NOW What? To Sonny Tufts, Wonder Woman, the Detroit Auto Dealers Association, and all the imbeciles who revere the article “Propagandada Discovered in Detroit,” (F.E. March 1976):
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Letter to a Friend
by Federico Arcos
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Like the stars, the night Like the sun, the day The dawn, the morning The flower, the petal The bee, the nectar The beehive, the honey The lover, the beloved So one carries the Ideal In one’s thoughts You ask …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
Welcome to the Winter 1995 Fifth Estate. This is only the second edition we’ve published this year, so you probably have not missed any issues. This issue also marks the 29th anniversary of continuous publication of the Fifth Estate. We …
What is Real?
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
a review of Portraits of Struggle: Photos from 1972-2023 by Orin Langelle. Global Justice Ecology Project 2024
The Spanish Revolution, Pura & Federico Arcos, & the Fifth Estate
by Sylvie Kashdan
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
Next year will mark the eightieth anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Revolution, an event which most of those involved with the Fifth Estate only learned of in the 1970s, but one which profoundly contributed to what the paper …
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Mutual Aid
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
a review of Fight for a New Normal? Anarchism and mutual aid in the Covid-19 pandemic crisis Ed. Jim Donaghey, Foreword by Ruth Kinna; Afterward by Rhiannon Firth. Freedom Press, 2024
Alexander Berkman: Life of an Anarchist
by Gary L. Doebler
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
a review of Life of an Anarchist: The Alexander Berkman Reader, by Gene Fellner, Four Walls Eight Windows, P.O. Box 548, Village Station, New York, NY 10014, 354 pp.
On Having Something to Do
by Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
We tried dropping out, and we tried working in the factory. We tried teaching, and we tried going back to school. We tried organizing the workers, and we tried permitted protest marches. We tried passing leaflets to every passerby, and …
This is Jail
by AKD868
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
Last spring, I became a prisoner in a rural California county jail for 90 days having been sentenced for a non-political offense.
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Books Bill Ayers Fugitive Days (2001) $10 James Bell The Last Wizards (2002) $5.00
Classifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
(Page 3 of The South End insert)
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
On Sunday, July 17, at around 1:30 am, two masked men carrying machine guns broke into the house in Comiso, Sicily functioning as the coordinating center for the groups against the U.S. cruise missile base. Once inside they lined all …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970
The audience stared incredulously at Old Glory. Their eyes moved down the little wooden staff and remained fixed on its base, a candle in the shape of an erect penis. The candle was red, white and blue and larger than …
Unionism and Taylorism
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
Tay-lor-ism n. 1. The scientific management of industrial operations. 2. The systematic reduction of work within a given industrial operation to separate, distinct, routinized tasks devoid of policy decisions. Each aspect is measured and timed for its highest efficiency. 3. …
On “People’s Theatre”
by Ratticus
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
The stage is set, houselights go out, curtain opens and a poignant silence reigns as actors hit the stage. Always the audience looks at the skin; arms and legs, usually attractive faces. The audience licks its lips. Honest observation must …
The U.S. War On Vietnam
by Wendy Wildflower
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
a review of Among the Boat People: A Memoir of Vietnam by Nhi Manh Chung. Autonomedia 2019 autonomedia.org
Anarchy, Neo-Impressionism and Utopia
by Allan Antliff
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
“The tramps refused to obey; they abandoned time, possessions, labor, slavery. They walked and slept in counter-rhythm to the world.” —Anais Nin, The Tramps, 1946 Anais Nin’s encounter-with the homeless wanderers of her day—the tramps of Paris, “in counter-rhythm to …
“We are sleeping, let’s wake up”
by J.E. Hamilton
Fifth Estate # 385, Fall, 2011
On the left: a white-haired shoemaker in checkered shirt and brown khakis, casting uneasy glances at the circle of people surrounding him. A smirk settles on his lips as he prepares a witty rejoinder; perhaps he’s amused by the tourists, …
Disability and Creativity
by Sylvie Kashdan
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
a review of There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness by M. Leona Godin. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2021 More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art by Georgina Kleege. Oxford University Press 2018
Russia Revolution Books – Review
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
a review of Bloodstained: One Hundred Years of Leninist Counterrevolution eds. Friends of Aron Baron; Luigi Fabbri, Rudolf Rocker, Nestor Makhno, Iain McKay, Alexander Berkman, Maurice Brinton, Ida Mett, Otto Wile, Emma Goldman, et al. AK Press akpress.org, 2017
Joseph Labadie and the Labor Movement
by Julie Herrada
Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999
a review of All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement, Carlotta R. Anderson, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1998, 324 pp., $34.95
The Press of Peace
by Ben Habeebe
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
