Welcome to the long time coming Summer edition of the Fifth Estate. It is our first since the Winter 1995 issue which was published Dec. 31, 1994. Subscribers (and particularly libraries) frequently think they have missed issues when six months …
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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.
Waldheim Cemetery Bankrupt, Haymarket Monument Defaced
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
Chicago’s famed Waldheim Cemetery, final resting place for anarchists such as Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, and Voltarine DeCleyre, has been plundered of its liquid assets and is now in bankruptcy. Waldheim is also the site of the crypt and monument …
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Tales From The Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
Proving our contentions a few issues ago that, “all money is fake,” a ring of Iranian and Syrian high tech counterfeiters have been printing $100 bills at a clip faster than the government. The quality of these bills is so …
What is Capital?
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
Let us give a brief definition of the way in which Capital or capitalism is used in articles in the Fifth Estate: Capital is based on wage-labor, the production and exchange of commodities, with an agency above the working class …
Jane Fonda & the Anti-Aircraft Gun
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
So intense was the air war against Vietnam, known as Operation Rolling Thunder, that more bomb tonnage was dropped on this small nation than the combined total expended during World War II. These raids contributed heavily to the enormous Vietnamese …
Vietnam: Resistance to an Imperial War
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
We are all outlaws in the eyes of America… We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent and young… We are forces of chaos and anarchy Everything they say we are we are And, we are very Proud of ourselves …
On Organization
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
The question of whether to combine in organizations, associations, federations, etc., has become a subject of some debate and much interest. Many feel that the only obstacle to organization is the relative weakness of the small numbers of persons who …
What Does “Fifth Estate” Mean?
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
People always ask about the meaning of our publication’s odd name. It is odd, and for our purposes over the last thirty years or so, a particularly problematic one. The word Estate in the title refers to the three powerful …
Escaping from Europe
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
The discovery of Columbus by the Arawaks was fortuitous as the three ships might have made landfall almost anywhere else on the continent that lay between the explorers’ intended destination in eastern Asia. The random meeting had deadly consequences for …