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It Will be Like This
by Phillip Norbury
Fifth Estate # 385, Fall, 2011
My father had strong ideas about heaven. He would share them with his congregation like sweets for good behaviour. ‘There will be no gravity,’ he would say with irresistible certainty. ‘And no sun or moon. God’s love is all the …
Z – An Interview with Costa-Gavras
by Dan Georgakas
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
NOTE: Costa-Gavras, the director of “Z,” was born in Athens, Greece in 1933. In 1964 he made his first film, “The Sleeping Car Murders” and since has completed “One Man Too Many” and “The Avowal.” While in New York for …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
Funds Cut Staff note: For at least two years this newspaper has received a portion of money raised at dinners (cenas) held regularly in California by a group of Italian anarchists. The purpose of the fund raising was specifically to …
Ritalin Turns Fifty
by Benjamin Shepard
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
If there is one enduring memory from my childhood, it is a small porcelain bowl containing three little white pills. The pills were as ubiquitous as morning orange juice and cereal, “Ben, don’t forget your Ritalin,” my mother would remind …
Warfare 1970
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
“a very great revolutionary force latent in the American people” —Peking Radio, May 9 President Nixon’s announcement of the invasion of Cambodia effectively implemented the old SDS slogan “Bring the War Home!” Millions of people joined the revolutionary struggle, striking …
Second-Wave Situationism
by Gavin Grindon
Fifth Estate # 380, Spring 2009
Last year saw, at least here in London, a plethora of commemorative events to mark the 40-year anniversary of the events of 1968, with pundits and talking heads emerging from everywhere to offer their accounts and experiences of that year, …
FE Criticized & Our Response
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 291, April 30, 1978
To the Fifth Estate: The letter from “Kirk Johnson” (FE #290, March 2, 1978), which equated Fifth Estate’s practice of running a profit-making book service (to support itself) with Search & Destroy’s record company ads (for the same end), makes …
Letter from Chernobyl
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
Since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986, much information has come out about its terrible effects. The irradiation of (particularly European) people, animals and vegetation has been devastating. Dr. John Gofman, a Widely respected expert on radiation effects, estimated …
Franklin Rosemont, 1944-2009
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
Writer, painter, and publisher Franklin Rosemont died on April 12 in Chicago. He was buried in a private ceremony some forty feet from the Haymarket Monument in Waldheim Cemetery amid the graves and scattered ashes of Fred W. Thompson, Emma …
The FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 308, January 19, 1982
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, both of which are located at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit MI 48201—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours we are open vary considerably, so it’s always best to …
Cambodia
by George Cavalletto, Sheila Ryan
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
LIBERATION NEWS SERVICE—As the unexpectedly early monsoon rains fell on War Zone “C” by the Cambodian-South Vietnamese border, a U.S. divisional planning officer said, “The people who advised President Nixon to start something like this at this time of year …
Strip Mining Big Rock Candy Mountain
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
“The Big Rock Candy Mountain” has to be one of the greatest anti-work anthems in American popular music. One-time Wobbly busker and radio-show hillbilly Harry McClintock of Knoxville, Tennessee connived to claim authorship of the song in the mid-1920s (as …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 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. Visitots are welcome, but our hours vary so please call before dropping in.
What do we learn in school that couldn’t be learned elsewhere?
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
Why do we send our kids to school? We’ve been told that it is in elementary school that the bases of learning to read, write, and do math are acquired, although anyone who spends any time with children can clearly …
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The Israeli Massacre
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 310, Fall 1982
Introduction Various technical and resource problems delayed publication of this issue of the FE (see article elsewhere). Hence, the sweep of events in the Middle East has already rendered some of the focus and information in this article a bit …
Education as the Domestication of Inner Space
by Layla AbdelRahim
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
Note: A shorter version of this article appears in the print edition. We are taught since early childhood that everything in the world exists in a food chain as a “resource” to be consumed by those higher up the chain …
Education
by A. F.
Fifth Estate # 269, February, 1976
Today’s Lesson Schools are the training ground which provides compliant, disciplined, work-orientated, patriotic model citizens who are necessary to staff the compulsive relationships of everyday life.
