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Algorithms of Compliance
by D.G. Gerard
Fifth Estate # 408, Winter, 2021
a review of Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener. Macmillan/Farrar Straus Giroux/MCD Books (Holtzbrinck Publishing Group) 2020 To escape her stagnant work as an assistant in publishing, Anna Wiener sold out and took a job in tech. Now she’s written about …
In any language: NEVER WORK!
by Kim A. Broadie
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of Never Work: Essays Against the Sale of Life. Detritus Books, 2022
Unions & the Nature of Work
by B. Durrutti
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
a review of “But What About the Workers?,” a pamphlet by James Boggs and James Hocker, available from the Advocators, Box 07249, Gratiot Sta., Detroit MI 48207; $0.75, 43 pp.
Zionism or Arab Nationalism?
by World Revolution
Fifth Estate # 268, January, 1976
Today (1973) a new imperialist war breaks out in the Middle East and the vicarious social-patriots who constitute today’s established “left” can hardly contain themselves in their eagerness to rush to the defence of one bourgeoisie against the other.
Westinghouse Wildcat
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
By the beginning of the second shift on Monday July 12, the huge East Pittsburgh Works of the Westinghouse Electric Company was shut tight by a wildcat strike of production workers.
The Punk Rock Candy Mountain
by Zack Furness
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
a review of Evasion. by CrimethInc ex-workers collective DIY Guide II by CrimethInc ex-workers collective Hunter/Gatherer. Journal of folklore and folkwar. CrimethInc ex-workers collective Editorial note: In the last issue, I began to express my solidarity with the far-flung posse …
Wealth and Poverty
by Val Salvo (Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
Expensive new cars—Lincolns, Cadillacs, Mercedes, Jaguars—arrive at the entrance to the Detroit Athletic Club (DAC). Rich, white men dressed in $750 suits, $200 wing-tip shoes, custom tailored shirts, sporting $2,000 Rolex watches are greeted brightly but obsequiously by uniformed black …
Against Realism & its Cause
by George Washington Rat (Pat Halley)
Fifth Estate # 292, June 19, 1978
It is estimated by reputable quacks in the American Medical Association that at least one out of five people in the U.S. has some problem with mental illness. (Are the rest pretending?) It appears, surely, that there is no shortage …
Medieval Revolts against Church and State
by John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976
In a fairly recent booklet, I came across a very standard view of pre-modern class society. It was stated that the life of the individual was completely controlled, and based on something quite external to him. “The central mode of …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983
The always provocative and irreverent The Match! (P.O. Box 3488, Tucson AZ 85722) is currently involved in a raging debate on pornography in which it inveighs against any censorship even by women who maintain they are victimized by it. “No …
Anarchism and the Anti-Authoritarian Personality
by Jim Feast
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
All generalizations founder on the rock of their exceptions, but can it be said that certain definable character structures emanate from one’s political philosophy or position within capital’s work apparatus?
New Computer System Used Against Poor
by Colleen Jensen, Sonny Tufts (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976
In House appropriations Bill 4445 for fiscal year 1975-1976, the State Legislature has instructed the Department of Social Services (DSS), the Department of Labor (through the MESC) and the Department of the Treasury to “develop a plan for the exchange …
Crisis in Iran—none for me, thanks
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 300, December 4, 1979
Iran: the Ayatollah captures the revolution The confrontation between Iran and the United States over the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran Nov. 4 and taking of 63 hostages (later reduced to 50) by Islamic student militants has brought …
Class Struggle in China
by C.D. Ward
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
Excerpted from “Class Struggle in ‘Red’ China” by C.D. Ward, in World Revolution In China and similarly throughout the world, the trade unions are a part of the state machine; their function is to integrate the working class into the …
Paint Guerrilla Strike
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
ITHACA, NY, Sept. 25, (LNS)—Four women toting gallon cans of paint ran up to the Marine officers recruiting at Cornell University’s Barton Hall and doused them with paint.
