During the Cold War period, there was a sector of anarchists/left-libertarians in the West who took special interest in developments and repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries. Their interest was in part due to the ultra-closed nature …
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Concept East Reopens
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 3, January 1966
Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh last month ordered the renewal of a concert hall license for Concept East Theatre. // Share this on…
East Detroit Protest
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 71, January 23-February 5, 1969
East Detroit High School was the scene Jan. 10 of a student sit-in protesting school policies there. // Share this on…
State Terrorism in West Germany
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 289, January 24, 1978
As the letter on the preceding page indicates [“Who Are the Real Terrorists?,” FE #289, January 24, 1978], though the more spectacular aspects of the repression in West Germany are now fading from the popular imagination, the “policification” of the …
Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
a review of Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out. Contact Jenna Free at leslzine–at–gmail–dot–com for barter to library workers; $3 to everyone else. // Share this on…
West German Protest
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Staff Note: Several weeks ago LNS received a letter from some activist friends in West Germany, telling us about a huge anti-nuclear demonstration/ occupation that took place in mid-November (1976). Apparently demonstrations of 30,000 and severe police repression is not …
Alt-right on the Run After East Lansing Antifa Action
by Cody Constructor
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
For those curious whether Antifa tactics can actually deliver the goods when it comes to disrupting fascist organizing efforts, the activity surrounding white supremacist Richard Spencer’s early March visit to Michigan should serve as a resounding, “Yes!” The alt-right leader, …
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West German Anarchists on the Autonome
by Elizabeth Kemp
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
FE Introduction During the massive European anti-nuke demonstrations of the ’70s, at squatter defenses and other actions across the Continent, shadowy groups of angry militants, often dressed in black, masked and armed with slingshots and stones became a common sight. …
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, …
Facing West
by Alice Detroit
Fifth Estate # 308, January 19, 1982
a review of Facing West, The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire Building, Richard Drinnon, New York, New American Library, 1980. // Share this on…
Fascist Youth Gangs Plague West Coast
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986
In the last few years there has been a rapid increase of right-wing white gangs in Southern California’s white, middle-class suburbs. Known as “white-boy gangs,” they are not as territorial as the traditional cultural gangs in black or Mexican urban …
Pen Pals
by Jessamine O'Connor
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
Friends for fifteen years and never met. She sends letters across the Atlantic, then the span of land from east to west and into the front gates to be rifled through, security checked and sometimes rejected, wheeled along corridors and …
In The On-Deck Circle
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
The authoritarian, proto-fascist religious cults such as the Moonies, Krishna Consciousness and the People’s Temple have always thrived at the fringes of what was once called the “counter-culture” and which is today euphemistically referred to as “New Age” consciousness—a catch-all …
PAR Benefits at Concept
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 33, July 1-15, 1967
Benefit performances for People Against Racism will be given by the Concept East Theater on July 7th and 8th. Two plays, Edward Albee’s “A Zoo Story” and Leroi Jones’ “The Dutchman,” will be performed on Friday, July 7th. Laurence Blaine’s …
Don’t Trust Cops?
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968
CLEVELAND, July 26 (LNS)—The new penalty for filming the arrest of blacks on Cleveland’s East Side is possible broken ribs, multiple cuts and bruises and maybe a broken tooth, two NBC cameramen learned recently. // Share this on…
From the Other Side of the Tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969
Reprinted with permission of The Guardian, independent radical weekly, NYC The revolutionary process takes many decades to fulfill itself. The generation which finally assumes power gives the appearance of having started a revolution in a short period of time. …
Anarchy in Trieste
by Bob McGlynn
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
The Italian group Germinal sponsored the first-ever large scale planning meeting of anarchists from the East and West in Trieste, Italy from April 14 through 17. Although they did not intend to have a huge gathering, 332 people registered from …
Armories: Not for Boat Shows
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976
“Chicago has become quite a military center. Owing to the fact that it is also a great center for labor organizations, and, in order to have a strong force of regular troops. Within easy call in case of labor troubles, …
The Next Generation of Autonome?
by Elizabeth Kemp
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
WEST BERLIN—Situated on 3 acres of land in Kreuzberg, West Berlin, between the colorful graffiti art on exhibit at the Berlin Wall and a hundred year old building, there exist some of the last remains of the West Berlin squatter …
Nuclear War Erupts!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 308, January 19, 1982
UPI—The dream of “containment” of a limited nuclear exchange to the European theater collapsed utterly today when the Reagan administration’s demonstration air-burst over the Baltic Sea touched off a rapidly-escalating series of events which culminated in all-out nuclear war between …