Fifth Estate: I want to offer some criticisms of the latest issue. The Vietnam article [Web archive note: This article first appeared in FE #320, Spring 1985. With an added Introduction by Richard Drinnon it was reprinted in FE #346, …
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Comments on Central America
by Blueberry, Fifth Estate Collective, George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 331, Spring 1989
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 …
The End of Money
by Daniel Pinchbeck
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
The crisis of the financial markets has taken on gargantuan proportions.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 298, June 19, 1979
Jim & Sid Bon Jours Cinque Etate: Allors!—as France’s leading Anarchist & Public Enemy Number One, I wish to offer my congratulations on your fine paper. As a revenue generating device, may I suggest an idea for a t-shirt: on …
Bombing Civilians
by R. Relievo (Rob Blurton), R. Yamada
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
Dear FE: After reading your articles in FE #345, Winter 1995 on the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan, I couldn’t help but feel a little bit of historical and moral context was needed to balance the distortion contained …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
The FE BOOKSERVICE is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, both of which are at 5928 Second, Detroit MI 48202. telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours we are open vary considerably, so it’s always best to give …
Vietnam Newsletter
by Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam
Fifth Estate # 8, May, 1966
Vietnam Newsletter Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam Vol. 1, No. 2 1101 W. Warren, 832-5700, May, 1966
Workers Battle GE Electric Octopus
by David Gaynes
Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970
147,000 workers at the General Electric Corporation went on strike October 27, 1969. Today, they’re still out of work with little hope of any rapid change in their bleak situation. General Electric’s (non-) negotiators have refused to budge a comma …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
FE Note: The letters which appear on these two pages are mostly responses to our July 1981 edition which was devoted mainly to a discussion and critique of technology and the modern world it has spawned. Single copies of that …
Number
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Introduction In his article on the idea of number, John Zerzan completes what appears to have become a trilogy on the origins and development of abstraction, and the accompanying alienation of humanity from nature and from the sources of …
Who Killed Ned Ludd?
by John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 271, April, 1976
The argument that the advent of capitalism brought a rise in the standard of living for workers has been refuted before, but is shown graphically in these two prints. Prior to the dominance of the capitalist economy and the establishment …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987
Lions 1 Comrades: You have won a place in my heart forever. The lions’ response to the letter, “Pretty Bad Taste” (FE Vol. 21 No. 1) was right on!
Letter from New Orleans
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
The following letter was sent to an International Conference on Elisee Reclus, the 19th century anarchist geographer and political theorist. The conference, which was held in Milan on October 12-13, was one of several planned for 2005 to celebrate the …
Anarchy & the Sacred
by Dogbane Campion (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
FE Note: This is a response to “More Minneapolis Anarchy,” the letters beginning on the previous page. To Joe Wojack, first of all, let me emphasize that I was in no way discouraging people from reading the anarchist classics; on …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
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. Typed letters or ones …
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Lathe of Heaven
by Josh Gosicak
Fifth Estate # 382, Spring, 2010
“To objectivise life means to destroy it.” — Ana Esther Cecune, Development Dialogue, January 2009.
I’m Sticking with the Union?
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
“Hey! What are you guys doing here? You hate unions!” —A strike supporter The labor militant who aimed this question at us was surprised, almost shocked, to see a group whom she considers anarchists critical of unions, shoulder-to-shoulder with striking …
Paradise How?
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008
“I’m an advocate of free love. What else can I say? I think people should do what they like, enjoy what they enjoy, and we should enjoy their enjoying what they enjoy.” –Judith Malina (interviewed by Jim Feast and Steve …
Murder on Seal Island
by Larry Talbot
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
Introductory Note: Is it the war of the Malvinas or the fight for the Falklands? It all depends upon which imperialist gang you support, the doddering Great Britain or the budding young Argentina. But what if you support neither of …
The Metaphysics of Dancing Tribes
by Richard Drinnon
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
Introduction Chief Luther Standing Bear wrote in his autobiography, “The white man does not understand the Indian for the reason that he does not understand America. He is too far removed from its formative processes. The roots of the tree …
Haymarket Square Riot
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 272, May 1976
This article is the fourth in a series of counter-Bicentennial pieces dealing with the more sordid and often less-acknowledged incidents in America’s 200year-old history.
