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CIRA at Sixty
by Sylvie Kashdan
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
Anarchist solidarity can take many forms, including collecting books, pamphlets, and letters. Through such activity, comrades active in the world’s anarchist archives are part of anchoring an important segment of the struggle for a libertarian and egalitarian world.
Is ChatGPT just a new tech toy or is it Skynet?
by Jess Flarity, Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the …
Monumental Dialectics
by L.M. Bogad
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
On May 4, 1886, several hundred workers assembled in Chicago’s Haymarket Square to protest the shooting of their comrades on a picket line at the McCormick Reaper Works the day before. The violence happened in the context of a largely …
Farewell Elka Schumann
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
Bread and Puppet Theater’s Elka Schumann died this past August, at the age of 85. She and her partner, Peter Schumann, co-founded the Bread and Puppet Theater, the innovative and radical theater group, in New York City in 1963.
German Students Revolt in the Streets
by Hatti Heimann, Irwin Limsky
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
Liberation News Service — The thousands of left-wing German students clashing with police on the streets of Berlin, Frankfort, Hanover, Munich and other German cities rallied for reasons beyond the original motivation of the shooting of Rudi Dutsche.
Murder In Nigeria
by Mitchel Cohen
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
In the old days, when the state hung somebody and the braided rope broke or the gallows came crashing to the ground it was taken by God-fearing men as a sign that a mistake had been made and the condemned …
Anything Can Happen—Or Not
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
“Sous les paves, la plage!” [Under the paving stones, the beach!] —Revolutionary slogan; Paris 1968 1968 was an “Anything Can Happen” kind of year.
The Annunciation of the Papal Visit to Detroit
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
All the city mourns, and the crumpled masses languish at the gates, and the cry of all the freeways has gone up. The politicians have sent their runners to the waters, but they have come with all their vessels empty. …
Bullet Points
by Stacy Flynn
Fifth Estate # 408, Winter, 2021
Big Girl by Meg Elison. PM Press 2020 The body is the locus of authoritarian control in Meg Elison’s Big Girl (number twenty-five in PM Press’s Outspoken Authors series.) Gorgeously surreal, the collection includes speculative short stories, essays and an …
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
When you order books from the Barn, you support a collective and help keep the Fifth Estate physical space solvent. With your help, we’re trying to sustain an alternative to the commercialism of retail or web-based booksellers.
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
On Gogol Boulevard In Exile “On Gogol Boulevard” is the bulletin of the New York City Neither East Nor West Group which gives support and aids in communication between Eastern European anarchists and dissidents and similar movements in the West. …
Labor Trends through 1985
by A. R.
Fifth Estate # 266, September, 1975
Mystique of Capital Before people began to understand their natural environment, the forces of nature presented real, awesome and bewildering problems in the struggle for survival. Today the problems remain awesome and bewildering, not because of our failure to understand …
The Fifth Estate Essays of Peter Werbe
by A.W. Tymowski
Fifth Estate # 414, Fall 2023
a review of Eat the Rich & Other Interesting Ideas: Selected Essays by Peter Werbe. Black & Red-Detroit, 2023
World War I: The Chicago Trial
by Julie Herrada
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
“No war but the class war” was the expressed motto of many radicals who refused to enlist or otherwise contribute to any national war effort. At their tenth convention in 1914, the IWW passed a resolution stating, “We as members …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 298, June 19, 1979
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that you give …
The Michigan Roots of Leon Czolgosz
by Jeremy Kilar
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
At the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901 Leon Czolgosz became America’s third presidential assassin when he shot William McKinley with a.32-caliber revolver hidden in his handkerchief-wrapped hand. The president died eight days later. Apprehended at …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
Fifth Estate Letters Policy The Fifth Estate always welcomes letters commenting on our articles, stating opinions, or giving reports of events in local areas. We don’t guarantee we will print everything we receive, but all letters are read by our …
Anti-Racist Action Challenging The Right
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # The Rumble, Issue 1
Detroit Anti-Racist Action (ARA) formed over a year ago. Since its formation, it has been involved in campaigns against the gentrification of downtown Detroit with all the money going to rich folks (Illich, Ford, etc.) who don’t live in the …
Ten Theses on the Proliferation of Egocrats
by W.B. Jeffries (Fredy Perlman)
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
I. The Egocrat—Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Kim Il Sung—is not an accident or an aberration or an irruption of irrationality; he is a personification of the relations of the existing social order.
