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Emma Goldman: An Appreciation

by David Porter

Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990

Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869-May 14, 1940) was known as “the most dangerous woman in America” by the press in such articles as those to the right which chronicled a visit by her to Windsor, Ontario, across the border from …

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Anarchism & the Vote

by Kathy E. Ferguson

Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023

Emma Goldman is reputed to have said, “If voting could change things, they’d make it illegal.” Contempt for the franchise permeates anarchism, so that anarchists who favor participating in state elections are both in the minority and on the defensive.

Letters

by Various Authors

Fifth Estate # 384, Spring, 2011

Cuba’s Future I, too, have fears about the Americanization of Cuba and that it will end up “just like other Caribbean resorts” and that IMF-driven and other economic decisions will lead to the end of the many services provided to …

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Disobedience: The antidote for miserablism

by Penelope Rosemont

Fifth Estate # 386, Spring, 2012

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. — Oscar Wilde

test October 8

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate #

Winter 2025Fifth Estate #417 Follows Spring 2025 CONTENTS WORKS REVIEWED Anarchy in the Big EasyMax Cafard Ten Little AnarchistsDaniel de Roulet Soccer for a Better WorldVasilis Kostakis NadjaAndre Breton Stop Thief! Anarchism & PhilosophyCatherine Malabou Animal ResistanceSara Colling Snow DayWillow …

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Bombs Away!

by J.R. Kennedy

Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970

“The pump won’t work ’cause the vandals took the handles.” —Bob Dylan When three bombs, planted by revolutionaries, exploded at dawn Thursday, March 12, inside the New York offices of three major U.S. industrial corporations, they were not acts of …

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Two Cheers For Anarchism?

by Peter Werbe

Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013

a review of James C. Scott: Two cheers for Anarchism; Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play, Princeton University Press, 2012, 169 pp., $35 cloth and e-book

Letters to the Fifth Estate

by Various Authors

Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993

FE Letters Policy The Fifth Estate always welcomes letters commenting on our articles, giving reports of events in your area, or stating your opinion. We don’t guarantee we will print everything we receive, but all letters are read by our …

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Berkeley Free Clinic at 50

by Finn Black

Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019

The Berkeley Free Clinic (BFC) is an all-volunteer, worker-owned collective that provides free medical and dental care, peer counseling, and information in Berkeley, Calif. We were founded in May 1969 on the ideas that healthcare is a human right, that …

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The Refusal of Technology

by John Zerzan

Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980

FE Introduction: Members of the Fifth Estate staff and our friends (as well as some not so friendly) have been debating the role of technology and its function within the larger system of domination almost since the inception of our …

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Letter from Prison

by Jane Kennedy

Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971

Being a revolutionary, the threat of spending time in prison comes down on me from time to time. Not knowing much about the day-to-day life of women inside the prison walls, I have always been uneasy at the thought of …

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A Long Overdue Thank You Letter

by Oshee Eagleheart

Fifth Estate # 382, Spring, 2010

Dear Ursula, I’ve been intending to write to you for ages, to thank you for the innumerable ways that your words have inspired, informed, supported, and challenged me over the past thirty-six years. Now that you’re turning eighty, I think …

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Big Bust at S.F. State

by Giuseppi Slater

Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969

SAN FRANCISCO (LNS)—The strike at San Francisco State has dragged on for two long months, with virtually every aspect of confrontation sooner or later included. [See “Strike at S.F. State,” FE #71, January 23-February 5, 1969.]

Buses set to Roll This month

by anon.

Fifth Estate # 268, January, 1976

“When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school; it’s a wonder I can think at all.” –Paul Simon; “Kodachrome” Trying to make sense of the busing issue is like the classic story of the blind …

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How Professor Arne Ness and I Conquered NATO

by Jens Bjorneboe

Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000

From Norway, My Norway (1968) Translated by Esther Greenleaf Murer

From Economic Meltdown to Grassroots Rebellion

by Jennifer Whitney, John Jordan

Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003

  The Tin Pot Insurrection December the 19th was the turning point, the day when the Argentinean people said “enough!” The stage was set the day before, when people began looting shops and supermarkets, so they could feed their families. …

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An Anarchist View of the Marriage Debate

by Jeff Shantz

Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013

For anarchists, marriage is defined not by the sexuality or gender of spouses, but by the presence of the Church and State. However, marriage, the legal and religious sanctioning of interpersonal relationships, rarely receives much attention in anarchist feminist circles. …

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Mike Quatro Lets it All Hang Out

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970

Editor’s note: Mike Quatro is a Detroit booking agent and promo man for some of Michigan’s leading rock groups. Quatro has been hit hard in the last few months by the underground media for being a parasite on the community. …

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The Praxis of Street Medics

by Mags Beall

Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025

It’s a grey, wet day, so everyone who can find a spot is packed into the warehouse instead of spreading out across the grounds outside. In pockets around the space, people are skilling up or building art.

