These excerpts come from the English section of the El Libertario website. El Libertario is a collective in Venezuela that has been active for eight years now.
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Lording in the Corridor
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
Corridor Lording Ten years ago, the number of residents in the Cass Corridor, bounded by Adams, Cass, Penn Central RR, and the John Lodge X-Way, numbered well over two hundred thousand. Today that number has dwindled to under ninety thousand.
Strike & Sabotage at Wash. Post
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
If the publishing of a sympathetic account of a union struggle seems inconsistent with our perspective, which views unions as auxiliary organs of Capital, let us clarify the matter. As people who have spent our adult lives as wage workers …
Trans-Love Evolves
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
The Trans-Love Energies operation in the Warren-Forest community has undergone a number of changes lately, according to spokesmen for the hippie cooperative, of which the Fifth Estate is a member group.
Strike at S.F. State
by Chris Singer
Fifth Estate # 71, January 23-February 5, 1969
“There has had to be an escalation on this campus.” —S.I. Hayakawa, President, San Francisco State College We live in a MacLuhanesque age. The world is our village, its inhabitants are all as close as the nearest TV screen. …
Postscript for the anti-capitalist movement
by Jennifer Whitney, John Jordan
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
Argentina may well prove to be the crisis which irrevocably splits the ever-widening crack in the neoliberal armor, especially if things continue to unravel in other parts of Latin America. Recent events in Venezuela, and the possibility of left wing …
Abolish Restaurants
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
“When one comes to think of it, it is strange that thousands of people in a great modern city should spend their waking hours swabbing dishes in hot dens underground. The question I am raising is why this life goes …
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
The Fifth Estate is a cooperative, nonprofit project, publishing since 1965. The people who produce it are a group of friends who do so neither to secure wages nor as an investment in the newspaper industry, but to encourage resistance …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 272, May 1976
Hungary ’56 by Andy Anderson Black & Red-Solidarity 138 pp., $1.25 Revolt In Socialist Yugoslavia by Fredy Perlman Black & Red 23 pp., $.25
Midland Anti-Napalm March
by Ron Halstead
Fifth Estate # 12, August 15, 1966
On August 7 and 8 about 100 persons from cities in Michigan and Ohio gathered at Midland, Michigan, national headquarters of Dow Chemical Corp., to protest Dow’s participation in the manufacture of napalm.
Anything new in the “Revolt Against Work?”
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Charles Reeve has raised a number of important questions in his critique of John Zerzan’s “Unions Against Revolution.” [See The “Revolt Against Work” or Fight for the Right to be Lazy (FE 279, December, 1976).] These questions should not be …
Unionism and Taylorism
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
Tay-lor-ism n. 1. The scientific management of industrial operations. 2. The systematic reduction of work within a given industrial operation to separate, distinct, routinized tasks devoid of policy decisions. Each aspect is measured and timed for its highest efficiency. 3. …
Book Review: Wartime Strikes
by Tomega Therion (Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
a review of Wartime Strikes: The Struggle Against the No-Strike Pledge in the UAW During World War II by Martin Glaberman, 1980, Bewick Editions, Detroit, 158 pp., $6 (Available from Fifth Estate Books).
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
The Detroit primary elections, as usual, contained no surprises with a majority of both registered and eligible voters not bothering to venture out of their house to participate in selecting who shall rule them. Officials have even given up bemoaning …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Sticks & Stones Dear Fifth Estate, In response to E.B. Maple (“On Organization: Two Reviews of The Camatte/Collu Pamphlet,” FE #279, December 1976), I can only say that calling me a “Leninist” does not make it so.
The Forgotten Anarchist Commune in Manchuria
by Francesco Dalessandro
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
During World War II the famous Hollywood filmmaker Frank Capra was commissioned by the U.S. Military to make a seven-part documentary film series titled “Why We Fight.” Its purpose was to counter Nazi propaganda films and justify U.S. involvement in …
Wildcat: Dodge Truck, June 1974
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 367, Winter 2004-2005
This year marks the 30th anniversary of publication of the pamphlet Wildcat: Dodge Truck, June 1974, written and produced by several of the people who became the core of the Fifth Estate collective the next year when it was transformed …
Anarchy in Murfreesboro
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
Murfreesboro, Tennessee is hardly known worldwide as a hotbed of radical activism, underground publishing, or anarchist feminism.
“Revolt Against Work” or the End of Leftism?
by John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 281, March, 1977
FE Note. The December 1976 Fifth Estate carried a critique by Charles Reeve (see “The Revolt Against Work or Fight for the Right to Be Lazy,” p. 9) of the contentions of John and Paula Zerzan that the crisis point …
Venezuela, Elections 2006
by El Libertario (Venezuela)
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
The Fifth Estate received this communication prior to the December 3 presidential election from the Venezuelan Commission of Anarchist Relations (Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas) and its organ, El Libertario. Hugo Chavez won handily against his opponent. Venezuelan government officials announced …