Ten Little Anarchists Searching for a New World

From Fifth Estate # 417, Winter 2025

Daniel de Roulet’s novella, Ten Little Anarchists, is a masterful weave of fantasy and fact, history and histrionics, ideology and imagination. It is a blend of feminist thought, pragmatic practice, and an open dialogue about strategy and priorities for the anarchist movement. It is told through the dynamic conversations and lives of ten anarchist women who strike out on their own and leave the old world behind in their effort to create a truly anarchist community in a foreign land.

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.

Spanish Civil War – Social War

From Social Ecology and Communalism Workshop

Let’s say, for convenience’s sake, that it was a little over thirty years ago. Let’s say I was in my twenties and was just coming out of my shell, very late in life. That is, from a long adolescence and a modest family background where both cultural and political deserts reigned. Let’s say, finally, that there was this fundamental encounter with a couple of friends that made me veer off course and glimpse the shores of the continent of Anarchy—and its eldest daughter: the Spanish Revolution.

Book Review: Every Day Is A Good Day, by Robert Shea

From Overweening Generalist

Blessed are the fanatical devotees of minor writers (hey, I’ve been here), for they ensure the unduly neglected don’t fall through the cracks and down the memory holes. Let us sing the praises of the intellectual free thinkers, the anonymous erudites, those toiling researchers who in their spare time seek out obscure periodicals, ephemera and texts, use archives, and remind the reading public: here was someone we ought not forget. Let us at least keep considering their work for now.

A Novel of an Anarchist Nursing Home Run by 1970s Punks

From Portland Monthly

Fleeing Child Protective Services, Nola brings James to an intergenerational assisted living home run by her music teacher, Caz. “Youngs” live rent free if they care for the “olds.” Twentysomethings bogged down with college debt and seniors who can’t afford the outrageous cost of traditional assisted living help each other out. Caz inherited the woodsy minimansion-turned-nursing-home, which is in various states of disrepair.

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.

Crazy Wisdom in an imaginary Fez: Knowing Peter Lamborn Wilson

From Fifth Estate, # 416, Spring 2025
by Jason Rodgers

Hakim Bey: Real and Unreal is the newest entry in a growing genre of literature, books about having met anarchist author and poet Peter Lamborn Wilson/Hakim Bey (1945-2022) and how it changed the author’s life.

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).

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