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Fredy Perlman: An Appreciation

by George Bradford (David Watson)

Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005

  excerpted from FE #321, Indian Summer, 1985 It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our friend and comrade, Fredy Perlman, who died while undergoing heart surgery in Detroit on July 26, 1985.

Fredy Perlman Anthology

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019

The Machine and Its Discontents, a collection of writings by Fredy Perlman (1934-1985) has recently been jointly published in the U.K. by Theory and Practice and Active Distribution (theoryandpractice.org.uk and activedistribution.org). Perlman, a prolific writer of radical texts, was a …

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Fredy Perlman

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985

Fredy Perlman was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia on August 20, 1934. He emigrated with his parents to Cochabamba, Bolivia in 1938 just ahead of the Nazi takeover. The Perlman family came to the United States in 1945 and lived variously …

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Books available from Black & Red

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007

Momentos, Compendio Poetico by Federico Arcos The Story of Tatiana by Jacques Baynac The Wandering of Humanity by Jacques Camatte

Fredy Perlman: An appreciation

by George Bradford (David Watson)

Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985

It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our friend and comrade, Fredy Perlman, who died while undergoing heart surgery in Detroit on July 26, 1985.

Black and Red Press keeps Gutenberg and Lenin in their Graves

by Halley's Comet

Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005

Though little known locally, Black and Red prints some of the most inflammatory and socially relevant material that has ever fanned the flames of discontent.

Back Cover

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012

“Underground presses cannot survive within capitalist society. They are created only in order to destroy capitalist relations.” –Fredy Perlman

Selected books from Factory School

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007

Vision Quest Guidebook “The New Freedom”: Corporate Capitalism by Fredy Perlman The Big Melt, President of the United Hearts

About This Issue

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019

The theme for this issue, Anything Can Happen, originated as the title of a 1968 Fredy Perlman essay at a time when everything did, indeed, seem possible. The ebullience of that era, in which many believed revolution was on the …

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‘Unthinkable’ exhibit

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012

Pictured at right are Federico Arcos, Fifth Estate comrade, and veteran of the Spanish anarchist militias of the 1930s, with Julie Herrada, April 7, at Hamtramck, Michigan’s 2739 Gallery, during the opening of the exhibit, ‘Unthinkable,’ a display of artifacts …

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Reading “Letters of Insurgents” 34 Years After its Publication

by Unruhlee

Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010

As we go to press in late June, we are receiving reports of discussion groups formed around the country, in person and in on-line blogs, that are reading Fredy Perlman’s 1976 historical novel, Letters of Insurgents, published by Detroit’s Black …

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Tales from the Cybersphere: FE on the Web

by Quincy B. Thorn

Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013

Besides contributing to this publication, three longtime Fifth Estate regulars have also had a part in shaping Detroit’s 1980s radical music scene.

Bookstore in a Barn

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 361, Summer 2003

  an hour east of Nashville (615) 536-5999 FifthEstate@pumpkinhollow.net To order, send check, money order, or well-concealed cash to: Fifth Estate Books PO Box 6 Liberty, TN 37095 Please add $2 shipping/handling for first item ($1 for the 2nd, $.50 …

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Attilio Bortolotti, 1903-1995

by Fifth Estate Collective, Paul Avrich

Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995

Attilio Bortolotti died of pneumonia on February 10, 1995, in a nursing home near Toronto. He was born on September 19, 1903, in Codroipo, Friuli, Italy, the fifteenth of eighteen children of Luigi Bortolotti, a builder, and Maria Pittana.

Masthead, Call for Submissions

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018

Fifth Estate #401, Summer 2018, Vol. 53 No. 2 Fifth Estate: Radical Publishing since 1965

Black & Red Books Now Out-of-Print Influenced the Fifth Estate

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017

Although many of the influential radical titles from Black & Red Books, printed at the Detroit-based Detroit Printing Co-op between 1970 and 1980 are out of print, their relevance hasn’t lessened with the passing years. It is hoped there is …

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But It All Falls Apart

by Peter Werbe

Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019

a review of Seizure of State Power, Part 3 of Manual for Revolutionary Leaders by Michael Velli. Sources of Velli’s thought annotated by Fredy Perlman. Black & Red (2019) BlackandRed.org

Ammunition Books

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 272, May 1976

Hungary ’56 by Andy Anderson Black & Red-Solidarity 138 pp., $1.25 Revolt In Socialist Yugoslavia by Fredy Perlman Black & Red 23 pp., $.25

The Life of Guy Debord: A History

by Allan Antliff

Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999

reviewed in this article Guy Debord—Revolutionary by Len Bracken, Feral House, Venice, California, 1997, 267 pp.

Seattle’s Left Bank Books

by Sylvie Kashdan

Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy

Good news! Seattle’s Left Bank Books is republishing Letters of Insurgents, Fredy Perlman’s historical novel about love and revolution in the East bloc and Western states of the mid-20th century.

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