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Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
A happy new year thank-you to all of you who responded so quickly to our request in the last issue to please renew your subscriptions promptly. Thank you also for all the very generous donations and requests for papers to …
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
Harrises Freed Bill and Emily Harris, the Symbionese Liberation Army members who pleaded guilty to kidnapping newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst in 1974 and were imprisoned in 1978, will be paroled in June. Their attorney, Stuart Hanlon, said Bill Harris will …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
What About Gangs? To the Fifth Estate: The FE is usually a delight to read. Only a couple of small things have detracted from that: Using “man” to mean “people”(in the article on a Michigan landfill) is sexist and a …
Unions & the Nature of Work
by B. Durrutti
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
a review of “But What About the Workers?,” a pamphlet by James Boggs and James Hocker, available from the Advocators, Box 07249, Gratiot Sta., Detroit MI 48207; $0.75, 43 pp.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
Send letters to fe@fifthestate.org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220 All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten. Letters may be edited for length.
The Political Vision of David Graeber
by Marissa Holmes
Fifth Estate # 408, Winter, 2021
Throughout his life, David Graeber remained an eternal optimist who refused to accept the world as it is, and saw only what it could be. He envisioned international, directly democratic, and egalitarian politics. To achieve this required practice. An Hypothesis …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
Anarchism Flops To the Fifth Estate: If it is wrong for a woman to be put on trial when she is raped, isn’t it equally wrong for a society to be put on trial when it is raped? Prejudice predates …
“The Decadence of Capital”
by Interrogations
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
FE Note: The essay below explores and criticizes the theory of the “decadence of capitalism,” a view held by several ultra-left sects here and in Europe. This view contends (a la Marx) that capital once had a dynamic phase in …
Disobedience: The antidote for miserablism
by Penelope Rosemont
Fifth Estate # 386, Spring, 2012
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. — Oscar Wilde
Subjectivity Rosa
by Jack Bratich
Fifth Estate # 380, Spring 2009
Over the past two years, various actors have ruminated over the perceived loss of the “movement” (specifically referring to the counterglobalization movement, but also referring to a sense of momentum, coordinated actions, targeted purpose, and most importantly a sense of …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
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: …
Anarchic Justice at the End of History
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
It has been said that self-preservation is the first law of nature, and that the basis of justice lies in protecting ourselves from one another. This is a perennial lie of the system of domination.
Italian Chemical Disaster
by R.F.
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
Since the July 10th explosion at an Italian Chemical plant outside of the northern Italian city of Seveso, information has come to light to indicate that Michigan could be the setting for a similar disaster.
How Professor Arne Ness and I Conquered NATO
by Jens Bjorneboe
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
From Norway, My Norway (1968) Translated by Esther Greenleaf Murer
From Economic Meltdown to Grassroots Rebellion
by Jennifer Whitney, John Jordan
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
The Tin Pot Insurrection December the 19th was the turning point, the day when the Argentinean people said “enough!” The stage was set the day before, when people began looting shops and supermarkets, so they could feed their families. …
New Fascism—American Style?
by Harvey Wasserman
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
“A fascist government is a one-party system, highly centralized and authoritarian, with rigid control over every phase of a nation’s life…This government is militaristic, nationalistic and imperialistic and it claims dogmatic political faith.” —Herbert Matthews of the New York Times …
Like a Thief in the Night
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 380, Spring 2009
a review of Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark, edited by Paul Bogard. University of Nevada Press, 2008
Tales of Resistance
by john johnson
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Timoney Three Acquitted! Camilo Vivieros, Darby Landy, and Eric Steinberg, known as the Timoney Three, were acquitted April 6 of all charges against them arising from their arrests at the 2000 Republican National Convention protests.
Spain ’36
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
Imagine the United States split regionally into conservative-fascist and leftist popular front-anarchist zones. Civil war rages at the shifting boundary lines with half the country under the domination of an insurgent military right-wing junta determined to destroy the elected government …
“State-Fetishism”
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
Over the past year, there has been a discussion within the pages of the Fifth Estate as to what constitutes revolutionary violence, and what the uses and relevance of such violence might be.
