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A Very Silent Majority

by Ian Sven

Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970

Hartford’s Other Voice/UPS — The radio speech was never broadcast—yet old sho-biz Agnew got 14,000 letters of praise the next day. No one will admit who slipped.

Some Good Bookchin?

by John Brinker

Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006

a review of The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Murray Bookchin. AK Press. 2005. 491 pp. $23.

Books available from Black & Red

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007

Momentos, Compendio Poetico by Federico Arcos The Story of Tatiana by Jacques Baynac The Wandering of Humanity by Jacques Camatte

Pen Pals

by Jessamine O'Connor

Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020

Friends for fifteen years and never met. She sends letters across the Atlantic, then the span of land from east to west and into the front gates to be rifled through, security checked and sometimes rejected, wheeled along corridors and …

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The Next Generation of Autonome?

by Elizabeth Kemp

Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89

WEST BERLIN—Situated on 3 acres of land in Kreuzberg, West Berlin, between the colorful graffiti art on exhibit at the Berlin Wall and a hundred year old building, there exist some of the last remains of the West Berlin squatter …

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Joseph Déjacque Bicentennial Conference

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022

JOSEPH DEJACQUE BICENTENNIAL CONFERENCE Sunday, December 11, 2022 The Joseph Déjacque Bicentennial Conference is being held in recognition of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of this major nineteenth-century communist anarchist political theorist and visionary utopian writer. It is sponsored by La Terre Institute for …

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Prison Visit

by Marie Mason

Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!

Prison is Hushed and heavy Like water near the Ocean’s floor, Then loud and bitter, Like fractious storms lashing the sky Everything cement and nerves

Inside the FE

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004

FIFTH ESTATE #366, Fall, 2004, Vol. 39, No. 3 News, etc. pages 2 — 11 Features on “unschooling the world” pages 12 — 45 Letters to the FE pages 46 — 49 Reviews, etc. pages 50 — 53 Bookstore & …

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Earth Read-out

by Keith Lampe

Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969

Continuation of a review: The Population Bomb, by Paul R. Ehrlich, Ballantine, 223 pp., 95 cents paper. [For Part I see “Earth Read-Out,” FE #86, August 21-September 3, 1969]. Part II: Doing Something About It

Split in Earth First!

by Kelpie Wilson

Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91

Redwood Summer seems to have sent some Earth First!ers over the edge. Many of the old-line EF! activists stayed away from the summer actions, feeling that “outsiders” had invaded their movement and diluted EF!’s biocentric vision. Two EF! founders, Dave …

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Contents of Print Edition

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 376, Halloween, 2007

FIFTH ESTATE #376, Halloween 2007, Vol. 42, #2

Detroit Seen

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89

We can tell when it’s been a long time between issues when we start getting letters from subscribers asking if they’ve missed an issue or it we’ve stopped publishing. This issue is the third we’ve published this year, which doesn’t …

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Anarchism in Eastern Europe

by Bob McGlynn

Fifth Estate # 329, Summer, 1988

FE Note: The following letter comes to us from Bob McGlynn of On Gogol Boulevard, a bulletin of Soviet and Eastern Bloc opposition to the official regimes OGB is available from 151 1st Ave., No. 62, NY NY 10003 and …

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Walla Prisoners Revolt

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 298, June 19, 1979

On May 9, 1973, three prisoners of Washington State Penitentiary, Carl Harp, Shane Green and Clyde Washburn seized the Classification and Parole Building with ten hostages, and held it nonviolently for 12 hours. During that time they were in constant …

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Eric King: Free at Last

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024

Following nearly ten years of incarceration and numerous attempts by the State to frame, break and murder him, anarchist prisoner Eric King was released in late December 2023.

How green is Green Anarchy?

by Ellen Carryout

Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002

Both the Spring & Summer 2002 editions of Green Anarchy were read and studied for this review. GA is available for $2.00 contact P.O. Box 11331, Eugene, OR 97440.

Bob Brubaker

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992

It was with shock and sadness that we learned of the sudden death of our friend and collaborator Bob Brubaker, of a severe asthma attack at his home in Numazu, Japan. Bob died in the night of April 23-24. Memorials …

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Writings of Diane DiPrima

by Diane DiPrima

Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006

archangel of fire enwraps now melts glaciers turf unexposed angelic aeons trembles naked under a vengeful sun

Back page

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 56, June 19-July 1, 1968

Letters of Thanks from Gen. Westmoreland to “Breakthrough” 22 November 1965 Mr. Donald J. Lobsinger, Chairman Breakthrough P.O. Box 3061 Detroit, Michigan 48231 Dear Mr. Lobsinger: Your letter and the accompanying signatures of over 6,000 citizens of the Detroit area …

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Howling Wilderness and the Promised Land

by Don LaCoss

Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003

In mid-August, a three year-old lawsuit charging that environmentalist groups were religious extremists comparable to some of the more violent, intolerant ultra-orthodox Islamic sects collapsed when the attorney failed to meet a re-filing deadline with the U.S. Supreme Court.

