a review of All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement, Carlotta R. Anderson, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1998, 324 pp., $34.95
Search results for: John Sinclair
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
Call Ollie Friends: Remember the 1-800 numbers game? It costs lots of money. It costs them lots of money and it’s free! Col. Oliver North Defense Fund now has a 1-800 number. Just dial 1-800—521-0200 and pledge lots of money …
Organization
by Joe Jacobs
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
The author of the following article, Joe Jacobs, was an English comrade and one-time member of London Solidarity (one of the two organizations mentioned in the discussion) who, we learned, died shortly after sending us this manuscript. Though we’ve devoted …
Anarchist Art in the Gallery
by Tom Nys
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
There is a common notion of the art world, a shared idea of what it is and what it is about. However, that also comes with a popular misconception: the perception of the art world as one, univocal concept when …
Books
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
INFORMED SOURCES, a novel by Willard Bain: Doubleday, 1969, 144 pp., $2.95. “Power is the ability to define phenomena and make them act in a desired manner.” —Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense, Black Panther Party Willard Bain’s book was …
Between Orwell And Mccarthy: The Crucifixion Of Marie Mason
by Henry Read
Fifth Estate # 380, Spring 2009
Fifth Estate contributor Marie Mason was sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison on February 5 in a Lansing, Michigan federal courtroom, after pleading guilty to two acts of eco-sabotage.
The Society of the Spectacle Reconsidered
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
a review of The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord Newly translated & annotated by Ken Knabb, Bureau of Public Secrets, 2014, 150 pages. $15. bopsecrets.org
Sexual Anarchy
by Allan Antliff, Mark Antliff
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
The Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris contains many tombs honoring artists and rebels, but the most striking of them all is the monument to the gay English playwright and anarchist Oscar Wilde. [1]
Marked Cards in the Middle East
by Rob Recidivist
Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991
“Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson. Three old men shuffling the pack, dealing out the cards: The Rhineland, Danzig, the Polish Corridor, the Ruhr, self-determination of small nations, the Saar, League of Nations, mandates, the Mespot, Freedom of the Seas, Trans-Jordania, …
Y2K: Will it all fall apart?
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999
Previous to this era, opponents of capitalism, particularly marxists, but also anarchists, saw the internal contradictions inherent in the political economy as the basis of the system’s overthrow; the working class was to be the agency of revolution. Other marxist …
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
Operation Rescue Founder Pied by Biotic Baking Brigade Agents of the Biotic Baking Brigade-NYC cell pied Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, who was speaking on behalf of his new anti-abortion group, the Society for Truth and Justice.
It’s Anarchy Time!
by Jim Feast
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
I begin with two insights. Global systems theorist, Immanuel Wallerstein, argues that throughout capitalist history the working class has been divided into a proletariat, which makes a living solely through waged labor, and a semi-proletariat which in its contemporary incarnation, …
Beginning of Time, End of Time
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983
Just as today’s most obsessive notion is that of the material reality of time, self-existent time was the first lie of social life. As with nature, time did not exist before the individual became separate from it. Reification of this …
News & Reviews
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
Reviewed by Allan Antliff unless otherwise noted The Uncontrollables vs the Grotesque Frame-Up Against Anarchists in Italy: Dossier, 1997 documents the Italian government’s efforts to target Italy’s anarchist movement using the confession of an activist’s former lover. The government is …
What’s it Take to be a Man?
by Dave McReynolds
Fifth Estate # 39, October 1-15, 1967
It is hard to reach you guys. Once you go through the doors of that induction center it is almost impossible to get to you. Well, you are inside now. Maybe you are at some base in the U.S. getting …
Yes, We Have no Mañanas
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
The message relayed by the U.S. Strategic Air Command headquarters’ computer was unmistakable—Soviet missile attack! SAC B-52 bomber engines roared to life, their bomb bays laden with 20-megaton thermonuclear weapons; intercontinental ballistic systems were switched to command function—all that was …
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 94, December 11-24, 1969
(in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure) THURS. DEC. 11 HEAR COME THE REVOLUTION (too bad its about the American one) a gallery talk with Glenn Still, Curator of Fort Wayne Military Museum. At the Det. Hist. Museum. 3:30 p.m. Free. DETROIT …
Why Zines Refuse to Die
by Jason Rodgers
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
Why would someone continue to read and publish xeroxed zines two decades into the 21st century? Didn’t the technocracy announce that this variety of underground publishing was superseded by the hyper-mediated cybernetic dream web?
