Kelly Pflug-Back sentenced to 15 months for attacks in Toronto by Fifth Estate Fifth Estate writer and editor, Kelly Rose Pflug-Back, was sentenced by a Canadian court July 19 to 15 months in prison for militant actions carried out by …
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FE Criticized & Our Response
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 291, April 30, 1978
To the Fifth Estate: The letter from “Kirk Johnson” (FE #290, March 2, 1978), which equated Fifth Estate’s practice of running a profit-making book service (to support itself) with Search & Destroy’s record company ads (for the same end), makes …
Comments on Revolutionary Violence
by Muswell Hillbillie, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977
Muswell Hillbillie Responds: Hi FE Folks, After reading the two letters (FE #287, October 28, 1977) responding to my article in the August FE (#285, August, 1977), I have decided to abandon the use of the term “terrorism,” because I …
Party Like It’s 1929!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008
Common radical wisdom suggests that capitalism won’t crumble on its own, so imagine the ironically comforting confidence with which we have watched the system convulse over the last few months. But as Don LaCoss reminds us in “The Disasters of …
Resister Update
by Mitchel Cohen
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
FE readers may remember the case of Danny Gillis [Fifth Estate #337, Late Summer 1991], a black man from Baltimore, who refused to board the Marine Corps bus to Saudi Arabia last December 17, and was beaten up (with his …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 89, October 2-15, 1969
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
Pig Riot Manual Exposed!
by Howard Kohn
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
(via The Ann Arbor Argus) When the insurrection of July, 1967 began, Detroit police were ready with Schutzstaffel rules.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
Unclassifieds cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
Anarchy and Ecstasy
by Hakim Bey
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
a review of Anarchy & Ecstasy: Visions of Halcyon Days by John Moore. Aporia Press, 308 Canberwell New Rd., London SE5 UK, 44 pp., $4. Available from FE Books.
Calendar of Resistance
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
June 28-July 5 – Earth First! Round River Rendezvous Annual gathering of the Earth First! Movement. Contact: www.maineef.org, maineEF@yahoo.com, 1-800-MY-YAHOO mailbox # 922-487-3887, 224 West Side Drive, Verona Island, ME 04416
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
Black Workers’ Power
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 92, November 13-26, 1969
Another letter has been engraved on the tombstone of the dying United Auto Workers bureaucracy as 300 members of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers gathered outside Cobo Hall Sunday morning, Nov. 9, to protest the racist practices of the …
Campaign ’66
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966
“The free election of masters eliminates neither the masters nor the slaves.” —Herbert Marcuse American politics, as has been noted here before, is the politics of non-alternatives and pseudo-choices. If we needed any evidence, the present election provides it. Search …
The Refusal of Technology
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
FE Introduction: Members of the Fifth Estate staff and our friends (as well as some not so friendly) have been debating the role of technology and its function within the larger system of domination almost since the inception of our …
Old Perspectives on Race at WSU
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
On October 19 to 21, Wayne State University will sponsor a conference titled “New Perspectives on Race and the City.” Featured speakers include G. Mennen Williams, Jerome P. Cavanagh, Hubert Locke, Roger Wilkins of the U.S. Justice Department, Community Relations …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 271, April, 1976
The revolution is a thing of the people, a popular creation; the counterrevolution is a thing of the State. It has always been so and will always be so, whether in Russia, Spain or China. –Anarchist Federation of Iberia (FA …
From Red Anarchism to Green Anarchy
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
From its Eat the Rich Gang incarnation in the 1970s, Fifth Estate has been an unparalleled source of new ideas. Thinkers like Fredy Perlman, Jacques Ellul, and Jacques Camatte were introduced and moved anti-authoritarian perspectives forward very significantly.
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 33, July 1-15, 1967
The ridiculous bill in the U.S. House of Representatives to penalize flag-burners passed by a whopping majority (385 to 16) last week—but in their haste, the patriotic legislators forgot to include the specific term “burning” in their prohibition. They did …
Letters to the Editor
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 22, January 15-30, 1967
To the Editor: Leaving aside his descent into scatology and personal abuse, Shelley Manne’s letter [FE #21, January 1-15, 1967] claims that I am in error regarding the degree of integration in 1) his group; 2) his club; 3) …
A New Detroit?
by Benjamin Hababee, Frank H. Joyce, Fred Baker
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
Curious. The same people who built the old Detroit, which the people burned down because apparently they didn’t like it much, have been selected to build the new Detroit.