About this issue

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 331, Spring 1989

The following essay by George Bradford continues the discussion of environmental perspectives begun in these pages in our Fall 1987 edition. Our previous special issue, published at that time, “How Deep Is Deep Ecology? A Challenge to Radical Environmentalism” (also …

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Goldflies vs. the Air Force

by National Organizing Committee

Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969

The opening shot in Airman Ted Goldflies versus the Air Force, Round Two, was printed in the last issue of the Fifth Estate [FE #83, July 10-23, 1969]. That was a letter of “Admonition” from Major Fred Smith, Commander of …

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Contents of print edition

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004

FIFTH ESTATE #363, Winter, 2003/2004, Vol. 38, No. 4, page 3 NEWS Miami: The War Comes Home 5 APOC Report 11 Tales From The Planet 12 Lessons From Cancun 13 Against the Wall 14 Uprising in Bolivia 16 Sex and …

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Protests Planned at 2nd Murray Trial

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977

A weekend of international protest activities has been called to coincide with the opening of the second murder trial of Irish anarchist Marie Murray on April 25 in Dublin, according to the London Black Flag office.

Joseph Déjacque

by John Clark

Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022

Joseph Déjacque was a major 19th-century communist anarchist political theorist and visionary utopian writer, born in Besancon, France on December 27, 1821. To celebrate the bicentennial year of his birth, two New Orleans-based groups, are convening a Déjacque Bicentennial Conference …

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Be Clean, Be Cool

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967

In a recent issue of the Fifth Estate (April 1) it was reported that State Senator Roger Craig of Dearborn had introduced a bill into the Michigan Senate that would exempt marijuana from the application of the general “narcotics” act. …

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South Chicago ABC Zine distro

by Anthony Rayson

Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004

Prisons are the essence of the state. But as Tom Big Warrior, historian for the traditional Lenape Nation in Pennsylvania puts it in the title of his essay, we must “Turn the Iron Houses of Oppression into Schools of Liberation.”

Brief reviews

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003

  Free Free Now a review of Let’s Get Free: a zine about Jeff “Free” Luers: Earth Defender, Anarchist, and Political Prisoner 11×17, 28 pages. Order for $5 (postage paid) from Break the Chains (checks made out to “Howl For …

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FE Staff Member to Speak

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994

The New Jersey Green Journal, published by the Raritan-Brunswick Greens, is a green publication we have particularly enjoyed since they take a strong interest in many of the questions that animate us—technology as a system of domination, the question of …

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Vote No On Survival

by Thomas Haroldson

Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970

Reprinted from The Metro ECOLOGY SUCKS! It sucks the life out of social reform. It sucks the energy out of campus movements. It sucks the irritants out of capitalism. It sucks change out of politics. It sucks reason out of …

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Edward Abbey: We Rest Our Case

by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)

Fifth Estate # 329, Summer, 1988

Edward Abbey, author of the fictional eco-sabotage novel, The Monkeywrench Gang, and numerous other volumes on the Southwestern deserts and wilderness is both the eminence grise and bête noire of Earth First! Abbey is highly revered by the EF! leadership …

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Explaining Anarchism to a Parent Can Be Tough!

by Steve Izma

Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018

a review of Anarchy Explained to My Father by Francis Dupuis-Deri and Thomas Deri; Translated from the French by John Gilmore. New Star Books, Vancouver, 2017

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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HipPocraies

by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.

Fifth Estate # 127, March 18-31, 1971

Dear Dr. Schoenfeld, Is there a blood test which can conclusively determine paternity? If not, is there another test or are there other tests being developed to determine exactly who the father is? I don’t really know how the test …

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Seattle’s Left Bank Books

by Sylvie Kashdan

Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy

Good news! Seattle’s Left Bank Books is republishing Letters of Insurgents, Fredy Perlman’s historical novel about love and revolution in the East bloc and Western states of the mid-20th century.

Contents of Print Edition

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 385, Fall, 2011

FIFTH ESTATE ANARCHIST FICTION ISSUE FIFTH ESTATE #385 Fall, 2011, Vol. 46, #2, page 1 Print Edition Contents 2 LETTERS 4 COPYRIGHT OR WRONG by Walker Lane 6 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH MARIE MASON 9 HOCKEY RIOTS IN VANCOUVER …

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Contents of print edition

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 367, Winter 2004-2005

Features Class & Solidarity 15 Intro to Economics 16 Last Ticket to Utopia 17 Political Economy, Perennial Economy: Marx, Thoreau, & Us 18 Land & Liberty 22 Refusing The Marketplace 24 Communalism of Desire 26 Pastoral Letter 28 Give it …

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Tales from the Cybersphere: FE on the Web

by Quincy B. Thorn

Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013

Besides contributing to this publication, three longtime Fifth Estate regulars have also had a part in shaping Detroit’s 1980s radical music scene.

Barbaric Notes

by Daily Barbarian

Fifth Estate # Daily Barbarian Number 3

Fifth Estate Home > Issue 319, Winter, 1985 > Back so soon? Well, we didn’t make it as a monthly publication, but we did make it back. This issue—#3—marks a turning point for the Daily Barbarian…this broadsheet can no longer …

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Revolting!

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017

We took on the theme of Revolution, Revolts, Riots, and Rebellions even before the candidates were chosen by the major parties for the US election. As we say in these pages, social explosions are generated by the oppressive nature of …

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