Last summer, I was talking to a carnival-ride operator at one of those small, itinerant outfits that was crisscrossing its way across the Midwest. The carny looked to be in his mid-50s and said that he had worked all sorts …
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Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
FE Note: The letters which appear on these two pages are mostly responses to our July 1981 edition which was devoted mainly to a discussion and critique of technology and the modern world it has spawned. Single copies of that …
Change the World
by Norman Nawrocki
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
Imagine if more people believed in the power and the magic of collective creativity, what a crazy wonderful new anarchist world we could build. Under capitalism, any form of creativity is usually seen as an individual pursuit, the domain of …
Tales From The Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
Silvia Baraldini, an Italian national, imprisoned in the U.S. for nearly 17 years for a series of armored car holdups in support of the Black Liberation Army (BLA), an urban guerrilla group, was released in August 1999.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991
Critique of Totality Dear FE folks, Congratulations on the 25th anniversary.
Positively Quilca Street
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
When Lutxo Rodríguez recalls the local punks and social outcasts of the downtown Lima, Peru district he habituates “dressing in black in the ’80s,” I smile wryly, remembering the Lower East Side of my own youth. But the urban decay …
News Shorts
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
FUZZY PIG BOSTON—Fuzzy the pig is going to be alright. Fuzzy is, fittingly, the mascot of the National Patrolman’s Association, and underwent a weekend operation for an intestinal disorder at the Angell Memorial Animal Hospital last week. Richard MacEachner, …
Crunch at the I-Hotel
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
Staff Note: For nine years, the tenants of San Francisco’s International Hotel have been battling to save their residence from the attempts by the Four Seas Investment Corporation, a Hong Kong based firm, to turn the area into a multi-story …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969
To the Editor: The strike of the Third World peoples and white supporters at San Francisco State College was a part of expanding the movement in this country toward liberation. It was a strike, an action with a direction toward …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
Dear Comrades, Just a short note of congratulations on your editors’ notes column in the last (Jan. 23) issue of the Fifth Estate. It is not often that a good cultural newspaper is willing to admit that the working class …
John Brown’s Raid & Space Ships Dot an Alternative History
by RB
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
a review of Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson. PM Press, 2009
Cul de Sac
by Le Garcon Dupont
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
FE Note: Usually, Fifth Estate essays are filled with the vision that alternatives exist to our current predicament. This article explores the possibility that humanity has already been extinguished and that there may be no hope of fashioning a different …
Your Money and Your Life, Part II
by Alan Franklin
Fifth Estate # 273, June 1976
Part I of this article appeared in Fifth Estate #272, May, 1976. “Horse sense and humanitarianism dictate that we phase out most and probably all municipal hospitals before the end of the century.” —New York Commissioner of Health Lowell Benin, …
Anarchy & the Sacred
by Dogbane Campion (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
FE Note: This is a response to “More Minneapolis Anarchy,” the letters beginning on the previous page. To Joe Wojack, first of all, let me emphasize that I was in no way discouraging people from reading the anarchist classics; on …
Anarchism & Science Fiction
by Ben Beck
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
Most anarchists are familiar with Ursula K. Le Guin’s utopian science fiction novel, The Dispossessed. But its fame has somewhat served to overshadow other works of science fiction that are also of great interest. Here are a few of those.
Resistance is possible
by Alexander Trocchi
Fifth Estate # 367, Winter 2004-2005
The Republican National Convention (RNC) was the ultimate slight to New York: those who made careers and a quick buck off the September 11th events returned to feast like vultures on the corpses of the dead, attempting to rally support …
Logistical Anarchism
by Jeff Shantz
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
Social resistance has reached a certain impasse, a conundrum as nation states impose austerity as an extended regime of governance throughout social life.