Cherishing the Secret Knowledge of Fulvia Ferrari
by Marieke Bivar
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of Secolo Nuovo or The Times of Promise by Fulvia Ferrari. Detritus Books 2021
Defining and Debating Fascism
by Michael Staudenmaier, Pedrito Peligro
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
FE note: Although we generally dislike back and forths in our letters column, we thought the issues raised by our two comrades below are worthy of continuing the discussion raised about combating fascism begun in our Summer 2003 edition (see …
After the Buses Burned
by David Rovics
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
In the early hours of July 13, Will Van Spronsen was shot to death by police outside of an ICE-contracted private detention facility holding migrants in Tacoma, Wash. He was confronted by police in a parking lot full of buses; …
The Pool at the Sak Woi Club
by Nhi (Nancy) Chung
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
1. Saigon, 1967 The wind in a room. Often, though the club would be a hive of activity, with waiters, sunners, diners by the food counter, and children bounding through the wading area, the main indoor pool would be empty. …
But It All Falls Apart
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
a review of Seizure of State Power, Part 3 of Manual for Revolutionary Leaders by Michael Velli. Sources of Velli’s thought annotated by Fredy Perlman. Black & Red (2019) BlackandRed.org
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 331, Spring 1989
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 …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
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 …
Guatemala: A Country In Chaos
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Since 1954, when a U.S.-backed coup toppled the democratically elected reformist government of Jacobo Árbenz, there has been a succession of military regimes aided by the U.S. The Guatemalan people, 60% of whom are Mayan Indians, have fought through both …
Concentration Camps USA
by Alice Detroit
Fifth Estate # 329, Summer, 1988
a review of Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism, by Richard Drinnon, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1987, 340 pp. $24.95.
They Gave their Eyes for Chile to Wake Up
by Jesús Sepúlveda
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
In 1970, Chileans elected a social-democratic government headed by Salvador Allende. On September 11, 1973 it was overthrown by a CIA-sponsored military coup, ushering in the brutal dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. The new regime instituted draconian free market policies …
On Gogol Boulevard
by Neither East Nor West/NYC
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Where’s OGB been? For several issues of the Fifth Estate, On Gogol Boulevard (OGB) produced a two-page spread on former Eastern Bloc and Third World anti-authoritarian struggles. However, due to numerous glitches, we’re missing from the FE again except for …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 308, January 19, 1982
Multi- vs. Universe Dear T. Fulano (and the FE) I read your response to the defenders of technology with great trepidation [“Uncovering a Corpse: A Reply to the Defenders of Technology,” FE #307, November 19, 1981]. At every turn I …
Margaret Sanger
by Beni
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
a review of Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, Ellen Chesler, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1992, 639 pp.
Bullets Fly at Anti-Draft Center
by Kae Halonen
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
The resistance to the Draft Resistance Committee office at 12820 Hamilton in Highland Park has been stepped up into a Mississippi-style harassment campaign.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 269, February, 1976
Anarchism…stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. But defiance and resistance are illegal. Therein lies the salvation of man. — Emma Goldman, Anarchism, 1910
The Fifth Estate Meets the All People’s Congress
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
A couple of us went downtown to Cobo Hall on a cold Friday night to check out the rally to “overturn the Reagan program” and to pass out a few copies of the last issue to the curious. The rally …
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Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201 Telephone No. (313) 831-8600 Bookstore hours vary, but we are generally open on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and at scattered other times. Please call before coming down to be sure we are here.
“State-Fetishism”
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
Over the past year, there has been a discussion within the pages of the Fifth Estate as to what constitutes revolutionary violence, and what the uses and relevance of such violence might be.
From the Other Side of the Tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 69, December 26, 1968-January 8, 1969
White middle-class America now has a President it can call its own. This is the middle-class America of people who have “pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps.” It is the middle-class America of the Puritan virtues of all work …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 301, February 26, 1980
Mutual Aid Dear People, The cena at Negri’s on Saturday, January 12, 1980 raised money for anarchist propaganda, as well as $75 for the defense of Kamalla Miller. Those present at the dinner choose to send you $50.00 to help …