SATURDAY HANOI, Eyewitness Report by Dr. Herbert Apthekar. Central Methodist Church 8:00 p.m. 2/12 FILM: “Beauty and the Beast” (1946), directed by Jean Cocteau. Sponsored by UCAE at WSU Community Arts Aud, Cass and Kirby. 8 p.m. Adm. charge. 2/12 …
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Against Revolutionary Cynicism
by Simoun Magsalin
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him with absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar. —Mikhail Bakunin
Headin’ North, Yank?
by Andy Mikolasch, Ron Thody
Fifth Estate # 19, December 1-15, 1966
Special to the Fifth Estate from Satyrday Publications, Toronto Toronto—as well as most large Canadian cities—is becoming a haven for youthful Americans who, for reasons of their own, don’t want any part of U.S. President Johnson’s war on the Vietnamese …
Cambodia
by George Cavalletto, Sheila Ryan
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
LIBERATION NEWS SERVICE—As the unexpectedly early monsoon rains fell on War Zone “C” by the Cambodian-South Vietnamese border, a U.S. divisional planning officer said, “The people who advised President Nixon to start something like this at this time of year …
Esperanto & Anarchism
by Xavi Alcalde
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
“Paroli Esperanton estis iam esenca parto de anarkiismo.” (There was a time when speaking Esperanto was an essential part of being an anarchist.)
Hitch-hiking in Laos
by Lee Elbinger
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
Santiniketan, India Special to the Fifth Estate It’s weird. Future historians, in analyzing the causes of the Laotian War (or World War II as the case may be) will be stumped by a curious footnote which will cause them to …
Caution: Capitalism may be Harmful to Your Health
by George Metefsky
Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970
Part II: Alternative Cultures Serving Capitalism No one really consciously planned the thorough integration of the middle-class worker with capitalism. Capitalists were forced to develop a more productive worker, a more extravagant consumer, simply because their own fixation on accumulation …
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The Zen Already in Anarchism
by Spencer Sunshine
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
The combination of anarchism with spiritual or religious beliefs is almost always controversial, even in the pages of Fifth Estate. Opposition to church, state, and capital is the holy trinity of the “classical” anarchist tradition, and the movement’s anti-clericism was …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
Quite a Drag Howdy, Folks! (That’s the only non-sexist salutation I can think of.)
The Elections
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
The anarchist avoidance of the electoral process began over a hundred years ago as a bulwark against the seduction of reformism, social democracy, and the like, when the possibility of revolution seemed imaginable. The new world, which anarchists carried in …
Peace Island Gathering
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
Peace Island Gathering Announcement Longtime anarchists and artist-performers Lenny and June are inviting like-minded people to the Peace Island Assemblage. This gathering will take place from September 18 to 22, 2025, in Keelung prefecture, Taiwan. As Lenny tells us… My …
Hiroshima, First Shot of World War III
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
The barbarity of the nation-state since its emergence 8,000 years ago has only been limited in its intensity by a lack of the technological means needed to perpetrate horrors upon humanity. By the advent of World War II, science and …
Green Scare Update
by Henry Read
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
Chalking Sidewalks = Terrorism
Mind and Movement
by Art Wohl
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
Editors’ Note: Art Wohl studied exercises in T’ai Chi Ch’uan with various Chinese practitioners in New York. He has taught body sensitivity and coordination to athletes, dancers, actors, singers, and the physically and mentally disabled. He will lead a workshop …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 305, March 18, 1981
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave. Detroit—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that you give …
Nationalist Gangs Battle for Angola
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 269, February, 1976
Nearing the end of an almost year long civil war, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) appears to be on the verge of a military victory over its rivals in the West African former Portuguese colony.
Free Lessons
by Pam Shriman
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
“To the accusation that Cuba wants to export its revolution, we reply: revolutions are not exported—they are made by the people.” —Fidel Castro, Second Declaration of Havana, 1962 Another witch-hunt is underfoot. The late ’60s and moreover the ’70s are …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
Send letters via email to fe<AT>fifthestate<DOT>org or Fifth Estate, P.O. Box 201016, Ferndale MI 48220. All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten. Letters may be edited for length.
Drones
by Miles Pouchez
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
A July 13, 2012 New York Times article, “That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker,” by Peter Maass, suggests that we should consider smartphones, computers, and other connected devices as tracking machines rather than appliances of personal convenience. The manufacturers of …
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 …