a review of Letters of Insurgents by Sophia Nachalo and Yarostan Vocheck, as told by Fredy Perlman, with a new introduction by Aragorn!. Left Bank Books, 2014, 722pp., $20 leftbankbooks.bigcartel.com
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News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
Charta 79: The Sami People & Human Rights is an English edition of a collection of essays by and concerning the indigenous peoples of northern Scandinavia. The Sarni of Semiland, which is comprised of the northernmost sections of Sweden, Norway, …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible.
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
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 visiting.
Marxism, Anarchism and the Roots of the New Totalitarianism
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 306, July, 1981
“Subjection of nature’s forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground—what earlier century had even a …
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Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
Note: Last issue’s article on “State-Fetishism” has again given rise to the much debated question of revolutionary violence. We invite further reader response in this matter.
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983
The FE Book Service is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, both of which are located at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit MI 48201 — telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours we are open vary considerably, so it’s …
Beyond Automation
by Bernard Marszalek
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
The effect of automation on employment was first brought to the public’s attention by a 1964 report, The Triple Revolution, issued by a California-based liberal think tank, the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.
Vanzetti! That Day
by Robert Knox
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
Bartolomeo Vanzetti lived in Plymouth, Mass., when he and his comrade Nicolo Sacco were charged with robbing a factory payroll and murdering two guards, a crime they did not commit, but for which they were executed in 1927.
Anarchist Filmmakers
by Franklin Lopez
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
a review of Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Video Tape Guerrillas and Digital Ninjas by Chris Robé. PM Press, 2017, 468 pages.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 41, November 1-15, 1967
Editors; Please tell Mike Bloomfield (“Honkies Can’t Dig Soul Music,” FE #39, October 1-15, 1967) that he can take his idea about us Honkies (I’m from Grosse Pointe) and stick it up his ass. Just because we buy the …
Recipes for Disaster
by Egg Syntax, John Brinker
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
a review of Recipes For Disaster, CrimethInc. Ex-Workers’ Collective, Olympia WA 624 pages $12.00. Available from the Barn: see page 98
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 271, April, 1976
As promised in our March issue, the FE will be throwing another rip-roaring benefit, to raise money for the paper’s maintenance and provide a great time for all. To be held on Saturday, April 10 (9 until ?) at Formerly …
The next mutiny on the Bounty
by PM
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Suburban utopia At this moment, everyone on the planet is watching the people of the USA and wondering how they are reacting to the present global crisis. For the most “dangerous” working class on this planet is the US working …
Evoking Spirit
by Quincy B. Thorn
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
The inflated effigy of a head of state, dressed in nothing but a diaper, floats over a joyous crowd of protesters on a sunny day. Beneath the surface description, two spirits can be perceived, the vile spirit of a deranged …
Notes on the Death of Franco (Part I)
by Murray Bookchin
Fifth Estate # 268, January, 1976
Next issue: Part II of “Notes on the Death of Franco” will cover an analysis of modern Spain and the state of the revolutionary movement today. Murray Bookchin is the author of a forthcoming book The Spanish Anarchists which is …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
Tornado Warning Dear Fifth Estate: We appreciate your kind mention of our group in your last issue (see “300,000 at Pro-Choice Demo—Plus Us,” FE #333, Winter, 1990), but we are not “Storm Warning” as the article identified us.
The Intimacies of Noise
by Roger Farr
Fifth Estate # 376, Halloween, 2007
“One never really contests an organization of existence without contesting all of that organization’s forms of language.” –Debord, On the Passage of a Few Persons…
Democracy
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
“Mistuh Chairman,” the fleshy faced delegate droned, “the Great State of Mississippi, last bastion of slavery, casts all of its redneck ballots for…CLICK!
Letter from Black Rose Books
by Black Rose Books
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
FE note: See also the letter exchange “L’affaire Black Rose Books” in this issue. Dear Editor, With reference to the slanderous letter from a Mr. Joe Doaks in your June 1977 issue, we would like you to publish the following …
Ann Landers
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 269, February, 1976
Dear Ann Landers: Please tell me how certain people can appear to be perfectly OK when they are clearly insane?