A good peace never did come easy. One of the real tough things about involvement in a resistance movement is your total lack of power. When LBJ (of “Hey, Hey” fame) addressed a thousand-dollar-a-couple Democratic Party fund raising dinner in …
Stop the War but don’t stop there
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
Editors’ Note: The following excerpts come from subversive anti-war flyers distributed at mass demonstrations; the first comes from an FE collective member in Tennessee, the second from the Chicago Surrealists, and the third from comrades in the San Francisco Bay …
The Situationists on the Palestinian Question
by Situationist International
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Israel, The U.S. in Miniature Much of the population of Israel, no different from people in the United States, denies its past as an invader/settler nation, is oblivious to the suffering which creates its plentitude, revels in self-generated myths …
The Real Radicals in the High Schools
by Dave Watson (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
A recent issue of Scope magazine carries a bullshit hype by Peggy Cronin called “The Young Radicals In Our High Schools.” In the article Miss Cronin attempts to show how high school activists are “not quite radical.” She went to …
CrimethInc’s Overflowing Cup of Anarchist Elixir
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
reviewed in this article: Expect Resistance: a field manual, CrimethInc., $8, CrimethInc.com Rolling Thunder: an anarchist journal of dangerous living; P.O. Box 494, Chapel Hill NC 27514; rollingthunder – at – CrimethInc – dot – com
Thousands Rally to Stop Mumia’s Execution
by Isabel Gomez
Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999
On April 24, the 45th birthday of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, approximately 20,000 people gathered in Philadelphia and other cities, to demand a new trial for the former Black Panther and revolutionary journalist known as the “Voice of …
Kronstadt 1921
by R. Relievo (Rob Blurton)
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
For three-quarters of a century, anarchists and other opponents of the 1917 Bolshevik putsch and subsequent counterrevolution have cited the uprising of the mutinous Baltic Fleet sailors and garrison soldiers at Kronstadt as one of the final social eruptions of …
Industrial Domestication
by Leopold Roc
Fifth Estate # 329, Summer, 1988
“If science was put to the service of capital, the recalcitrant worker’s docility would be assured.” —Andrew Ure, Philosophie des manufactures, 1835 “In the past, if anyone called a tradesman a worker, he risked a brawl. Today, when they are …
The Enchantment of Nuclear Destruction
by Anti-Authoritarians Anonymous
Fifth Estate # 311, Winter, 1983
The possibility of total destruction through nuclear war corresponds to a condition of ruin everywhere that makes such destruction attractive. And in the absence of opposition that contests everything about the existing social order, only the eruption of nuclear war …
Anti-war demonstrations, April 27, 1968
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 54, May 16-31, 1968
Washington, D. C., April 28 (LNS)—Hundreds of thousands of Americans demonstrated against the war in Vietnam and in some cities against racism yesterday in parades and rallies in 17 American cities.
Putting “fact” before poetry
by Eddie Sabot
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
a response to “Bosnia: End of the State or State of the End?” by Rob Riled, FE# 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
Tennescene: Radical Actions & Summer Tours Deep in the Bible Belt
by Fifth Estate Collective, Upside Down Culture Collective
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
This summer, the Rule of Thirds recently dubbed by the Nashville Scene as a “subversive art space”—played host to numerous politically proactive collectives. June saw the educational and entertaining Upside Down Culture Collective hailing from our other outpost: Detroit. They …
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Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
Operation Rescue Founder Pied by Biotic Baking Brigade Agents of the Biotic Baking Brigade-NYC cell pied Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, who was speaking on behalf of his new anti-abortion group, the Society for Truth and Justice.
Eastwood Park 1943
by Thomas Haroldson
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
In 1943, Eastwood Amusement Park was literally the end of the line. Streetcars, packed with servicemen and factory workers, would cut sharply across Gratiot at Eight Mile, screech around a tight loop at the park’s entrance, and head back downtown.
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 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 …
Unclassified
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
AD RATES: 50 cents per line. Call 962-9334 with your message or stop by 937 Plum St.
Josh Newton
by Josh Newton
Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970
Brothers & Sisters: After a long literary silence, I write again to the people of the planet. Joshua Newton, the phantom bomber, is still alive and carrying on the struggle. Are you?
“We Have No Country!”
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 5, March 6-20, 1966
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an edited transcription of a press conference held in the Greenville office of the Delta Ministry Tuesday evening, February 1, 1966. The participants include three spokesmen of the over 70 poor Negroes who occupied the barracks …
All The Way With FTA
by Jeffrey Shero
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
Special to the Fifth Estate Ed. Note: Jeffrey Shero is a former national vice-president of Students for a Democratic Society. He recently returned from an extended journey to the Soviet Union, Eastern and Western Europe. They used to whisper, “Pssst, …