The FE BOOKSERVICE is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, both of which are located at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit MI 48201—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours we are open vary considerably, so it’s always best to …
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Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970
(in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure) THURS. DEC. 25 Many places closed, better call ahead. Happy birthday; baby Jesus!! FRI. DEC. 26 FLOCK YOU with Chicago’s Flock & Detroit’s own Stooges and Savage Grace, plus Magic Veil trippy lights at the …
GI Resistance in the 21st Century
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
“Welcome to the Republic of Darkness and Unemployment” — Baghdad graffiti It’s hard to be gleeful about the deteriorating situation in Iraq even when realizing that everything the anti-war movement predicted about Bush’s invasion for oil and empire has come …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
Texas Anarchist Howdy, Fifth Estate! There is some serious stuff happening here in Austin. A liberated Learning Collective has been established. Part of it is a how-to course to teach would-be publishers to use the L LC press to produce …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
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 …
Burning Man Comes to China
by Pierre Garine
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
Burning Man began with a wooden effigy and a single match on a beach in San Francisco in the late 1980s. When the police came and closed down the beach burning of the Man it was John Law and Michael …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
England’s Green Anarchist magazine is now available as single issues or in bulk from Autonome Distribution, PO Box 79119, New Orleans LA 70179. In GA the Earth First! Journal meets Class War and puts forth an anti-civilization perspective as uncompromising …
Joseph Labadie and the Labor Movement
by Julie Herrada
Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999
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
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 …