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.
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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 …