These excerpts come from the English section of the El Libertario website. El Libertario is a collective in Venezuela that has been active for eight years now.
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Lording in the Corridor
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
Corridor Lording Ten years ago, the number of residents in the Cass Corridor, bounded by Adams, Cass, Penn Central RR, and the John Lodge X-Way, numbered well over two hundred thousand. Today that number has dwindled to under ninety thousand.
Strike & Sabotage at Wash. Post
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
If the publishing of a sympathetic account of a union struggle seems inconsistent with our perspective, which views unions as auxiliary organs of Capital, let us clarify the matter. As people who have spent our adult lives as wage workers …
Trans-Love Evolves
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
The Trans-Love Energies operation in the Warren-Forest community has undergone a number of changes lately, according to spokesmen for the hippie cooperative, of which the Fifth Estate is a member group.
Strike at S.F. State
by Chris Singer
Fifth Estate # 71, January 23-February 5, 1969
“There has had to be an escalation on this campus.” —S.I. Hayakawa, President, San Francisco State College We live in a MacLuhanesque age. The world is our village, its inhabitants are all as close as the nearest TV screen. …
Postscript for the anti-capitalist movement
by Jennifer Whitney, John Jordan
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
Argentina may well prove to be the crisis which irrevocably splits the ever-widening crack in the neoliberal armor, especially if things continue to unravel in other parts of Latin America. Recent events in Venezuela, and the possibility of left wing …
Abolish Restaurants
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
“When one comes to think of it, it is strange that thousands of people in a great modern city should spend their waking hours swabbing dishes in hot dens underground. The question I am raising is why this life goes …
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
The Fifth Estate is a cooperative, nonprofit project, publishing since 1965. The people who produce it are a group of friends who do so neither to secure wages nor as an investment in the newspaper industry, but to encourage resistance …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 272, May 1976
Hungary ’56 by Andy Anderson Black & Red-Solidarity 138 pp., $1.25 Revolt In Socialist Yugoslavia by Fredy Perlman Black & Red 23 pp., $.25
Midland Anti-Napalm March
by Ron Halstead
Fifth Estate # 12, August 15, 1966
On August 7 and 8 about 100 persons from cities in Michigan and Ohio gathered at Midland, Michigan, national headquarters of Dow Chemical Corp., to protest Dow’s participation in the manufacture of napalm.
Anything new in the “Revolt Against Work?”
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Charles Reeve has raised a number of important questions in his critique of John Zerzan’s “Unions Against Revolution.” [See The “Revolt Against Work” or Fight for the Right to be Lazy (FE 279, December, 1976).] These questions should not be …
Unionism and Taylorism
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
Tay-lor-ism n. 1. The scientific management of industrial operations. 2. The systematic reduction of work within a given industrial operation to separate, distinct, routinized tasks devoid of policy decisions. Each aspect is measured and timed for its highest efficiency. 3. …
Book Review: Wartime Strikes
by Tomega Therion (Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
a review of Wartime Strikes: The Struggle Against the No-Strike Pledge in the UAW During World War II by Martin Glaberman, 1980, Bewick Editions, Detroit, 158 pp., $6 (Available from Fifth Estate Books).
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
The Detroit primary elections, as usual, contained no surprises with a majority of both registered and eligible voters not bothering to venture out of their house to participate in selecting who shall rule them. Officials have even given up bemoaning …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Sticks & Stones Dear Fifth Estate, In response to E.B. Maple (“On Organization: Two Reviews of The Camatte/Collu Pamphlet,” FE #279, December 1976), I can only say that calling me a “Leninist” does not make it so.
The Forgotten Anarchist Commune in Manchuria
by Francesco Dalessandro
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
During World War II the famous Hollywood filmmaker Frank Capra was commissioned by the U.S. Military to make a seven-part documentary film series titled “Why We Fight.” Its purpose was to counter Nazi propaganda films and justify U.S. involvement in …
Wildcat: Dodge Truck, June 1974
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 367, Winter 2004-2005
This year marks the 30th anniversary of publication of the pamphlet Wildcat: Dodge Truck, June 1974, written and produced by several of the people who became the core of the Fifth Estate collective the next year when it was transformed …
Anarchy in Murfreesboro
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
Murfreesboro, Tennessee is hardly known worldwide as a hotbed of radical activism, underground publishing, or anarchist feminism.
