While nonviolent action in China and Central Europe last year grabbed headlines around the globe, North American media seems to have all but forgotten the ongoing nonviolent direct action campaign for a nuclear-free future. Yet in 1989, nearly 5,500 arrests …
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A revolt isn’t a game unless it is
by Nadia Di Fiore
Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023
a review of Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, The Insurrection Game 3rd edition (Out of Order Games)
From Adoration to Rebellion
by Huang Ho Group (Hong Kong)
Fifth Estate # 290, March 2, 1978
Introduction The article below is part of a series of discussions that took place in Hong Kong in the early part of 1977, in which the participants (all ex-Red Guard members) attempt to make clear their reaction to Mao Tse-Tung …
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 …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 42, November 15-30, 1967
Dear Editor: That g.d., m.f., c.s., s.o.b., J.L. Hudson is running for mayor. F. Janorin Detroit To the Groovy peoples of Detroit: Love and flowers from a sleeping city. I subscribed to your Oracle in August and took some …
Tales from the planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
Freedom Press Attacked by Fascists As we were going to press, Albert Meltzer, active in British anarchism for five decades, visited Detroit and told us of a devastating arson attack on Freedom Press in addition to the ones reported below. …
Interview with a Chinese Rebel
by Mu Xidi
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
The following interview with Mu Xidi, a former sailor, Chinese rebel, and since 1990, a refugee in Barcelona was taken from the French book Bureaucratie, Bagnes et Business (Bureaucracy, Prisons and Profits), published in Paris by L’insomniaque last year.
Glories of the Free Market
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
* The world’s 225 richest men have a combined wealth of over $1 trillion—equal to the annual income of the poorest half of the world. * Globally, the richest fifth of humanity holds 85 percent of the world’s wealth; the …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
Ammunition Books 4403 Second Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48201, Tele. No. (313) 831-6800 Bookstore hours vary, but we are generally open on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and at scattered other times. Please call before coming down to be sure we are …
25 Years of Giant Puppets, Mass Action & Public Spectacle
by David Solnit
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
“Puppet theater…[is] an anarchic art, subversive and untamable by nature, an art which is easier researched in police records than in theater chronicles.” –Peter Schuman, founder of Bread and Puppet, the great grandparents of political giant puppetry in North America
China: The Mysterious Journey of the Democracy Movement
by Gabriel Dumont
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
“Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.” — Michael Bakunin
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
FE Letters Policy The Fifth Estate always welcomes letters commenting on our articles, stating opinions, or giving reports of events in local areas. We don’t guarantee we will print everything we receive, but all letters are read by our staff …
Crunch at the I-Hotel
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
Staff Note: For nine years, the tenants of San Francisco’s International Hotel have been battling to save their residence from the attempts by the Four Seas Investment Corporation, a Hong Kong based firm, to turn the area into a multi-story …
The Year of the Swine
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
When 1976 is all over and done with not long from now and we look back on it as history, it may well be remembered as the “Year of the Swine.” No, not the Jimmy Carter variety, but the four-legged, …
An Anarchist in North Korea
by Pierre Garine
Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013
The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK)–North Korea. The very mention of the country’s name and a blizzard of buzzwords are released: Cult of Personality, Mass starvation, Nuclear-armed, Thought Control, Defectors and Reverse-defectors.
“The People’s Luck”
by Jim Feast
Fifth Estate # 380, Spring 2009
For the past two summers, I accompanied my wife, who speaks Cantonese and Mandarin, to China so we could tour part of the country before she started summer school in a master’s program in Chinese literature in Nanjing, a city …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
BOOKSTORE HOURS: Monday and Tuesday-1pm to 5pm—Wednesday 7pm to 10pm. LOCATION: 4403 Second (on the corner of Second & Canfield), Detroit, Michigan 48201
Burning Man Comes to China
by Pierre Garine
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
Burning Man began with a wooden effigy and a single match on a beach in San Francisco in the late 1980s. When the police came and closed down the beach burning of the Man it was John Law and Michael …
Bon Appetit
by Chris Garnet
Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023
a review of The Menu. Dir: Mark Mylod (2022)