The (Last) Rights of Malice Green
by G. Raffito
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
On a chilly Friday morning, November 6, 1992, a slight drizzle dabbed the sidewalk where the night before a man had been bludgeoned to death by a gang of Detroit policemen.
1984: Worse Than Expected?
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
1. Slavery Is Freedom. How technology makes use of our own natural anxieties about it to promote its power over us.
Mutiny at the Outposts of Empire
by Rob Blurton
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
Thirty years ago, the most powerful military colossus ever assembled, its triumphant legions spread throughout the world, committed an expeditionary force of its best troops to the Asian mainland. “The American Army of 1965,” wrote an admiring historian, “was headstrong …
1918: Russian Artists of the Anarchist Revolution
by Allan Antliff
Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997
Three artists spent the night in the mansion, since outside the museum a studio was set aside for making art. As the artists told it, that memorial morning We were awakened by shouts of “We’ll shoot! Hands up!” Armed soldiers …
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On The Future of the Earth
by Russell Means
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
Related: see FE Staff introduction, “Against Civilization,” in this issue. The only possible opening for a statement of this kind is that I detest writing. The process itself epitomizes the European concept of “legitimate” thinking; what is written has an …
The My Lai Massacre
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976
This article is the second in a series of counter-Bicentennial pieces dealing with the more sordid and less-acknowledged incidents in America’s 200-year-old history.
Cuba: From State to Private Capitalism
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
HAVANA — We entered the elevator on the ground floor of Havana’s renowned FOCSA building in the city’s Vedado district and were quickly whisked, non-stop, to the 33rd floor. When the doors opened, tuxedoed waiters welcomed us to La Torre, …
Turn on the Light and Say Goodnight
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
“A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food each year.” — Dixy Lee Ray, former head of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), now governor of Washington “You can’t have a riskless …
Turn on the Light and Say Goodnight
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
Reprinted from FE #283, June 1977.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997
Fifth Estate 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 …
On the Machine in the Garden
by Fredy Perlman
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
See also: “The Machine against the Garden” (author’s introduction) in this issue, FE #321, Indian Summer, 1985. Your comments as well as the urgings of other friends stimulated me to read Leo Marx’s book The Machine in the Garden. I …
Poetry
by Guerrilla
Fifth Estate # 69, December 26, 1968-January 8, 1969
[Web Archive note: This centerfold insert is a two-sided 15 x 22 inch poster, of which this page can be considered the back side. The other side of the poster is rendered at https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/69-december-26-1968-january-8-1969/poetry-2/ .] The Consumer Society Must Die …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
Our Firm Convictions Dear Fifth Estate: I enjoy your publication and find it very thought provoking. As far as criticism of the existing social order is concerned, it is perhaps the most consistently inclusive I have run across. It is …
On the road to nowhere
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Looking to change my life, at the age of nineteen I decided to pack my belongings into a knapsack and hitch-hike to California. Two miraculous rides carried me through prairies, deserts and mountains into Los Angeles to a friend’s place …
The End of Communication?
by Jesse Cohn
Fifth Estate # 376, Halloween, 2007
As long as we’re on the subject of endings–or rather, the rhetoric of “the end”–I’d like to intervene in the ongoing conversation about what Roger Farr recently referred to in these pages as “the end of an era,” i.e., 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 …
Beyond Bookchin (excerpts)
by David Watson, Steve Welzer
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
Introduction by Steve Welzer The text which begins on the following page is excerpted from Beyond Bookchin: Preface for a Future Social Ecology, a new title co-published in fall 1996 by Black & Red, Detroit, and Autonomedia, Brooklyn. Its author …
The Promise of the ’80s
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 302, June 1, 1980
Related: see Intro to Zerzan in this issue. For many, the 1970s were—and the 1980s bid fair to continue—a kind of “midnight of the century,” an arrival at the point of complete demoralization and unrelieved sadness. What follows is one …
Becoming Seattle
by Jack Bratich
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
One characteristic that seems pervasive recently among many political actors (including anarchists) is a fixation with the State’s incessant “failures.” From the vulnerability that the State experienced on 9/11/01 to the breakdown of the State during Hurricane Katrina, there is …