COVER: “St. Mary of the Machines”–Stephen Goodfellow BACK: Joey Salamon 3 AnarchoShorts & Other tales from the planet 3 Letters 4 Fifth Estate celebrates 50th year 5 The Rojava Revolution Andrew Flood
COVER: “St. Mary of the Machines”–Stephen Goodfellow BACK: Joey Salamon 3 AnarchoShorts & Other tales from the planet 3 Letters 4 Fifth Estate celebrates 50th year 5 The Rojava Revolution Andrew Flood
The movement in Detroit has a functioning print shop again.
FE Note: The leaflet reproduced on this page was issued following the death late last year of Quebecois nationalist politician and ex-premier of the province, Rene Levesque. It was posted in several locations in Montreal, including Cafe Commune/Comun, a libertarian, …
Industrialized nations have procured their preliminary capital by expropriating, deporting, persecuting and segregating, if not always by exterminating, people designated as legitimate prey. Kinships were broken, environments were destroyed, cultural orientations and ways were extirpated.
a review of Letters of Insurgents by Sophia Nachalo and Yarostan Vocheck, as told by Fredy Perlman, with a new introduction by Aragorn!. Left Bank Books, 2014, 722pp., $20 leftbankbooks.bigcartel.com
Ammunition Books, 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201 Bookstore Hours: Mon. thru Fri. 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
BOOKSTORE IN A BARN (615) 536-5999 an hour east of Nashville; call, write, or email for directions FifthEstate@pumpkinhollow.net Read more WORDS Dr. Ben Reitman, Sister of the Road: the Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha (2002) $15.00 Dark Star Beneath the Paving …
referred to in this article: Having Little, Being Much: A Chronicle of Fredy Perlman’s Fifty Years, by Lorraine Perlman, Black & Red (Detroit, 1989), 155 pages, $3.50
The following is a translation of the introduction to the French edition of Fredy Perlman’s The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism, which originally appeared in FE #319, Winter 1985. It has been published in France by the group l’Insécurité sociale, which …
Punks in Cuba Radical anarchist and anti-militarist groups linked to the semi-taboo punk youth culture exist in Cuba. Members of one such group, Movimiento Pacifista Solidaridad y Paz (Solidarity & Peace Pacifist Movement), were sentenced to prison after a protest …
Send check, money order, or well-concealed cash to: Fifth Estate Books PO Box 6 Liberty, TN 37095 Please add $2 shipping/handling for first item ($1 for the 2nd, .50 for the third, & so on). All book orders include a …
Paul J. Comeau The Dispossessed Author: Ursula, K. LeGuin The best fictional account of an anarchist society in practice, from the perspective of a brilliant scientist from that society who leaves it to try and bridge the cultural gap between …
Anarchist reading list from the Fifth Estate staff Read More »
When someone on the Fifth Estate staff over 40 years ago came up with the slogan, Fuck Authority, it was printed as a 29″ X 22″ poster and tucked inside a 1975 issue of the publication, then a monthly tabloid.
Critiques of economic development, material progress, technology and industry are not a discovery of the Fifth Estate. Human beings resisted the incursions from the earliest days, and many of North America’s best-known 19th century writers, among them Melville, Hawthorn and …
a review of The Politics of the Joy of Printing: The Detroit Printing Co-op by Danielle Aubert. Artbook/D.A.P.
a review of Love & Politics, Judith Malina, Preface by Ira Cohen, 2001, Black & Red, PO Box 02374, Detroit, Michigan 48202, $5 postage included, 84 pages
FE Histories & Memoirs No Anarchy, No Money page 6 Offices as Autonomous Zones page 7 The History of the Fifth Estate by Peter Werbe page 8 Music as Revolution page 20 Giving Up the Gun Fetish page 21 Zapping …
Complete catalog available from pumpkinhollow.net/thebarn Creating Anarchy by Ron Sakolsky (Fifth Estate Books 2005) $15
This fragment is from Jacques Camatte’s pamphlet translated in 1975 in Detroit by Fredy Perlman. It was a key text in developing Fifth Estate concepts during the 1970s and 80s, ones which remain today. It speaks of capital and technology …
a review of On the Poverty of Student Life, Considered in its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual, and Particularly Intellectual Aspects, And a Modest Proposal for its Remedy: Members of the Situationist International and Students from Strasbourg. Edited by Mehdi El …