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What is Real?
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
a review of Portraits of Struggle: Photos from 1972-2023 by Orin Langelle. Global Justice Ecology Project 2024
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 318, Fall, 1984
Librairie Alternative, Canada’s only anarchist bookstore, desperately needs repairs on its Montreal quarters. The state of things were so bad that they were forced to evacuate the premises several weeks and have now begun a North America-wide fund raising campaign. …
Radical Filmmakers in Detroit
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
On the night of July 3 the staccato of machine-gun fire rang out across the Jeffries Housing Project bordering on the Lodge Freeway. The sound was accompanied by the appearance of flickering letters on the wall of one of the …
On (don’t spell it backwards) Anarchist Organization
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991
FE Note: There continues to be a sometimes rancorous debate within the anarchist movement about how best to combat the system. What follows is meant to be critical but comradely. We in no way doubt the spirit of those we …
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Guerrilla: Sector North
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
The Guerrilla Roofreadings started May 28 at Guerrilla: Sector North, on Allen Van Newkirk’s roof, above the Artist’s Workshop with Andrei Codrescu reading from his forthcoming book: Insane People With Beautiful Sidewalks. Andrei Codrescue was born in Romania and has …
Infoshop, Gallery, & Mail Order
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
BOOKSTORE IN A BARN (615) 536-5999 an hour east of Nashville; call, write, or email for directions FifthEstate@pumpkinhollow.net Read more WORDS Dr. Ben Reitman, Sister of the Road: the Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha (2002) $15.00 Dark Star Beneath the Paving …
Immigration Control
by Anne Petermann
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
FE Note: Because we are so late in coming out, this article may seem to be rather belated. In fact, the population-immigration debate continues. Dave Foreman (former proprietor and editor of the Earth First! Journal) plays a key role in …
Art in the Fifth Estate
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
p. 4, 14, 25 Dennis Fox writes and has taught about the intersections of anarchism, law/justice, radical/critical psychology, and interpersonal connection. dennisfox.net He explores abstract, street, ft other forms of photography dennisfoxphoto.com p. 6 Tylonn J. Sawyer lives and works …
Workers Call For Levi Boycott
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 27, April 1-15, 1967
“Quack, Quack I am a duck, You are probably human You can wear White Levis Some people have all the luck” —The Jefferson Airplane Some people aren’t so lucky. Strikers against the Levi-Strauss Company in Blue Ridge, Georgia have called …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
QUESTION: Is there such a thing as sexual allergy? I have been dating a recently divorced woman, but we have had intercourse only once. Here’s why: Shortly after we shared one of the most explosive, mutually exciting and uninhibited amorous …
Black & Red Books Now Out-of-Print Influenced the Fifth Estate
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
Although many of the influential radical titles from Black & Red Books, printed at the Detroit-based Detroit Printing Co-op between 1970 and 1980 are out of print, their relevance hasn’t lessened with the passing years. It is hoped there is …
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Earth Read-Out
by Keith Lampe
Fifth Estate # 81, June 12-25, 1969
BERKELEY—About 2,000 persons attended—off and on—a six hour teach-in on “Ecology and Politics in America” May 28 at the U-C Berkeley campus.
Bookstore in a Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
Send check, money order, or well-concealed cash to: Fifth Estate Books PO Box 6 Liberty, TN 37095 Please add $2 shipping/handling for first item ($1 for the 2nd, .50 for the third, & so on). All book orders include a …
Free Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Though we do not accept commercial advertising, this Unclassified ad space is free for our readers’ use. We do not accept ads over the telephone, so please send your ads in writing to our office at: 4403 Second Ave., Detroit …
About This Issue
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
Welcome to our Spring 2020 edition. Its theme is Justice. Since the political state arose thousands of years ago and began replacing communal societies, justice has meant “Just Us.” That is, the construction of legal systems solely benefiting the top …
At Ft. Jackson: More Repression
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
FT. JACKSON, S.C.—Four GIs are in the stockade as a result of an on-base meeting to discuss the war in Vietnam.