Tales from the Planet

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997

The Saigon Times reports work will begin next year on a north-south expressway along the route of the old Ho Chi Minh Trail. Vietnamese Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet has called for a mass labor program to build the 1,125-mile …

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Other Scenes

by John Wilcock

Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970

Who says the New York Times favors the status quo? After a recent story listing “narcotic addicts, drunks, panhandlers, homosexuals and drifters” a staff memo was circulated explaining: “Times have changed and ‘homosexuals’ is no longer universally considered a term …

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Emma Goldman in Spain

by Pat Flanagan

Fifth Estate # 318, Fall, 1984

a review of Vision on Fire: Emma Goldman on the Spanish Revolution. David Porter, editor, New Paltz NY, Commonground Press, 1983, 346 pp., $7.50.

Technology Debate Continues

by Various Authors

Fifth Estate # 305, March 18, 1981

FE—A Safe Niche? To the Fifth Estate: Over the past couple of years that I have been reading your paper, I have been alternately intrigued, provoked, or irritated by some of the things you folks have written. And that’s as …

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Occupy New Orleans Fights Off the authoritarian Left to defend Horizontalism

by John Clark

Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012

It was encouraging to see large numbers of anarchists and anti-authoritarians at a late March Occupy New Orleans General Assembly (OccupyNOLA). As one of the participants mentioned, Occupy is in many ways the most significant grassroots uprising since the Vietnam …

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Stop the Execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999

  If a death warrant for Mumia is signed, demonstrate the next day, 6 p.m. at local federal buildings & city halls.

Poetry Page

by Daily Barbarian

Fifth Estate # Daily Barbarian Number 2

Poetry, Un-Cooperative, Call, Disarmament and this Page Daily Barbarian Number 2 Fifth Estate #316, Spring 1984, Vol. 19 No. 1 The poetry found on this page is what we hope to be the beginning of a regular feature of the …

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Rafael Viera on the Young Lords

by Roland Young

Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970

The following article is a reprint of an interview with Rafael Viera, Chief Medical Cadre of the Young Lords Organization (YLO), that first appeared in the Black Panther Newspaper. Viera is one of three men that were indicted following the …

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This is what Anarchy Looks Like

by Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)

Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004

The forces of capital have once again called upon their storm troopers and talking heads to physically and symbolically crush the growing, global anti-capitalist movement. In the United States, building from the tragic embarrassment of September 11 and overreacting to …

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Events Calendar

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 RASHOMON, Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece at the Studio 1 Theater, Livemois at Davison at 7:30 & 9:30 pm. Adm. $2. YOGA CLASSES at the International Institute at 7:30 pm. Call 675-1038 for information. THURSDAY, JUNE 6 REPUBLICAN GALA …

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Radical books for kids

by Egg Syntax, Radym

Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004

We’re certain that most anarchists can remember at least one book that first introduced them to anti-authoritarianism, political engagement, gender-role-bending, or other topics of lasting importance. But such books are hard to find amid the morass of boring, mainstream kid-lit …

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Living Our Lives

by John Clark

Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020

If anarchist politics, the politics of communal liberation, is to escape from its present historical impasse, it must become, above all, a practice of creating the free community, here and now.

Being able to say neither/nor

by Cynthia Cockburn

Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999

< Kosovo: The Empire at War Women in Black is against the whole continuum of violence, from male violence against women, to militarism and war. It is for justice and peace. It is for multi-ethnic democracy. It is for nonviolent, …

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McLibel Support Campaign

by Greenpeace (London)

Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993

FE Note: The following account comes to us from Greenpeace (London) regarding their campaign against the McDonald’s corporation and the multinational’s attempt to silence its critics.

Murder in Berkeley

Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969

BERKELEY (LNS)—One man was murdered and over 200 people injured by police May 15 in the heaviest street battle in Berkeley yet over who controlled a city park.

Kent State Massacre

by Jeff Gerth

Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970

KENT, Ohio (LNS)—William Schroeder, Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandy Schcur. Four brothers and sisters were murdered by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus May 4. At least 15 others were wounded. Three are on the critical …

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Neoliberalism’s Double Lives

by Max Reynard

Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025

a review of Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023

Unclassifieds

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 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: …

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Clampdown!

by Rob Blurton

Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996

The confluence of circumstances that creates openings for profound social transformation in America are few. Research reveals a pattern of repressive behavior by power structures in the United States when these rare historical opportunities for change occur. Extreme personalities such …

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“Life-style” vs. “Social” Anarchism

by Peter Sabatini

Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996

Murray Bookchin must be getting cranky in his old age. Upon reading his latest broadside, Social Anarchism Or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm, I was rudely smacked in the face by déja vu. Evidently Bookchin is beating a dead horse, …

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FE Bookstore

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990

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 …

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