The march of human social organization is essentially the story of how people have found ways of harvesting ever more energy from their environments in order to sustain ever more humans. The story began with the harnessing of fire and …
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Will Success Spoil Chumbawamba?
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
I arrived early at Clutch Cargo’s, once an imposing church, but now a trendy rock joint in yuppified downtown Pontiac, a gritty, predominantly black, industrial Detroit suburb. The occasion was a concert by Chumbawamba, the anarchist pop group from Leeds, …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
Obscene Competition To the FE: Let me make some observations regarding the recent debates in the FE on organization, worker’s councils, and so on. I hope you take what I say as friendly criticism rather than as the beginning of …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
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.
Stumbling Upon Public School Utopias
by William Boyer (Bill Boyer)
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Part One: Utopia Outlined February 1999: I’m pivoting on my desk, basking in a student-led discussion, momentarily featuring a couple of black-clad teenagers contrasting the ideological differences between Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid with Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment.
The Collapse of the Armed Forces
by Robert D. Heinl Jr.
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
FE Note: The article reprinted here first appeared in the Armed Forces Journal, June 7, 1971, and is excerpted here from The Movement Against the War, Ramparts Press, 1972. Col. Heinl’s hawkish military columns were a regular feature in the …
Camatte, Collu & On Organization
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
To the Fifth Estate: Realizing that he who jumps into the middle of a fight gets shot at from both sides, I must say that both sides in the debate over “On Organization” are wrong: Ed Clark with his impersonal …
Comments on Central America
by Blueberry, Fifth Estate Collective, George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
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, …
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 …