Execution and Riot
by Red Wood
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
Within the space of two weeks in April and May of this year, California was rocked by two events that shook its image as the locus and realization of the American dream. Coming on the heels of the damage caused …
The UK Struggle Against Roads
by Pablo Routledge
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
Just to the south of Glasgow, amid the woodlands and park lands of Pollok estate, a site of extraordinary resistance has emerged. From the roadside, a huge red banner with bright yellow letters proclaims “Pollok Free State,” and where the …
Letters to the Editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
Send letters to fe – AT – fifthestate – DOT – org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 327, Fall, 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 …
It Used to be the Red Scare…
by Molly Maguires
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
“We should war with relentless efficiency not only against anarchists, but against all active and passive sympathizers with anarchists.” —President Theodore Roosevelt, annual address to Congress, December 3, 1901
Great Dismal Mercenaries
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 376, Halloween, 2007
Three years ago, Fifth Estate ran an article on the activities of the two dozen or so privatized armies in Occupied Iraq. The essay claimed that the name of one rent-a-gun company–Blackwater USA–was derived from the term used by the …
On The Future of the Earth
by Russell Means
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
Related: see FE Staff introduction, “Against Civilization,” in this issue. The only possible opening for a statement of this kind is that I detest writing. The process itself epitomizes the European concept of “legitimate” thinking; what is written has an …
Archive
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Fifth Estate Archive Back issues Resource pages Fifth Estate Live interview archive (May 2020 – May 2021) Fifth Estate Live, a weekly hour-long livestreamed broadcast hosted by singer/songwriter and Fifth Estate contributor David Rovics and produced by Fifth Estate editorial …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 305, March 18, 1981
Notice: Books reviewed in the “News & Reviews” section are not available through the FE Bookstore unless specifically stated otherwise.
Free Women of Spain
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
a review of Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women, by Martha A. Ackelsberg (Indiana University Press, 1991)
Biting the Apple (or not)
by J.E. Hamilton
Fifth Estate # 386, Spring, 2012
It seems apt now, a few months after Steve Jobs passed away, to turn a skeptical eye to the energetic display of grief that followed the news of his demise on October 5. For a few weeks thereafter, one could …
Chattanooga: Lynch Town Revisited
by Bob McGlynn
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
Ninety anarchists from a dozen cities attended a successful march and rally in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Sept. 11.
Rebel Violence
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
a review of Rebel Violence v. Hierarchical Violence: A Chronology of Anti-State Violence on the U.K. Mainland, July 1985-May 1986, B. M. Combustion, London WC1N 3XX
Recycling & Liberal Reform
by Bert Wirkes-Butuar (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
Earth Day supplement page 3 It was perhaps an inappropriate time to ask a question since at that very moment two climbers from Greenpeace were struggling to unfurl a banner describing the pollution which would be emitted from Detroit’s giant …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
Fifth Estate Books is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit, in the same space as the Fifth Estate Newspaper. Hours vary, so please call before coming by. HOW TO ORDER BY MAIL 1) List …
Book Reviews
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), L.S.D.
Fifth Estate # 311, Winter, 1983
B. Traven, The White Rose, Lawrence Hill & Co., Westport, CT, 1979, 209 pages, ($5.95, available from Fifth Estate Bookstore) reviewed by L.S.D.
Who will tell the people?
by Witch Hazel
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
In mid October, I met up with radical songwriter David Rovics on the US Out of Colombia roadshow. He and his singing partner Allie Rosenblatt provided a musical backdrop to this powerful traveling presentation, which featured a descriptive slideshow and …
The Promise of the ’80s
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 302, June 1, 1980
Related: see Intro to Zerzan in this issue. For many, the 1970s were—and the 1980s bid fair to continue—a kind of “midnight of the century,” an arrival at the point of complete demoralization and unrelieved sadness. What follows is one …
The FE at 50
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
This edition of the Fifth Estate marks the 50th anniversary of its publishing, with much of the celebrations occurring in a manner we never anticipated. There are exhibitions at two prestigious Detroit museums, a jammed packed dance/ concert with hundreds …
FE Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 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 …
Seeing is Obeying
by Clayton J. Pyke
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
Faces covered with white masks, carrying a banner reading “Reclaim America,” chanting re-worked Nazi slogans, and waving stylized U.S. flags, 150 members of the white nationalist Patriot Front marched through Washington D.C. in early February.
Christopher Lasch’s “War of All Against All”
by Primitivo Solis (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 299, October 22, 1979
a review of Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (New York: Norton, 1979)