Having lived and worked in Vietnam for a year now, I have only a slightly better understanding of the country than when I first arrived. This is a country of extremely complex paradoxes and antagonisms. I remain dumbfounded by the …
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Raging Against the Machine
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
a review of Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard by Peter Linebaugh. University of California Press, 2019
Sexual Anarchy
by Allan Antliff, Mark Antliff
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
The Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris contains many tombs honoring artists and rebels, but the most striking of them all is the monument to the gay English playwright and anarchist Oscar Wilde. [1]
L’affaire Black Rose Books
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
To the Reader: In the last issue of the Fifth Estate [#283, June 1977], a letter appeared signed by a Joe Doaks criticizing Black Rose Books of Montreal. Doaks charged that a recent BRB publication, Durruti: The People Armed, by …
Dix Brass Plot Vengeance
by Bob Heilbroner
Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969
NEW YORK (LNS)—The Army is planning a heavy vengeance for the June 5 rebellion of over 150 GIs imprisoned in the Ft. Dix stockade. [See “Army Stockades Blow,” FE #84, July 24-August 6, 1969.]
The Mythology of Israel
by ronni kt
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Israel, The U.S. in Miniature Much of the population of Israel, no different from people in the United States, denies its past as an invader/settler nation, is oblivious to the suffering which creates its plentitude, revels in self-generated myths …
Cops, Press, Politicians
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
2000 may be the decisive year in the legal and political battle for the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal. As the campaign to save the falsely imprisoned journalist and ex-Black Panther gathers momentum, the police, politicians and media are stepping up …
Living Our Lives
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
If anarchist politics, the politics of communal liberation, is to escape from its present historical impasse, it must become, above all, a practice of creating the free community, here and now.
Sam Dolgoff
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
a review of Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff by Anatole Dolgoff; Introduction by Andrew Cornell. AK Press, 2016, 391 pp., $22.
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Paul Jacob, the libertarian draft resister who went underground to escape prosecution, was convicted at a July 1 trial, sentenced and denied appeal bond. The penalty was six months imprisonment and 4-1/2 years of weekly community service.
Three Books on Israel
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983
a review of Israel’s Global Role: Weapons for Repression. Israel Shakak. Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Inc., Belmont MA, 61 pp., 1982, $2.95.
Portrait of a Snitch
by Margaret Killjoy
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
a review of Informant: A documentary directed and written by Jamie Meltzer. Information at informantdoc.com; also Netflix.
Voltairine de Cleyre
by Robert Helms, Voltairine De Cleyre
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
Introduction by Robert Helms As interest in the history of anarchism increases with each passing year, we stumble across more lost gold mines of sources. I recently discovered one in Philadelphia which connects Voltairine de Cleyre, the celebrated anarchist speaker, …
Green Anarchism and Oil Depletion
by Richard Heinberg
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
The march of human social organization is essentially the story of how people have found ways of harvesting ever more energy from their environments in order to sustain ever more humans. The story began with the harnessing of fire and …
News and Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
After looking at the latest jam-packed issue of Factsheet 5, PO Box 170099, SF, CA 94117, “the magazine of record” for zines, it doesn’t seem like anyone should worry about the state of autonomous publishing. Still, a number of stalwart …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
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. HOW TO …
Syria’s Kurdish Revolution
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
The north Syrian town of Kobani has been under siege since mid-September by forces of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, popularly known as ISIS. Early in the siege, world leaders spoke as if they expected it to fall.
DVD review: The Net
by John Brinker
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
reviewed in this article The Net: The Unabomber, LSD, and the Internet by Lutz Dammbeck Other Cinema, San Francisco, 2003 www.othercinemadvd.com/net.html
Discordia Americana
by Jack Bratich
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
Daily life has a new rhythm: routine disruptions. DPacing an accelerated news cycle and affective bursts from smart phone notifications, our subjective autonomous systems are increasingly synced up with crisis-state and techno security tempos.
Pro-War Group Tries to Smear Lafferty, Fifth Estate in 17th District
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
James Lafferty’s campaign for the Congress from the 17th District on Detroit’s far West side took on a new dimension with the appearance in the district of a leaflet branding Lafferty a “traitor” and calling the FIFTH ESTATE an “anti-Christian, …
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