Sticks & Stones Dear Fifth Estate, In response to E.B. Maple (“On Organization: Two Reviews of The Camatte/Collu Pamphlet,” FE #279, December 1976), I can only say that calling me a “Leninist” does not make it so.
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Tales From The Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
Proving our contentions a few issues ago that, “all money is fake,” a ring of Iranian and Syrian high tech counterfeiters have been printing $100 bills at a clip faster than the government. The quality of these bills is so …
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 …
Limitations of Leftism
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
The article from which this excerpt is taken, “Stopping the Industrial Hydra: Revolution Against the Megamachine,” appeared in our Winter 1990 issue. It provides analyses of the Exxon Valdez oil spill of March 1989 from the standpoint of a global …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 281, March, 1977
CIA Supports FE Dear Fifth Estate: I refuse to renew my subscription to your radical rag for the simple reason I have some absurdist evidence you’ve been running a bogus journalistic revolution in the Motor City. That’s right! I talked …
The World Surrealist Exhibition
by Pat Halley
Fifth Estate # 273, June 1976
Reality, grown so thick with itself, became a fungus years ago with inbred spores and long reaching strands that have become the vampiric architecture of experience on every street in town. Thriving on dampened spirits in the totally human swamp, …
Will CP Rule Italy?
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 273, June 1976
“A spectre is haunting Europe—the Spectre of Communism.” — from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Frederick Engels One hundred and eighteen years later Communism is again haunting the combined heads of the world bourgeoisie, but in a way …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
Send letters to fe – at – fifthestate – dot – org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220 All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten; letters may be edited for length Want to write a letter about our …
Army Crumbling in Portugal
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
The rule of Capital continues to erode in Portugal as the increased activity of rank-and-file soldiers, workers and peasants comes into increasing conflict with the Sixth Provisional military government.
Revolution & Counter-Revolution in Portugal
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 266, September, 1975
Trying to make sense of the situation in Portugal with facts gleaned from reading the daily newspapers and watching the nightly news has become an increasingly impossible task.
Is syndicalism outdated?
by Paul Buhle
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
a review of Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present Edited by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini. Chicago, Haymarket Books, 2011, 417pp, $19
Zines as Means for Change
by Len Bracken
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
a review of War of Dreams: A Field Guide to DIY Psy-Ops by Jason Rodgers. PM Press, 2024
Lost Anarchism & Surrealism of the 1960s
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
The next project of Abigail Susik, author of Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work, investigates the radical connections between anarchism and surrealism through the little-known figure of Jonathan Leake and his work in the 1960s with the magazine, Resurgence. …
The Return of the irrepressible
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
“The question is always how to move from a social insurgency to an anarchistic society?” —Voline, The Unknown Revolution
The Rojava Revolution is a Women’s Story
by Paul Buhle
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS by Janet Biehl, PM Press, 2021