When you get to be our age, it seems easy to forget your birthdays, but it probably should be noted that last November marked the 17th anniversary of our first issue. The paper has gone through a number of marked …
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Fifth Estate celebrates 50th year with exhibits & festivities
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
RELATED: FE MUSEUM OPENING VIDEO View on Vimeo September 19, MOCAD 3-5pm, The Fifth Estate’s 50 Years of Radical Journalism, Commentary & Critique: A Panel & Conversation 5-7pm, FE staff reunion 8:30-10:00pm at HopCat (Canfield at Woodward), dance/party/concert celebration featuring …
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The Freeze–Too Little, Too Late
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
Recently, an anti-nuclear protester in Washington state, after seeing the nuclear freeze banners which he and his friends had spread across the tracks shredded by the oncoming train carrying nuclear warheads, was asked by a radio reporter what his feelings …
Fifth Estate Tool of the Year
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
It had to happen eventually, and it did. That repository of pre-masticated mediocrity, that script for dullards, Time magazine, declared its “Man-of-the-Year” a machine-of-the-year, the computer. The magazine gave a lavish spread to this loathsome invasion, joining in the corporate …
Books from The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
Complete catalog available from pumpkinhollow.net/thebarn Creating Anarchy by Ron Sakolsky (Fifth Estate Books 2005) $15
Resistance Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
ONGOING EVENTS Sept. 6-Nov. 26 “Soapboxers and Saboteurs: 100 Years of Wobbly Solidarity.” An exhibit highlighting materials from the Labadie Collection, one of the world’s best collections of materials documenting early IWW history.. Special Collections Library, 711 Hatcher Library, University …
The Cult of Stakhanov
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
“History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.” — R. Buckminster Fuller This year marks the one hundredth …
Vietnam Resource Page
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
Vietnam Rsesource Page Fifth Estate articles in date order Dr. Norman Pollack Vietnam Fifth Estate #2, December 2-16, 1965 https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/2-december-2-16-1965/vietnam/ “Perhaps the biggest mistake many of us make when speaking about Vietnam is that we focus only on Vietnam, and …
Wobblies & Work
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
This special section, announcing itself with the above headline, contains more of a critical and theoretical tension than may be immediately obvious at first reading. Imbedded in it is the difference between the clarion call proposed by Marxists to the …
Call for Contributions
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
Unless we build a sustained practice of free relationships and liberated lives, we risk lengthening the long list of those who have created partial revolutions. The revolution is inside as well as outside ourselves. Misery and alienation reproduce themselves–not just …