The Cuban state has usually been able to keep a tight lid on protests. Generally, it only allows demonstrations that have been organized by government ministries. However, during the fall and winter of 2020-21 the dissident San Isidro Movement in …
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The Coldest of All Cold Monsters
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State by Eric Laursen, Foreword by Maia Ramath. AK Press 2021
G20 Gender Violence
by Kelly Pflug-Back
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
Under the Canadian Criminal code, violence is not defined as a gendered issue. When a girl or woman is physically or sexually attacked, the act is subsumed under sections 244-246, which define assault, assault with a weapon, aggravated assault, sexual …
Books from The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
Complete catalog available from pumpkinhollow.net/thebarn Creating Anarchy by Ron Sakolsky (Fifth Estate Books 2005) $15
Aversion and the Dynamo
by Linda Wiens
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
A Tsunami/Fifth Estate Project Mountain Center & Detroit 1. Description: machine parts in the foreground, nude man in the background facing away from the viewer; balloon above him says: Well, everything gets done so quickly and easily, but… Somehow, I …
Lasch: Theory of Passivity Stumbles
by Bob Brubaker
Fifth Estate # 301, February 26, 1980
Your growing conviction that people are unable (or have lost the ability) to learn from and develop conclusions about their experience, and to act to change the conditions of their lives finds its latest confirmation in Christopher Lasch’s The Culture …
“We Want to Revive Anarchism in Cuba”
by Dmitri Prieto, Isbel Díaz, Mario Castillo
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
FE note: Comrades working to revive anarchism in Cuba need our immediate financial support. For U.S. dollar donations, visit the Cuban Anarchist Solidarity Fund. For Euro-zone contributions, click here. Changes in the Cuban state’s regulation of private enterprise and in …
Cuban Women
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
Cuban women are beginning to see solid results of the many years of struggle that they have been through. Before the revolution, there was little or no work for any women. The only way a single woman could get money …
West German Anarchists on the Autonome
by Elizabeth Kemp
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
FE Introduction During the massive European anti-nuke demonstrations of the ’70s, at squatter defenses and other actions across the Continent, shadowy groups of angry militants, often dressed in black, masked and armed with slingshots and stones became a common sight. …
Jackson Mac Low (1922-2004)
by Joel Kuszai
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Experimental poet and composer Jackson Mac Low died in New York on December 8th. Known for his participation in the sixties performance group Fluxus, his association with John Cage, and his experiments in the so-called “chance composition” of poetry, Mac …
On Trashing & Movement Building
by Michael Albert
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
This is a response to a post-Seattle debate troubling many folks regarding movement tactics. As a preface, it goes without saying, I hope, that we all understand that as far as violence is concerned, the violent parties in Seattle were …
Revolution Against the Megamachine
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Staff note: George Bradford was a pseudonym used by David Watson in these pages. 1. Autopsy of a Petrochemical Disaster Remember the Exxon Valdez? The ship was the source of the worst oil spill to date in U.S. history, spilling …
Communes in the 21st Century
by Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
a review of Communities Directory: A Guide to Intentional Communities and Cooperative Living, Third Edition, Jillian Downey and Elph Morgan, eds., 2000, $30 from the Fellowship for Intentional Community, www.ic.org, or RR 1, Box 156-D, Rutledge, MO 63563
Days hopeful & radiant
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
In November 2003, Miami, Florida, is hosting both the eighth round of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) trade negotiations and the eighth Americas Business Forum. Trade Ministers from 34 nations in the Western hemisphere, and hundreds of …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 273, June 1976
A PRIMER OF LIBERTARIAN EDUCATION by Joel Spring, Free Life Editions, 157 pp. $3.95 Traces the tradition of libertarian opposition to established education from Rousseau and Godwin to Neill and Freire. “Spring places the radical challenge into its own tradition …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
Welcome to the Spring 1992 issue of the Fifth Estate (Vol. 27, No. 1, our 339th paper)! As usual, we are later than we had planned, due in part to our worst nightmare: the breakdown, in the heat of production, …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 302, June 1, 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 …
A Thriller That Might Make You Throw Away Your SmartPhone
by Ruhe
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
a review of Darlingtonia by Alba Roja. Left Bank Books, 2017 akpress.org; albaroja.noblogs.org
Resistance Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
ONGOING EVENTS Sept. 6-Nov. 26 “Soapboxers and Saboteurs: 100 Years of Wobbly Solidarity.” An exhibit highlighting materials from the Labadie Collection, one of the world’s best collections of materials documenting early IWW history.. Special Collections Library, 711 Hatcher Library, University …
FE Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
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 …
Intro to Zerzan
