“Me, start a vanguard party to lead the working class to revolution? You must be kidding!”
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A Plea for Sanity
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
Everybody knows we’re living in a period of unprecedented disillusionment. People everywhere are questioning even those basic assumptions which once bound their futures up safely and securely with the future of this society—a society they once felt themselves indispensable parts …
Revolt Lives!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
The following article is reprinted from the 7 June 1977 edition of the Mexican newspaper Excelsior and was translated for us by a comrade in Montreal. Although written in a journalistic style (for instance calling people “anarchists” who might have …
Comment from the Fifth Estate
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
Related: see Letters in this issue. The discussion regarding Black Rose Books, Ltd. (BRB) and concerning what constitutes a libertarian project has taken two distressing and, in our opinion, unproductive directions. The first is the absolute indignation on the part …
285, August, 1977
by Fifth Estate Collective
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Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987
FIFTH ESTATE #325, Spring 1987, Vol. 21 No. 2 The Fifth Estate is a cooperative project, published by a group of friends who are in general, but not necessarily complete agreement with the articles herein. Each segment of the paper …
Bits of the world in brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
WELLINGTON, New Zealand—A Maori land-rights activist, driving a van with a traditional native people’s insult painted on its side, was arrested in February when he tried to join visiting Queen Elizabeth’s motorcade. The Queen was the repeated target during her …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
A little belatedly we have received The Alternative Press Annual, for 1983 and 1984 published by Temple Univ. Press, Broad & Oxford streets, Philadelphia PA 19122, both of which contain articles by Fifth Estate writers. The 1983 edition has E.B. …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
The FE Bookservice may be reached at the same address as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, P.O. Box 02548, Detroit MI 48202 USA, telephone (313) 831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our hours vary so please call before dropping in.
Drug Tests
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
The recent clamor by employers for mandatory drug testing of workers threatens to add yet another humiliating dimension to wage labor. Both private and governmental concerns have expressed strong support for the idea, and it was recently given a boost …