Talking about the weather just isn’t what it used to be. These days it is no longer a diversion. A January cold wave of historical dimensions resulted in all-time record lows in places such as Pittsburgh, Louisville and Indianapolis, records …
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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 …
Anarchic Justice at the End of History
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
It has been said that self-preservation is the first law of nature, and that the basis of justice lies in protecting ourselves from one another. This is a perennial lie of the system of domination.
The 2020 Election
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
The 2020 Michigan presidential primary on March 10 marked the end of the progressive fantasy that the American political landscape could be altered by supporting U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders as the Democratic Party nominee.
Recycling & Reforms?
by D.M. Borts
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
How a radical community confronts a complexity of ecological contradictions Unlike the Green backsliding politicians denounced by Saral Sarkar in the adjoining article, no party in the U.S. has ever taken a principled stand on ecological issues. Even groups willing …
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. …
Free the Hunan iconoclasts
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
WHO ARE THEY: Yu Zhijian, age 27, formerly a teacher at the Tantou Wan Primary School in Dahu Township, Liuyang County, Hunan Province. Yu Dongyue, former fine-arts director of the Liuyang News. Lu Decheng, 28, previously an employee of the …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
FE Letters Policy The Fifth Estate always welcomes letters commenting on our articles, giving reports of events in your area, or stating your opinion. We don’t guarantee we will print everything we receive, but all letters are read by our …
Rebellions Rock the World
by Paul Walker (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
In the latter half of 2019, the streets of Hong Kong, Santiago, Barcelona, Baghdad, London, Paris, and Beirut were flooded with huge demonstrations demanding reforms or the removal of politicians.
How we can exit the era of ecological destruction & affirm life
by Peter Linebaugh
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
a review of Between Earth and Empire: From the Necrocene to the Beloved Community by John P. Clark. PM Press 2019 pmpress.org
Execution and Riot
by Red Wood
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
Within the space of two weeks in April and May of this year, California was rocked by two events that shook its image as the locus and realization of the American dream. Coming on the heels of the damage caused …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
Texas Anarchist Howdy, Fifth Estate! There is some serious stuff happening here in Austin. A liberated Learning Collective has been established. Part of it is a how-to course to teach would-be publishers to use the L LC press to produce …
The War and the Spectacle
by Bureau of Public Secrets
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
The orchestration of the Gulf war was a glaring expression of what the situationists call the spectacle—the development of modern society to the point where images dominate life.
From the Other Side of the Tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
Sometimes we are the victims of our own words. At best, words are poor conveyors of information. They are imprecise and must be used with the utmost care if they are to do what we want them to do. When …
Creating CHAOS
by Abbie Hoffman
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
Editors’ Note: The following is from Abbie’s book Revolution For the Hell of It, to be published by Dial Press later this month, by the author “Free.”