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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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Salesmen fight back
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
Rolf Dietrich is fighting a one man war with the City of Plymouth—and winning.