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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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