[D66] Fifth Estate Books

[R.O.]

*Spring 2020,
Fifth Estate #406
**For a .PDF version of print edition click HERE 
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often, as directly-accessible articles continue to be added.*


          Cover image, Issue 406, Spring 2020. Photo shows a boy blowing
          a ram's horn. Headline reads, "The Call for Justice."
          <https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/>


        *CONTENTS*

*Dispatch from Exarchia: “Calling all comrades!” Athens Neighborhood is 
Home to Anarchy* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/dispatch-from-exarchia/>
*S. FLYNN*

*Google’s Utopia: Our Nightmare—SidewalkToronto: A City Redesigned* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/googles-utopia-our-nightmare/>
*KIM A. BROADIE*

*Seeing is Obeying: Authoritarian Aesthetics & the Afterlife of Fascism 
in Neoliberal Democracy* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/seeing-is-obeying/>
*CLAYTON J. PYKE*

*The 2020 Election: What to do while waiting for the Revolution* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/the-2020-election/>
*PETER WERBE*

*Withdrawal & Re-Entry* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/withdrawal-re-entry/>
*JOHN ZERZAN*

*Is the government ready to say Fuck The Draft?* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/is-the-government-ready-to-say-fuck-the-draft/>
*FE STAFF*

*Why Zines Refuse to Die: Samizdat & Xerography* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/why-zines-refuse-to-die/>
*JASON RODGERS*

*This is What Domestic Terrorism Looks Like:
Home is Where the Hatred Is* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/this-is-what-domestic-terrorism-looks-like/>
*CARA HOFFMAN*

*Mercalli scale (poetry)* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/mercalli-scale/>
*ROBIN DELLABOUGH*

*Anarchists & Vaccines: **Anarchists & Anti-Vaxxers Share a Distrust of 
the Medical Establishment & the State* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/anarchists-and-vaccines/>
*BRUCE TRIGG*

*Anarchy in the Midwest: What the European Invaders Discovered* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/anarchy-in-the-midwest/>
*ROB BLURTON*

*The Liberation of the Word* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/the-liberation-of-the-word/>
*STEVEN CLINE*

*Anarchic Justice at the End of History* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/anarchic-justice-at-the-end-of-history/>
*JOHN CLARK*

*The Parable of the Horseshoe Crab & the Seagull* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/the-parable-of-the-horseshoe-crab-the-seagull/>
*RON SAKOLSKY*

*Unrepentant! Anarchists at Sentencing* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/unrepentant/>

*Counteractivity, Counterculture & Alternate Encounters* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/counteractivity-counterculture-alternate-encounters/>
*BRYAN TUCKER*

Dispatch From New Orleans (fiction)
*ANNE BABSON*

*We Support Anarchist Prisoners* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/we-support-anarchist-prisoners/>
*ROBCAT*

*Justice: Not Conditioned in Heaven* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/justice-not-conditioned-in-heaven/>
*TOM MARTIN*

*Our Endless Grief (poetry)* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/our-endless-grief/>
*JAIME HUENÚN VILLA*

*They Gave Their Eyes for Chile to Wake Up: An Unending Insurrection* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/they-gave-their-eyes-for-chile-to-wake-up/>
*JESÚS SEPÚLVEDA*

*Nisi Shawl shows that Science Fiction can still challenge conventions 
(review)* <https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/nisi-shawl/>
*RICH DANA*

*Murder, Psychedelics, & The Primal Anarchist (review)* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/murder-psychedelics-the-primal-anarchist/>
*STEVE KIRK*

*Luigi Galleani: the Most Dangerous Anarchist In America (review)* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/luigi-galleani/>
*DAVID ROVICS*

*What Can Repair the Trauma we all Suffer? (theater review)* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/reparations-theatre-review/>
*MIKE WOLD*

*Coup des Lumières (poetry)* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/coup-des-lumieres/>
*C.M. WODE*

*Letters to the Fifth Estate* 
<https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/406-spring-2020/letters/>

