Modern modes of handling concerns in the death and dying spheres seem emblematic of disturbing trends found throughout mass culture.
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Occupied Iraq
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
“What are kingdoms but great robberies? Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by …
Between myth and reality: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War
by SK
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
The International Brigades came to Spain to fight fascism, but helped crush the anarchist social revolution.
The Future is Now!
by Jesús Sepúlveda
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
Sales Santos-Vera and Itziar Madina-Elguezabal live in the heart of the Basque Mountains, where the borders between France and Spain are blurred and the mists hide the paths once serving smugglers and antifascist guerrillas. Sales moved here from Extremadura along …
Breaking the Cycle of Trauma
by Benjamin Olson
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
Trauma is a subtle dominator of experience. Totalizing yet imperceptible, the massive mental shock re-contextualizes life so fully, one forgets what life was like before it.
Zapping the Pyramid
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
Excerpted from Fifth Estate #367-368, Spring-Summer 2005 40th anniversary issue. This is an edited version of Don’s essay. The design shows a pyramid surmounted by an eye being blasted by a bolt of lightning. Bannered beneath the collapsing pyramid is …
Watching the Clock
by Jim Feast
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of The Lady Anarchist Café: Poems and Stories by Lorraine Schein. Autonomedia, 2022
Supporting the Scene in Association with Others: Do-It-Yourselfers and Difference
by Nicholas Jon Crane
Fifth Estate # 384, Spring, 2011
I attended a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) event three years ago that was promoted as a “zine release show.” Ostensibly devoted to the distribution of recently published zines, the event provided zine writers with an audience of people with shared dispositions, but …
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Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 289, January 24, 1978
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and can be found at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 48201 (telephone-313-831-6800). Our hours vary, but we are generally open on Monday and Thursday afternoons (from 1pm to 5pm) and at …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
PORTUGAL: The Impossible Revolution? Phil Mailer The still unfinished story of the Portuguese upsurge of 1974-75. An eye-witness account of a deeply involved spectator. A new type of historiography with the view from different groups vying for power and the …
Marx: Good-Bye To All That
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 281, March, 1977
Inside the walled compound of a Buddhist monastery on the outskirts of Kyoto, Japan, the monks who reside there have created a meditation garden consisting of raked sand and about a dozen large stones. The stones are adroitly arranged so …
Anarchy in the Age of Reagan
by Fifth Estate Collective, John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986
Renew the Earthly Paradise Present Day Banalities The two essays printed here were written in response to a questionnaire sent out by the Italian anarchist magazine, Rivista anarchica, investigating the present situation for North American anarchist and libertarian groups and …
The Death of Randolph Scott, Gabby Hayes and the Canadian Pacific Railway
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
I. “Of the heavy losses we have sustain e d”, author-sentimentalist Charles Beaumont once said, “none can be regarded with more melancholy than the loss of the great movie theatres.” A generation ago they proliferated, today they exist like brontosaurus, …
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Poland: 1970-71
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
a review of Poland: 1970-71; Capitalism and Class Struggle, Informations Correspondence Ourvrieres (ICO), 117 pages; illustrated, Black & Red, Detroit, 1977.
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
Welcome to the Summer 1994 Fifth Estate. Our center eight pages feature the return of the once-a-decade Daily Barbarian, which last appeared as an FE supplement in 1984. Just wait until 2004! Also, this 40-page issue is the largest in …
Catastrophism
by Jaime Semprun, René Riesel
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
In these excerpts from their book, Catastrophisme, administration du desastre et soumission durable, René Riesel and Jaime Semprun warn against State-administered management of the global ecological and social crisis.
Tombeau for L
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Introductory note by Sunfrog People connected with the ‘zine and mail art communities of the 1980s or with the rural, artistic, experimental music factions of the anarchist milieu in the 1990s might remember the co-founder of Dreamtime Village, Lyx Ish, …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
Capitalism’s Industrial Plagues
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
This article is the first in a two-part series on the effects that the indiscriminate handling and usage of radioactive waste materials and dangerous chemicals are having, and will have in the future, on human beings and their environment. Part …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
A happy new year thank-you to all of you who responded so quickly to our request in the last issue to please renew your subscriptions promptly. Thank you also for all the very generous donations and requests for papers to …