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
Fifth Estate Letters Policy We welcome letters commenting on our articles, stating opinions, or giving reports of events in your area. We don’t guarantee to print everything received, but all letters are read by our staff and considered for publication. …
Industrial Domestication
by Leopold Roc
Fifth Estate # 329, Summer, 1988
“If science was put to the service of capital, the recalcitrant worker’s docility would be assured.” —Andrew Ure, Philosophie des manufactures, 1835 “In the past, if anyone called a tradesman a worker, he risked a brawl. Today, when they are …
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Book distribution has been a mainstay of our collective for many years. We believe that reading can be a revolutionary activity, and in that spirit, we continue this service.
Post-war Postmortem
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
Although death and environmental destruction are continuing in Iraq and Kuwait, the Persian Gulf war is over in America. The remains can be seen in the dirt-streaked, plastic yellow ribbons sagging from trees and lampposts and at half-off sales for …
Make LBJ the Issue
by Dave McReynolds
Fifth Estate # 15, October 1-15, 1966
An open letter can be read by anyone. You are welcome to read it or not, but let me explain what this letter is about and to whom it is addressed. It is a letter about Vietnam and Johnson and …
Alexander Berkman: Life of an Anarchist
by Gary L. Doebler
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
a review of Life of an Anarchist: The Alexander Berkman Reader, by Gene Fellner, Four Walls Eight Windows, P.O. Box 548, Village Station, New York, NY 10014, 354 pp.
The New Earth First!
by David Watson, Snail Darter
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
Dear Fifth Estate: As an Earth First! sympathizer and subscriber to many deep ecology principles, I read David Watson’s How Deep Is Deep Ecology? with great interest. I learned a tremendous amount from it. His criticisms were penetrating and well …
This is what Anarchy Looks Like
by Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
The forces of capital have once again called upon their storm troopers and talking heads to physically and symbolically crush the growing, global anti-capitalist movement. In the United States, building from the tragic embarrassment of September 11 and overreacting to …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
The FE Bookstore is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit. We share space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and may be reached at the same phone number: (313)831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our hours …
An Anti-statist Outlook
by Unruhlee
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Israel, The U.S. in Miniature Much of the population of Israel, no different from people in the United States, denies its past as an invader/settler nation, is oblivious to the suffering which creates its plentitude, revels in self-generated myths …
Industrialism and its discontents
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
Download PDF [174 KB] fe-389-19-industrialism-and-its-discontents Nearly two hundred years ago, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley gave us a classic warning about the hubris of technology’s combat against nature. Her late Gothic novel, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818), depicts the revenge nature …
The Nuclear Freeze
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
The rapidity with which a movement against nuclear weapons and war has blossomed has been as surprising to us as it has been to everyone else. There can be no doubt that the possibility of nuclear holocaust, and the understandable …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Readers may have noticed that the important content last time limited our reviews sections. But now we are back. This summer, we caught up on our reading and offer the following four pages to comment on some of the many …
Group Sex
by Andy Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
Fifth Estate Note: Since his 1991 review/essay “Operation Gender Blur” [FE #336, Spring, 1991] Sunfrog has written about radical sexuality for the Fifth Estate. Both 1992’s “Pornography and Pleasure: Beyond Capital, Beyond Patriarchy” [FE #340, Autumn 1992] and 1993’s “Queer …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 356, Spring, 2002
Fifth Estate Letters Policy We welcome letters commenting on our articles, stating opinions, or giving reports of events in your area. We don’t guarantee to print everything received, but all letters are read by our staff and considered for …
The War on the Poor
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
Capitalism is never good to all of its subjects. Regardless of its carefully honed mythology of democratic access to success and class mobility, capitalist society is a system of looting whereby a few at the top and a small substratum …
Black Power for Watts?
by Clay Carson
Fifth Estate # 10, July 15, 1966
reprinted from the L.A. Free Press
“Workin’ on the Railroad”
by anonymous euonymous
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
SAN FRANCISCO — On September 5, 1987, an event occurred which may signal a breakthrough for the North American anti-war movement. Forty yards of railroad track and ties serving the Concord Naval Weapons Station (CNWS) in Port Chicago, were torn …
Resolve to Evolve
by Karen Elliot Jr.
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
Introduction Recently, the rulers of the Western Hemisphere met in Miami to continue negotiations on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) treaty, another blatant power grab by the corporate oligarchy. At the summit, Nov. 17-21, trade ministers signed …
Zerowork
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
Zerowork No. 1; Available from P.O. Box 515, Station C, Toronto, Ontario, Canada or through Ammunition Books (see further in this issue). The last few years have seen the appearance of few new journals, even fewer of which are worth …
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
Planning for Anarchist Gathering / 88 A meeting to plan the 1988 Anarchist Gathering was held Sept. 12 in Toronto which will be the host city. About sixty people from all over North America attended, indicating to the local planning …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 305, March 18, 1981
Entropy Revulsion Dear FE, I have absolute revulsion for the “Friends of Entropy,” Animals Liberation Front and others of that ilk. While they will take the most violent and desperate measures to “rescue” a dog, guinea pig, and white mice …