On 30-07-2020 06:26, R.O. wrote:
>
> https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/354-spring-2000/fifth-estate-books/
>
> *New Titles*
>
> I COULDN’T PAINT GOLDEN ANGELS: Sixty Years of Commonplace Life and 
> Anarchist Agitation by Albert Meltzer
>
> We were privileged to meet Albert in Detroit near the end of his life. 
> His enthusiasm for anarchy hadn’t dimmed a bit since he fought 
> fascists in London in the 1930s, got bawled out by Emma Goldman for 
> being a boxer, took part in innumerable strikes, participated in 
> anti-Franco Angry Brigade actions, and the Anarchist Black Cross. 
> Turning one of Goldman’s often quoted maxims on its head, Meltzer 
> said, “If I can’t have revolution, what is there to dance about?” A 
> wild ride through the lifetime of a man who knew Goldman, Orwell, 
> Kenyatta and others.
>
> AK PRESS 386 pp. $20
>
> AVANT GARDENING: Ecological Struggle in the City & the World edited by 
> Peter Lamborn Wilson and Bill Weinberg.
>
> Monsanto and Archer Daniels Midland want to control all the food, all 
> the seeds, and all the DNA. Their goal is a world in which if the seed 
> isn’t brand name, it doesn’t grow. The struggles against these 
> monsters demand that we connect community gardens to struggles for 
> peasant land across the globe, that we free our food from the 
> corporate octopus. Essays by the editors plus Bernadette Cozart, 
> Bernadette Mayer, Carmelo Ruiz, Sarah Ferguson, Joe Hollis (a 
> reprinted FE article), and others.
>
> Autonomedia 168 pp. $8
>
> ROB THE RICH: Jailhouse Writings by Political Prisoner Robert Thaxton 
> a.k.a. Rob los Ricos
>
> Rob’s horrendous seven year sentence for throwing a rock at a cop 
> during a June 18 [1999] demo presents a classic case of him being in 
> there for us, so we should be out here for him. Rob became the 
> scapegoat and poster boy for the state’s dismay about the militant 
> activism of Eugene, Oregon’s anarchist community (see article in this 
> issue). This pamphlet tells Rob’s story plus a sample of his engaged 
> writing, the type of which has appeared in this paper and Anarchy over 
> the years. All proceeds will go towards Rob’s legal defense and prison 
> needs.
>
> Self-Published 20 pp. $3
>
> RED YEARS; BLACK YEARS : Anarchist Resistance to Fascism from Rivista 
> Anarchica
>
> Unlike Germany, where fascism triumphed quickly, Il Duce and his gang 
> of thugs had to fight town-by-town battles throughout Italy to install 
> their despotic rule. Rivista Anarchica, a long running anarchist 
> publication, recounts how workers and peasants, often led by 
> anarchists, fought for years against the Blackshirts. Despite a 
> glaring front cover typo (“Fascism”), this translation tells the 
> stories of communities fighting for their lives and freedom.
>
> ASP 52 pp. $3.50
>
> THE UNABOMBER & The Future of Industrial Society by T. Fulano
>
> The FE’s David Watson, writing under the name T. Fulano, looks at the 
> phenomena of the admiration by some anarchists for the bombing 
> campaign of Ted Kaczynski and asks, is this part of the solution, or 
> more of the problem? Reprinted from the Fall 1996 Fifth Estate.
>
> Self-Published 16 pp. $1
>
> ON THE POVERTY OF STUDENT LIFE by the Situationist International
>
> This new translation of a classic Situationist text written in 1966, 
> prefigured the general’ uprising which occurred in France two years 
> later. It analyzes the conditions of the student in capitalist society 
> and exposes university training as being nothing more than preparing 
> docile individuals to manage commodity society.
>
> The authors were hauled into court by the outraged authorities. Below 
> is the statement of the sentencing judge in Strasbourg:
>
> “The accused have never denied the charge of misusing the funds of the 
> student union. Indeed, they openly admit to having made the union pay 
> some $1,500 for the printing and distribution of 10,000 pamphlets, not 
> to mention the cost of other literature inspired by ‘Internationale 
> Situationniste.’ These publications express ideas and aspirations 
