What About Gangs? To the Fifth Estate: The FE is usually a delight to read. Only a couple of small things have detracted from that: Using “man” to mean “people”(in the article on a Michigan landfill) is sexist and a …
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Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
Anarchism Flops To the Fifth Estate: If it is wrong for a woman to be put on trial when she is raped, isn’t it equally wrong for a society to be put on trial when it is raped? Prejudice predates …
Spanish Revolution Resource Page
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
Home > Archive > Learn more about the Spanish Revolution of 1936 and the important role of the anarchists…. Articles published in Fifth Estate related to the Spanish Revolution (in date order) Notes on the Death of Franco (Part I) …
Spain ’36
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
Imagine the United States split regionally into conservative-fascist and leftist popular front-anarchist zones. Civil war rages at the shifting boundary lines with half the country under the domination of an insurgent military right-wing junta determined to destroy the elected government …
Sovereignty & the State
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Meet the New Boss When US occupation authorities pretended to return sovereignty to Iraq, they erected a pliable government of quisling-proxies. To cover up the devastating failure of the invasion, they created a mirage of Iraqi independence.
Challenging the Nation State in Syria
by Leila Al Shami
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
Syria’s current borders were drawn up by imperial map makers a hundred years ago in the midst of World War I as part of a secret accord between France and Britain to divide the Mideast spoils of the Turkish Ottoman …
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 …
Unionization in America
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
The struggle for unionization in the 1930s has always been shrouded in myth and revered by both the labor movement and the Left as a period of labor militancy. A closer look at the developments shows a much different picture …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
FEer Kidnapped? [In response to Rich Take Non-Aspirin Over FE Ad, #274, July 1976] Dear Sirs (sic): We have kidnapped your staff member, E.B. Maple. If you do not deliver $300,000 in one dollar bills or the Chairman of the …
Self-management and the Spanish Revolution
by Pointblank
Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976
On the morning of July 18, 1936 General Francisco Franco began the fascist rebellion against the Spanish Republican liberal bourgeois regime in Madrid. This move was immediately met by armed resistance of the urban proletariat who, after defeating the fascists …