a review of Worker-Student Action Committees: France ’68, R. Gregoire & F. Perlman, Black & Red, PO Box 02374, Detroit MI 48202, 1969 (reprinted 1991). Available from B & R or FE Books, $3 plus postage.
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Roger, Michael and Me
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
a review of “Roger and Me,” a film produced and directed by Michael Moore.
“Big Mama” Thornton and the Holding Company
by TPL
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
NEW YORK (LNS)—Tuesday night at Ungano’s Discotheque, located just west of Amsterdam Avenue at 70th St., the atmosphere: dark, the clientele: negligible.
Rock and Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
The following is a press release I wrote for the MC5 this week; we’re running it here because we promised to take you behind the scenes in the rock and roll industry, and these events illustrate what bands have to …
Italy: the refusal of all constraints
by Isaac Cronin
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
This text was taken from a leaflet by Isaac Cronin (Box 14221, San Francisco, Ca. 94114). Thanks to No Limits (Box 2605, Madison, WI 53701) for the information. It appeared in their June/July issue.
I’m Sticking with the Union?
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
“Hey! What are you guys doing here? You hate unions!” —A strike supporter The labor militant who aimed this question at us was surprised, almost shocked, to see a group whom she considers anarchists critical of unions, shoulder-to-shoulder with striking …
Book reviews
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
a review of Richard Wright, a biography by Constance Webb. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, NYC, 442 pages $8.95. William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond, edited by John Henrik Clarke. Beacon Press, Boston, hardbound $4.95, paperback: $1.95
What have you got?
by Art Johnston
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
SAN FRANCISCO—”Naked Angels” is the best movie I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen “2001” four times, and I thought that was better than “Wild Angels” which I saw only 3 times.
Unschooling and Free Schools
by Marike Reid-Gaudet
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
I’m interested in unschooling because it’s an applied philosophy rather than a teaching method. This philosophy, which I strive to use daily with my son, who is now 16 years old, is also the one used in free schools. For …
Life & Rewilding in the Pandemic
by Steve Kirk
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
“Sridevi and her relatives collected nine types of Dioscorea tubers; some extended deep underground. The ease and flow of the work, and the general lack of rules governing the way spouses cooperated in doing this job, struck me.” —Nurit Bird-David, …
The L.A. Earthquake
by Adam Bregman
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
At 4:30 am, January 17th, an earthquake…measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale hit Los Angeles. Everyone was suddenly awakened as the earth tossed the city around for thirty seconds or so.
Revolution & Counter-Revolution in Portugal
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 266, September, 1975
Trying to make sense of the situation in Portugal with facts gleaned from reading the daily newspapers and watching the nightly news has become an increasingly impossible task.
Workers Battle GE Electric Octopus
by David Gaynes
Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970
147,000 workers at the General Electric Corporation went on strike October 27, 1969. Today, they’re still out of work with little hope of any rapid change in their bleak situation. General Electric’s (non-) negotiators have refused to budge a comma …
Society of the Spectacle, 40th anniversary
by Bill Koehnlein
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
The Society of the Spectacle (La Société du Spectacle), by Guy Debord, is the best-known and most influential text issued by the Situationist international (SI), and it informed–theoretically and practically–the most revolutionary sectors that emerged a year after its publication …
MS Magazine Interview
by The Eat The Rich Gang
Fifth Estate # 291, April 30, 1978
Gail Garrot, big city cop MS Magazine caught up with Gail Garrot as she emerged from the stone-grey headquarters of the Detroit Police Department located in the center of the Motor City’s dreary downtown section.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
FEer Kidnapped? [In response to Rich Take Non-Aspirin Over FE Ad, #274, July 1976] Dear Sirs (sic): We have kidnapped your staff member, E.B. Maple. If you do not deliver $300,000 in one dollar bills or the Chairman of the …
Mass Insurrection Centennial
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
On July 16, 1877, railroad workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia, walked off their jobs in response to a 10% wage cut instituted by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Wage cuts had become common practice on the railroads, in fact throughout …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 291, April 30, 1978
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and can be found at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 48201 (telephone-313-831-6800). Our hours vary, but we are generally open on Monday and Thursday afternoons (from 1pm to 5pm) and at …
Algorithms of Compliance
by D.G. Gerard
Fifth Estate # 408, Winter, 2021
a review of Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener. Macmillan/Farrar Straus Giroux/MCD Books (Holtzbrinck Publishing Group) 2020 To escape her stagnant work as an assistant in publishing, Anna Wiener sold out and took a job in tech. Now she’s written about …
China: Financing the Celestial Empire
by E. Mett, Y. Bumczik
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
China is in fashion. Enthusiasm for China can be found amongst liberals, technocrats and members of the World Bank. In the popular view “the people are brave and the culture squeaky clean.” Maoists and proto-Maoists proclaim China as a genuine …
Death & Deadening
by Bryan Tucker
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
Modern modes of handling concerns in the death and dying spheres seem emblematic of disturbing trends found throughout mass culture.
