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Rock and Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 58, July 18-31, 1968
In the past two weeks since the last issue of this paper a bunch of new developments have taken place: Almost every job for the MC5 brings a new and different creep scene into being.
Goldman Papers Seized
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
The following is excerpted from a longer critique of the Emma Goldman Papers Project and its director, Candace Falk. For a copy of the complete article, write: c/o the Last Blast, Box 410151, San Francisco, CA 94141. [Authorship in the …
Marxism, Anarchism and the Roots of the New Totalitarianism
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 306, July, 1981
“Subjection of nature’s forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground—what earlier century had even a …
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The Year 2000 for Revolutionaries
by Kyle Holbrock
Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999
The present society produces an ever-increasing series of disasters, from stock market crashes to mass starvation. Most of this chaos winds up hurting the most dispossessed while the capitalists laugh all the way to the bank. Knowing this, as a …
Census Resisters Snub Government
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 302, June 1, 1980
The 1980 census has come and gone without much ado. On the face of it, it appears as though most Americans dutifully mailed back their forms and provided the government with its constitutionally mandated information needed to apportion each state’s …
Statement of Ownership, etc.
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 299, October 22, 1979
Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (Required by 39 USC 3685) 1. Title of Publication: Fifth Estate 2. Date of Filing: 30 September 1979 3. Frequency of Issue: Bi-Monthly 3A. No. of Issues Published Annually: 6 3B. Annual Subscription Price: …
Rock and Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
I want to take up where I left off last time and get into some of the alternatives to the present scene in the local rock and roll industry. There has been some fantastic response to my last column—even Russ …
The Green Scare Rolls On
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 380, Spring 2009
Besides the sentencing of Marie Mason, there have been developments in a number of other Green Scare cases in the Midwest and beyond.
From Red Anarchism to Green Anarchy
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
From its Eat the Rich Gang incarnation in the 1970s, Fifth Estate has been an unparalleled source of new ideas. Thinkers like Fredy Perlman, Jacques Ellul, and Jacques Camatte were introduced and moved anti-authoritarian perspectives forward very significantly.
Anti Toxic Prison Conference Plans Abolition Strategies & Rocks Carswell
by Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
From June 2 to 5, the second annual Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons (FTP) hosted its 2017 National Convergence in Denton, Texas, gathering over 200 activists and revolutionaries from across the country to explore the intersections of the environmental movement …
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Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 311, Winter, 1983
The Fifth Estate is a co-operative 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, lay-out and …
Students Battle War Profiteers
by Allen Fisk
Fifth Estate # 41, November 1-15, 1967
Fourteen people were arrested and a number of assault charges are pending after two days of protest by Wayne University students, Oct. 24 and 25, at the site of a Defense and Government Procurement Conference set up to bring more …
Marxism: Obscuring more than it reveals
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
“… [I]n my view, anarchism has no significant contribution to socialist theory to make.” —Eric Hobsbawm, “Reflections on Anarchism,” 1969 Hobsbawm, the late British Marxist historian, in his snobbery, unintentionally poses the question as to the function of theory of …
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
FIFTH ESTATE #315, Winter 1984, Vol. 18 No. 4, page 2 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 Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 19, December 1-15, 1966
Progress Report: The first reorganizational meeting of the Artists’ Workshop Society took place as scheduled on November 22, with encouraging results. That is to say, enough people expressed working interest in continuing the work of the Society that the Artists’ …
Walter Reuther
by Jim Jacobs
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
Jim Jacobs is a member of the Detroit Organizing Committee. The death of Walter Reuther ends the reign of the foremost social democratic unionist in American history. Since 1947, when Reuther took control over the UAW international, he has built …
Can Permaculture be Confrontational?
by Max Shaver
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
The greatest alienation that capitalism has wrought on humanity is perhaps not labor power, as posited by Marx, but rather the ability to live a life reliant on nature. Where once humanity was in intimate contact with the natural world, …
Class War OR Compromise
by CAI
Fifth Estate # The Rumble, Issue 1
While the plug has been pulled on the Detroit newspaper strike, the picket line persists. The Detroit newspaper strike, now in its twentieth month, has become the Detroit newspaper lock-out. In mid-February word came down from the union brass that …
Looking Back at France, May 1968
by SK
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
Fifty years ago France was on the verge of social revolution, with millions of workers on strike, factories occupied, and students striking and occupying universities and high schools all over the country. Anarchists and anti-authoritarians were deeply involved in this …
Farewell to the Working Class?
by Jonny Ball
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
Some might have thought that the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite states, along with the abandonment of socialist economics across less industrialized countries would have sounded the death knell of Marxism. But Marx’s loyal tribe are keen …
Land and Liberty
by Seaweed
Fifth Estate # 367, Winter 2004-2005
Perhaps it’s for the best that you don’t have a memory of yourself centuries ago as you looked proudly around your community—a community deeply embedded in a habitat. This is where you first made love, learned to swim, caught your …
Subverting Establishment Suppression
by Bryan Tucker
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power—known by its acronym ACT UP—coalesced in the late 1980s with a simple motivation: the desire to live.
