It’s a pleasure to launch our Summer 1999 edition with a rare splash of color on our front page and center section. The other art and photos also provide an excellent setting for a diverse set of articles.
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25 Years of Giant Puppets, Mass Action & Public Spectacle
by David Solnit
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
“Puppet theater…[is] an anarchic art, subversive and untamable by nature, an art which is easier researched in police records than in theater chronicles.” –Peter Schuman, founder of Bread and Puppet, the great grandparents of political giant puppetry in North America
“Capital’s Vast Paper Empire”
by Harry Braverman
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
Reprinted from Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the 20th Century by Harry Braverman, Monthly Review, July-August 1974 edition; pages 55-58.
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.
Your Money and Your Life
by Alan Franklin
Fifth Estate # 272, May 1976
Part II of this article appeared in Fifth Estate #273, June 1976. The American health care system is currently undergoing a barrage of criticism from every corner; particularly, it has become fair game for dissection on the pages of newspapers …
Socialist Man
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 54, May 16-31, 1968
“To build communism, a new man must be created simultaneously with the material base.” — Che Guevara, Man and Socialism in Cuba. In the preceding articles, I have dealt with the quality of life in Cuba, the laying of the …
Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
“Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control” continues John Zerzan’s work demonstrating the massive erosion of traditional American values, in this case centering on popular allegiance to the work ethic. Following it [in this issue, FE #309, June 19, 1982] is …
So who did win in Seattle?
by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffery St. Clair
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
Hardly had the tear gas dispersed from the streets of downtown Seattle before an acrid struggle broke out as to who should claim the spoils. It’s still raging.
The War on the Poor
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
Capitalism is never good to all of its subjects. Regardless of its carefully honed mythology of democratic access to success and class mobility, capitalist society is a system of looting whereby a few at the top and a small substratum …
SDS Weatherman War Council
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970
FLINT, Mich. (LNS) — Weathermen, Weatherwomen, some of their friends and some of their critics, met in a “war council” Dec. 27-30. The gathering was a serious political meeting, although it had been widely billed as an outasight international youth …
What can we say?
by Julie Herrada
Fifth Estate # 357, Summer 2002
By the time most of you see this, you will have already read dozens of disturbing and horrifying accounts from international peace activists, solidarity workers, and others who have recently traveled to Palestine to participate in, observe, and learn about …
Some Winded, Wild Beast
by Lynne Clive (Marilynn Rashid)
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
a review of Some Winded, Wild Beast, by Christina Pacosz. Black & Red (Detroit, 1985), 97 pages, $2.50.
Weird and Funny Words
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
It is a good time in American history to go back to roots, to “get down,” to forget speeches and lectures and concentrate on The Word.
Comments on Central America
by Blueberry, Fifth Estate Collective, George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Fifth Estate: I want to offer some criticisms of the latest issue. The Vietnam article [Web archive note: This article first appeared in FE #320, Spring 1985. With an added Introduction by Richard Drinnon it was reprinted in FE #346, …
[Cuba] The Train to Matanzas
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
On March 15, our last day in Cuba, my wife and I boarded the Hershey Electric Railway in Casablanca, across the harbor from Old Havana, for a 57-mile trip to the town of Matanzas. We were flying back to Toronto …
Unfuck the World
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
Unfuck the World, says the sign on this page and the next. It isn’t just a one-off, rude slogan held by someone justifiably angry at the state of things. It stems from the 2017 rap/rock song of that name by …
Fusion Power
by Steve Welzer
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
On December 11, 1993 The New York Times heralded that scientists at Princeton University had “plunged across a new physics frontier…with a series of experiments that may eventually lead to an inexhaustible source of energy.” After decades of effort, Princeton’s …
Folk Festival Here—Newport
by Frank Dedenbach
Fifth Estate # 12, August 15, 1966
Newport, Rhode Island is an old, almost dingy New England town whose saving graces are a beautiful Atlantic beach and the music festivals held every year there. The weather is hot in the day and cold in the night, but …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
Related: See Comment from the Fifth Estate regarding Black Rose Books, Ltd. in this issue. Fresh Air Dear FE: The economist-minded, techno-fascist remains of the situationists, the socialist corpses who whine about the need for federations in their “libertarian” mouthpiece, …
Kids Are People
by Kennedy and Brentz
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
(Women’s News Co-op) As women step out of their passive housewife role and become more active outside of the home they are discovering the need for child care centers. Many women are interested in starting their own, collectively run centers, …
Plans for Haymarket Centennial
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986
A Thanksgiving weekend planning conference in Chicago, which was attended by some 50 anti-authoritarians and anarchists from the US and Canada, announced a centennial celebration to take place during May Day week, to commemorate the 1886 Haymarket Affair.