“Revolt Against Work” or the End of Leftism?
by John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 281, March, 1977
FE Note. The December 1976 Fifth Estate carried a critique by Charles Reeve (see “The Revolt Against Work or Fight for the Right to Be Lazy,” p. 9) of the contentions of John and Paula Zerzan that the crisis point …
Venezuela, Elections 2006
by El Libertario (Venezuela)
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
The Fifth Estate received this communication prior to the December 3 presidential election from the Venezuelan Commission of Anarchist Relations (Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas) and its organ, El Libertario. Hugo Chavez won handily against his opponent. Venezuelan government officials announced …
Post-Katrina
by Chuck 0
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
After the disaster that struck the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, during the total failure of the government response, the first health services available in New Orleans were set up by anarchists and local residents.
Argentina’s Popular Rebellion
by David Solnit
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
The neighbors had broken into and occupied the bank building as I arrived in Parque Lezama. Middle aged and scruffy young activists carried out debris, scrubbed windows and floors and hung banners with the name of their assemblia popular and …
A Reply on Poland
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
In response to “The Collapse in Poland” by Rudy Perkins in this issue (FE #309, June 19, 1982). A Movement Which is “Represented” is Unfree. When I hear the term “seizure of power,” my flesh crawls. It is a hideous …
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
The British libel proceeding brought by McDonald’s against two activists with Greenpeace London over their fact sheet, “What’s Wrong With McDonald’s,” continued into the new year with no end in sight. The $26 billion a year junk food giant objects …
The Battle of France: May ’68
by Caw! Magazine
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
FE Introduction During the months of May and June 1968, the mass strikes and uprisings that occurred in France shook the foundations of an unsuspecting world. This crisis for capital appeared at a time when newspapers like The New York …
The MC-5
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
The dangerous MC-5, Detroit’s heroic “avant-rock” band considered by many the musical electronic equivalent of STP, has been run through the mill lately and may yet come out of it smelling like roses.
Poland at the Crossroad
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
With the endorsement of the Polish Communist Party’s Politburo, on November 10, of a plan that would include the Solidarity union in a new coalition government, it appears that the seemingly endless period of crisis and confrontation in Poland will …
On Poland and Power
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), Rudy Perkins
Fifth Estate # 310, Fall 1982
Thanks again for running my article on Poland, and for E.B. Maple’s reply. (See FE #309, June 19, 1982, “The Collapse in Poland”) Maple seems a little over-anxious for a dispute on the questions raised, in some cases going out …
Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
“Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control” continues John Zerzan’s work demonstrating the massive erosion of traditional American values, in this case centering on popular allegiance to the work ethic. Following it [in this issue, FE #309, June 19, 1982] is …
Prisons as the Domain of Hidden Warfare in the U.S.
by Eric Laursen
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
a review of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt by Orisanmi Burton. University of California Press, 2023
Planning for Peoples’ Power
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 92, November 13-26, 1969
Open City is the service organization for the free community and has already opened a free medical service, a non profit general store, a food co-op, a free University, a counseling center and switchboard that operates twenty four hours a …
The U.S. War On Vietnam
by Wendy Wildflower
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
a review of Among the Boat People: A Memoir of Vietnam by Nhi Manh Chung. Autonomedia 2019 autonomedia.org
’76 French Strike at La Hague
by Michael Lucas
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
From May to October of 1976 the workers of the La Hague nuclear reprocessing plant in France struck following what was euphemistically described as a radical “deterioration of working conditions” as a result of a shift from the reprocessing of …
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986
The Fifth Estate is a cooperative project, published by a group of friends who are in general, but not necessarily complete agreement with the articles herein. Each segment of the paper represents the collective effort of writing, typesetting, layout and …
Beyond Automation
by Bernard Marszalek
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
The effect of automation on employment was first brought to the public’s attention by a 1964 report, The Triple Revolution, issued by a California-based liberal think tank, the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.
The Emergence of a UAW Local
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
A review of The Emergence of a UAW Local, 1936-1939: A study in class and culture by Peter Friedlander
Technology and Capitalism
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 292, June 19, 1978
a review of David F. Noble, America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism (N.Y.: Knopf, 1977). 384 pages, $12.95.
6,843 Armed Services Desertions in the Last Year
by Igor Talliss
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
The ruling elite’s successful management of mass-mediated news coverage during the US invasion of Kuwait and Iraq in 1990 was a revolution in governmental social control. Of course, psychological warfare has been a vital component in all war efforts since …
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The Enchantment of Nuclear Destruction
by Anti-Authoritarians Anonymous
Fifth Estate # 311, Winter, 1983
The possibility of total destruction through nuclear war corresponds to a condition of ruin everywhere that makes such destruction attractive. And in the absence of opposition that contests everything about the existing social order, only the eruption of nuclear war …
The Wobblies Are Back!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Last year, Starbucks’ “baristas” in New York continued to organize for the first union shop in an outpost of the notorious coffee chain. In January, criminal charges were dismissed against an IWW Starbucks organizer stemming from a march at the …