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Patriarchy and Progress
by Ariel Salleh, Maria Mies
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
The eco-feminism of Maria Mies stands at the crossroads of feminist, ecological and colonial liberation movements. Mies attempts to bring Marxian theory face to face with the newly emerging political crises of the late 20th century. This has involved further …
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 317, Summer 1984
On September 27, 1983, during a demonstration protesting the visit of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Ken Deyarmond, a Toronto activist, was pushed from behind toward Thatcher. He was tackled by a cop, thrown to the sidewalk, handcuffed, and charged …
Prison Letter from John
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
Sept. 30, 1969 Dear People, Sorry I haven’t written in so long but I wanted to get settled up here before writing you again. There seems to be a lot more going on out there in the streets than happens …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate Newspaper (?) [sic] and can be found at 4403 Second Avenue—telephone (313) 831-6800. Our hours vary quite a bit, so it’s always best to give us a …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
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 hours …
Kropotkin’s Metaphysics of Nature
by Graham Purchase
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
An Introduction to Graham Purchase’s Kropotkin Graham Purchase’s essay reveals what a subtle and revolutionary thinker Kropotkin was. While underestimating the importance of the mutual aid theory (certainly it was more than the one per cent of Kropotkin’s theoretical perspective …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 292, June 19, 1978
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and can be found at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 48201 (telephone-313-831-6800). Our hours vary, but we are generally open on Monday and Thursday afternoons (from 1pm to 5pm) and at …
Million Refuse Registration
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 308, January 19, 1982
Faced with upwards of a million men who have refused to register for the draft, President Reagan announced on December 10, a halt to prosecutions scheduled in the cases of 161 resisters, This means that currently there are no legal …
Somali Pirates
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
“The past is not only not dead, it’s not even past.” — W. Faulkner
Unclassified Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
Send to: The Fifth Estate, 1107 W. Warren, Detroit, Mich. 48201, phone 831-6800 Unclassified costs 50 cents per line per week. Figure 5 words per line. A word is a word, including I and 2 letter words. A phone number …
Who Are the Real Terrorists?
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 289, January 24, 1978
The following is a letter forwarded to us (after translation) by friends in Seattle. Though some of the factual information has already been published previously in the FE (see Oct./Nov. and Dec. ’77 issues) we found its first-hand nature and …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 301, February 26, 1980
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that you give …
Poland: 1970-71
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
a review of Poland: 1970-71; Capitalism and Class Struggle, Informations Correspondence Ourvrieres (ICO), 117 pages; illustrated, Black & Red, Detroit, 1977.
Whales
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
The point is that man is literally undoing the work of organic evolution. By creating vast urban agglomerations of concrete, metal and glass, by overriding and undermining the complex, often subtly organized ecosystems that constitute local differences in the natural …
Zines as Means for Change
by Len Bracken
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
a review of War of Dreams: A Field Guide to DIY Psy-Ops by Jason Rodgers. PM Press, 2024
News and Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
Within the past several months the FE has received many publications and letters from Greece trying to make contact with radicals and libertarian revolutionaries in the U.S.