Liberating Public Health from the State
by Bruce Trigg
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
Most public health concerns are ultimately local. Mutual aid projects and autonomous zones from New York City to Seattle, and from Chiapas and Rojava have shown how democratically controlled, non-hierarchical communities provide not only food and shelter but also health …
Report from Venezuela
by El Libertario (Venezuela)
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
Note. El Libertario, the voice of the Comision de relaciones anarquistas of Venezuela, analyzes the how and why of the increasing state repression against the growing social discontent that belies the pseudo-revolutionary discourse of the Chavez regime. See also: “In …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
The FE Bookservice is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, both of which are at 5928 Second, Detroit MI 48202; telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours we are open vary considerably, so it’s always best to give …
Bookstore in a Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
Send check, money order, or well-concealed cash to: Fifth Estate Books PO Box 6 Liberty, TN 37095 Please add $2 shipping/handling for first item ($1 for the 2nd, .50 for the third, & so on). All book orders include a …
Dead Meat
by Alon K. Raab
Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997
a review of Dead Meat, drawings by Sue Coe, with an essay by Alexander Cockburn, Four Walls Eight Windows Press, New York-London, 1996, $22.
Sabotage & the Flows of Capital
by Jeff Shantz
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
According to all reputable climatologists, an immediate ninety percent reduction in material and energy production is required to meet the goal of limiting the average worldwide temperature increase by a disastrous two degrees Fahrenheit. At the current rate of fossil …
Intro to May ’68
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
It’s been fifty years since the exciting events of May 1968 in France that shook the country to its foundations. It is still inspiring to remember the widespread revolt of high school and university students, and then workers, that erupted …
Detroit GI
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
Big news, you say, it happens every day. Ask any serviceman. The difference in Bell’s case is that the Army is trying to do a job on him because he refused to go to Chicago during the Democratic Convention last …
Capitalism is Awfully Nice
by Mars Z. Goetia
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
From childhood, most of us are taught what is supposedly an essential skill for living within industrial capitalist society: how to be nice. To be nice is to act in a way that gives others pleasure, comfort, and satisfaction in …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
To the Editors: John Watson and the Fifth Estate are revolutionaries and that’s why they support the Teamster workers. [See “The News Gets Ready,” FE #68, December 12-25, 1968.] Revolutionaries remember 1937 when industrial workers in Flint fought the …
Emma Goldman: An Appreciation
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
50 years after her death More successfully than any other figure in US history, Emma Goldman communicated an anarchist vision to a broad audience of immigrants, native-born middle-class, and workers.
The Society of the Spectacle Reconsidered
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
a review of The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord Newly translated & annotated by Ken Knabb, Bureau of Public Secrets, 2014, 150 pages. $15. bopsecrets.org
ADC: Working for the “Man”
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
“That man over there say that a woman needs to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helped me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me a best …
Pigs Attack Panthers
by Lazarus
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
Approximately 150 white off-duty patrolmen and detectives, and civilians attacked and beat a small group of Black Panthers and white sympathizers in the Brooklyn Criminal Court Wednesday, Sept. 4th. The attackers, many shouting “White Power” and wearing George Wallace for …
Farewell to the Working Class?
by Jonny Ball
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
Some might have thought that the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite states, along with the abandonment of socialist economics across less industrialized countries would have sounded the death knell of Marxism. But Marx’s loyal tribe are keen …
Drinking Joe Hill’s Ashes
by Billy Bragg, Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
Note: FE staffer Walker Lane interviewed Billy Bragg, the English singer/songwriter, when he played a 1998 Labor Day benefit for striking Detroit newspaper workers.
In Critical and Suffocating Times
by T.P.T.G. (The Children of The Gallery)
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
As a publication appearing only three times a year, it’s difficult to report on the outrages of capital and the empire in a timely fashion. Usually, we cover only issues not available elsewhere. However, the Greek events of this Spring …
Comics, Graphic Novels, & the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
a review of 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike. Graphic History Collective and David Lester. Between The Lines (2019)
Luigi Galleani
by David Rovics
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
a review of Luigi Galleani: the Most Dangerous Anarchist In America by Antonio Senta. AK Press, 2019 akpress.org
‘Swingin London’ Shows Decline and Fall of British Empire
by Lenny Rubenstein
Fifth Estate # 27, April 1-15, 1967
(Special to the FIFTH ESTATE) LONDON—From the suburban sprawls of America where the language of LSD and grass is used to sell cars and discotheque tickets, the appeal of the country that produced Tolkien, “Morgan!,” and George Harrison is strong …
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News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 320, Spring, 1985
The Libertarian Book Club offers anarchist books, newspapers, and magazines. 20% discount included with a $5 yearly membership. Send SASE to: Libertarian Book Club, 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012, Room 202.
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 …
Abolish Restaurants
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
“When one comes to think of it, it is strange that thousands of people in a great modern city should spend their waking hours swabbing dishes in hot dens underground. The question I am raising is why this life goes …