Prisoners
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 269, February, 1976
Prisoners wanting to read anarchist literature: Black Market will send you a general packet of anarchist literature. If you have requests for specific literature, we will try to get it for you (and probably succeed). All free.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976
JUST PUBLISHED! Letters of Insurgents by Sophia Nachalo & Yarostan Vochek Black & Red 831 pp., $4.50 (add 35 cents postage After 20 years, two participants in an Eastern European insurrection recreate through a series of letters their often contradictory …
Joker
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008
INTRODUCE A LITTLE ANARCHY UPSET THE ESTABLISHED ORDER AND EVERYTHING BECOMES CHAOS I AM AN AGENT OF CHAOS
The New Earth First!
by David Watson, Snail Darter
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
Dear Fifth Estate: As an Earth First! sympathizer and subscriber to many deep ecology principles, I read David Watson’s How Deep Is Deep Ecology? with great interest. I learned a tremendous amount from it. His criticisms were penetrating and well …
Black Hills
by Richard Grow
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Dear Fifth Estate, In your June, 1985 issue [Letters, FE #320, Spring, 1985] Lev Chernyi joined the Big Mountain discussions and described an uncomfortable experience at the 1980 Black Hills Gathering. Chernyi was also responding to previous letters to the …
Rev. Gracie to be Honored
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
Letters were mailed July 12 inviting hundreds ‘of Detroit area activists in the peace, civil rights, civil liberties and religious reform movements to a testimonial dinner honoring the Rev. David M. Gracie.
Gov’t Attacks Earth-First!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
Signs are that the government has begun an assault on radical environmental groups with the arrest of four people associated with the Earth First! movement and the order that 12 others appear before a federal grand jury. As we go …
Contents of print edition
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
4 The Future is Now! Jesús Sepúlveda 7 Sabotage & the Flows of Capital Jeff Shantz 10 Transgender Struggle in Prison Anonymous
Contents of print edition
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
FIFTH ESTATE #371, Winter, 2006, Vol. 40, No. 4 5 Letter from New Orleans 15 Psychic Liberation 6P the Almost Revolution
News and Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
The Work Resister’s Handbook is presently being assembled by John Zerzan and Morgan Feralchilde. The authors want true stories of work resistance, how to do scams, and practical hints for curing consumption blues, e.g. shoplifting, etc. Write: Box 11331, Eugene …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
Dear Dr. Schoenfeld: About restaurants that prohibit nude feet. Am assuming hygienic rationale: Are shoes more hygienic per foot?” ANSWER: Shoes are more likely to track in disease from the street than bare feet. Some restaurant owners cite health codes …
Beyond Parody
by Ann Landers
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Dear Ann Landers: Right now I am so mad I could spit tacks. My husband and I are seniors. We love to watch the soaps. We have come to know the characters so well that they are like members of …
Getting Nowhere Fast
by Fifth Estate Collective, Michael William
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
Montreal Anarchist Candidates Off & Running by Michael William An anarchist running for mayor; anarchist candidates for city council—what did Montreal do to deserve this? Indeed, with seven anti- authoritarian identified people running for office and more cast in supporting …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
QUESTION: I am writing to you in regard to my weight problem. I am 22, five feet six inches tall and I weigh 134 pounds. I would like to weigh 125 pounds. I have been as heavy as 145 pounds …
Contents of print edition
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
Fifth Estate #381, Summer-Fall 2009, Vol. 44, No. 2 2 LETTERS 4 MARIE MASON INTERVIEW 5 RNC FRAME-UP UPDATE 6 THE SHIT HITS THE FAN by Ron Sakolsky 8 KILLER APE THEORY DISPROVED by Tim MacGowan 10 THE FUTURE OF …
The Geography of Possibility
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
a review of The Anarchist Roots of Geography: Toward Spatial Emancipation by Simon Springer. University of Minnesota Press, 2016
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 …
Bookstore in a Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 361, Summer 2003
an hour east of Nashville (615) 536-5999 FifthEstate@pumpkinhollow.net To order, send check, money order, or well-concealed cash to: Fifth Estate Books PO Box 6 Liberty, TN 37095 Please add $2 shipping/handling for first item ($1 for the 2nd, $.50 …
Editorial
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 1, November 19-December 2, 1965
There are four estates, the fourth of which is journalism. We are the fifth because we are something different than Detroit’s other newspapers. We hope to fill a void in that fourth estate a void created by party-controlled newspapers and …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
ATTENTION GIs: We are interested in any and all written material given you while you are in the service. This includes everything from training manuals to Stars and Stripes. Also, any of you who would like to submit articles or …
For the Girls
by Nancy Homer
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
Every radical movement in U.S. history has paid lip service to “Women’s Rights” while continuing to operate out of the same old male supremacist bag. This goes for the founding fathers, the abolitionists and the 20th Century left. But something …
Trots & Nukes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
Apparently there is honor among thieves and the anti-nuclear power struggle has exposed the totally reactionary tendencies of several marxist groups as they line up behind the governments of totalitarian regimes and mouth the same pro-nuclear statements as its most …
Contents of print edition
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
COVER: “St. Mary of the Machines”–Stephen Goodfellow BACK: Joey Salamon 3 AnarchoShorts & Other tales from the planet 3 Letters 4 Fifth Estate celebrates 50th year 5 The Rojava Revolution Andrew Flood