Charles Fourier Prefigures Our Total Refusal
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
Issue #12 of Internationale Situationniste reported that, during a general strike in Paris on March 10, 1969, a group identified only as the “Guy-Lassac Street Barricaders” erected a handmade bronze-coated plaster statue of Charles Fourier. The new monument was placed …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
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: …
Detroit’s People Mover
by Mary Wildwood
Fifth Estate # 320, Spring, 1985
For all those world-weary visionaries fed up with ever doleful tones and anxious to hear something concrete and uplifting—didja hear the one about the Detroit People Mover?
Revolt of the Bats
by Alon K. Raab
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
North America, Turtle Island, taken by invaders who wage war on the world, May ants, may abalone, otters, wolves, and elk rise! and pull away their giving from the robot nations. ——Gary Snyder, Mother Earth: Her Whales The animals are …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
Prison Food Greetings! Me, and some good comrades are being held prisoner in this pigsty called prison, and we came upon a copy of the April Fifth Estate. Needless to say, we are always trying to Fuck Authority, but there …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
Ammunition Books 4403 Second Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48201, Tele. No. (313) 831-6800 Bookstore hours vary, but we are generally open on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and at scattered other times. Please call before coming down to be sure we are …
Exposé: Press Biggies Rake Media
by Jan Harald
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
(Page 2 of The South End insert)
Thoughts on the Disappearance of History
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # Daily Barbarian Number 8
Thoughts on the Disappearance of History by David Watson Daily Barbarian > Thoughts on the Disappearance of History “so that when there is no more story that will be our story when there is no forest that will be our …
Lasch: Theory of Passivity Stumbles
by Bob Brubaker
Fifth Estate # 301, February 26, 1980
Your growing conviction that people are unable (or have lost the ability) to learn from and develop conclusions about their experience, and to act to change the conditions of their lives finds its latest confirmation in Christopher Lasch’s The Culture …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
Ammunition Books, 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201—Telephone No. (313) 831-8600 Bookstore hours vary, but we are generally open on Monday and Thursday afternoons and at scattered other times. Please call before coming down to be sure we are here.
Discordia Americana
by Jack Bratich
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
Daily life has a new rhythm: routine disruptions. DPacing an accelerated news cycle and affective bursts from smart phone notifications, our subjective autonomous systems are increasingly synced up with crisis-state and techno security tempos.
Countering the Mystique of the Proletariat
by Gerard
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in 1848, asserts that “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles,” that social transformations grow out of the contradiction between productive forces and the …
Wide World of Banks
by A. R.
Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976
Underneath the center of the international menagerie, whereupon governments totter for power, politicians tumble for fame, generals squawk for security, and clergy rant and rave, skitter the well-fed rodents of the financial world, endlessly greasing the vital parts of all …
Taking it OFF the streets!
by Jeff Shantz
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
The Occupy mobilizations of the last year have offered to many some hope for a renewal of popular movements and alternatives to state capitalist arrangements Yet, perhaps few recurring events show the great disparity that exists between activist subcultures and …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
As you may have noted, the name of our book project has dropped the title “Ammunition” in favor of “Fifth Estate” or simply, “FE.” We have been talking about making the change actually for several years, but were always looking …
Do Unions Raise Wages?
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 273, June 1976
Although unions have long been identified by left revolutionaries as auxiliary organs of capital whose function is to regulate the sale of their members’ labor power, the myth still persists that they are “defense organs of the working class.” Even …
On Mutiny Considered as One of the Fine Arts
by Cap'n John Yossarian
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
Mutiny is such a potent threat to military organizations—and the States who use them avoid even mentioning the word. Instead, military commanders and civil authorities fall back on euphemism in order to avoid announcing the news that they most fear—during …
Tenth Anniversary of Bolivia’s Water War
by David Solnit
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
In spring 2000, the people of Cochabamba, Bolivia rose up against the privatization of their water, forcing out the US based corporation, Bechtel, and Bolivia’s neo-liberal government to back down. The rebellion opened up new political space in Bolivia, catalyzing …
Roger Calkins
by Art Johnston
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
Editors’ Note: Art Johnston is the former editor of the South End newspaper and disappeared into the West after his term of office ended last June. SAN FRANCISCO—Journalism as novel. History as novelty. History as fiction. Our lives as fiction. …