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.
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Fredy Perlman: An Appreciation
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
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 …
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 …
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.
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
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 …
‘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 …
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 …
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.