In the Southwest, “U.S. Out of North America” is not just another pretty slogan. In 1680, when Spain presided over the Four Corners Area, Indian ‘runners ran from village to village, launching the Pueblo Revolt, in which Pueblo, Navajo and …
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Letters to the Editor
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
Send letters via email to fe – AT – fifthestate.org or Fifth Estate, P.O. Box 201016, Ferndale MI 48220. All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten. Letters may be edited for length.
French Radicals Sabotage Prison Project
by Os Cangaceiros
Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991
[Translator’s note: Recently, a voluminous dossier began to circulate in France. The dossier, sent by Os Cangaceiros, included stolen prison plans and documents and a chronology outlining Os Cangaceiros’s campaign of sabotage against the “13,000 project” (new maximum security penitentiaries …
News and Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
Within the past several months the FE has received many publications and letters from Greece trying to make contact with radicals and libertarian revolutionaries in the U.S.
Notes on the Death of Franco (Part I)
by Murray Bookchin
Fifth Estate # 268, January, 1976
Next issue: Part II of “Notes on the Death of Franco” will cover an analysis of modern Spain and the state of the revolutionary movement today. Murray Bookchin is the author of a forthcoming book The Spanish Anarchists which is …
The Final Empire and the Seed of the Future
by Ivan Wucher
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
a review of The Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization: The Seed of the Future, William Kotke, 401 pp., Arrow Point Press, Portland OR, 1993, $20 (available from FE Books at $15.
Letters on Deep Ecology
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
Dear Fifth Estate: I was heartened to read your issue concerning Earth First! [FE #327, Fall, 1987]. I’ve had a gut feeling about that group for a while, felt uncomfortable with the male-dominated norm of most all environmental groups, even …
The Ludlow Massacre
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 271, April, 1976
This article is the third in a series of counter-bicentennial pieces dealing with the more sordid and less-acknowledged incidents in America’s 200-year-old history.
Revolution Against the Megamachine
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Staff note: George Bradford was a pseudonym used by David Watson in these pages. 1. Autopsy of a Petrochemical Disaster Remember the Exxon Valdez? The ship was the source of the worst oil spill to date in U.S. history, spilling …
Economic Crisis and Revolution
by Claudio Albertani
Fifth Estate # 293-294, August 21, 1978
FE note: See our introduction, “Revolution & Counter-revolution in Italy,” [FE#293-294, August 21, 1978] in this issue. Author’s Introduction A conspiracy of silence and careful distortion of what doesn’t fit the picture of Italy as a panting country trying to …
The “Uses” of Terrorism
by Michael Lucas
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
In considering the anti-nuclear movement in Germany—the growing opposition, agitation and the emergence of hundreds of local citizen’s initiatives that are directly organizing to stop the nuclear designs of the government and the electric utility companies—we must keep in mind …
The Abolition of Work
by Bob Black
Fifth Estate # The South End insert
No one should ever work. Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost all evil you’d care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop …
Counterfeiting Sovereignty
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
“Counterfeit coin is said to prove the existence of genuine–the terms being purely relative. But because there can be no counterfeit where there is no original, does it in any manner follow that any undemonstrated original exists? In seeing a …
Anarchy and the Left
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987
In recent months, we have been critical of a number of anarchists, through correspondence and in person, on the question of working politically with marxist-leninists on specific projects of joint interest. Those we have been in contact with on these …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
Quite a Drag Howdy, Folks! (That’s the only non-sexist salutation I can think of.)
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
FASCIST DISSENSION Dear Friends: I am resubscribing to the Fifth Estate plus $1.00 extra for a prisoner’s subscription. I support the work of the FE and believe that it is of critical value to all revolutionaries. However, I strongly disagree …
Comments on Central America
by Blueberry, Fifth Estate Collective, George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Fifth Estate: I want to offer some criticisms of the latest issue. The Vietnam article [Web archive note: This article first appeared in FE #320, Spring 1985. With an added Introduction by Richard Drinnon it was reprinted in FE #346, …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
The FE BOOKSERVICE is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, both of which are at 5928 Second, Detroit MI 48202. telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours we are open vary considerably, so it’s always best to give …
China: The Mysterious Journey of the Democracy Movement
by Gabriel Dumont
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
“Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.” — Michael Bakunin
4th World War Against Native Peoples
by Mary Wildwood
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
a review of In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations. Jerry Mander. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco. 1991. $25.00. 446 pp.