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Reading “Letters of Insurgents” 34 Years After its Publication
by Unruhlee
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
As we go to press in late June, we are receiving reports of discussion groups formed around the country, in person and in on-line blogs, that are reading Fredy Perlman’s 1976 historical novel, Letters of Insurgents, published by Detroit’s Black …
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Underground Incorporated
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 58, July 18-31, 1968
FREE EDITORS WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 20) LNS — Possession charges against LNS editor Ray Mungo and WIN [magazine] editor Marty Jezer were dropped June 20 in Washington. The defendants suspect the police smoked the evidence,
The Future is Now!
by Jesús Sepúlveda
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
Sales Santos-Vera and Itziar Madina-Elguezabal live in the heart of the Basque Mountains, where the borders between France and Spain are blurred and the mists hide the paths once serving smugglers and antifascist guerrillas. Sales moved here from Extremadura along …
Unist’ot’en People & Territory Under Attack
by Jeff Shantz
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
As has been the case throughout colonial conquest, the military police force of the Canadian state, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have facilitated the occupation of Indigenous lands by resource capital. Most recently, the state forced its way onto …
The Quadrennial Electoral Fraud
by Jonny Ball
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
Occasionally, the liberal-democratic system nobly affords us the chance to select our representatives from a shallow gene-pool of political management professionals.
David Porter Remembered
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
Longtime Fifth Estate friend and contributor, David Porter, died December 29; he was 79. A dedicated teacher, anarchist researcher, and grassroots community activist, Porter applied his anti-authoritarian principles to many projects.
A Generation in Revolt
by Martin Jezer
Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968
from Liberation News Service-Liberation magazine Tim Leary’s invitation, in the Beatles’ words, to “turn off your mind, relax and float down the stream” did not, at one time, send shock waves through the New Left. The vision of multitudes seduced …
New York Protest Ends City’s Vietnam Week
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 28, April 15-30, 1967
As part of Vietnam Week, April 8-15, there are activities taking place in hundreds of communities across the nation. Everything from teach-ins to demonstrations have occurred giving evidence of increased opposition to the war in Vietnam.
Army found guilty…sentenced to death
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970
Reprinted from The Bond: The Voice of the American Servicemen’s Union SEATTLE—GIs from Fort Lewis and McChord Air Force Base held a trial of the Brass and its war in Vietnam before an audience of 1,500 at the University of …
The Free
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
a review of The Free by M. Gilliland. Hooligan Press, 142 pp., London, 1986, 1.80 pounds, $4.00 (U.S.)
Strike at S.F. State
by Chris Singer
Fifth Estate # 71, January 23-February 5, 1969
“There has had to be an escalation on this campus.” —S.I. Hayakawa, President, San Francisco State College We live in a MacLuhanesque age. The world is our village, its inhabitants are all as close as the nearest TV screen. …
Tales From The Planet
by john johnson
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
Campesinos Attack the Mexican Congress Hundreds of well organized campesinos (agricultural workers) stormed and broke into the Mexican Congress on December 10th, forcing many of the congressmen to run for their lives. The campesinos are extremely desperate because of the …
Civilization is Like a Jetliner
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
The night the Korean airliner crashed into the newspapers, I dreamed of a tornado. A tornado is a kind of spiral, which is the labyrinth and which is Death.
Anarchists Against the Wall
by David Finkel
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
a review of Anarchists Against the Wall: Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle, Edited by Uri Gordon and Ohal Grietzer, AK Press, 2013 139 pages, $12. akpress.org
Voices of the Underground
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
A review of Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, Part 2 edited by Ken Wachsberger, Michigan State University Press, 2012, 442 pp, $40
Fires Without Commentary
by Charles Reeve
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
“Unlike the French uprising of May-June 1968, the youth rebellion of November 2005 had no demands and no critique; just the fires.” —Le Monde Libertaire Early in November 2005, three young men were trying to escape from being questioned by …
Everyday Love
by Louis Michelson
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
Next time you are at a party, or any of the other bad excuses for festivity that our time has to offer, notice the behavior of the couples there. See how they clutch at each other constantly, how they can …
The Girl Who Would Stop Time
by Steve Slavin
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
One, two, three, four, we don’t want your fuckin’ war! Again and again they chanted the couplet as they slowly made their way downtown along New York City’s Fifth Avenue, and then crosstown on 42nd Street to the United Nations. …
Patriot Songs
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
‘I hear America singing’ “—so what.” — D. Campion
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
FILMS Cass City Cinema—First Unitarian Church (Cass and Forest), $1.50 admission, 7:30 & 10:00 p.m. Nov. 19 & 20: “The Twelve Chairs,” (Mel Brooks). Nov. 26 & 27: “Emitai” (1971 from Senegal). Dec. 3 & 4: “This Man Must Die” …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
The Jefferson Airplane concert will be in Ford Auditorium Friday, June 30, at 8:30 p.m. Tickets run from $3.00 to $4.50 and can be got at Grinnells, Discount Records, the Ford Auditorium box office, and other places, including probably the …
Anarchy in the U.K.
