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Caution: Capitalism may be Harmful to Your Health
by George Metefsky
Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970
Part II: Alternative Cultures Serving Capitalism No one really consciously planned the thorough integration of the middle-class worker with capitalism. Capitalists were forced to develop a more productive worker, a more extravagant consumer, simply because their own fixation on accumulation …
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The New Family Therapy
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
“The development of capital is delinquency and madness. Now everything is permitted; there are no longer taboos, bans. But, in living out various ‘perversions, men and women can lose themselves, destroy themselves, and no longer be operational’ for capital; out …
H. Leivick, Anarchism & Yiddish Theatre
by Jim Feast
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
There is a staple of the Yiddish theater written in 1921 entitled, The Golem (sort of a Jewish Frankenstein). It still remains quite popular in translation including a 2002 Off-Broadway run. I saw it performed in 1984 at a free …
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
In an odd twist of democratization, the fires in California’s Oakland Hills this Fall, turned the tables on who usually are the victims of catastrophic house fires. Destruction by fire is an event usually suffered by the poor due to …
Basque Country Squat
by Errekaleor Bizirik Collective
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
Errekaleor Bizirik is a large squat occupied by over 150 adults and children in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital city of the Basque Autonomous Community in northern Spain.
French Anarchists in the Algerian Revolution
by Kathy E. Ferguson
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
a review of Eyes to the South: French Anarchists and Algeria, by David Porter; foreword by Sylvain Boulouque. AK Press, 2011, 550 pp, $25
Visit Romantic Sweden
by Chris Singer
Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968
Marilyn Olson is a pretty, blue-eyed blonde from Stockholm, Sweden. She and her husband, Bertil, operate the Cafe Marx in Stockholm.
Haymarket Square Riot
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 272, May 1976
This article is the fourth in a series of counter-Bicentennial pieces dealing with the more sordid and often less-acknowledged incidents in America’s 200year-old history.
Rudolph Bahro on Industrial Civilization
by Tomas MacSheoin
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
a review of Socialism and Survival, Rudolf Bahro, Heretic Books, London, 1983
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987
Where are the Bulgarians now that we need them department: Get ready Detroit! As the archbishop and the mayor slap each other on the back for bringing the pope himself into town in September, local entrepreneurs are geared up to …
Stashing the Tacky Little Pamphlets
by Jason Rodgers
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
You might assume that a Tacky Little Pamphlet (TLP) is just another name for a mini-zine. In a way, you are correct. It usually refers to a format of a single sheet folded into eight sections, cut up the middle, …
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.
The Haymarket Martyrs Guilty…So What?
by Timothy Messer-Kruse
Fifth Estate # 384, Spring, 2011
In Chicago’s Haymarket Square on the night of May 4, 1886, a dynamite bomb was thrown at a squadron of police during a rally of striking workers. The bomb blast and ensuing gunfire resulted in the deaths of police officers …
Viet Solidarity Week
by Ken Fireman
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
The Movement in town is gearing itself for a week of political action this month, covering a variety of issues but organized around the theme of “Solidarity with the Vietnamese People.” Actions will be held around the country on this …
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, …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
This issue of the Fifth Estate is only twelve pages due to both staff and financial problems. Several members of our collective are traveling and all others but one are working full-time. This leaves the paper to just a few …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
Welcome to our Spring 2000 issue. The last one we published was dated Summer 1999, so subscribers and libraries, please take note; you haven’t missed any intervening papers. This edition is numbered 354, the previous one, 353, so we are …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 301, February 26, 1980
Just when everything starts to look gloomy on a cold Detroit winter’s day, along comes one of those rays of hope that helps keep up everyone’s morale—a bank closing! This time it’s those sleazes at the Feminist Federal Credit Union.
