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San Francisco GIs March
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
from LNS and the Guardian SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12 — Over 10,000 marchers turned out on a drizzly, overcast morning to show their solidarity with the largest anti-war march ever organized by active-duty GIs and veterans.
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
In the hills of Tennessee, about an hour east of Nashville, on the outskirts of Dismal (population zero), there exists a barn. It’s an ordinary old barn from all outward appearances—except for a few anti war banners and the buzzing, …
Love & Rage Splits
by Liz Highteyman
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
Love & Rage (L&R), a continental anarchist organizing and newspaper network, underwent a major split at its annual conference in San Diego last July as a result of long-standing internal differences concerning structure and goals. The debates which brought the …
Anarchy & the Sacred
by Dogbane Campion (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
FE Note: This is a response to “More Minneapolis Anarchy,” the letters beginning on the previous page. To Joe Wojack, first of all, let me emphasize that I was in no way discouraging people from reading the anarchist classics; on …
Green Scare Prisoner Eric McDavid Freed From Prison
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.–On January 8, Green Scare prisoner Eric McDavid was ordered released from prison after nine years because the government admitted to withholding documents from the defense at his 2007 trial.
May Protests in Detroit
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 329, Summer, 1988
After months of intense organizing, Detroit’s Evergreen Alliance carried off a four-day “Mobilization to Save the Great Lakes,” May 13-16, centered around opposition to the world’s largest trash incinerator scheduled to open in May 1989.
Swamp Fever (excerpts)
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
FE note. Excerpts from “Swamp Fever, Primitivism & the ‘Ideological Vortex’: Farewell to All That” first published in the Fall 1997 issue of Fifth Estate (vol. 32 #2 (Whole Number 350)). End note.
Earth People’s Park
by Burning River Oracle
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
Note: The Hog Farm is an apolitical commune which has set up shop in New Mexico. A few innovators who had been involved in People’s Park and Woodstock got together with the Hog Farm and kindred spirits and have recently …
When someone invites you to vote, JUST SAY NO!
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
They’re hee-ere! Yes, folks, it’s the quadrennial electoral charade where power-seeking charlatans attempt to craft tricky speeches and programs designed to convince people to abandon common sense and reason and elect them to political office.
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
Jolt to James Bay In an era when almost all environmental battles seem doomed to defeat, it was heartening to see Quebec’s energy megaproject at James Bay dealt a crippling blow by the decision of the State of New York …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
Dear Dr. Schoenfeld: Recently my 14 month old daughter got ahold of some LSD tabs. The trip was apparently too much for her because she kept crying out in what seemed to be terror. My husband sat with her for …
Compromising and Computing
by Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
Staff writers at the Fifth Estate collective have been vigorous critics of technology for more than two decades. Rather than isolate particular tools or situations for a contextual attack, our challenges to the totalitarian tenets of the megamachine look to …
Fort Dix Stockade
by Sheila Ryan
Fifth Estate # 88, September 18-October 1, 1969
Editors’ Note: The following article was written last April by LNS staffer Sheila Ryan. The deplorable conditions she describes led to a massive stockade revolt at the base in June which was put down with severe brutality. Many of the …
The Dialectic of Enchantment
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
According to a certain conventional wisdom, there has been an unfortunate disenchantment of the world, and what is desperately needed is that we rediscover and recreate an enchanted world. This is, however, at best a half truth, and perhaps even …
We Have Work to do Before Catastrophe Strikes
by Dave Hanson
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
The most important tasks for those of us who would wear the anarcho-primitivist label, are to wait and watch the acceleration of the collapse of modernity and technology while we learn how to live without them.
The Feminine Letter
by Ody Saban
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
An Open Letter to Alphabets This story begins in the middle of a long night. I had been reading a tale in which the noted storyteller Baal Shem Tov appears and this was a dream I had in response …
Free Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 266, September, 1975
We hope this page becomes a place where we can communicate and take care of our basic needs outside of the capitalist, consumption market.
Latest on Murray Case
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976
There’s not much news on the fate of Marie and Noel Murray at this point. Although the two Irish anarchists have attempted to withdraw the appeals of their death sentences (see FE, October and November, 1976), they are still being …
The U.N. & the Debt
by Mitchel Cohen
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
Last December, Lawrence Summers the chief economist for the World Bank issued a surprisingly forthright memorandum to other senior World Bank staff in which he called for the distribution of toxic wastes and pollution away from the big industrialized nations …
Political Prisoners
by Robcat
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
It’s a cold Friday night in November in Portland, Maine. Comrades from around the state have gathered at the Aphodian Theater to support our imprisoned friend, Herman Bell. The benefit features bands and speakers, including former political prisoner Ray Luc …
Bits of the world in brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
The following letter, at the top of which appeared the heading “Direct Action,” recently arrived at the FE office. Its view of the ecological crisis and the essential sameness of the capitalist West and the communist East is one with …
Vandals Hit Sexist Ads
by Dennis Witkowski
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
Mohawk and the other booze peddlers hit by anti-sexist vandals moved quickly to restore their insults to women. Further action against them has been promised.
