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Instead of a Primer
by Pono Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
What is anarchism? This question continues to crop up as anarchists debate amongst themselves as how to accurately express their perspectives to non-anarchist activists in the antiwar and global justice movements. Subsequently, a new wave of anarchist primers has appeared …
Ammunition Books Catalogue
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 268, January, 1976
This is by no means a complete catalog of all the books that we have. We hope to have an extensive catolog finished in the near future. To get a copy;; send a large self-addressed, stamped envelope to Ammunition Books.
Detroit trash incinerator closing
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
The news in March 2019 that, due to “financial and community concerns,” the Detroit trash incinerator was to be closed was weirdly reminiscent of news back in the spring of 1986 that it was going to be built: It came …
Attica: Rebellion & Massacre
by Rob Riot
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
In September 1971, the political landscape of the American Empire was very different from today’s. Detroit, Newark, Watts, and other cities still smoldered with the embers of urban insurgency.
Numb and Number
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013
Number surpasses all other ideas for its combination of impact and implication. Counting means imposing a definition and a control, assigning a number value.
Revolution Against the Megamachine
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Staff note: George Bradford was a pseudonym used by David Watson in these pages. 1. Autopsy of a Petrochemical Disaster Remember the Exxon Valdez? The ship was the source of the worst oil spill to date in U.S. history, spilling …
Looking Back on the Vietnam War
by David Watson, Richard Drinnon
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
This article first appeared in FE #320, Spring 1985 under the pen-name George Bradford. It is reprinted on the 20th anniversary of the defeat of the U.S. empire in Vietnam.
The next mutiny on the Bounty
by PM
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Suburban utopia At this moment, everyone on the planet is watching the people of the USA and wondering how they are reacting to the present global crisis. For the most “dangerous” working class on this planet is the US working …
Language
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
When Winston Smith, in Orwell’s 1984, sits down to begin the diary which he has secretly acquired and which in and of itself is a criminal possession, he is mortified to discover that he has nothing—and everything—to say, that to …
History of the Fifth Estate
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
“The Fifth Estate supports the cause of revolution everywhere.” —FBI Report In my estimation, the above twelve-word summary by the nation’s secret police serves adequately as an abbreviated history of this paper on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.
Media
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 318, Fall, 1984
These are tentative, unfinished remarks about the mass media. They should be taken as a series of questions rather than as definitive answers. They do start from the recognition that the media have come to usurp reality, representing the structure …
The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (Long Version)
by Norman Nawrocki
Fifth Estate # The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival
<<< Return to Issue 416, Spring, 2025 The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (Long Version) An unofficial history by Norman Nawrocki Despite being one of the most misunderstood political ideologies of our times, anarchism has a long and beautiful history …
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Group Sex
by Andy Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
Fifth Estate Note: Since his 1991 review/essay “Operation Gender Blur” [FE #336, Spring, 1991] Sunfrog has written about radical sexuality for the Fifth Estate. Both 1992’s “Pornography and Pleasure: Beyond Capital, Beyond Patriarchy” [FE #340, Autumn 1992] and 1993’s “Queer …
History of the Fifth Estate: The Early Years
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
This article was originally written for our 30th anniversary edition which appeared in 1996. It has been updated and expanded for this issue.
Interview with a Chinese Rebel
by Mu Xidi
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
The following interview with Mu Xidi, a former sailor, Chinese rebel, and since 1990, a refugee in Barcelona was taken from the French book Bureaucratie, Bagnes et Business (Bureaucracy, Prisons and Profits), published in Paris by L’insomniaque last year.
Palestine: Legacy of Conquest
by Lynne Clive (Marilynn Rashid)
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
Having consistently destroyed organized Palestinian political and military resistance to Zionist colonial conquest, Israel must now contend with what is fast becoming a massive and generalized civil revolt.
Anarchy in San Francisco
by Bob Brubaker, Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith), Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Introduction “Without Borders,” this year’s Anarchist Conference and Festival was held in San Francisco from July 20th to 25th. Taking place at the Horace Mann Middle School in the city’s Mission District, the gathering drew somewhere between 1,000 and 3,000 …
The Last SLA Statement
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) undertook a series of urban guerrilla actions in 1973 and 1974 that made world-wide headlines. The assassination of a reactionary school official, the kidnapping of a wealthy heiress and a bank appropriation set off a …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 327, Fall, 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 …
Bibliography 1995-2005
Fifth Estate # Archive
Fifth Estate Issues 346-369 Incomplete (ProQuest source is incomplete) PART ONE: TITLE INDEX “100th anniversary of the automobile: Kill the Car–No More Roads! ” Fifth Estate [Detroit] 1 Oct. 1996, 4. “35 Arrests at Windsor OAS Protests.” Fifth Estate [Detroit] …
Freedom, Individualism, Revolution
by Allan Antliff
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Artistic anarchism has a long and complex history. Certainly one of its most interesting chapters in France is the development of two competing anarchist discourses about art’s libertarian possibilities during the years leading up to the ill-fated Paris Commune of …
Art & Anarchy
by Michael Scrivener
Fifth Estate # Daily Barbarian Number 3
Fifth Estate Home > Issue 319, Winter, 1985 > Note: The following article originally appeared in the journal Black Rose (Boston, Mass.), with the title “An Introduction to An Anarchist Aesthetic.” The title “Art & Anarchy” is our doing….Unfortunately, we …
Vietnam Resource Page
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
Vietnam Rsesource Page Fifth Estate articles in date order Dr. Norman Pollack Vietnam Fifth Estate #2, December 2-16, 1965 https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/2-december-2-16-1965/vietnam/ “Perhaps the biggest mistake many of us make when speaking about Vietnam is that we focus only on Vietnam, and …
The Sad Truth
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Slobodan Milosevic has been at The Hague for a little more than a year, the first head of state to face a war crimes tribunal since the crime of genocide was codified in the UN Charter. The former autocrat stands …
The Practical Marx
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 299, October 22, 1979
FE Note: The following article, an attempt to come to grips with the implications of Karl Marx’s everyday life by long-time FE contributor John Zerzan, has stirred considerable controversy among those of us presently working on the paper and necessitates, …
Insurgent Mexico!
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
“The political status quo in Mexico died on January 1. Every Mexican institution is now in a state of crisis.” —El Financiero (Mexican business newspaper)
The Return of the Social Revolution
by Claudio Albertani
Fifth Estate # 293-294, August 21, 1978
“Bread and roses.” (Paterson, N.J., 1912, slogan of the revolutionary women) “Molotov, Champagne!” (Milan, 1977)
Industrialism and its discontents
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
Download PDF [174 KB] fe-389-19-industrialism-and-its-discontents Nearly two hundred years ago, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley gave us a classic warning about the hubris of technology’s combat against nature. Her late Gothic novel, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818), depicts the revenge nature …
Some Food We Could Not Eat
by Lewis Hyde
Fifth Estate # 308, January 19, 1982
First appeared in the Kenyon Review, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 43022. Introduction by P. Solis (David Watson)
The Triumph of Capital
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
INTRODUCTION “Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his …