Glories of the Free Market
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
* The world’s 225 richest men have a combined wealth of over $1 trillion—equal to the annual income of the poorest half of the world. * Globally, the richest fifth of humanity holds 85 percent of the world’s wealth; the …
PAR Ad Reveals Brotherhood Hoax
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 27, April 1-15, 1967
EDITORS NOTE: In addition to serving as the Fifth Estate news Editor, Frank Joyce is the Executive Secretary of People Against Racism (PAR). According to its literature, PAR was formed several months ago by those who agree that the problem …
Support the Troops in Revolutionary Defeat
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Explicitly focusing their energies on undermining Russian military activity in Chechnya, they declared February 23rd as “the International Day of the Deserter” and set up a number of different events, including discussion panels, information exchanges on the draft, hardcore punk …
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 …
We don’t Forget
by SK
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
January 20, 2017, the day Trump officially became President of the United States, was filled with many acts of defiance as well as foreboding.
Haymarket Centennial
by Dogbane Campion (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
About 12 of us from Detroit made the trek to Chicago this May Day to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Haymarket riot and subsequent state murder by execution of five anarchists.
Letters To The Editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
To the Editor: The first meaning in The American College Dictionary defines “reform” as “…the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, etc.; social reform.”
Leonard Peltier and Big Mountain
by Arthur Miller, Mary McLaughlin, Pete Murney
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
1992 marks the five hundred year anniversary of the Columbus expedition, which many governments and corporations are celebrating as “An Encounter of Cultures.” To counter this, a loosely organized movement under the banner of “500 Years of Resistance,” seeks to …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 272, May 1976
The Fifth Estate benefit on April 10 was one of the best ever with Detroit bluesman Bobo Jenkins and his band turning everybody on to their strong rhythms and FE supporters and friends dancing and drinking the night away. Unfortunately, …
Darcee’s Temptation
by Merril Mushroom
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
Darcee began to realize she was in serious trouble, that notions of rebellion were growing beyond her control, during the President’s speech. She and her co-workers were crowded together in the workplace auditorium for mandatory daily socialization, all eyes on …
An Invitation to INSUBORDINATION
by Oh No Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
Insubordination—literally, the utter refusal to submit to order—is not always revolutionary, but it may be one of the first signs that a revolution is brewing.
Anarchist Cuba
by SK
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
a review of Anarchist Cuba: Countercultural Politics in the Early Twentieth Century by Kirwin Shaffer. PM Press 2019
Creating a Community Against Abuse
by Marieke Bivar
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
A review of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities, Edited by Ching-In Chen, Jai DuLani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Preface by Andrea Smith. South End Press, 2011, 325 pp, $16
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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A 1918 Anti-War Speech Sent Eugene V. Debs to Prison
by Eugene V. Debs, Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
On June 16, 1918, four months before World War One’s end, prominent labor organizer and political activist, Eugene V. Debs, delivered a speech at a Socialist Party convention in Canton, Ohio. The speech led to his prosecution under the Espionage …
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Sasha on an iPhone
by Bill Meyer
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
a review of “Acts and Intermissions: Emma Goldman in America.” 2017. USA. Directed by Abigail Child; 57 min. abigailchild.com
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 …
News and Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 310, Fall 1982
North American anarchist/libertarian news and publications Issue No. 14 of Open Road is now out. This issue was made possible thanks to the generous response to the OR’s financial appeal. They welcome additional support, of course. The OR now costs …
Yikes! We Shut It Down!
by Mary Wildwood
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
Sometimes we have arguments about whether it is appropriate for anarchist-types to be participating in officially sanctioned political events with double-speak names like “public hearing” held before bogus, paid-off boards with Ministry of Truth names like “Michigan Air Pollution Control …
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 …
The Revolted! Show
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
A Political Art Show—January 22-February 12, 2017 Produced by 333 Midland at their Annex Gallery, Highland Park, Michigan www.333Midland.com Curator: Rick Cronn 33 Artists; 66 works 333 Midland is located in a complex of abandoned postindustrial factories brought back to …