I. The Egocrat—Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Kim Il Sung—is not an accident or an aberration or an irruption of irrationality; he is a personification of the relations of the existing social order.
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Ten Theses on the Proliferation of Egocrats
by W.B. Jeffries (Fredy Perlman)
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
Writing on Fire
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
Studying in Paris during the intense final year (1961 through 1962) of the Algerian war for independence, I became hooked on Algeria and the potentials of revolutionary politics. In 1965 through 1966, I pursued on-site doctoral research on Algeria’s most …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977
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 …
Rock & Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 71, January 23-February 5, 1969
For two weeks now I’ve been trying to write a letter to William Leach, the Black Panther who attacked what he calls the “white left” in the Fifth Estate last time as being jive and untogether. [See “The White Left—Serious …
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
In our last issue George Bradford reported there are some five thousand pieces of junk floating around in space, including several nuclear reactors that will eventually fall back to earth. (See “Biosphere 2: The Future of the Planet?” FE #343, …
Occupy ICE Portland Goes to the Movies
by Muriel Lucas
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
On June 17, Father’s Day, a march and vigil was planned outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Southwest Portland, Ore., to protest the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201 Telephone No. (313) 831-8600 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 here.
A World is Faltering
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
Fifth Estate Introduction It is impossible to give any credence to the statistics of disaffection and disintegration assembled here by John Zerzan and at the same time take seriously a recent survey in which the vast majority of Americans asserted …
Cuba: The Economy Changes
by Octavio Alberola
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
The Cuban state has usually been able to keep a tight lid on protests. Generally, it only allows demonstrations that have been organized by government ministries. However, during the fall and winter of 2020-21 the dissident San Isidro Movement in …
Anarchism & Science Fiction
by Ben Beck
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
Most anarchists are familiar with Ursula K. Le Guin’s utopian science fiction novel, The Dispossessed. But its fame has somewhat served to overshadow other works of science fiction that are also of great interest. Here are a few of those.
Out of the Fog
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
On Jan. 1, 2024, the city of San Francisco sent New Year’s greetings to its beleaguered citizens with the cheery news that a suicide net had been installed under the Golden Gate Bridge thanks to funding from the California Mental …
Hail Red Army Nerve Gas!
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
In politics nothing can be taken at face value; many times what passes for an elaborately drawn political point of view is little more than a posture which conceals psychopathology. Trotskyism, a stillborn variety of marxism notable for the bizarre …
On Terrorism and Authoritarianism
by Muswell Hillbillie
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
“He who humbles himself wills to be exalted.” —Nietzsche I would like to present some thoughts and comments on terrorist organizations and activities in general and on the SLA and “The Last SLA Statement” in this context. My main intention …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
The Daily Barbarian is loose again after almost a year’s absence. The large, 8-page broadsheet filled with libertarian news, poetry, an essay on S & M, a great back-page Reagan poster, irreverent humor and imaginative layout makes one wish for …
Rock & Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
We arrived in New York City on Dec. 15 and made it to Steve Paul’s Scene to dig the Rationals and Slim Harpo. The Rats were cooking as ever and even managed to get a few people dancing. Slim Harpo …
David Alex Campbell Released From Rikers
by Charlie Hix
Fifth Estate # 408, Winter, 2021
On the evening of January 19th, 2018, while over 200,000 people gathered in New York City for the Women’s March, a thousand alt-right supporters converged for a “Night of Freedom” at Hell’s Kitchen FREQ NYC nightclub. Outside, a brawl broke …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 302, June 1, 1980
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit-telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that you give …
Transhumanism vs. Primitivism
by Bellamy Fitzpatrick
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
“Come and hear the views of two thinkers who arguably have defined the two polar opposite views on the effects of technology” blared the invitation to a November 15 debate between Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan and Anarcho-Primitivist John Zerzan at California’s …
1984: Worse Than Expected?
