Editors’ Note: Linda Evans, from Motor City SDS, was one of 7 Movement people who went to North Vietnam last month to bring back three captured American military men. Along with her were Rennie Davis of the National Mobilization Committee; …
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Sanity & Identity
by Bryan Tucker
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
A tentative existence is what society’s current trajectory offers us: alienation from others simultaneous with chronic concern about perception by others. Futile attempts to persist in these conditions takes the form of claiming an identity, espousing sanctioned banalities, and various …
More debate on Technology
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
Dear Fifth Estate: The cover graphic of the mushroom cloud with the word WAR! in seven centimeter lettering across the front struck me as highly appropriate for the Fifth Estate (See FE #307, Nov. 19, 1981). It would seem to …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 291, April 30, 1978
Help Wanted Dear FE & Readers: Some clarification of myself is needed here before too many people waste time making statements about me that are completely out of whack with who I am. (See Letters, FE #290, March 2, 1978).
Anti-Authoritarian Personalities & Standard Schools
by Bruce E. Levine
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
Mark Twain, one of America’s most beloved anti-authoritarians, gave young people sound advice: “Never let your schooling get in the way of your education.”
Will Success Spoil Chumbawamba?
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
I arrived early at Clutch Cargo’s, once an imposing church, but now a trendy rock joint in yuppified downtown Pontiac, a gritty, predominantly black, industrial Detroit suburb. The occasion was a concert by Chumbawamba, the anarchist pop group from Leeds, …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 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.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
Ammunition Books, 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201—Telephone No. (313) 831-8600 Bookstore hours vary, but we are generally open on Monday and Thursday afternoons and at scattered other times. Please call before coming down to be sure we are here.
Instead of a Primer
by Pono Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
What is anarchism? This question continues to crop up as anarchists debate amongst themselves as how to accurately express their perspectives to non-anarchist activists in the antiwar and global justice movements. Subsequently, a new wave of anarchist primers has appeared …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
Send letters to fe@fifthestate.org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220 All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten; letters may be edited for length.
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 310, Fall 1982
The FE BOOKSERVICE 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 always best to …
Syria’s Kurdish Revolution
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
The north Syrian town of Kobani has been under siege since mid-September by forces of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, popularly known as ISIS. Early in the siege, world leaders spoke as if they expected it to fall.
Abolish the Family!
by Johanna Isaacson
Fifth Estate # 414, Fall 2023
a review of Abolish the Family! by Sophie Lewis. Verso, 2022 Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care by M.E. O’Brien. Pluto Press, 2023 As we all navigate the perilous shoals of capitalist austerity and precarity, many turn to …
Murder in Oaxaca
by John Gibler
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
MEXICO CITY-Brad Will filmed his own murder. Holding a professional, high-definition digital camera neck-high in his two hands, he faced down Juarez Avenue, the camera rolling.
Wide World of Banks
by A. R.
Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976
Underneath the center of the international menagerie, whereupon governments totter for power, politicians tumble for fame, generals squawk for security, and clergy rant and rave, skitter the well-fed rodents of the financial world, endlessly greasing the vital parts of all …
Opposing the Rise of the Far-right
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
These are anarchistic times—times in which increasing numbers of people are resisting the horrors of contemporary society by engaging in direct action without waiting for leaders to tell them what to do. So, it is no surprise that anarchists are …
Anarchists Scapegoated for Quebec Riot
by Michael William
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
June 24, Quebec’s national holiday, St. Jean Baptist day, is usually an uneasy combination of healthy fun and not so healthy flag Waving. This year’s celebrations in Quebec City, the seat of the provincial parliament, turned hotter than usual.
Deserving the Best
by Max Cafard
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
a review of Surrealism: Inside the Magnetic Fields by Penelope Rosemont. City Lights Books 2020
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 293-294, August 21, 1978
At the Picnic Dear Comrades, At a picnic held July 9 at Los Gatos we received an income of $841 in which we distributed as follows:
Will Franco Era Spanish Fascists Finally Be Brought to Justice?
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
On October 31, an Argentine judge, Maria Servini de Cabria, issued international arrest warrants and extradition requests to question and try 20 Spanish Franco-era officials accused of crimes against humanity from 1939 to 1975.