The beasts of the Southwest desert have a message for us
by Jason Rodgers
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of A Desert Pilgrim’s Bestiary by Anthony Walent, author; Maurice Spira, Illustrator. Eberhardt Press, 2019
Why be so Attached to your Penis?
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
Download MS Word .doc [29 kb] fe-389-13-Why-Penis “I haven’t seen anything like this before.” — Bernard Picton, Curator of Marine Invertebrates, National Museum of Northern Ireland Could the surreal imagination of even Karel Capek in his most bitingly satirical novel, …
GIs in Mutiny Trial
by Bob Seingrass
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
Liberation News Service/The Movement SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—Twenty-seven GIs at San Francisco’s Presidio Army Base stockade face the death penalty for staging a non-violent sit-down to protest the Oct. 11 murder of a fellow prisoner. The victim, Richard Bunch, 19, was …
CIRA at Sixty
by Sylvie Kashdan
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
Anarchist solidarity can take many forms, including collecting books, pamphlets, and letters. Through such activity, comrades active in the world’s anarchist archives are part of anchoring an important segment of the struggle for a libertarian and egalitarian world.
Diane di Prima (1934-2020)
by Marieke Bivar
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
Diane di Prima has died. Now we have no choice but to introduce her to each other, since she is no longer here to introduce herself.
What it Means to be a Prison Abolitionist
by Amanda D.
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
I started this work a few years ago when I became fascinated by what prisons were like in other countries and what prisoners in Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, and China had to endure. Then I became more involved in the local …
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
On Gogol Boulevard In Exile “On Gogol Boulevard” is the bulletin of the New York City Neither East Nor West Group which gives support and aids in communication between Eastern European anarchists and dissidents and similar movements in the West. …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
Fifth Estate Books is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit, in the same space as the Fifth Estate Newspaper. Hours vary, so please call before coming by.
Abortion—a woman’s natural right
by Lisa Nowak James
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
I remember being carried from the treatment room to a pleasant, sun-filled living room as I regained consciousness. The doctor carefully tucked a blanket around me and presented me with a smile and a cup of tea and asked how …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969
The following letter was received from Shreveport, Louisiana: QUESTION: How can a male determine whether or not he is circumcised? I am not sure about myself. ANSWER: Buy the John Lennon-Yoko Ono album. Neither John nor Yoko is circumcised. QUESTION: …
Making the Impossible Community Possible
by Jim Feast
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
a review of The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism by John P. Clark. Bloomsbury, 2013, 272 pp., $30 paper; $120 hardback; bloomsbury.com
Introduction to Fifth Estate Issue 374
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
Welcome to the New York City issue of Fifth Estate. The editorship of the magazine now rotates, and two of us in NYC have stepped in to give the peops in Detroit and Tennessee a rest (making this the first …
Granny Goose & Hanoi
by Art Kunkin
Fifth Estate # 6, March 20-April 1, 1966
(reprinted from the LA Free Press) Somewhere in Los Angeles this week, a small group of men and women are preparing the tenth in a series of weekly radio programs of news and critical commentary on America’s foreign policy which …
Execution Date Set for Mumia Abu-Jamal
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
On June 12, Pennsylvania Gov. Thomas Ridge signed a death warrant for Mumia Abu-Jamal—meaning that unless a judicial stay is granted, he’ll be executed in the state’s electric chair at 10 p.m. on Aug. 17.
Support Those Who Rattle Cages
by Marius Mason
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
a review of Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners, Editors: Eric King and Josh Davidson; forward by Angela Davis. AK Press, 2023
Miscellaneous news items
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 281, March, 1977
POLICE HALT ATOM DEMO On February 19, thousands of heavily armed riot police were massed on the Elbe River just outside of Brokdorf, W. Germany to prevent 10,000 demonstrators from occupying the site of a new nuclear power station as …
No Anarchy? No Money!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Endless philosophical or ideological battles have been fought for years attempting to define political identity. In the case of this publication, we have self-identified during the last 40 years as, progressive, socialist, ultra-left, council communist, nothing, anarchist, and anti-authoritarian. To …