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Redrawing The Line
by Paul J. Comeau
Fifth Estate # 386, Spring, 2012
a review of Drawing The Line Once Again: Paul Goodman’s Anarchist Writings, PM Press, 2010, 122 pages, trade paperback, $14.95
The UK Struggle Against Roads
by Pablo Routledge
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
Just to the south of Glasgow, amid the woodlands and park lands of Pollok estate, a site of extraordinary resistance has emerged. From the roadside, a huge red banner with bright yellow letters proclaims “Pollok Free State,” and where the …
The Revenge of Albion
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
FE Note: David Watson’s “Swamp Fever” appears in Fifth Estate #350, Fall, 1997
Remembering Peter Lamborn Wilson
by David Tighe
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
Peter Lamborn Wilson is best known for the book TAZ.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchism, Poetic Terrorism, and rightfully so. Written as Hakim Bey and first published by Autonomedia in 1991, many of the texts in TAZ had circulated …
Bombing won’t stop Redwood Summer
by Luba
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
In a doubly bizarre set of circumstances, two California environmentalists experienced an assassination attempt followed by their arrest for “possessing” the device that almost killed them.
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 318, Fall, 1984
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. Visitors are welcome, but our hours vary so please call before dropping in.
The Strategy of Concealment
by Roger Farr
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
Often, when I turn to the anarchist press these days, it’s certain I’ll find someone commenting on the lack of “clarity” in the discourse of the movement. In a recent editorial in Anarchy, for example, Lawrence Jarach writes “there is …
Rock & Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
People need music to live. We know that and act on it, all ways. Only straight people—honkies—think music is superfluous, that it doesn’t make any difference what you listen to, and their lives demonstrate their ignorance. Music shapes us and …
Readers Comment on Recent Bombings
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
The following two letters were received prior to the arrest of the Vancouver 5 (see story on next page) and raise again the question of revolutionary violence and terrorism debated so many times previously in these pages. The debate has …
The Michigan Roots of Leon Czolgosz
by Jeremy Kilar
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
At the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901 Leon Czolgosz became America’s third presidential assassin when he shot William McKinley with a.32-caliber revolver hidden in his handkerchief-wrapped hand. The president died eight days later. Apprehended at …
Readers respond (II)
by Naomi Klein
Fifth Estate # 357, Summer 2002
“We do not want others, more or less of the right, center or left, to decide for us. We want to participate directly in the decisions which concern us, to control those who govern us, without regard to their political …
The spirit of the people
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
The only task left for thinking men & women in the world today is conscious preparation for the revolution.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 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: …
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
Fri. Oct. 18 GRANDE BALLROOM fun with the Kensington Market and the fantastic MC-5. All sorts of psychedelic bullshit happening. Don’t forget to check out Barry Kramer’s groovy counter, he has a very complete assortment of English records, hippie Bob …
More Debate on Pornography, Sexism & Fascism
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 291, April 30, 1978
The following series of letters have joined the debate regarding the connection between pornography and violence against women that began in our January 24, 1978 issue [#289] with an article by Michael Betzold and was answered the following issue [#290, …
Woman’s Freedom
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
a review of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs by Betsy Hartmann, Harper & Row, New York, 1987; paper $10.95.
Darcee’s Temptation
by Merril Mushroom
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
Darcee began to realize she was in serious trouble, that notions of rebellion were growing beyond her control, during the President’s speech. She and her co-workers were crowded together in the workplace auditorium for mandatory daily socialization, all eyes on …
GI Resistance in the 21st Century
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
“Welcome to the Republic of Darkness and Unemployment” — Baghdad graffiti It’s hard to be gleeful about the deteriorating situation in Iraq even when realizing that everything the anti-war movement predicted about Bush’s invasion for oil and empire has come …
Secular Antinomian Anabaptist Neo-Luddism
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
“By banning the telephone from the home, Old Order Amish…try to maintain the primacy of communication within the context of community.” –D.Z. Umble “Church splits are bad, some things are worse, and one of them is to keep on compromising …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 81, June 12-25, 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: …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
England’s Green Anarchist magazine is now available as single issues or in bulk from Autonome Distribution, PO Box 79119, New Orleans LA 70179. In GA the Earth First! Journal meets Class War and puts forth an anti-civilization perspective as uncompromising …
Swamp Fever
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
A review of the following texts: Green Apocalypse, Luther Blissett, Stewart Home, and the Neoist Alliance (London: Unpopular Books [Box 15, 138 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2NS UK], 1996), £3.50 Into the 1990’s With Green Anarchist, Steve Booth (London: …
“State-Fetishism”
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
Over the past year, there has been a discussion within the pages of the Fifth Estate as to what constitutes revolutionary violence, and what the uses and relevance of such violence might be.