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
Back In Stock! Bolo Bolo, Anarchy Comix & other FE Favorites SOCIETY AGAINST THE STATE by Pierre Clastres
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
A happy new year thank-you to all of you who responded so quickly to our request in the last issue to please renew your subscriptions promptly. Thank you also for all the very generous donations and requests for papers to …
Resistance Remains Widespread
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 311, Winter, 1983
During October, two non-registrants in contact with the Fifth Estate received warning letters from the Selective Service System (SSS) regarding their failure to report. This broke an almost two year silence on the part of the government during which the …
Chile Uprising for Land & Freedom
by Anne Petermann, Gary Hughes, Orin Langelle
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
The sun of the austral summer rose warm on Santiago, the capital of Chile, as hundreds of thousands of women began to take to the streets on International Women’s Day. This traditional day of feminist mobilization celebrated annually on March …
In the World of Digital, Print Raises A Challenge
by Rich Dana (Ricardo Feral)
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of Urgent Publishing after the Artist’s Book: Making Public Movements Toward Liberation by Paul Soulellis (Book Design: Be Oakley). GenderFail 2021
The Golden Age of the Barbarians
by James C. Scott
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
James C. Scott has written extensively on how people have transitioned from tribal societies to civilization as part of the process of state formation, and how resistance to state domination has occurred in this context. In Seeing Like a State: …
Interview with Ed Sanders
by Ed Sanders
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
Editor’s Note: Ed Sanders, founder and lead singer of the fuck-rock group The Fugs, is a legendary figure on the avant-garde poetry-peace-dope-fucking in the streets scene in the Lower East Side of New York City. A native of Kansas, Sanders …
Back on the streets, Fifth Estate writer reflects on prison experience
by Kelly Pflug-Back
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
I was released from state custody in February after serving seven and a half months in the Vanier Center for Women, a provincial jail in southern Ontario, for charges stemming from the G20 summit protests in Toronto during the summer …
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A Wild and Radical Life Cut Short by Fascists
by Kathy E. Ferguson
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams (with the original text of “Lesbian Love”) by Jonathan Ned Katz. Chicago Review Press 2021
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
Unclassified Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
UNCLASSIEIEDS cost 50¢ per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES Five …
New Computer System Used Against Poor
by Colleen Jensen, Sonny Tufts (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976
In House appropriations Bill 4445 for fiscal year 1975-1976, the State Legislature has instructed the Department of Social Services (DSS), the Department of Labor (through the MESC) and the Department of the Treasury to “develop a plan for the exchange …
Everybody but Bush
by Don LaCoss, Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith), Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Don LaCoss The election is already over and we have lost. The name of the president for the next four years won’t be announced until November 3, but I know right now that the guy who won is a white …
Comments on Revolutionary Violence
by Muswell Hillbillie, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977
Muswell Hillbillie Responds: Hi FE Folks, After reading the two letters (FE #287, October 28, 1977) responding to my article in the August FE (#285, August, 1977), I have decided to abandon the use of the term “terrorism,” because I …
Fredy Perlman
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Fredy Perlman was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia on August 20, 1934. He emigrated with his parents to Cochabamba, Bolivia in 1938 just ahead of the Nazi takeover. The Perlman family came to the United States in 1945 and lived variously …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
Unclassifieds cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words.) Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
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Fifth Estate Archive Back issues Resource pages Fifth Estate Live interview archive (May 2020 – May 2021) Fifth Estate Live, a weekly hour-long livestreamed broadcast hosted by singer/songwriter and Fifth Estate contributor David Rovics and produced by Fifth Estate editorial …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
BI ANY OTHER NAME: BISEXUAL PEOPLE SPEAK OUT edited by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu Rejected by both Gay and Straight worlds, bisexuals have been a community in exile. With this rich and varied collection, however, bisexual women and men …
Marx, Thoreau, and Us
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 367, Winter 2004-2005
From July 1845 to September 1847, Thoreau lived at Walden Pond outside of Concord in a small cabin he built largely from scrap. Uninformed cynics typically criticize him either for staying close to town instead of seeking authentic wilderness—or for …
Old Perspectives on Race at WSU
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
On October 19 to 21, Wayne State University will sponsor a conference titled “New Perspectives on Race and the City.” Featured speakers include G. Mennen Williams, Jerome P. Cavanagh, Hubert Locke, Roger Wilkins of the U.S. Justice Department, Community Relations …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
An American POW In America
by Al McKee
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
US Marine Corp brig. Corpus Christi, Texas, 1964. “ON THE WALL! GET ON THE WALL, PRIDNER!” I had just been marched inside the sally port by two armed MP’s. The heavy barred gate slammed shut. My partner, Duke, was right …
100 Years Later, Government Repression Has Not Stopped the IWW
by Eric Thomas Chester
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
A hundred years ago, in September 1918, more than a hundred leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) were convicted of conspiracy to obstruct World War I. The trial marked a critical turning point for the union and …
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