Our longtime friend and comrade Jim Campbell died suddenly last September 17 of heart failure. He was 57 years old. Jim was a mainstay of the Toronto (and larger Canadian and international) anarchist community. Though we had not been in …
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Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201 Telephone No. (313) 831-8600 Bookstore hours vary, but we are generally open on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and at scattered other times. Please call before coming down to be sure we are here.
FE Live
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
Fifth Estate Live Tuesdays, 1 p.m. EDT, 10 a.m. PDT [ WATCH LIVE STREAM ] or [ WATCH LATER ] or [ LISTEN ] Fifth Estate Live is a weekly hour-long livestreamed broadcast each Tuesday at 1 p.m. Eastern, 10 …
Stashing the Tacky Little Pamphlets
by Jason Rodgers
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
You might assume that a Tacky Little Pamphlet (TLP) is just another name for a mini-zine. In a way, you are correct. It usually refers to a format of a single sheet folded into eight sections, cut up the middle, …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
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 …
The Medium is the Medium
by Labor of Ludd
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
aborigines anticipate apocalypse…agriculture aggrandizes arable areas and allots acreage, assuming acquisition and alienation…arithmetic adds another abstract axis…authority appreciates art—already accepting abstractions’ ascendancy—as authenticating appearances…by banishing bounty, bureaucracy’s blackmail breeds bitterness between brothers behind benign banality; business believes boundless buying brings …
“I am the Viet Cong”
by Raymond Mungo
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
Editor’s note: Dave Dellinger, editor of Liberation magazine, arranged in Hanoi last spring for a group of Americans to meet with the North Vietnamese and members of the NLF in a midway meeting point—which developed to be Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. The …
Bookchin Agonistes
by Max Cafard
Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997
a review of Murray Bookchin, Re-enchanting Humanity: A defense of the human spirit against anti-humanism, misanthropy, mysticism and Primitivism (London: Cassell, 1995) 284 pp
Books from The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
New Bush League Spectacles: Empire, Politics, and Culture in Bushwhacked America by Fran Shor (Factory School 2005) $13 “In the aftermath of 9/11, many of us looked to the Internet for the desperately needed analysis that was pushed out of …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
As you may have noticed in our staff box this issue, the Fifth Estate is now officially designated as a bimonthly. A reduced staff and the availability of those remaining has dictated this change and will also allow us to …
Beyond Backward and Forward
by Derrick Jensen
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Introduction by Sunfrog When I first connected with the radical milieu in the mid-1980s, certain books and writers changed me. Activists passed around dog-eared, marked-up volumes that would transform people forever. A certain work would be read by everyone in …
June 11 International Day of Solidarity with Eric McDavid & Marie Mason
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 385, Fall, 2011
World-wide events organized to show solidarity with Marie Mason and Eric McDavid, the two longest sentenced environmental prisoners, were an overwhelming success.
Sacco and Vanzetti
by Julie Herrada
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
A review of SACCO AND VANZETTI, Directed by Peter Miller, Willow Pond Films, www.willowpondfilms.com
Anarchists & The Printing Press
by Peter Linebaugh
Fifth Estate # 414, Fall 2023
a review of Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture by Kathy E. Ferguson. Duke University Press, 2023
Comments on John Zerzan’s Critique of Agriculture
by Bob Brubaker
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
John Zerzan’s essay, “Agriculture: Essence of Civilization,” appeared in FE #329, Summer 1988 and is available for one dollar from 4632 Second Ave., Detroit, MI 48201. It is also part of a collection of John’s essays entitled Elements of Refusal …
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The Path to Change: Community
by Steve Welzer
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
The movement for social change must be comprehensive and multi-dimensional. There is no simple Solution and no single Best Way to get from here to there.
The Draft is Still an Issue
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
The following two letters were recently received from fugitive draft resister Paul Jacob and from his support committee, the Paul Jacob Action Group. Paul was indicted in September 1982 for failure to register for the draft and has been the …
Was Malthus Right?
by Bill McCormick, George Bradford (David Watson), William R. Catton Jr.
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
Dear Mr. Bradford: Thank you for bringing to my attention your Fifth Estate essay, “How Deep Is Deep Ecology? A Challenge to Radical Environmentalism” [FE #327, Fall, 1987]. I appreciate its extensive treatment of my book, Overshoot. Here are some …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective, George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Notes on errata and lacunae (G. Bradford) An FE staff member currently traveling outside the U.S. wrote to us upon receiving his FE, that while the content and the layout were good, “there were a fair number of typos, …
Blood Lake
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
a review of Blood Lake: A Filomena Buscarsela Mystery by Kenneth Wishnia. PM Press edition 2014; Spanish translation 2018. Originally published HB 2002