Why Zines Refuse to Die
by Jason Rodgers
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
Why would someone continue to read and publish xeroxed zines two decades into the 21st century? Didn’t the technocracy announce that this variety of underground publishing was superseded by the hyper-mediated cybernetic dream web?
To The New York Review of B
by Fredy Perlman
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
See also: “The Machine against the Garden” (author’s introduction) in this issue, FE #321, Indian Summer, 1985. Web archive note: Numbers in the text are related to references at the end. They are not errors in numbering endnotes. While skimming …
Thoughts on the Disappearance of History
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # Daily Barbarian Number 8
Thoughts on the Disappearance of History by David Watson Daily Barbarian > Thoughts on the Disappearance of History “so that when there is no more story that will be our story when there is no forest that will be our …
The Rosenberg Case
by K. Horak
Fifth Estate # 273, June 1976
This article is the fifth in a series of counter-Bicentennial pieces dealing with the more sordid and often less-acknowledged incidents in America’s 200-year-old history.
Post-war Postmortem
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
Although death and environmental destruction are continuing in Iraq and Kuwait, the Persian Gulf war is over in America. The remains can be seen in the dirt-streaked, plastic yellow ribbons sagging from trees and lampposts and at half-off sales for …
Pencils Like Daggers
by tomás
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
It starts with a story: My grandma, worried that her 3-year-old son had not spoken a word yet, had him chase down a grasshopper. Diligently, without complaint, the boy did and returned with a smile. Open she said; confused and …
Alexander Berkman: Life of an Anarchist
by Gary L. Doebler
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
a review of Life of an Anarchist: The Alexander Berkman Reader, by Gene Fellner, Four Walls Eight Windows, P.O. Box 548, Village Station, New York, NY 10014, 354 pp.
The Unabomber and the Future of Industrial Society
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
“…If one has courage and daring without benevolence, one is like a madman wielding a sharp sword; if one is smart and swift without wisdom, one is as though riding on a fast mount but not knowing which way to …
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Indian Summer
by Jim Campbell
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
On September 26; 1990 a 78-day siege of two Mohawk territories near Montreal, Quebec, ended when the last group of holdouts walked out of a rehabilitation centre where they had been surrounded by Canadian army troops since September 1st. Rather …
Zerowork
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
Zerowork No. 1; Available from P.O. Box 515, Station C, Toronto, Ontario, Canada or through Ammunition Books (see further in this issue). The last few years have seen the appearance of few new journals, even fewer of which are worth …
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
Planning for Anarchist Gathering / 88 A meeting to plan the 1988 Anarchist Gathering was held Sept. 12 in Toronto which will be the host city. About sixty people from all over North America attended, indicating to the local planning …
Fifth Estate/Earth First!
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), George Bradford (David Watson), Lynne Clive (Marilynn Rashid)
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
It already seems like a long time ago, but this past June three of us from the Fifth Estate staff headed out by train to New Mexico for our first Earth First! (EF!) Round River Rendezvous (RRR). This was the …
On Having Nothing to Say
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
The long delay between this issue and the last one published at the end of January resulted from our being confronted by a bout of cerebral paralysis which left us feeling empty of words and ideas. We mostly articulated this …
Civilization in Bulk
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991
Having had the privilege of living for a time among stone age peoples of Brazil, a very civilized European of considerable erudition wrote afterwards, “Civilization is no longer a fragile flower, to be carefully preserved and reared with great difficulty …
Ross Winn
by Ally Greenhead, Nutmeg Brown
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
A couple of years back, at a conference in Ohio, an acquaintance of ours described to us how he had, in some research, happened upon an anarchist publisher who had lived and died in our neck of the woods: central …
Earth Day?
by Lewis Cannon
Fifth Estate # 333-A, Earth Day Special, 1990
1. Earth’s Day or Capital’s Spectacle? If there was ever a need for an “Earth Day,” “Earth Week,” or “Earth Year” “to get people thinking creatively about the problems we now confront, and looking for new ways to tackle them,” …