The Collapse in Poland
by Rudy Perkins
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
“Winter is yours, Spring is ours!” —Solidarity Painted across a thousand walls in Poland, this promise reminds us that the democratic upsurge there is far from buried. A certain phase of the movement has ended. When the movement reappears its …
World Forums Fighting for Water and Justice
by Veronica Lake
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
In preparation for the fourth World Social Forum, held in Mumbai, India, January 16-21, a call went out around the world for people to come to Delhi to work out a program of protection for water and water access to …
Discussion on Anti-work
by Bob Brubaker, John Zerzan, Tim Luke
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
“Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control” in this issue [FE #309, June 19, 1982] continues John Zerzan’s work demonstrating the massive erosion of traditional American values, in this case centering on popular allegiance to the work ethic. Below is a …
Staff and Contributors
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
Michael Betzold Alan Franklin Ralph Franklin E.B. Maple Tina Nachalo Mike Neiswonger Speedo Mr. Venom Marilyn Werbe Peter Werbe Dennis Rosenblum The Fifth Estate Newspaper, a non-profit Michigan corporation, is published bi-monthly at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit MI 48201; phone …
German Students Revolt in the Streets
by Hatti Heimann, Irwin Limsky
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
Liberation News Service — The thousands of left-wing German students clashing with police on the streets of Berlin, Frankfort, Hanover, Munich and other German cities rallied for reasons beyond the original motivation of the shooting of Rudi Dutsche.
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966
Detroit is full of openings! Last weekend: Uncle Russ’s Gran-de Ballroom broke into the open with the MC5 and the High Society’s light show, both of which were just as they have to be—TOO MUCH. (William Blake: “Enough! or Too …
Introduction to Fifth Estate Issue 374
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
Welcome to the New York City issue of Fifth Estate. The editorship of the magazine now rotates, and two of us in NYC have stepped in to give the peops in Detroit and Tennessee a rest (making this the first …
Staff and Contributors
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
Millard Berry Alan Franklin Ralph Franklin Pat Halley Pat O’Bryan Kathy Horak Tina Nachalo Bob Nirkind E.B. Maple Doug Larkins Donna Saffioti Peter Werbe Marilyn Werbe Govinda Habersplatte John & Paula Zerzan Rick Rollins The Fifth Estate Newspaper, a non-profit …
Class Struggle in China
by C.D. Ward
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
Excerpted from “Class Struggle in ‘Red’ China” by C.D. Ward, in World Revolution In China and similarly throughout the world, the trade unions are a part of the state machine; their function is to integrate the working class into the …
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 292, June 19, 1978
Peoples (sic) Republic (sic) of China Despite the change of bureaucracy in China and attempts by the new rulers to make peace with the workers by offering them meager wage increases, it seems that political and social unrest continues. According …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 269, February, 1976
Anarchism…stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. But defiance and resistance are illegal. Therein lies the salvation of man. — Emma Goldman, Anarchism, 1910
Newspeak and the Impoverishment of Language
by Lynne Clive (Marilynn Rashid)
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
In his appendix on language in the world of 1984, George Orwell explains that “Newspeak was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc, or English Socialism.” Newspeak was created for the …
Change the World
by Norman Nawrocki
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
Imagine if more people believed in the power and the magic of collective creativity, what a crazy wonderful new anarchist world we could build. Under capitalism, any form of creativity is usually seen as an individual pursuit, the domain of …
Looking for Work and Finding It!
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
The Job Hunt by Alan Franklin He called me a peculiar, bungling misfit, and right away I knew things weren’t going to work out quite as well as I’d hoped. Oh, sure, I’d filled out the form all right, even …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 292, June 19, 1978
Special thanks to all those readers who sent in contributions and became sustainers in response to last issue’s plea for funds. Financially we are at somewhat of an equilibrium, but still remain on the edge, so although we don’t want …
The Cult of Stakhanov
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
“History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.” — R. Buckminster Fuller This year marks the one hundredth …
Multinational Unions
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
It has never been more clear that trade unionism is ” absolutely essential to the survival as well as to the stability of world capitalism. The trend toward the consolidation of unions, their closer integration with the state, and, most …