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 302, June 1, 1980
Related: see The Promise of the ’80s in this issue. We perhaps owe John Zerzan a debt of gratitude for the research that has gone into his essay The Promise of the ’80s, for it graphically demonstrates to us what …
Schools of the Americas
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
In The Underground History of American Education, the renegade educator John Taylor Gatto traces the genealogy of compulsory public-school education in the US back to the system of pedagogy created in the nineteenth-century northern European state of Prussia. Prussia is …
On Gogol Boulevard
by Neither East Nor West/NYC
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
About On Gogol Boulevard This section is produced for the Fifth Estate by Neither East Nor West; a New York City group linking alternative oppositions in the East and West, and printing news and documents unavailable in the corporate and …
The Occupation of Public Space: New York, Beijing, Oaxaca
by Jim Feast
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
Robert Neuwirth, in his important book, Shadow Cities, says squatters in countries such as Turkey, Brazil, and India, are the poor, usually excluded from the adequate wage work, who do not have the wherewithal to enter the capitalist real estate …
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Women Doing Time
by Marius Mason
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
a review of Taking the Rap: Women Doing Time For Society’s Crimes by Ann Hansen. Between the Lines, 2018
The Anarchist Alternative in Cuba
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
A former community center that hosted a youth rock scene is now being occupied by activists, seemingly ignored by the authorities. A few blocks away, urban farms are bright patches of green in the landscape, producing vegetables and fruits for …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997
Fifth Estate Books is located at 4632 Second Avenue, just south of W. Forest, in Detroit, in the same space as the Fifth Estate Newspaper. Hours vary, so please call before coming by. HOW TO ORDER BY MAIL 1) List …
More Dangerous than a Thousand Rioters
by Sheila Nopper
Fifth Estate # 367, Winter 2004-2005
a review of Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity, Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937, Charles H. Kerr, Chicago, 2003
Town Without Fear
by Penny O'Reilly
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
Puerto Rico is a United States colonial possession, but most North Americans know little about the island or its people. The U.S. government does not want our ignorance disturbed because then we are less likely to protest the exploitation of …
Discipline and Punish
by Michael Scrivener
Fifth Estate # 298, June 19, 1979
a review of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault. Trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Pantheon Books, 1977)
J20 Trials Continue to Drag on
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
By the time this is published, the J20 trials, the prosecutions of protesters mass arrested at Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, will likely be in full swing.
Anarchist Golf?
by Joseph Winogrond
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
On the Anarchist Origins of Golf (Expanded version–MS Word, 110 KB) Although golf’s popularity has waned in recent years, losing millions of players, its abuse of land, water-use and chemicals continues on a mass world-wide scale according to the World …
Shawnee Timber Sale Stopped
by Orin Langelle
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
Beginning on June 20th, a determined group of Earth First!ers (EF!), Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and anarchists, maintained a blockade at the site of the Fairview timber sale area in southern Illinois’ Shawnee National Forest.
Poland under martial law
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 308, January 19, 1982
As we witness the imposition of military rule in Poland it seems clear it was not something to have been unexpected. However, that realization does nothing to limit our anger and sadness as we helplessly watch tanks and faceless armed …
The Jazz Scene in America
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
A few weeks ago the New Yorker’s man in jazz, Whitney Balliett, went out to the Coast to catch the Monterey Festival. While he was there he spoke with some of the “workers’ aristocracy” of jazz, the white musicians who …
The Tao of Capitalism
by Max Cafard
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
Lao Tzu was the mythic “Old Sage” of ancient China. We’re not sure whether he actually existed, but we do know that he founded Taoist philosophy. His legendary Tao te Ching, the “Classic of the Way and its Power,” is …
Tenth Anniversary of Bolivia’s Water War
by David Solnit
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
In spring 2000, the people of Cochabamba, Bolivia rose up against the privatization of their water, forcing out the US based corporation, Bechtel, and Bolivia’s neo-liberal government to back down. The rebellion opened up new political space in Bolivia, catalyzing …
Briefs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
3rd Annual Twin Cities Anarchist Book Fair The 3rd Annual Twin Cities Anarchist Book Fair (TCABF) is the weekend of Sept. 15-16 at the Powderhorn Park building in Minneapolis.
Lessons from Spain’s Mujeres Libres
by Martha Ackelsberg
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
In 1936, groups of women in Madrid and Barcelona founded Mujeres Libres, an organization dedicated to liberation from their “triple enslavement to ignorance, as women, and as producers.” While it lasted for less than three years (its activities in Spain …