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Continuing to push the limits, the [fifth](/journals/rolling-thunder/5) [_Rolling Thunder_](/journals/rolling-thunder) features 16 full-color pages and several competing feature-length stories. This issue was nearly a year in the making and definitely sets the bar higher for the magazine once again. We're actually losing a small amount of money on these just to keep narratives from and analysis of current anarchist activity available in a durable, high quality format.

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This issue focuses on different ways of conceptualizing strategy, exploring the ways anarchist efforts can be repressed, assimilated, and neutralized only to reappear in new forms. It opens with a study by [David Graeber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber) of the successes and stumbling blocks of direct action movements over the past thirty years, followed by a special report distilling lessons from the recent wave of federal repression known as the [Green Scare](/2008/02/22/green-scared). Two features give the inside story on anarchist mobilizations overseas via interviews, personal narratives, and 16 pages of full color photos: an examination of [the riots](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iupbxsHGlAA) following the eviction of Denmark’s beloved social center [Ungdomshuset](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungdomshuset), and a full review of last summer’s [G8 protests](http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070612082401642&query=g8) in Germany. The issue is rounded out by a subject’s analysis of the medical study industry as a case study in modern day precarious labor, a spotlight on anarchist organizing in [Modesto, California](http://www.geocities.com/anarcho209/), and reviews of controversial works by anti-art duo [Brener](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8MM_cf2e-U) and [Schurz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Schurz). 100% ad-free.