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Fredy Perlman’s Chronicle of the World Changers

by David Watson

Fifth Estate # 417, Winter 2025

Forty years after his untimely death in 1985, Fredy Perlman’s last work has been published, a second volume of his novel, The Strait, which he left in handwritten form.

AI is not empowering

by Nick DePascal

Fifth Estate # 417, Winter 2025

Early in the first part of his recent book, The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates, writing to his former students at Howard University, reflects on what made this particular cohort and their relationship with him special, honing in on Howard’s importance as …

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Plastic

by John Zerzan

Fifth Estate # 417, Winter 2025

Contemporary society has been engulfed and determined by the immateriality of cyberspace. A new remote-control e-reality lived online. It was preceded by another kind of immateriality, that of the move to the Age of Plastics.

The Doom Scroll of History Undone in Poetry

by Deep Strawberry

Fifth Estate # 417, Winter 2025

They are fighting for the sovereignty of capital. Warlike adamance, pressurized plunder. Capitalism has always been war, but this sadism is evangelism in the name of their only belief. Fully activated and pushed to its furthest limits, this version ends …

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  Winter 2025Fifth Estate #417Follows Spring 2025 CONTENTS WORKS REVIEWED Anarchy in the Big EasyMax Cafard Ten Little AnarchistsDaniel de Roulet Beyond the Final Whistle, Soccer for a Better WorldVasilis Kostakis NadjaAndré Breton Stop Thief! Anarchism & PhilosophyCatherine Malabou Animal …

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Alternatives to Lives of Misery

by Rui Preti

Fifth Estate # 417, Winter 2025

a review of Jobs, Jive, & Joy: An Argument for the Utopian Spirit by Bernard Marszalek (Ztangi Press and Charles H. Kerr, 2024)

‘Swingin London’ Shows Decline and Fall of British Empire

by Lenny Rubenstein

Fifth Estate # 27, April 1-15, 1967

(Special to the FIFTH ESTATE) LONDON—From the suburban sprawls of America where the language of LSD and grass is used to sell cars and discotheque tickets, the appeal of the country that produced Tolkien, “Morgan!,” and George Harrison is strong …

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Where is Home?

by John Zerzan

Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025

Acknowledging the existence only of individuals and families, Margaret Thatcher declared, “There’s no such thing as society.”

Letters to the Editors

by Various Authors

Fifth Estate # 24, February 15-28, 1967

To the Editor: The recent bust of the Artists’ Workshop and surrounding area is indeed a tragedy. [See Narco Agents Raid Artists’ Workshop, [FE #23, February 1-15, 1967.] It’s a sign of the times too, for we are presently living …

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Letters

by Various Authors

Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970

Dear Friends: The murders of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in Chicago have awakened many Americans to the campaign being carried out against the Black Panther Party throughout the country. Since April 1968, 28 Panthers have died and countless others …

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Just Motor City News

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970

BOUNTY FOR COSTA Charles Costa, an Inner City slumlord that lives in Southfield, has a habit of always trying to grab the media limelight. Through his hustling, Costa has gained a favorable reputation with Detroit’s straight papers. Among the people …

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Ecology and Revolutionary Thought

by Murray Bookchin

Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970

Broadly conceived, ecology deals with a balance in nature. Inasmuch as nature includes man, the science basically deals with the harmonization of man and nature. Ecology is an integrative and reconstructed science in that it deals with the most radical …

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Out of View of the Panopticon

by Jess Flarity

Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024

a review of Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape by Acid Horizon. Repeater

Anarchism & Science Fiction

by Ben Beck

Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024

Most anarchists are familiar with Ursula K. Le Guin’s utopian science fiction novel, The Dispossessed. But its fame has somewhat served to overshadow other works of science fiction that are also of great interest. Here are a few of those.

If only the Luddites had Won

by Robert Knox

Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024

a review of Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant. Little, Brown & Company, 2023

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