FE Note: The anarchist novel that J.G. Eccarius wrote is The Last Days of Christ the Vampire, excerpts from which appear in the box below. It was first published in 1988 with a second edition featuring a new front and …
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More Minneapolis Anarchy
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
Our coverage of the 1987 Anarchist Gathering held in Minneapolis, June 18-22 [FE #326, Summer, 1987] engendered rather scant response given its criticism of “dyed-in-the-wool” anarchism, paganism as a “problematic current,” and the low level of “education(al) and historical discussion” …
History of the Fifth Estate: The Early Years
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
This article was originally written for our 30th anniversary edition which appeared in 1996. It has been updated and expanded for this issue.
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
Kent State Murders Memorialized Kent State University (KSU) announced that on May 4, 1999, the Ohio college parking lot where Sandra Scheuer, Jeffrey Miller, Allison Krause, and Bill Schroeder were shot to death by the Ohio National Guard on …
The Practical Marx
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
Karl Marx is always approached as so many thoughts, so many words. What connection is there between lived choices–one’s willful lifetime–and the presentation of one’s ideas? By 1846 Marx and Engels had written The German Ideology, which contains the full …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
The space which the Fifth Estate shares with three other groups has been the scene of a number of events recently, mostly rock performances, but also a smattering of theatre and comedy. They have been generally well-received with an exceptionally …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 305, March 18, 1981
A shortage of staff, and not money problems, kept us from putting out this issue sooner. For the first time in a long time we are in good financial shape, thanks to your numerous and extremely generous contributions. The contributions …
Anarchy in the Age of Reagan
by Fifth Estate Collective, John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986
Renew the Earthly Paradise Present Day Banalities The two essays printed here were written in response to a questionnaire sent out by the Italian anarchist magazine, Rivista anarchica, investigating the present situation for North American anarchist and libertarian groups and …
PCAUR Drives it Home
by J.R. Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 98, February 4-18, 1970
The cement never sets on the WSU empire. A sign is attached to the cement wall of the new Foreign Language Building at Wayne State University. It faces the John C. Lodge Freeway and the Matthaei Physical Education Complex beyond …
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
Wed. Sept. 18 LUMBERJACK DAYS. Here’s your big chance to stock up on firewood for the winter. You can even pretend you’re Paul Bunyan in East Tawas, Michigan. And don’t forget your blue ox.
Rock & Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
We arrived in New York City on Dec. 15 and made it to Steve Paul’s Scene to dig the Rationals and Slim Harpo. The Rats were cooking as ever and even managed to get a few people dancing. Slim Harpo …
Bits & Pieces from the World
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
ANNIVERSARIES IN LATE 2006 November 11th was the 120th anniversary of the hangings of the anarchist Haymarket martyrs in Chicago, Illinois. Albert Parsons, August Spies, Adolph Fischer and George Engel were hung (and Louis Lingg committed suicide) after a bomb …
Three Anarchist Rebellions on Film
by Dan Georgakas
Fifth Estate # 386, Spring, 2012
Hundreds of films take on anarchist themes in some manner, but only a handful deal with anarchist governance. Three of the most interesting of these are, Alexander the Great (Megalexandros, 1980, Greek), Viva Zapata! (1952, United States), and Rebellion in …
Walla Walla Prison Revolt Continues
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 299, October 22, 1979
During the last five months, the ongoing battle between prisoners and prison administrators over the inhuman conditions at the Washington State Prison at Walla Walla, Wash., has escalated to the savage beatings of hundreds of people by guards after an …
Grounds for Decolonizing
by Kathleen Rashid
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
A review of The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization and Resistance (Ed., M. Annette Jaimes, South End Press, 1992)
Dancing to the Beat of Indigenous Resistance
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
Black Indian identity charts a course that, by its own hybrid nature, sails beyond the simplistic binaries commonly associated with racial nationalism, while at the same time carving out its own cross-cultural position in the struggle against white supremacy.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
Send letters to fe@fifthestate.org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220. All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten. Letters may be edited for length. CHOMSKYIAN Your editorial on the Ukraine war in FE #411, Spring 2022 starts out promising, …
Algiers Murder Trial
by Chris Singer
Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969
While the rest of the “Motor city was Burning,” to paraphrase the MC5, ironically to the tune of “Light My Fire,” the annex of the former Algiers Motel was quiet. Guests were sleeping, “eating hot dogs” and “listening to music.”
Propagandada discovered in Detroit
by Sonny Tufts (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976
The Dadaists were writers and artists who made it their raison d’etre to destroy culture, or at least literature and art. They carried to its ultimate and absurd conclusion the distinction between form and content in art, rejecting literary conventions, …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Readers may note that the Ron Cobb cartoons we publish each issue often have copyright (ugh!) dates on them of up to twenty years ago. Beyond being a testimony to the wit and creativeness of the cartoonist, the drawings aptly …