FE note: Although we generally dislike back and forths in our letters column, we thought the issues raised by our two comrades below are worthy of continuing the discussion raised about combating fascism begun in our Summer 2003 edition (see …
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Defining and Debating Fascism
by Michael Staudenmaier, Pedrito Peligro
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
Anarchy & the Sacred
by Dogbane Campion (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
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 …
Primitives and Production: a response
by Bob Brubaker
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
In response to Tech Examined a letter from Jeffrey Vega, FE #315, Winter 1984.
This is what Anarchy Looks Like
by Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
The forces of capital have once again called upon their storm troopers and talking heads to physically and symbolically crush the growing, global anti-capitalist movement. In the United States, building from the tragic embarrassment of September 11 and overreacting to …
Leftism, nihilism, and the anarchy I seek
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Read and considered, perused and recommended, liked and disliked, discussed and commented on in the following section: Green Anarchy (current issue available from FE books for $4 or free with any book order, while supplies last) Issues #16 and 17, …
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
Marius Mason continues transgender struggle in prison
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
I want to throw up because we’re supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America. —David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration I think of Wojnarowicz’s disgust as I sit across from …
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The FE at 50
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
This edition of the Fifth Estate marks the 50th anniversary of its publishing, with much of the celebrations occurring in a manner we never anticipated. There are exhibitions at two prestigious Detroit museums, a jammed packed dance/ concert with hundreds …
AnarchoShorts
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
It was fifty years ago this summer that the lead singer of a band from a working class Detroit suburb screamed into a mic, “Kick out the jams, motherfucker,” inaugurating a wild ride into rock history.
Fifth Estate on the Web
by Quincy B. Thorn
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
Longtime contributor Penelope Rosemont has given the Fifth Estate a great many articles and graphics, all of them insightful and inciting to revolt (See her Fall 2013, “The Poisonous Cobra of Surrealism” essay). Her achievements go beyond writing and graphic …
Examining Zerzan
by Bob Brubaker, E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), Fifth Estate Collective, John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Much of primitivist theorist John Zerzan’s early work appeared in the Fifth Estate. His Cassandra-like predictions of imminent collapse of modern society began in 1976 with his FE article, “The Decline and Fall of Everything” [FE # 268, January, 1976]—a …
Notes toward a history of the Fifth Estate
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
“Only movement can know movement.” –Herakleitos Someday, if anything is left of any of this, and this epoch’s fascination with historical records and documentation endures, I imagine some historian, grad student, or amateur archivist will write a text detailing, accurately …