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.
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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 …
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 …
Fifth Estate Home
by Fifth Estate Collective
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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