Fifth Estate Books

by

Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995

Back In Stock! Bolo Bolo, Anarchy Comix & other FE Favorites SOCIETY AGAINST THE STATE by Pierre Clastres

News & Reviews

by

Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995

Both of the best selling issues of this newspaper, our 1970 Special Women’s Issue, which had to be reprinted three times to meet the demand for it, and our recent Queer Anarchy edition met with high acclaim for their coverage …

News & Reviews Read More »

Detroit Seen

by

Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995

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 …

Detroit Seen Read More »

Attilio Bortolotti, 1903-1995

by ,

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 # 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 …

Waldheim Cemetery Bankrupt, Haymarket Monument Defaced Read More »

Tales From The Planet

by

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 …

Tales From The Planet Read More »

What is Capital?

by

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 …

What is Capital? Read More »

Jane Fonda & the Anti-Aircraft Gun

by

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 …

Jane Fonda & the Anti-Aircraft Gun Read More »

Vietnam: Resistance to an Imperial War

by

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 …

Vietnam: Resistance to an Imperial War Read More »

On Organization

by

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 …

On Organization Read More »