Occupied Iraq
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
“What are kingdoms but great robberies? Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by …
Between myth and reality: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War
by SK
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
The International Brigades came to Spain to fight fascism, but helped crush the anarchist social revolution.
The Future is Now!
by Jesús Sepúlveda
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
Sales Santos-Vera and Itziar Madina-Elguezabal live in the heart of the Basque Mountains, where the borders between France and Spain are blurred and the mists hide the paths once serving smugglers and antifascist guerrillas. Sales moved here from Extremadura along …
Breaking the Cycle of Trauma
by Benjamin Olson
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
Trauma is a subtle dominator of experience. Totalizing yet imperceptible, the massive mental shock re-contextualizes life so fully, one forgets what life was like before it.
Zapping the Pyramid
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
Excerpted from Fifth Estate #367-368, Spring-Summer 2005 40th anniversary issue. This is an edited version of Don’s essay. The design shows a pyramid surmounted by an eye being blasted by a bolt of lightning. Bannered beneath the collapsing pyramid is …
Watching the Clock
by Jim Feast
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of The Lady Anarchist Café: Poems and Stories by Lorraine Schein. Autonomedia, 2022
Supporting the Scene in Association with Others: Do-It-Yourselfers and Difference
by Nicholas Jon Crane
Fifth Estate # 384, Spring, 2011
I attended a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) event three years ago that was promoted as a “zine release show.” Ostensibly devoted to the distribution of recently published zines, the event provided zine writers with an audience of people with shared dispositions, but …
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Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 289, January 24, 1978
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and can be found at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 48201 (telephone-313-831-6800). Our hours vary, but we are generally open on Monday and Thursday afternoons (from 1pm to 5pm) and at …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
PORTUGAL: The Impossible Revolution? Phil Mailer The still unfinished story of the Portuguese upsurge of 1974-75. An eye-witness account of a deeply involved spectator. A new type of historiography with the view from different groups vying for power and the …
Marx: Good-Bye To All That
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 281, March, 1977
Inside the walled compound of a Buddhist monastery on the outskirts of Kyoto, Japan, the monks who reside there have created a meditation garden consisting of raked sand and about a dozen large stones. The stones are adroitly arranged so …
Anarchy in the Age of Reagan
by Fifth Estate Collective, John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986
Renew the Earthly Paradise Present Day Banalities The two essays printed here were written in response to a questionnaire sent out by the Italian anarchist magazine, Rivista anarchica, investigating the present situation for North American anarchist and libertarian groups and …
The Death of Randolph Scott, Gabby Hayes and the Canadian Pacific Railway
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
I. “Of the heavy losses we have sustain e d”, author-sentimentalist Charles Beaumont once said, “none can be regarded with more melancholy than the loss of the great movie theatres.” A generation ago they proliferated, today they exist like brontosaurus, …
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Poland: 1970-71
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
a review of Poland: 1970-71; Capitalism and Class Struggle, Informations Correspondence Ourvrieres (ICO), 117 pages; illustrated, Black & Red, Detroit, 1977.
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
Welcome to the Summer 1994 Fifth Estate. Our center eight pages feature the return of the once-a-decade Daily Barbarian, which last appeared as an FE supplement in 1984. Just wait until 2004! Also, this 40-page issue is the largest in …
Catastrophism
by Jaime Semprun, René Riesel
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
In these excerpts from their book, Catastrophisme, administration du desastre et soumission durable, René Riesel and Jaime Semprun warn against State-administered management of the global ecological and social crisis.
Tombeau for L
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Introductory note by Sunfrog People connected with the ‘zine and mail art communities of the 1980s or with the rural, artistic, experimental music factions of the anarchist milieu in the 1990s might remember the co-founder of Dreamtime Village, Lyx Ish, …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
Capitalism’s Industrial Plagues
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
This article is the first in a two-part series on the effects that the indiscriminate handling and usage of radioactive waste materials and dangerous chemicals are having, and will have in the future, on human beings and their environment. Part …