On Terrorism and Authoritarianism
by Muswell Hillbillie
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
“He who humbles himself wills to be exalted.” —Nietzsche I would like to present some thoughts and comments on terrorist organizations and activities in general and on the SLA and “The Last SLA Statement” in this context. My main intention …
China: The Mysterious Journey of the Democracy Movement
by Gabriel Dumont
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
“Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.” — Michael Bakunin
Just Motor City News
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
VOTE DRUM The League of Revolutionary Black Workers has been participating in elections of UAW locals and found itself confronted with vote fraud when it was clear the union bureaucrats could win in no other way. At the Chrysler …
How Slick-City-Boy-Karly Got the Country-Folk Killed
by Joseph Winogrond
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
Nature played a big part in the 1960s Revolution, more than just flower-power and communes. Many of us left the city for natural living, for our physical and mental well-being. We sought freedom from a mercantile world of wage-slavery. We …
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Detroit trash incinerator closing
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
The news in March 2019 that, due to “financial and community concerns,” the Detroit trash incinerator was to be closed was weirdly reminiscent of news back in the spring of 1986 that it was going to be built: It came …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968
This letter was sent to the Editor of the Detroit Free Press. To the Editor: About the arrogant note on page 7-C of the Free Press of Nov. 8 that “writer Richie Yorke of Toronto has supplied the Detroit Free …
History of the Black Flag
by Jason Wehling
Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997
The black flag is a symbol of anarchism. Unfortunately, the exact origin of this association is very elusive. This may be frustrating to those fascinated by historical trivia but it is by no means surprising. Anarchism has always deliberately stood …
Fixing Elections
by Jeri Mandering
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.” —Tom Stoppard Electoral fraud is as old as elections. Societies that brag about traditions of electoral democracy can also claim a continuous history of electoral crime and chicanery. It’s a safe …
Fredy Perlman: An appreciation
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our friend and comrade, Fredy Perlman, who died while undergoing heart surgery in Detroit on July 26, 1985.
Cuba through the eyes of Che’s grandson
by Sylvie Kashdan
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of 33 Revolutions by Canek Sánchez Guevara, Translated by Howard Curtis. Europa Editions 2015 Les Héritiers du Che (The Heirs Of Che) by Canek Sánchez Guevara and Jorge Masetti. Presses de la Cite 2007
Patriarchy and Progress
by Ariel Salleh, Maria Mies
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
The eco-feminism of Maria Mies stands at the crossroads of feminist, ecological and colonial liberation movements. Mies attempts to bring Marxian theory face to face with the newly emerging political crises of the late 20th century. This has involved further …
Peering into the Abyss
by Primitivo Solis (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991
discussed in this article: Encyclopaedia of Nuisances: Dictionary of the irrational in the sciences, trades and industrial arts, April 1989, “Abyss.” Author anonymous, no price listed. Available from Boite postale 188, 75665 Paris Cedex 14 France
An Anarchist is Shot in Seattle
by CP, SM
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
An unarmed protester is shot by a right-winger and the wounded anarchist does not want to rely on the punitive power of the state. What are the alternatives?
Walls have never worked
by MaxZine Weinstein, Rafael Mutis
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
Rafael Mutis was part of the Brooklyn 7 arrested at an APOC (Anarchist People of Color) party raided by the police in 2003. They won and exposed the arrogant racist NYPD detectives. He currently works as an organizer against the …
Industrialism and its discontents
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
Download PDF [174 KB] fe-389-19-industrialism-and-its-discontents Nearly two hundred years ago, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley gave us a classic warning about the hubris of technology’s combat against nature. Her late Gothic novel, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818), depicts the revenge nature …
Green Scare Continues
by H. Read
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
Developments in what is being called the “Green Scare” continue at a fast pace as the government increases its attack on forest, animal, and earth defenders.
Creating CHAOS
by Abbie Hoffman
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
Editors’ Note: The following is from Abbie’s book Revolution For the Hell of It, to be published by Dial Press later this month, by the author “Free.”
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
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 hours …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 319, Winter, 1985
The FE Bookservice may be reached at the same address as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, P.O. Box 02548, Detroit MI 48202 USA; telephone (313) 831-6800.
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
Wowie zowie!—this issue marks the beginning of the 12th year of continuous publication for the Fifth Estate. In 1965, 17-year-old Harvey Ovshinsky came back from the West Coast after a summer of working on the Los Angeles Free Press with …
Bad Trip
by David Jacobs
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
After the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the new governor of California, most people could be forgiven for thinking that something much less than a political cataclysm has occurred in this state. The inhabitants go about their routines of work …
Other remembrances
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # Remembering Federico Arcos
< Back to Remembering Federico Arcos by David Watson Robby Barnes & Sylvie Kashdan Séamas Cain Frank & Marilyn Crosswell Anatole Dolgoff Federico’s nephew Juan Manuel David Furer Manuel (Manolo) Carlos García Dieter Gebauer Manel Aisa Pàmpols David Porter Paco …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
The Poet’s Coven is a relatively new photocopied publication distributed free in the Vancouver, B.C. area. It consciously defies categorization and is open to a wide variety of expression—poetry, collage, fiction, articles. The Coven describes its vision as coming from …