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China: The Mysterious Journey of the Democracy Movement
by Gabriel Dumont
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
4th World War Against Native Peoples
by Mary Wildwood
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
a review of In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations. Jerry Mander. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco. 1991. $25.00. 446 pp.
Number
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Introduction In his article on the idea of number, John Zerzan completes what appears to have become a trilogy on the origins and development of abstraction, and the accompanying alienation of humanity from nature and from the sources of …
Who Killed Ned Ludd?
by John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 271, April, 1976
The argument that the advent of capitalism brought a rise in the standard of living for workers has been refuted before, but is shown graphically in these two prints. Prior to the dominance of the capitalist economy and the establishment …
Whose Precarity Is It Anyway?
by Stevphen Shukaitis
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
“The condition today described as that of the precarious worker is perhaps the fundamental reality of the proletariat. And the modes of existence of workers in 1830 are quite close to those of our temporary workers.” — Jacques Ranciere, The …
Paradise How?
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008
“I’m an advocate of free love. What else can I say? I think people should do what they like, enjoy what they enjoy, and we should enjoy their enjoying what they enjoy.” –Judith Malina (interviewed by Jim Feast and Steve …
Notes on the Death of Franco (Part II)
by Murray Bookchin
Fifth Estate # 269, February, 1976
In Part I of Notes on the Death of Franco, the historic rise of fascism under Franco was outlined. Part II analyzes modern Spain and the state of the revolutionary movement today.
Free feasts, erotic play and the eruption of the marvelous
by M.K. Shibek, Unruhlee
Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008
Unruh Lee: In 1994, we started the Gardeners Against the Work Ethic Association (or GAWE) together. I later wrote in a ‘zine with this name, that this project was an “anti-work experiment in self-sufficiency, creating a new way of life …
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Ammunition Books Catalogue
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 268, January, 1976
This is by no means a complete catalog of all the books that we have. We hope to have an extensive catolog finished in the near future. To get a copy;; send a large self-addressed, stamped envelope to Ammunition Books.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977
Dolgoff & Cuba Saludos Companeros: Your review of the Dolgoff book on Cuba (FE #286, Sept. 1977) left a lot to be desired. As anarchist propaganda that book is a disaster. At the least, it’s sloppy work and may be …
Industrialism & Domestication
by John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the rise of capitalism was met by bitter and intense resistance. Its establishment was only effectuated by the imposition of the factory system as a method of social control. The result was …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 308, January 19, 1982
Multi- vs. Universe Dear T. Fulano (and the FE) I read your response to the defenders of technology with great trepidation [“Uncovering a Corpse: A Reply to the Defenders of Technology,” FE #307, November 19, 1981]. At every turn I …
Numb and Number
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013
Number surpasses all other ideas for its combination of impact and implication. Counting means imposing a definition and a control, assigning a number value.
Grange Appeal
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
“The work we are going about is this, to dig up Georges Hill and the waste grounds thereabouts, and to sow corn, and to eat our bread together by the sweat of our brows.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 281, March, 1977
CIA Supports FE Dear Fifth Estate: I refuse to renew my subscription to your radical rag for the simple reason I have some absurdist evidence you’ve been running a bogus journalistic revolution in the Motor City. That’s right! I talked …
Washington
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
WASHINGTON (LNS)–Karl Marx once said that a revolution is the festival of the oppressed and exploited. Washington wasn’t that. But it was some kind of festival. It was Woodstock without the rain or the mud. It: was the great silent …
Recycling & Liberal Reform
by Bert Wirkes-Butuar (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
Earth Day supplement page 3 It was perhaps an inappropriate time to ask a question since at that very moment two climbers from Greenpeace were struggling to unfurl a banner describing the pollution which would be emitted from Detroit’s giant …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 318, Fall, 1984
Eat The Rich Dear Fifth Estate, “Meat as Murder” in last issue’s letters [FE #317, Summer 1984], should have been titled “Vegetarian Fascism.” Vegetables are also living and to eat them is also murder. We suggest sucking on rocks …
Recycling & Liberal Reform
by Bert Wirkes-Butuar (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 333-A, Earth Day Special, 1990
It was perhaps an inappropriate time to ask a question since at that very moment two climbers from Greenpeace were struggling to unfurl a banner describing the pollution which would be emitted from Detroit’s giant trash incinerator. Their problems were …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999
Fifth Estate Letters Policy We welcome letters commenting on our articles, stating opinions, or giving reports of events in your area. We don’t guarantee to print everything received, but all letters are read by our staff and considered for publication. …
Marked Cards in the Middle East
by Rob Recidivist
Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991
“Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson. Three old men shuffling the pack, dealing out the cards: The Rhineland, Danzig, the Polish Corridor, the Ruhr, self-determination of small nations, the Saar, League of Nations, mandates, the Mespot, Freedom of the Seas, Trans-Jordania, …
Nuclear Plants: Potential Disasters
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
This article is the third in an originally-planned two-part series on the perils of radioactive waste materials and highly toxic chemicals. Part One of the series (Capitalism’s Industrial Plagues, # 276, September 1976) dealt with the devastating results of nuclear …
This is what Anarchy Looks Like
by Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
The forces of capital have once again called upon their storm troopers and talking heads to physically and symbolically crush the growing, global anti-capitalist movement. In the United States, building from the tragic embarrassment of September 11 and overreacting to …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
FE Letters Policy The Fifth Estate always welcomes letters commenting on our articles, giving reports of events in your area, or stating your opinion. We don’t guarantee we will print everything we receive, but all letters are read by our …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
Cuban Alternative To the FE: Cuban Greens/anti-authoritarians need our aid. Orlando Polo and Mercedes Paez of Cuba’s anti-authoritarian/ecological/ anti-Militarist Green Path group have been touring the U.S. recently. Arrested many times in Cuba, they are being repressed again as Cuban …
One Journey into and out of the Anarchist…Black!
