfreesboro, Tennessee is hardly known worldwide as a hotbed of radical activism, underground publishing, or anarchist feminism.
Other than a small but surprisingly relevant independent music scene and a handful of college professors and students at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), the overwhelming political mood of the place gravitates to the far right.
Feb 24, 2015 Read the whole text...
Loca from Montreal
Goldman, beyond an anarchist icon
The most insidious biases one carries are those of which we are unaware. Philosophy and history, as far back as the very origins of our present civilization, have carried within them an enormous bias that remains strangely transparent, yet hidden. They have, almost in their entirety, been thought, discussed, constructed, analyzed and transmitted by men, for men.
Feb 23, 2015 Read the whole text...
David Porter
Writing on Fire
Passion & obstacles in writing about Emma Goldman in Spain
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 radical political innovation after independence--a large-scale realm of worked’ self-management in farms, factories and shops throughout the country.
Feb 23, 2015 Read the whole text...
John Brinker
DVD review: The Net
Mix Ted Kaczynski with LSD; do you get The Unabomber?
reviewed in this article
The Net: The Unabomber, LSD, and the Internet by Lutz Dammbeck
Other Cinema, San Francisco, 2003
www.othercinemadvd.com/net.html
“Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.”
--Werner Herzog, filmmaker.
“Truth is the invention of a liar.”
--Heinz von Foerster, cybernetician.
Feb 22, 2015 Read the whole text...
John Clark
Remembering Helen Hill
A New Orleans community comes together after the murder of a friend and activist
On February 24, I joined a large crowd to march in a jazz funeral celebrating the life of our friend, the filmmaker and community activist, Helen Hill. Helen was murdered at her home on January 4 by an intruder whose motives remain a mystery.
Hundreds of people gathered in the Mid-City neighborhood at the home that she once shared with her husband, Paul Gailiunas, a doctor, musician, and fellow community activist, and their small child, Francis Pop.
Feb 22, 2015 Read the whole text...
Peter Lamborn Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson
Author, The Illuminatus! Trilogy and Cosmic Trigger, Dies at 74
For all we knew, Robert Anton Wilson and I were related. On an intuitive basis--i.e., after several rounds of Jameson’s and Guinness--we decided we were cousins. Subsequently we came to believe ourselves connected to the Wilsons who play so murky a role in the “Montauk Mysteries” (Aleister Crowley, UFOs and Nazis in Long Island, time travel experiments gone awry, etc.). Our plan to co-edit a family anthology (including Colin, S. Clay, and Anthony Burgess, whose real name was Wilson) never materialized--although we did collaborate in editing Semiotext(e) SF, together with Rudy Rucker.
Feb 22, 2015 Read the whole text...
Julie Herrada
Singing about Revolution & One Big Union
reviewed in this article
The Big Red Songbook, Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, Salvatore Salerno, editors; 2007; 538 pp.; $24; Charles H. Kerr Co., 1740 West Greenleaf, Chicago, IL 60626. Available from The Barn (see page 55).
In a 100th anniversary commemorative edition of the Industrial Workers of the World’s Little Red Songbook, the editors have compiled over 250 IWW songs along with their histories and anecdotes about them. Covering songs that appeared in the notorious and ubiquitous volumes, from the 1909 to the 1973 edition, each entry includes lyrics and a brief description.
Feb 22, 2015 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
CD Reviews
Mick Kubiak: Here Comes Spring
cdbaby.com
reviewed by Sean Flynn
Mick Kubiak is the girl you were in love with in school. Who read novels and wrote in a notebook during class, despised convention and carried her otherworldly beauty and sexuality as simple givens. A part of no clique, Kubiak began to form her eviscerating and hilarious social critique of a culture obsessed with possessing women when she was barely seventeen.
Feb 21, 2015 Read the whole text...
Fifth Estate Collective
Events
September 7, 8, 9, at the Victoria Coolaid Society, 749 Pandora St., Victoria, BC
The only Anarchist Bookfair on the Canadian west coast will be part of a week-long Festival of Anarchy. Events include book and information, tables, workshops, readings, films, and presentations.
Feb 21, 2015 Read the whole text...