Soccer for Social Good

From Fifth Estate # 417, Winter 2025

A review of Beyond the Final Whistle, Soccer for a Better World by Vasilis Kostakis. Pluto Press, 2025

On a hot night in Houston Texas, two teams played during a social and political moment that carried more meaning than just the end result of the match. The significance was shown by supporters’ shirts depicting half split Mexican and American flags worn by those in attendance.

Marius Mason Update

From Anarchist Agency by Panagioti Tsolkas, art by Marius Mason

This update on political prisoner Marius Mason is published by Agency in collaboration with Fifth Estate Magazine.

Earlier this year, Marius Mason — an anarchist, environmental and animal rights activist, vegan, artist, and trans advocate — was denied his scheduled gender affirming surgery by the Trump administration and transferred to a women’s prison. The Republican candidate’s campaign spent $27 million on ads condemning gender affirming care for prisoners and the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) quickly remanded those detained back to prisons corresponding to the gender they were assigned at birth.

King Mob, The Motherfuckers & Revolutionary Art

From Fifth Estate, #416, Spring 2025

New York City, 1967. Roaming the streets in debate on the merits of the then-peak vogue art movement, Abstract Expressionism, are Ben Morea, part of a local affinity group, Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, and David Wise and Anne Ryder of the English group of cultural subversives known as King Mob.

Blind The Beast // Operation Hermes

We, your friendly neighbourhood anarchists from Minneapolis, Los Angeles, New York City, Akron, Atlanta, Baltimore, Winston-Salem, and Montreal, linked together by a common mission, implore you to join us in dismantling the surveillance apparatus and, from its remains, creating new tools which facilitate learning, art-making, life saving, and liberation.

Mosaic in memory of comrade Javier Recabarren Olivares

From Dark Nights, Santiago, $hile

The 18th of March marked a new anniversary of the death of our beloved anarchist anti-speciesist comrade, Javier Recabarren Olivares, who was run over by an ill-fated bus on the corner of Radal and Alameda in 2015.

Decoding anarchism: Juan Pablo Macías’s ‘Tiempo Muerto’

From The Berliner

Now open at Galerie im Körnerpark, Juan Pablo Macías's 'Tiempo Muerto' reveals a forgotten side of anarchist history.

In 2007, Mexican artist Juan Pablo Macías developed an interest in anarchism – a set of beliefs that seeks to dismantle hierarchical government in favour of a mutualistic society. “But it was incredibly hard to find any information,” he recalls.

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