Alex Comfort’s Joy of Sex was Matched by His Joy of Anarchism
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 414, Fall 2023
a review of Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr. Alex Comfort, Author of ‘The Joy Of Sex’ by Eric Laursen. AK Press 2023 “We are the enemies of society and we must learn disobedience. Then we shall probably inherit …
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Tuning in to the illegalist continuum
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
Bank robbers The Bonnot Gang were notorious anarchist bank robbers whose daring exploits in pre World War One France were legendary examples of illegalism. In contrast to the stalwart proletarian solidarity prized by the anarcho-syndicalists of that time, the illegalists …
Benjamin Péret and the Ecological Imagination
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Those who believe in a staunch ecological stance that subverts the dominant patterns of objectification, degradation, subordination, and commodification should take time to understand the revolutionary force of poetry.
Psychiatry’s Oppression of Young Anarchists
by Bruce E. Levine
Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013
Many young people diagnosed with mental disorders are essentially anarchists with the bad luck of being misidentified by mental health professionals who: (1) are ignorant of the social philosophy of anarchism, (2) embrace, often without political consciousness, its opposite ideology …
On Keeping Our Critical Faculties
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
I wonder if anyone else feels the same nausea and despair I experience when reading missives like R. Tate’s [see in this issue “More Debate on the Balkans,” FE #360, Spring, 2003]. Apparently, such jumbled, simple-minded invective, with its breathless …
Economic Crisis and Revolution
by Claudio Albertani
Fifth Estate # 293-294, August 21, 1978
FE note: See our introduction, “Revolution & Counter-revolution in Italy,” [FE#293-294, August 21, 1978] in this issue. Author’s Introduction A conspiracy of silence and careful distortion of what doesn’t fit the picture of Italy as a panting country trying to …
The Radical Roots of Gary Snyder
by Elliott Liu
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
Looking at Gary Snyder’s writing is a geological experience. Picking up a copy of The Gary Snyder Reader or checking out his shelf at a library will reveal layers of poems, journals, and essays dating from the late fifties to …
Poetry
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
from Cultural Democracy, Spring 1989, P.O.B. 7591, Minneapolis, MN 55407 Port-of-Call Cass Corridor Anchored in the oily swamp Near the crumbling dockyard Lurks an old ship . Stumbling past The foggy glass portholes I glance at the stowaways: The Black …
Anti-Nuke Demo Planned Against Edison
by H. Genghis Kahn
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
Eleven years ago an accident at Detroit Edison’s Fermi 1 nuclear power plant in Monroe, Michigan, almost destroyed Detroit. If you accept the utility’s own commissioned study, the death rate could have been as high as 133,000 dead in the …
Survival of the Fittest?
by Kelly Pflug-Back
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
The concept of history is far from neutral. Under the monopoly of elites, narratives of the past can be erased, rewritten and taken out of their original context according to their needs.
The Green Scare Goes On
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008
The Green Scare continues with the plea-bargain and imprisonment of Fifth Estate writer Marie Mason, three new arrests in Wisconsin, grand jury appearances by activists Kevin Tucker and already-imprisoned Daniel McGowan, and the sentencing of Briana Waters.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 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: …
Goldman, beyond an anarchist icon
by Loca from Montreal
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
The most insidious biases one carries are those of which we are unaware. Philosophy and history, as far back as the very origins of our present civilization, have carried within them an enormous bias that remains strangely transparent, yet hidden. …
May Protests in Detroit
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 329, Summer, 1988
After months of intense organizing, Detroit’s Evergreen Alliance carried off a four-day “Mobilization to Save the Great Lakes,” May 13-16, centered around opposition to the world’s largest trash incinerator scheduled to open in May 1989.
The Original Affluent Society
by Marshall Sahlins
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
FE Note: The following is an edited version of the first chapter of Marshall Sahlins classic and groundbreaking work, Stone Age Economics (Aldine, 1972), entitled “The Original Affluent Society.”
Police Block Spy File Disclosure
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 272, May 1976
If you are one of the thousands of persons hoping to get a look at the information collected on you by the Detroit and State police anti-subversive (Red) squads, your chances may be dimming.
Jail John Now!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 266, September, 1975
THE SUN, Volume 3, Issue 18 (3 pages with 33-page ad supplement)
Clinton Bombs Iraq
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
Why isn’t anyone doing anything to protest Clinton’s bombing of Iraq? There seems to be a growing resignation about the U.S. bashing Saddam Hussein to boost the approval ratings of American politicians.
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
Compiled by Barbara Wellner and Ivana Gottfried. Those events marked with an asterisk (*) need Fifth Estate salesmen. If you want to earn some extra money, come down to our office and pick up some papers. FRI. APRIL 4 * …