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
1. Slavery Is Freedom. How technology makes use of our own natural anxieties about it to promote its power over us.
Detroit Paper Strike Continues
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
I’m writing this on Labor Day 1997, the third such holiday since five newspaper unions began their strike against the Detroit News and Free Press in July 1995. The spirits of many of the strikers remain high, their weekly paper …
Discipline and Punish
by Michael Scrivener
Fifth Estate # 298, June 19, 1979
a review of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault. Trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Pantheon Books, 1977)
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 292, June 19, 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 …
Convention Crashes!
by MaxZine Weinstein
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
NEW YORK, NY — August 31 (Dissociated Press) The campaign to re-appoint George Bush President is in full swing as a heat wave continued with Central Park recording its third consecutive 95 degree-plus day.
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 301, February 26, 1980
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that you give …
Caution: Capitalism May Be Hazardous to Your Health
by George Metefsky
Fifth Estate # 98, February 4-18, 1970
Part I These are the last days of the Weimar Republic. In Berkeley, police ‘opened fire with buckshot on unarmed people by the Peoples’ Park, wounding over a hundred and killing one, James Rector. Across the country—in Madison, in Ann …
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Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
Welcome to the Winter 1999 issue of the Fifth Estate, #352. This edition follows our Summer issue by about six months. Maybe, like Anarchy has in its recently published issue, we should stop any pretense of quarterly publication, and openly …
In Critical and Suffocating Times
by T.P.T.G. (The Children of The Gallery)
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
As a publication appearing only three times a year, it’s difficult to report on the outrages of capital and the empire in a timely fashion. Usually, we cover only issues not available elsewhere. However, the Greek events of this Spring …
Watching the Dogs Salivate
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
“I know one or 2 who have this year, for the first time, read a president’s message, but they do not see that this implies a fall in themselves rather than a rise in the president. Blessed are the young …
Gettin Schooled
by Tomas
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
I’m sitting with my developmental writing class towards the beginning of the semester. There are two white students, eighteen students of color, six international students. It’s the exact opposite in my critical thinking class. But we aren’t talking race yet; …
What do we learn in school that couldn’t be learned elsewhere?
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
Why do we send our kids to school? We’ve been told that it is in elementary school that the bases of learning to read, write, and do math are acquired, although anyone who spends any time with children can clearly …
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How White Supremacy Progresses
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
Frank Joyce, was the Fifth Estate News Editor 50 years ago, and rejoins us with reflections on the 1967 events. “I calmed the tremor in my gut. I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous …
Spain: The continuing revolution
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
For the first time since I got here, people are openly and seriously comparing this to the pre-Civil War situation in 1936. –Basque Diplomat, October 1975
Zapping the Pyramid
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
The design shows a pyramid surmounted by an eye being blasted by a bolt of lightning. Bannered beneath the collapsing pyramid is the motto, “NON SERVIAM.”
Spanish Revolution Resource Page
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
Home > Archive > Learn more about the Spanish Revolution of 1936 and the important role of the anarchists…. Articles published in Fifth Estate related to the Spanish Revolution (in date order) Notes on the Death of Franco (Part I) …
Assaults on the Nuclear State
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
Fermi II Over the weekend of Sept. 30-Oct. 2, activists from around the country descended on the town of Monroe, Michigan to protest the restart of Detroit Edison’s crippled nuclear reactor, Fermi II.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
BOOKSTORE HOURS: Monday and Tuesday-1pm to 5pm—Wednesday 7pm to 10pm. LOCATION: 4403 Second (on the corner of Second & Canfield), Detroit, Michigan 48201
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
From Coimbra, Portugal comes Pravda, put out by Fenda Editions. Pravda, with its obviously tongue-in-cheek title, describes itself as “a magazine of evil arts” and has just published its third issue. Although it refuses categorization, it could be described as …
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
In the hills of Tennessee, about an hour east of Nashville, on the outskirts of Dismal (population zero), there exists a barn. It’s an ordinary old barn from all outward appearances—except for a few anti war banners and the buzzing, …
Hong Kong
by Norman Nawrocki
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
Hong Kong, a steamy, enchanting, green pearl of an island with an amazingly efficient public transit system is also the ultimate temple to last gasp, fast buck, crass consumerism. Mega-towering, teetering, multi-national corporate headquarters ablaze with over-sized neon logos that …