In the late 1990s in Argentina, a new form of struggle emerged from the unemployed workers (who make up 20% of the people while another 20% are underemployed). This expression of resistance came from the provinces to the capital of …
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Anarchy on the printed page
by Lena Kafka, Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
Newspapers and magazines have been a part of the anarchist movement since its inception.
Revolutionary Education
by Lynne Clive (Marilynn Rashid)
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
a review of The Modern School Movement: Historical and Personal Notes on the Ferrer Schools in Spain, Contributions by Pura Perez, Mario Jordana, Abel Paz and Martha Ackelsberg, published by Friends of the Modern School, c/o Abe Bluestein, 55 Farmington …
Review of Dolgoff Cuba Book
by Muswell Hillbillie
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
a review of Sam Dolgoff, The Cuban Revolution, A Critical Perspective; Copyright 1976, Black Rose Books, Ltd., Montreal; $5.95.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
Ammunition Books 4403 Second Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48201, Tele. No. (313) 831-6800 Bookstore hours vary, but we are generally open on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and at scattered other times. Please call before coming down to be sure we are …
Body at Work
by Ashlyn Mooney
Fifth Estate # 408, Winter, 2021
A review of Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle: Beyond the Periphery of the Skin by Silvia Federici PM Press 2020 Before history appears on any page, it is written on the bodies of those who live …
Radical Dissent Squashed During War
by Fran Shor
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of Free Speech & the Suppression of Dissent During World War I by Eric T. Chester. Monthly Review Press 2021
Cuba Builds Socialism
by Lionel Martin
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
(Reprinted from the Guardian, New York City) New Year’s day marks the tenth anniversary of the victory of the rebellion (Fidel’s terminology) and the beginning of the Cuban revolution. This tenth year, just completed, will be remembered as the Year …
Pictures of Chairman Mao
by Pun Plamondon
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
George Wallace stood up and said all the magic words, “Dope Fiend, Outlaw, Pervert, Cuba, Masses, Red, Mao, Free, Fidel, Workers, Black, White!” These are magic words in America. These arc the words that make white America go to its …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
Things can only get worse for auto workers with the election of Doug Fraser as president of the UAW. Beyond just being a run-of-the-mill hack, Fraser has a record of strike-breaking that old Henry Ford’s security department would have admired. …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968
America’s election farce is over and proved to be one of the dullest in years reminiscent of the Eisenhower years as Hank Malone points out in this issue. The only pleasant surprise was the small number of Americans willing to …
Spanish Revolution Resource Page
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
Home > Archive > Learn more about the Spanish Revolution of 1936 and the important role of the anarchists…. Articles published in Fifth Estate related to the Spanish Revolution (in date order) Notes on the Death of Franco (Part I) …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976
The Brain Police To the Fifth Estate: The feature on the “Crisis in Health Care” (June FE) is O.K. However, I think it should include some coverage of the so-called mental health system. (The Brain Police wear white uniforms!)
The Man Who Shot Frick
by Gary L. Doebler
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
I would like to invite your participation in an event that will remember Alexander Berkman on the centenary of his attempt to assassinate Henry Clay Frick during the Homestead Strike of 1892. This will not be an event glorifying the …
The Cult of Stakhanov
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
“History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.” — R. Buckminster Fuller This year marks the one hundredth …
Anarchist Action in Poland
by Neither East Nor West/NYC
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
The following is from the Bulletin of Action, Anarchist news from Poland, Warsaw, July 1993.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
Ammunition Books, 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48201 Bookstore Hours: Mon. thru Fri. 1 pm-5 p.m.
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
The FE Bookstore is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit. We share space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and may be reached at the same phone number: (313) 831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our …
Work and the Dreamers Against It
by Michael Desnivic
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
a review of Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work by Abigail Susik. Manchester University Press, 2021