by Ashanti Alston
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
Anarchy as a journey in the human story has a long and crazy road. In fact, it is where the Human Story begins. It is the story of human life before the advent, the institutionalization of the Muthafuckas. (Eldridge Cleaverian …
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Comments on Revolutionary Violence
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
1. Responses to “New York, New York” Dear F.E.: It would be very interesting to know more about the character of the N.Y. looting but it is not clear to me that we can tell anything from the figures which …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
Fifth Estate Letters Policy The Fifth Estate always welcomes letters commenting on our articles, stating opinions, or giving reports of events in local areas. We don’t guarantee we will print everything we receive, but all letters are read by our …
The next mutiny on the Bounty
by PM
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Suburban utopia At this moment, everyone on the planet is watching the people of the USA and wondering how they are reacting to the present global crisis. For the most “dangerous” working class on this planet is the US working …
Woman’s Freedom
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
a review of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs by Betsy Hartmann, Harper & Row, New York, 1987; paper $10.95.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
Call Ollie Friends: Remember the 1-800 numbers game? It costs lots of money. It costs them lots of money and it’s free! Col. Oliver North Defense Fund now has a 1-800 number. Just dial 1-800—521-0200 and pledge lots of money …
Katrina & the Apocalypse
by Dave Meesters
Fifth Estate # 376, Halloween, 2007
Part One: The Collapse What if the lights went out? What if you couldn’t get clean water to drink? What if there were no police, no schools, and no place to go if you were sick or hurt? If the …
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Fifth Estate Archive Back issues Resource pages Fifth Estate Live interview archive (May 2020 – May 2021) Fifth Estate Live, a weekly hour-long livestreamed broadcast hosted by singer/songwriter and Fifth Estate contributor David Rovics and produced by Fifth Estate editorial …
A Revolution without Enemies
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
An experimental rant titled “Radical Poetry, Heretical Religion, and the Psychedelic Revolution” provided the germ and genesis for this rambling, review-essay. I delivered that sermon in my over-the-top Reverend Bonobo mode for a gathering in western North Carolina called “Croatan.” …
Against the Megamachine
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 306, July, 1981
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot’ stamping on the human face—forever.” —O’Brien, in Orwell’s 1984 How do we begin to discuss something as immense as technology? To investigate it means to investigate the totality of …
How Deep is Deep Ecology?
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 327, Fall, 1987
Introduction For a number of years, the Fifth Estate has been writing about the crisis of Western civilization and its industrial/technological plague. At the same time we have been profoundly interested in primitivism and the cultures of earth-based peoples, realizing …
1918: Russian Artists of the Anarchist Revolution
by Allan Antliff
Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997
Three artists spent the night in the mansion, since outside the museum a studio was set aside for making art. As the artists told it, that memorial morning We were awakened by shouts of “We’ll shoot! Hands up!” Armed soldiers …
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Bibliography 1995-2005
Fifth Estate # Archive
Fifth Estate Issues 346-369 Incomplete (ProQuest source is incomplete) PART ONE: TITLE INDEX “100th anniversary of the automobile: Kill the Car–No More Roads! ” Fifth Estate [Detroit] 1 Oct. 1996, 4. “35 Arrests at Windsor OAS Protests.” Fifth Estate [Detroit] …
Beginning of Time, End of Time
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983
Just as today’s most obsessive notion is that of the material reality of time, self-existent time was the first lie of social life. As with nature, time did not exist before the individual became separate from it. Reification of this …
The Vietnam War
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
INTRODUCTION When this essay first appeared in the Fifth Estate in Spring 1985, the Vietnam War already seemed to be receding into ancient history. Central America was at that time being battered with money and proxies, rather than with “American …