“In view of the solutions that are asked of us, routine completely re-upholstered in velvet is dangerous. Routine hatches more distress and death than an imaginary utopia.” —Andre Breton
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A Red Country (poem)
by Ngu Thi Yen
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
My country’s red, long so I was told Victories, a star glows Flag crimson, glorious so Vanguard leads, the people follow. . Red in sight, we have traded lives Beat armies, lay siege to empires. Red in mind, we …
Maoists Become Shrubs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
Just as in George Orwell’s 1984, “opponents of the working class” in China not only disappear physically, never to be heard from again, but also historically. A case in point are the two photographs printed here which demonstrate one of …
Punching Holes in Russian Capitalism
by Allan Antliff
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
During the 1917 Russian revolution, anarchists urged workers to take control of their lives by turning the capitalists out and seizing control of the means of production, the better to reconstruct society along anarchistic lines.
Why You Hate Work
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
NEW YORK (LNS)—A Colorado University Professor thinks he has discovered the real reason millions of Americans hate their job.
Tory Government Retreats
by Counter-Information
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
The following report appeared in the March-May 1992 Counter-Information, c/o 11 Forth St., Edinburgh, EH1, Scotland. Their four-page publication is free, but they welcome donations.
The Rojava Revolution
by Andrew Flood
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
On May 17, military forces of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) captured Ramadi, Iraq, and with it another huge stock of US-supplied modern weaponry. Six thousand US-trained Iraqi soldiers fled the city without putting up much of …
On (don’t spell it backwards) Anarchist Organization
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991
FE Note: There continues to be a sometimes rancorous debate within the anarchist movement about how best to combat the system. What follows is meant to be critical but comradely. We in no way doubt the spirit of those we …
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The Lynching of Wobbly Frank Little
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
a review of “An Injury to One” (2002). Written and directed by Travis Wilkerson
The DRUM Election
by Dick Parris
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
The struggle for political power within the United Auto Workers Union between the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the entrenched, conservative, white bureaucracy continued at the recent elections at Dodge local 3 of the Hamtramck Assembly Plant.
Adamany Resigns
by John Hollings
Fifth Estate # The South End insert
As striking university workers joined forces with Detroit’s labor community at the annual Labor Day Parade, WSU president David Adamany took the Board of Governors by surprise when he called an emergency meeting to give notice of his immediate resignation. …
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 Legacy of Omar Aziz
by Leila Al Shami
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
“A revolution is an exceptional event that will alter the history of societies, while changing humanity itself. It is a rupture in time and space, where humans live between two periods: the period of power and the period of revolution. …
Strike!
by Alan Gotkin
Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970
Three ramshackle, trash-can heated huts on York Avenue between Second and Third stand as mute testimony to a strike against the General Electric Corporation which has gone on in Detroit and across the nation since October 26th of last year.
Save the Seals—Skin the Rich
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
On March 19, 1979, several of us reached into the dustbin of history to resurrect the old Eat the Rich Gang and the Workers Revenge Group. The occasion was a Greenpeace anti-sealing demonstration in downtown Detroit that, as it turned …
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
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
Prison Food Greetings! Me, and some good comrades are being held prisoner in this pigsty called prison, and we came upon a copy of the April Fifth Estate. Needless to say, we are always trying to Fuck Authority, but there …
Me, a Great Leader?!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
“Me, start a vanguard party to lead the working class to revolution? You must be kidding!”
Class War OR Compromise
by CAI
Fifth Estate # The Rumble, Issue 1
While the plug has been pulled on the Detroit newspaper strike, the picket line persists. The Detroit newspaper strike, now in its twentieth month, has become the Detroit newspaper lock-out. In mid-February word came down from the union brass that …
Resources for Prisoners & Supporters
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
National Jericho Movement: PO Box 2164, Chesterfield VA 23832. thejerichomovement.com New York City Anarchist Black Cross (NYC ABC): PO Box 110034, Brooklyn, New York 11211. nycabc.wordpress.com Bloomington Anarchist Black Cross: Focuses on solidarity with prison rebels, anarchist prisoners, and prisoners …