FIFTH ESTATE #407 Fall 2020

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Long-running Detroit-based anarchist publication, printing since 1965!

A photo shows a line of masked Seattle protesters with arms linked, all facing the camera.

Contents for this issue:

Now We All Know What Matters
FE Staff

Minneapolis Athanor
STEVEN CLINE

A Right Wing Man Named Cotton from the Land of Cotton Tells the Truth About
Racialized Capitalism
FRANK JOYCE

Life in an Autonomous Zone: Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest
RUI PRETI

Seeing Seattle An Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
CARA HOFFMAN

The Need for a Revolutionary Anarchist Movement Has Never Been Greater
WAYNE PRICE

Pushing on What’s Falling: Uprisings in a Crumbling Empire
BRYAN TUCKER

Liberating Public Health from the State: Anarchist Solutions in the Age of COVID
BRUCE TRIGG

A haiku in Irish and English
GABRIEL ROSENSTOCK

Solidarity in the Time of a Virus: Albert Camus’ “The Plague”
FRAN SHOR

Death & the Zeitgeist
JOHN ZERZAN

Life & Rewilding in the Pandemic
STEVE KIRK

Collective Action in the Time of Covid-19: Reflections from Greece
PANOS PAPADIMITROPOULOS & GEORGE SOTIROPOULOS

Dispatch from Exarchia: A Summer of Unrest in Athens
S. FLYNN

Two Faces of Fascism: COVID-19 New Normal and Trump Backlash Pose Grave Threats to Freedom
BILL WEINBERG

Questions We Have To Ask: Planning Living Spaces for a Revolutionary Future
CHARLIE EBERT

Chile Uprising for Land & Freedom: “This Is A Fight We Should Be Fighting All
Around the World”
GARY HUGHES, ANNE PETERMANN & ORIN LANGELLE

Living Our Lives: The Communal Basis of Social Transformation
JOHN CLARK

The Strike That’s Coming: “Who gave you the right to be a landlord?”
DAVID ROVICS

The Hangover in New York: After Wislawa Szymborska’s “The End and The Beginning” (poetry)
KATE ENNALS

Vanzetti! That Day (fiction)
ROBERT KNOX

The Forgotten Anarchist Commune in Manchuria: Where World War II Began
FRANCESCO DALESSANDRO

A Spark In Search of a Powder Keg
International surrealist declaration

The Economics & Politics of Gentrification (review)
MIKE WOLD

This Is What Direct Democracy Looks Like (review)
MARIEKE BIVAR

Artists, Anarchists, & Concierges Battle in 19th Century Bohemian Paris
OLCHAR E. LINDSANN

The World we are Fighting For (review)
BILL WEINBERG

Letters