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FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
The FE Bookservice may be reached at the same address as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, P.O. Box 02548, Detroit MI 48202 USA, telephone (313) 831-6800. Visitots are welcome, but our hours vary so please call before dropping in.
Dr. HIPocrisy
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976
Dear Dr. Hypocrisy, My boyfriend just got over a “dose” of Trotskyism. He says he is “safe” to begin relations again, but I’m worried. What do you think?
The Life of Guy Debord: A History
by Allan Antliff
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
reviewed in this article Guy Debord—Revolutionary by Len Bracken, Feral House, Venice, California, 1997, 267 pp.
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
Welcome to the Fall/Winter 1993 Fifth Estate. Our last edition, the Summer 1993 Special Issue on Dope, Queer Sex, and Anarchy generated more controversy and negative responses than any one since our Special Women’s issue published in 1970.
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 81, June 12-25, 1969
QUESTION: While watching the action attendant the occupation of People’s Park, I received several mild doses of tear gas. The result seems to be a considerable lessening of congestion in my sinuses, though I suffer from chronic sinusitis. Do you …
A Gorilla Takes On Civilization–Sort Of
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
a review of Ishmael, Daniel Quinn, 1993, Bantam/Turner, New York, 262 pp., $6.00.
More Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust by Alon Raab is a thoughtful personal account of the struggle to save an old Portland community from demolition and “development.”
‘Inhuman Treament’ Charged by Families of Fort Hood Three
by Marlene Tyre
Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966
Last month the Fort Hood Three were convicted and sentenced to prison terms of three years for Mora; and five years for Samas and Johnson. The Fort Hood Three, to perhaps refresh a few memories, are Pvt. Dennis Mora, Pvt. …
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Free readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 291, April 30, 1978
Though we do not accept commercial advertising, this Unclassified ad space is free for our readers’ use. We do not accept ads over the telephone, so please send your ads in writing to our office at: 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, …
Statement from the Hole
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
FE Note: The Fifth Estate has a long history of granting free subscriptions to prisoners of the state—inmates and GIs, but often their masters object to our content. No wonder since our ideas challenge the concept of rulers and ruled …
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
In our last issue George Bradford reported there are some five thousand pieces of junk floating around in space, including several nuclear reactors that will eventually fall back to earth. (See “Biosphere 2: The Future of the Planet?” FE #343, …
The Fort Hood Three: An American Tragedy
by Marlene Tyre
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
“Conscience is a costly thing, and I am paying dearly for the rights to my mind. Five years a cement wall and cold iron bars… is the price I am paying for real freedom. If it must be this way, …
Prison and Gary Gilmore
by Marcus Graham
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
During the last score of years there have been numerous prison outbreaks and attempted prison escapes throughout the United States. The media has invariably labeled these as “riots” and acts of “dangerous criminals.” What the media deliberately fails to reveal …
How a Forest Really Grows
by Marius Mason
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
a review of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard. Alfred A. Knopf, 2021
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Forget those L.L. Bean and Harry & David catalogs! When you’re picking out presents for the holidays, send revolutionary literature as gifts and help support independent publishers and booksellers. If you want a wider selection of anti-authoritarian titles, contact Left …
Accommodating Industrialism
by Saral Sarkar
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
The success of the ecological movement in the First World is of vital importance to the movement in the Third. The industrialized societies have always provided the dominant global development model, and unless the paradigm of industrialism is rejected in …
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
Send check, money order, or well concealed cash to: Fifth Estate Books PO Box 6 Liberty, TN 37095 Please add $2 shipping/handling for first item, $1 for the second and subsequent one, etc… Thanks for your recent order! Most book …
Live Wild Or Die
by Mikal Jakubal
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
Introduction FE NOTE: When we first published a critique of the deep ecology movement last fall (“How Deep Is Deep Ecology? A Challenge to Radical Environmentalism,” [FE #327, Fall, 1987] available through our book service for $.75 plus postage), …
Revelations!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
This edition begins our 42nd year of continuous publishing as the longest running, English language anarchist publication in American history. We’ve got a ways to go to catch the Yiddish language Freie Arbeiter Stimme (Free Voice of Labor) which printed …
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Books Bill Ayers Fugitive Days (2001) $10 James Bell The Last Wizards (2002) $5.00
Anarchist Cabaret
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 361, Summer 2003
a review of The Anarchist and the Devil Do Cabaret by Norman Nawrocki, Black Rose Books, 2002, 192 pp., $20
Giving Back Wild
by Ria
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
Consensus is boiling that humans have become hyper-exploiters, impacting and taking so much from nature that remaining ecosystems are entering death spirals. Is it possible for human’s bred-in exploiter culture to shift from a taking lifeway from the wild to …
Resistance
by Ron Halstead
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
On June 19 a group of young men declared their intention to confront the draft. The ceremony, originally scheduled for St. Patrick’s Church had to be quickly rescheduled for St. Joseph’s Church when church authorities declared the meeting would not …
Underground Press Has Tribal Meeting
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
San Francisco (UPS) The Underground Press Syndicate, of which the Fifth Estate is a member, was founded more than a year ago in order to facilitate the communication of information which the Establishment press ignores, suppresses, or never dreamed of.
