And, so we return to Spain. Nearly 70 years after the people’s response to a right-wing military uprising, those events remain a source of wonder, optimism, confusion, strife and tragedy. It was a high mark of personal and social possibility …
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Power Struggle in China
by R.F.
Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976
When Chou En-lai, the first and only Prime Minister of the Peoples Republic of China, died in the beginning of this year, a struggle between the so-called “moderate,” pro-managerial and “radical left,” pro-Maoist factions within the Party burst into the …
The Battle of France: May ’68
by Caw! Magazine
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
FE Introduction During the months of May and June 1968, the mass strikes and uprisings that occurred in France shook the foundations of an unsuspecting world. This crisis for capital appeared at a time when newspapers like The New York …
Convention & Counter-Convention
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
We should have realized that the anti-convention efforts in Detroit were going to be a flop when only two people responded to the FE article about planned activity which invited others to “join us in a game with no rules” …
Bookstore in a Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 361, Summer 2003
an hour east of Nashville (615) 536-5999 FifthEstate@pumpkinhollow.net To order, send check, money order, or well-concealed cash to: Fifth Estate Books PO Box 6 Liberty, TN 37095 Please add $2 shipping/handling for first item ($1 for the 2nd, $.50 …
Wayne’s Du Bois Club Says No to H. Res. 738
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 6, March 20-April 1, 1966
Their Statement:
About this issue
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 386, Spring, 2012
Just when the corporate bosses thought their world-racket was secure (give or take a few economic crises), the old mole of revolution has suddenly poked her furry head above ground and has put the question of power and wealth on …
The Coors Connection
by Hank S. Latimer
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
a review of The Coors Connection, Russ Ballant, South End Press, Boston, 1992, 149 pp., $9.00
Airplane shot down
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 69, December 26, 1968-January 8, 1969
NEW YORK—The Jefferson Airplane’s filming of a scene from Jean-Luc Godard’s “One American Movie,” on location here, resulted in a minor riot, a skin show, a visit from New York’s finest, and an impromptu performance for midtown Manhattan office workers. …
The Battle of Chicago
by Rick London
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
Editors’ Note: The Fifth Estate contains virtually no news coverage of the Battle of Chicago. For once the overground media did its job and to repeat the horror stories here would only be redundant. Rather, we feel that it is …
Cuban Army Goose-steps
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
When a reader sent us this page from the December ’76 issue of Granma (the official organ of the Cuban Communist party) pictured at the right, we thought the goose-stepping troops must have been from the army of Argentina or …
Contents of print edition
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
FE Histories & Memoirs No Anarchy, No Money page 6 Offices as Autonomous Zones page 7 The History of the Fifth Estate by Peter Werbe page 8 Music as Revolution page 20 Giving Up the Gun Fetish page 21 Zapping …
El Salvador & Its Politicians
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
As El Salvador’s leftist rebel movement scores repeated victories on the battlefield and brings an increasing geographic area under its administration, the Vietnam analogy is heard everywhere. However, what the U.S. faces is not so much the prospect of another …
Collective Action in the Time of Covid-19
by George Sotiropoulos, Panos Papadimitropoulos
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
As the Covid-19 epidemic spread through the world at the beginning of 2020, the governments of many countries, including Greece, enacted emergency quarantine and stringent lock-down measures. There was a fear among social activists that collective action would be stifled. …
Watching the Clock
by Jim Feast
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of The Lady Anarchist Café: Poems and Stories by Lorraine Schein. Autonomedia, 2022
Our Man in Europe Views Paris
by Lenny Rubenstein
Fifth Estate # 28, April 15-30, 1967
Every third corner of Paris has a commemorative stone to honor those who died for the liberation of the city in August 1944. Every provincial town has some plaque to name its mort pour la France. As testimony to the …
Introduction to “The Myth of the Party”
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991
The article appearing on the following two pages, “The Myth of the Party,” by Murray Bookchin (from his essay “Listen Marxist”) was first excerpted in FE #272, May 1976. We reprint it hoping it will be of interest to a …
Marxism: Obscuring more than it reveals
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
“… [I]n my view, anarchism has no significant contribution to socialist theory to make.” —Eric Hobsbawm, “Reflections on Anarchism,” 1969 Hobsbawm, the late British Marxist historian, in his snobbery, unintentionally poses the question as to the function of theory of …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 305, March 18, 1981
A shortage of staff, and not money problems, kept us from putting out this issue sooner. For the first time in a long time we are in good financial shape, thanks to your numerous and extremely generous contributions. The contributions …
Wealth and Poverty: In the Shadow of an Exclusive Club
by Val Salvo (Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
Expensive new cars–Lincolns, Cadillacs, Mercedes, Jaguars–arrive at the entrance to the Detroit Athletic Club (DAC). Rich, white men dressed in $750 suits, $200 wing-tip shoes, custom tailored shirts, sporting $2,000 Rolex watches are greeted brightly but obsequiously by uniformed black …
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