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
The Fifth Estate Benefit Party held Jan. 14 turned out to be one of the most enjoyable to date, with folks guzzling down six kegs of beer and dancing their asses off to the Shadowfax band. Special thanks are due …
Palestine
by Le Brise-Glace
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
from Le Brise-Glace, No. 1, translated by Lorraine Perlman However repressive it may have been from its very origins, Zionism represented a movement of emancipation for many oppressed Jews. Once Israel was established, Zionism—whether left or right—has been nothing more …
Seeing social struggles through individual characters
by Hubert Gendron-Blais
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
a review of 3 online plays by Norman Nawrocki, 2020-2022: “EVICTION? Dog’s Blood!!;” “Ukrainians, Pelicans & the Secret of Patterson Lake,” and “Run Nawrocki Run! Escape from Banff Prison”
100th Anniversary of the Automobile
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
When eager crowds pushed through the turnstiles of Detroit’s North American International Auto Show last winter, they had the look of fans at a championship game or dreamy-eyed kids thinking of presents under the Christmas tree. Although all of them …
Let’s Eat!
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
Ford Surgery Fails Inside sources have reported that Betty Ford, formerly of state furniture capital Grand Rapids, Michigan, has fallen into a deep depression since her celebrated plastic surgery at a laetrile clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. Unknown to most people, …
Remembering Hanon Reznikov (1950-2008)
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
Because art breathes on in the legacy left with the living, death cannot defeat an artist. In this eternity of the permanent present, poems and plays and songs resist the tyranny of death. While this recognition hardly dulls the sting …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
Aging Anarchists The population of hard core anarchists from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s is slowly dwindling, and the next generation is unprepared to take up the slack.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 290, March 2, 1978
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and can be found at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 48201 (telephone-313-831-6800). Our hours vary, but we are generally open on Monday and Thursday afternoons (from 1pm to 5pm) and at …
New Wave of Legal Repression Looms
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
Unbeknownst to the vast majority of people in this country, we’ve once again over the last few months been inundated with a rash of extremely serious attempts on the part of the state apparatus via bourgeois legalism to further severely …
Detroit Summer
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
At their National Gathering last August, the U.S. Greens decided to embark upon a project they called “Detroit Summer” as one of their three major campaigns for 1992.
Poisoning the Poor
by Fritz
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
As a survivor of more than a decade of psychiatric abuse, I oppose the pseudo-scientific concept of “Mental Illness” entirely. Unlike physical illnesses that are biologically based and sometimes have chemical cures, Mental Illness is a social construct used to …
Seattle Far-Right Shooter’s Trial Ends in Hung Jury
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
Following the recent dismissal of charges against a right-wing woman who shot an anarchist anti-fascist activist in 2017, the question of how anarchists should or should not interact with the state’s mis-named justice system has become more relevant than ever. …
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Turn It Off!
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
The call to turn off television or even to lessen viewing hours certainly should not be interpreted as an inherently radical suggestion, since it emanates constantly from educators, parents, psychologists and others professing concern for the health and morals of …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
Remembering Federico Arcos
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
See also: Other remembrances of Federico Arcos (online only) Introduction Federico Arcos (July 18, 1920-May 23, 2015), a lifelong anarchist, participated in the Spanish Revolution and Civil War in the 1930s, and later took part in the antifascist underground there. …
Why anarchists should take up the 50-year-old project of the Gray Panthers
by Eric Laursen
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
A friend tells me of his first job out of college. He was hired to run a senior center, not attached to a nursing home, in the Bronx.
We Get a Computer and Hate It!
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
“Things are in the saddle and ride Man.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson One blind man leads many blind men Into the fire hole hand in hand. —Zen saying After several years of discussing and debating the implications of a newspaper which …
Red In More Ways Than One
by Franklin Rosemont
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
Throughout U.S. history, the lives and struggles of Native Americans have been disregarded and disdained by the white, middle-class, christian, capitalist, Nature-despising national Establishment. Sadly, the disregarders and disdainers also included the great majority of socialists, communists, anarchists, trade-unionists and …
L’affaire Black Rose Books
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
To the Reader: In the last issue of the Fifth Estate [#283, June 1977], a letter appeared signed by a Joe Doaks criticizing Black Rose Books of Montreal. Doaks charged that a recent BRB publication, Durruti: The People Armed, by …