Book Review: A Continuous Struggle

From The Weightless State Between Here and There
April 8, 2025

One of the most passionate and often unknown anarchist organizers is Martin Sostre. It is very tough to find anything comprehensive out there about him for a variety of reasons I will detail later. When I saw that a biography about Sostre was being released, I was super excited to learn more about him and his life.

Bugs Bunny as Revolutionary: A review of F. Rosemont’s book of essays

From Charlie Allison's Blog

I expected great things when I opened Surrealism, Bugs Bunny and the Blues, PM Press’s collection of the writings of anarchist, artist and surrealist Franklin Rosemont (1943-2009). I didn’t expect to laugh half as much as I did (this is the most fun I’ve had reading a book from PM Press since the marvelous Karl Marx: Private Eye by the redoubtable Jim Feast).

A. Iwasa reviews The Hands That Crafted the Bomb

From Synchronized Chaos
October 15, 2024

A memoir by Josh Fernandez, reviewed by A. Iwasa

What’s it like to be an antifascist college professor facing termination for “soliciting students for potentially dangerous activities” while military recruiters have free range on your campus?

A Russian village where the Revolution went to die

From Fifth Estate, #415, Summer 2024, by Lawton Browning.

a review of Chevengur by Andrei Platonov. NYRB 2023 (Originally published 1929)

In his 1920 essay, “Anarchists and Communists,” journalist, engineer and author Andrei Platonov wrote “True Anarchy is the understanding that all power and authority on Earth is unnecessary and harmful, that people do not need to be led.”

Lindsann on In the Digital Age: Poetic Reason as an Alternative

From Fifth Estate #415, Summer 2024

a review of Poetic Reason in the Age of Digital Control by Jesús Sepúlveda. Bad Idea Publishing, 2023

Jesús Sepúlveda’s Poetic Reason in the Age of Digital Control addresses some of today’s most pressing threats and sketches out some promising ideas of a strategy in response, which will hopefully be elaborated in future works.

Book Review: Fighting to be Free

From Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
by Andrew/Sunfrog

A review of Stay and Fight by Madeline ffitch. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019

Is a long-form creative writer from the anarchist tradition an anarchist novelist or an anarchist who writes novels? Is there such a thing as an anarchist tradition within fiction? I am not sure that these were the first questions swirling in my mind as I devoured Stay and Fight, the debut novel by Madeline ffitch.

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