CHICAGO—Hundreds of SDS members, responding to two separate calls, moved in the streets of Chicago and braved police gunfire on several occasions in the opening days of the Oct. 8-11 action against U. S. imperialism.
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Heavy Time in Pig City
by Fifth Estate Collective, Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
It’s Anarchy Time!
by Jim Feast
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
I begin with two insights. Global systems theorist, Immanuel Wallerstein, argues that throughout capitalist history the working class has been divided into a proletariat, which makes a living solely through waged labor, and a semi-proletariat which in its contemporary incarnation, …
I.W.W. Resource Page
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
I.W.W. Resource Page Home > Archive > Learn more about the Industrial Workers of the World Articles published in Fifth Estate related to the I.W.W. (in date order) Bombing won’t stop Redwood Summer by Luba Fifth Estate #334, Summer, 1990 …
Macomb Moves
by Tom Black
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
“Historically, all reactionary forces on the verge of extinction invariably conduct a last desperate struggle against the revolutionary forces, and some revolutionaries are apt to be deluded for a time by this phenomenon of outward strength but inner weakness, failing …
Vietnam Summer Set for Detroit
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
“There is too much concern about free love and not enough concern about free hate in this society,” stated William Sloan Coffin in an anti-war address at central Methodist Church on May 9, 1967.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
Ammunition Books, 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201 ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY by Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson Part I The Eye in the Pyramid 304 pp. Part II The Golden Apple 272 pp. Part III Leviathan 253 pp. Incredible political …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
Ammunition Books, 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201 Bookstore Hours: Mon. thru Fri. 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
Welcome to the Fall/Winter 2000 Fifth Estate which follows our Spring 2000 edition. This issue marks the 35th anniversary of this paper, now the longest running English language anarchist publication in U.S. history.
Storm Warnings
by Feral Sage
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
a review of We are the Birds of the Coming Storm by Lola Lafon. Seagull Books, 2014, translated from the French by David and Nicole Ball Originally published in 2011 as Nous sommes les oiseaux de la tempête qui s’annonce
Tearing Down The Prisons
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
Fifth Estate note: The following text was sent to us anonymously via email. It contained a section following what is here describing an intense prison rebellion at an unnamed institution and without a date of its occurrence.
Easter Canceled
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 271, April, 1976
(The Sunday News supplement) Caption: The feet that once walked the Sea of Galilee here protrude from the mud, still showing the nail scars from the crucifixion.
Women in Cuba
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
Editor’s note: Dena is a Detroit movement activist who went to Cuba in February of this year. She was part of a group of 20 members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) who made the trip at the invitation …
Some Thoughts on Alexander Berkman’s Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
by Marius Mason
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
a review of Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman. Annotated and Introduction by Jessica Moran & Barry Pateman. AK Press, 2017, (Originally published: 1912), 550 pp. akpress.org
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
When we start receiving letters asking if we are still publishing, we know it’s time to get an issue out. One reason that the gap between our last issue and this one must appear so large to those who receive …
Racist Slayings Hit South End
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976
Billowing smoke pours from the stacks that surround the huge water tower on the edge of the Rouge River. A too-familiar blue and white emblem proclaims the domination of the area by Ford Motor Company’s massive Rouge Plant complex, once …
“To Embrace the World Rather than Conquer It”
by Dogbane Campion (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
a review of Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings, by Joanna Macy, John Seed, et al, illustrations by Dailan Pugh, New Society Publishers, 122 pages, paper, $8.95
Artists, Anarchists & Concierges Battle in 19th Century Bohemian Paris
by Olchar E. Lindsann
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
In the musical Rent, the archetypal hip, Lower East Side New York Bohemian protagonists call their landlord “the enemy of Avenue A” when he enters their chosen coffee shop, in the song “La Vie Bohême.” The title recalls that of …
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Welcome to the Idiocene
by Max Cafard
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
It has been proposed that the present era of life on earth should be called the Anthropocene to reflect the human domination of our planet. However, an elegant, scientific-sounding term like anthropocene seems like a cop-out, a handy euphemism to …
Strike Back
by J.R. Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
Last week we went out on strike. We shut down universities and colleges across the country. Over 400 schools learned the power of the political strike. Hundreds of thousands of students moved militantly in rage over the Cambodia invasion and …
Anarchy for Kids
by Bernard Marszalek
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
A review of Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility: The Colin Ward Reader Damian White (Editor), Chris Wilbert (Editor), and Colin Ward, Paperback, 375pages, AK Press (Edinburgh, Oakland, Baltimore), 2011, $21.95