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
“If you support this motion, you will not assist the government. You will paralyze it and indeed stand in danger of destroying it” —Jack Jones, veteran trade union leader, pleading with delegates to the convention of the Transport and General …
An Anarchist in Cuba
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
On February 2, I stepped off a plane that had left a frigid Toronto three and a half hours earlier and landed in the balmy sunshine of Holguin, Cuba. It was impossible to know then that I had arrived two …
Political Music is Mysterious
by Kristi Phillips
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
I played the guitar once when I was seventeen in front of a crowd of college students. The building had a sign outside that read, Built During World War II. There was a spiked fence that ran a mile around …
Money Lures
by Allan Antliff
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
I have long admired Brooklyn-based Richard Mock for his outspoken commitment to anarchism and clear-sighted attacks on contemporary injustices.
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
Fri. Oct. 4 DICK GREGORY. civil rights activist, comedian, and write-in candidate for president, will speak at Oakland U., Sports & Rec. Bldg. 10 am $1 adm. Take I-75 to Rochester University Dr. Exit. GRANDE BALLROOM. The Ten Years After …
When someone invites you to vote, JUST SAY NO!
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
They’re hee-ere! Yes, folks, it’s the quadrennial electoral charade where power-seeking charlatans attempt to craft tricky speeches and programs designed to convince people to abandon common sense and reason and elect them to political office.
Statement on GOP and Democratic Conventions
by Anarchists
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
Centerfold insert Special Fifth Estate Convention Edition 2000 “We make war upon the State as the chief invader of person and property, as the cause of substantially all the crime and misery that exist, as itself the most gigantic criminal …
America: Not So Great
by Mike Wold
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder. Norton, 2017
The U.N. & the Debt
by Mitchel Cohen
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
Last December, Lawrence Summers the chief economist for the World Bank issued a surprisingly forthright memorandum to other senior World Bank staff in which he called for the distribution of toxic wastes and pollution away from the big industrialized nations …
LSD…A Capsule Report
by Paul Lowinger, M.D.
Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966
A drug is known by the controversies that it raises as a person is known by the enemies he makes. The first argument around LSD was the kind of mental abnormality that it produced in research subjects. Some scientists contended …
Organization
by Joe Jacobs
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
The author of the following article, Joe Jacobs, was an English comrade and one-time member of London Solidarity (one of the two organizations mentioned in the discussion) who, we learned, died shortly after sending us this manuscript. Though we’ve devoted …
Drawing New Maps to the Future
by Megan Douglass
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
a review of The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition by William C. Anderson, Saidiya Hartman (Foreword), Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin (Afterword). AK Press 2021
Recycling & Reforms?
by D.M. Borts
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
How a radical community confronts a complexity of ecological contradictions Unlike the Green backsliding politicians denounced by Saral Sarkar in the adjoining article, no party in the U.S. has ever taken a principled stand on ecological issues. Even groups willing …
Industrialism & Domestication
by John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the rise of capitalism was met by bitter and intense resistance. Its establishment was only effectuated by the imposition of the factory system as a method of social control. The result was …
Feminist City Club
by C. Corday, Kana Trueblood, Sonny Tufts (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 272, May 1976
In mid-April Detroit women were invited to participate in the opening ceremonies for the new Detroit Feminist Women’s City Club, paid for by the recently-formed Feminist Economic Network (FEN). The City Club, located in downtown Detroit on Park Ave. across …
Prison Attacks Escalate on Remiro and Little
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
The State of California has recently stepped up its attacks on Russell (Little and Joseph Remiro (imprisoned for the 1973 SLA assassination of Oakland, Calif. school official Marcus Foster) who are currently serving life terms.