> which, to put it mildly, have nothing to do with the aims of a student 
> union. One has only to read what the accused have written, for it is 
> obvious that these five students, scarcely more than adolescents, 
> lacking all experience of real life, their minds confused by 
> ill-digested philosophical, social, political and economic theories, 
> and perplexed by the drab monotony of their everyday life, make the 
> empty, arrogant, and pathetic claim to pass definitive judgments, 
> sinking to outright abuse, on their fellow-students, their teachers, 
> God, religion, the clergy, the governments and political systems of 
> the whole world. Rejecting all morality and restraint, these cynics do 
> not hesitate to commend theft, the destruction of scholarship, the 
> abolition of work, total subversion, and a world-wide proletarian 
> revolution with ‘unlicensed pleasure’ as its only goal.
>
> “In view of their basically anarchist character, these theories and 
> propaganda are eminently noxious. Their wide diffusion in both student 
> circles and among the general public, by the local, national and 
> foreign press, are a threat to the morality, the studies, the 
> reputation and thus the very future of the students of University of 
> Strasbourg.”
>
> Black & Red 31 pp. $2
>
> AGAINST CIVILIZATION Readings and Reflections by John Zerzan
>
> You’ve Seen him on “60 Minutes!” He’s called “the anarchist guru” by 
> the New York Tines! Read the book that sparked the trashing of 
> Seattle! (Sorry, John; only teasing.)
>
> Reforms be damned. They only extend the misery created by 
> civilization’s institutions, this volume argues, be they the state, 
> the division of labor, or representation of any type. Contrary to 
> Hobbes, life is nasty, brutish and short since we left primitive life, 
> not during it. Zerzan has collected 51 essays from a range of authors 
> and scholars which challenge accepting the world as we know it as a 
> starting point for rebellion. FE staffers, David Watson and Lynne 
> Clive appear with Adorno, Rousseau,- Sahlins, Turner and the Unabomber.
>
> Uncivilized Books 214 pp. $10
>
> AGAINST THE MEGAMACHINE: ESSAYS ON EMPIRE & ITS ENEMIES by David Watson
>
> These essays, most of which appeared in this paper between 1981-96, 
> cover mass technics, the ecological crisis, the critique of 
> civilization, reason and spirit, war and empire, including “Stopping 
> the Industrial Hydra,” “Civilization in Bulk,” “Looking Back on the 
> Vietnam War,” “Homage to Fredy Perlman,” a revised “Against the 
> Megamachine,” and many more.
>
> Autonomedia 334 pp. $14
>
> ALL-AMERICAN ANARCHIST: Joseph Labadie and the Labor Movement by 
> Carlotta Anderson
>
> In this account of the man dubbed “The Gentle Anarchist,” his 
> granddaughter brings to life not only the person complete with foibles 
> and misjudgments, but also the era. Labor radicals and anarchists of 
> the last third of the 1800s are often ignored for those of the 1930s. 
> Anderson sketches resistance to capital in the earlier era and those 
> who filled the ranks of rebellion. Highly recommended. See review last 
> issue.
>
> Wayne State Univ. Press 328 pp. hb $26
>
> PASSIONATE AND DANGEROUS: Conversations with Midwestern 
> Anti-Authoritarians and Anarchists
>
> Diverse interviews that affirm the first word of the title. It 
> includes an activist/resident from Detroit’s Trumbullplex talking 
> about the ups and downs of communal life, and the FE’s Peter Werbe and 
> David Watson doing a little philosophizing. Also, interviews with 
> folks from Chicago’s highly organized and active A-Zone, and with 
> others doing art and revolution, “pleasure activism,” micro-radio 
> projects, IWW, environmental and community organizing, and numerous 
> other activities. There are others which reach into the personal and 
> speak to how one exists in a capitalist world while organizing against 
> it. Terrific art from Tony Doyle and Josh MacPhee.
>
> Self-Published 70 pp. $4
>
>
>
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