More Red Squad Info
by Dennis Rosenblum
Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976
Lawyers involved in the State Police Red Squad case are urging people who believe they may be the victims of spying activity to request a court hearing in Lansing to view the dossiers compiled on them. And recent revelations about …
Still Hungry in America
by Sandy Feldheim
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
a review of Still Hungry in America, text by Robert Coles, photographs by Al Clayton, introduction by Edward Kennedy. $2.95, 115 pages. World Publishing Co.
City Rock Scene Grows
by R & R Crusader
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
Through the efforts of many the Detroit music scene is growing in fantastic leaps and bounds. Not only are the local bands getting it extremely together—the MC-5, the Rationals, Scot Richard Case, Billy C. and the Sunshine, the Up, and …
Revolution in the Syrian Desert
by Çîrok Ecnebî
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
Rojava is still in my eyes. A fountain in the middle of desert. By desert, I mean authoritarian regimes, imperialist and colonialist forces, and Islamist warmongers. But it seems now that while at a societal level, Rojava is flourishing with …
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
HOPE FOR DOPE — High Times magazine reports that the recent Paraquat scare is just that and “not to believe the government.” Paraquat paranoia developed a few months ago when it surfaced that the U.S. had financed the spraying of …
Anarchists & Guns
by Paul Walker (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
“Workingmen: Arm yourselves and appear in full force!” —1886 Haymarket leaflet The initial clamor about controlling gun violence following the horrible mass shooting at Parkland, Fla. high school this February mostly subsided following huge demonstrations of students across the country …
Women’s work is never done
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
In this column we’d like to share with you some of the work and ideas of women in Detroit. There are many more things to be done, like starting your own rap group, theater group, women’s newspaper, child care center, …
On the sale of sex & bodies
by Thaddeus Blanchett
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
You don’t have to put on the red light Those days are over You don’t have to sell your body to the night — “Roxanne” (The Police) Sting’s lyrics neatly frame how prostitution is often popularly conceived of, no less …
Col. North: War Criminal
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, a hero? A patriot? Shit! This guy is a fascist and a war criminal! Less people than it appears are willing to stand up and salute this creep who bears great responsibility for the …
Nope to Hope
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 380, Spring 2009
ANNOUNCER: The leader’s coming. He approaches. He’s bending. He’s unbending. He’s jumping. He’s crossed the river. ‘They’re shaking his hand. He sticks out his thumb.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
Dear Editors: The letter in your August 7 issue [FE #85, August 7-20, 1969] from the corpsman in Da Nang harbor has prompted me to relate a similar experience to you.
“The People’s Luck”
by Jim Feast
Fifth Estate # 380, Spring 2009
For the past two summers, I accompanied my wife, who speaks Cantonese and Mandarin, to China so we could tour part of the country before she started summer school in a master’s program in Chinese literature in Nanjing, a city …
Dismantling the Patriarchy
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
Everyday sexual predation on women by men of power and prestige in the entertainment world, politics, business, and the university has been an open secret that has suddenly gained massive public attention. Women’s words have been listened to and prominent …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
QUESTION: Could you please tell me how and where I can get a convenient contraceptive? Unfortunately, it is impossible for me to get any by prescription as I am 17, single and living with my parents.
Move Over Nestor Makhno!
by Norman Nawrocki
Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023
She was known as either Maria or Marusya Nikiforova, a fearless and feared, bad-ass Ukrainian anarchist warrior who led her own army during the Russian Civil War and peasant rebellions in the early 20th century. But few people have heard …
Three Dead—Nobody Guilty
by William Allan
Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970
FLINT—The acquittal by an all-white jury here on Feb. 25 of three white Detroit cops and a black private guard in connection with the beating of eight black youths and two white girls in the Algiers Motel in 1967 was …
Occupy Confronts the Power of Money
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 386, Spring, 2012
A specter is haunting [the world]–the specter of [the Occupy movement]. All the powers of [the world] have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter.
The Contest for Memory
by Gary L. Doebler
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
Last issue, the Fifth Estate announced a ceremony where the famed Haymarket Martyrs Monument in Chicago was to be declared a federally designated National Historic Landmark. Unbeknown to us, there had been intense agitation by local anarchists against this. G.L. …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
We can tell when it’s been a long time between issues when we start getting letters from subscribers asking if they’ve missed an issue or it we’ve stopped publishing. This issue is the third we’ve published this year, which doesn’t …