The Absurdity of Politics (cover text)

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Fifth Estate # 271, April, 1976

The voter is a man who comes where he is summoned one day like a flunkey, to one who whistles for him as for a dog trained to obey, who comes on the said day only and not on any …

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Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy

FIFTH ESTATE #392, Fall/Winter, 2014, Vol. 49, No. 2

Margot Adler, Wiccan Priestess, Passes

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Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy

Margot Adler, if known to Fifth Estate readers at all, is probably known as a longtime correspondent for NPR radio since 1979. She died on July 28 of cancer at the age of 68.

What to know…

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Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy

MILITARIZED POLICE AROUND THE WORLD routinely use what they designate as “riot control agents” against their rebellious civilian populations. Because the substances travel with the whims of the wind and are often used in large quantities, a person does not …

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Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008

Fifth Estate Issue #377, March, 2008, Vol. 43 No. 1

Back cover

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Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008

Contrary to the honeyed words of gentlemen, this Age of Empire is a pestilence upon every continent and soul, through colonization manifest or implied. Rich men from stone buildings wade blindly through the penniless on their way to the opera, …

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Acid Reigns

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Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008

Note: Originally, FE special correspondent Kellie Button valiantly embedded herself with a group of anarchist LSD enthusiasts (represented here by the initials “HO”, “KG.”, and “AJ”) in order to report on recreational drug use for this issue’s special “Escape” feature. …

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Gaza Hoax

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Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008

This is part of a communique from France, “La lettre versatile de Jimmy Gladiator,” translated by FE collective members.

Call for submissions

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Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008

Issue Number 378: MONEY The ultimate representation; the symbol of all that is alienated in the modern world; the driving force of pathological greed; the whip that coerces wage labor; the basis of wars. Ten million millionaires world-wide control $37.2 …

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Organizing for Anarchism in Ireland

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Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008

The Fifth Estate sat down with Andrew Flood from the Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM), an Irish anarchist group, who was on a 43 city speaking tour of North America. Walker Lane conducted the interview April 16 at the Baile Corcaigh …

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