The Brighter Side of Conflict
by Carl Hughes, George Lakey
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
How Conflict Encourages Growth Most of us don’t like dealing with conflict in movement politics. There are times when our projects are rolling along smoothly and then we hit a point of contention and suddenly the room is full of …
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 …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
Boa No. 2 (June 1988), a publication of the Bevy of Anarchist-Feminists from Vancouver and Montreal, is a wild, provocative, angry, often depressing but also humorous collection of poems, graphics, short essays and stories (some in French) covering a wide …
Contents of print edition
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
Fifth Estate Issue #377, March, 2008, Vol. 43 No. 1
Larry Miller
by Larry Miller
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
First, I would like to thank the editors of The Fifth Estate for asking me to contribute. Folk music and the new music, called Folk-rock are my own areas of endeavor, and I hope I will be able to add …
Objections to Councilism
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
FE Note: This is a response to “More Minneapolis Anarchy,” the letters beginning on page 15 of this issue.
Controversy Over Wooden Shoe Trashing
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
As we were completing work on our current issue, we received a letter for publication from the Wooden Shoe collective in Philadelphia regarding the vandalism of their bookstore last October. At that time the premises were entered with a key, …
Contents of print edition
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
Letters, page 2 Issue intro, page 3 The Logic of the Telescope Against the wisdom of Hawaii’s Native People STEVE KIRK page 4 Seattle Far-Right Shooter’s Trial Ends in Hung Jury: How can we get justice in an unjust system? …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
THE ENEMY: If Hoover really did have RFK’s authorization to tap Martin Luther King’s phone why doesn’t he produce the signed memo that says so. James Bennett, director of Federal prisons for almost 30 years, has now written a book …
Back to 1911
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 386, Spring, 2012
Reversion to 1911 would constitute a perfect first step for a 21st century neo-Luddite movement. Living in 1911 means using technology and culture only up to that point and no further, or as little as possible.
The Question of Agriculture
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 331, Spring 1989
One irony of the deep ecology discussion is that almost at the same time that some deep ecologists were taking an explicit position for the abolition of agriculture as the prime cause of the widening spiral of civilization and ecological …
Murrays’ Execution Stayed
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
On December 9th the Irish Supreme Court set aside the death penalty for anarchists Noel and Marie Murray, charged with shooting an off-duty policeman during a bank robbery. That’s the good news, but there’s not much to feel victorious about, …
Ukrainian and Russian Repression
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
Over the past year, ruling elites in Russia and Ukraine—often in collaboration with fascist gangs—intensified active repression of those who dare to express dissident points of view on a wide range of topics, from workers’ demands for back pay, to …
Anarchists Arrested in Britain
by Johnny G.
Fifth Estate # 293-294, August 21, 1978
Attacking what they call “terrorists” and “idealistic persons” who would take “positive steps” to overthrow society, the British government’s elite Special Branch and Anti-terrorist Squad (ATS) have conducted a series of raids designed to create an atmosphere of conspiracy and …
Copyright or Wrong?
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 385, Fall, 2011
Most everyone knows that the small encircled, lower case letter “c” indicates that a piece of work is copyrighted, and that it designates legal protection of creative work and intellectual property. Perhaps the key word for this discussion is the …