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Detroit’s People Mover
by Mary Wildwood
Fifth Estate # 320, Spring, 1985
For all those world-weary visionaries fed up with ever doleful tones and anxious to hear something concrete and uplifting—didja hear the one about the Detroit People Mover?
Revolt of the Bats
by Alon K. Raab
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
North America, Turtle Island, taken by invaders who wage war on the world, May ants, may abalone, otters, wolves, and elk rise! and pull away their giving from the robot nations. ——Gary Snyder, Mother Earth: Her Whales The animals are …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
Prison Food Greetings! Me, and some good comrades are being held prisoner in this pigsty called prison, and we came upon a copy of the April Fifth Estate. Needless to say, we are always trying to Fuck Authority, but there …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
Ammunition Books 4403 Second Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48201, Tele. No. (313) 831-6800 Bookstore hours vary, but we are generally open on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and at scattered other times. Please call before coming down to be sure we are …
Exposé: Press Biggies Rake Media
by Jan Harald
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
(Page 2 of The South End insert)
Thoughts on the Disappearance of History
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # Daily Barbarian Number 8
Thoughts on the Disappearance of History by David Watson Daily Barbarian > Thoughts on the Disappearance of History “so that when there is no more story that will be our story when there is no forest that will be our …
Lasch: Theory of Passivity Stumbles
by Bob Brubaker
Fifth Estate # 301, February 26, 1980
Your growing conviction that people are unable (or have lost the ability) to learn from and develop conclusions about their experience, and to act to change the conditions of their lives finds its latest confirmation in Christopher Lasch’s The Culture …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
Ammunition Books, 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201—Telephone No. (313) 831-8600 Bookstore hours vary, but we are generally open on Monday and Thursday afternoons and at scattered other times. Please call before coming down to be sure we are here.
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.
Countering the Mystique of the Proletariat
by Gerard
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in 1848, asserts that “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles,” that social transformations grow out of the contradiction between productive forces and the …
Wide World of Banks
by A. R.
Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976
Underneath the center of the international menagerie, whereupon governments totter for power, politicians tumble for fame, generals squawk for security, and clergy rant and rave, skitter the well-fed rodents of the financial world, endlessly greasing the vital parts of all …
Taking it OFF the streets!
by Jeff Shantz
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
The Occupy mobilizations of the last year have offered to many some hope for a renewal of popular movements and alternatives to state capitalist arrangements Yet, perhaps few recurring events show the great disparity that exists between activist subcultures and …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
As you may have noted, the name of our book project has dropped the title “Ammunition” in favor of “Fifth Estate” or simply, “FE.” We have been talking about making the change actually for several years, but were always looking …
Do Unions Raise Wages?
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 273, June 1976
Although unions have long been identified by left revolutionaries as auxiliary organs of capital whose function is to regulate the sale of their members’ labor power, the myth still persists that they are “defense organs of the working class.” Even …
On Mutiny Considered as One of the Fine Arts
by Cap'n John Yossarian
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
Mutiny is such a potent threat to military organizations—and the States who use them avoid even mentioning the word. Instead, military commanders and civil authorities fall back on euphemism in order to avoid announcing the news that they most fear—during …
Tenth Anniversary of Bolivia’s Water War
by David Solnit
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
In spring 2000, the people of Cochabamba, Bolivia rose up against the privatization of their water, forcing out the US based corporation, Bechtel, and Bolivia’s neo-liberal government to back down. The rebellion opened up new political space in Bolivia, catalyzing …
Roger Calkins
by Art Johnston
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
Editors’ Note: Art Johnston is the former editor of the South End newspaper and disappeared into the West after his term of office ended last June. SAN FRANCISCO—Journalism as novel. History as novelty. History as fiction. Our lives as fiction. …
Ten Theses on the Proliferation of Egocrats
by W.B. Jeffries (Fredy Perlman)
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
I. The Egocrat—Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Kim Il Sung—is not an accident or an aberration or an irruption of irrationality; he is a personification of the relations of the existing social order.
Writing on Fire
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
Studying in Paris during the intense final year (1961 through 1962) of the Algerian war for independence, I became hooked on Algeria and the potentials of revolutionary politics. In 1965 through 1966, I pursued on-site doctoral research on Algeria’s most …