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Fifth Estate, Summer 2012 issue, now available

Vol. 47, #2 (#387)

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Please see below for the contents of the new issue and the Call for Submission for our next two editions.

Towards a revolutionary summer,

Paul J. Comeau
Fifth Estate

FIFTH ESTATE Summer 2012 Vol. 47, #2 (#387)

Theme: “Anarchist Summer Reading”

For the past several years, each edition of the Fifth Estate has had a specific theme. Maybe it’s the excitement of the era which has just opened up, but we decided not to have a particular theme for our Summer edition, and simply let the imagination of writers get as wild as the times demand. Everything seems open and possible; where it all will lead is still in formation.

CONTENTS

The Quadrennial Electoral Fraud
Another option needed

Financial Advice?
How about unemployment?

Survival of the Fittest?
Disabilities & tribal people

Anarchist Personality
Is there a definable one?

Against Equality
Don’t fight their wars

OCCUPY, OCCUPY
No authoritarians, please

Vagaries of the Left
John Zerzan & the Black Bloc

Return to Liberty Square
Creating a culture of resistance

Corvid College
Anarchy & no student debt

G20 Gender Violence
Toronto cops targeted women

Snitch Strikes Again
Victim in Marie Mason case

@ Summer Reading
Read a book; pass it on!
Anarchy for Kids
The Power of Art
Scratching the Tiger’s Belly
Paul Goodman’s Testament
The Power of Art
Community Against Abuse
Johnny Spanish
Cara Hoff man
Syndicalism Outdated?
Anarchist Writers Bloc
Anarchist Reading List
Revolution As Spectacle
Debt: 5000 Year History
Underground Press

Rise & Fall of the U.S.
Here comes China

Cops Admit Brutality
G20 was a police riot

DEA Museum Exhibit
Drugs and terrorism

Call For Submissions: Fifth Estate Fall 2012 #388 "Education"
Deadline: August 1
Publication date: September 5

Fall is the traditional time when students resume their studies. At present, there are tuition strikes, austerity strikes, student loan debt crises, and other dilemmas regarding education playing out in the public arena. For much of mainstream society, even the very value and meaning of education is now in question.

The last Fifth Estate dealing with the topics of education, unschooling, and knowledge, was our Fall 2004 issue, so the moment seems ripe to revisit these topics from an array of perspectives. The education back issue is available for $4 at our web site; use the Donate button.

Your ideas for suggested news articles, essays, and art are welcome. Please submit manuscripts for short pieces and proposals for longer essays, along with graphics and photographs to:
Fifth Estate, PO Box 201016, Ferndale, MI 48220, USA
Or submit online at fe@fifthestate.org
Please put “Submission 388” on the email subject line.

Call For Submissions: Fifth Estate Winter 2012-2013 #389 "Sex"
Deadline: November 1
Publication date: December

“Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind. In other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. ” —Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man

Sex. It is perhaps the most loaded word in the English language, with numerous connotations and denotations. In this issue of Fifth Estate, we want to explore sex and sexuality in all its forms, exposing the naked truths, and teasing out the possibilities. No topic is too risqué.

Your ideas for suggested news articles, essays, and art are welcome. Please submit manuscripts for short pieces and proposals for longer essays, along with graphics and photographs to:
Fifth Estate, PO Box 201016, Ferndale, MI 48220, USA
Or submit online at fe@fifthestate.org
Please put “Submission 389” on the email subject line.

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