Since the anti-wizard who disenchanted the world was Capitalism, we must assume that Capitalism will have to vanish by evolutionary necessity in order for re-enchantment to triumph.
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Open City Keeps Serving Community
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
A gala fund raising party for Open City’s summer campaign will be held on Friday, July 11 at Alvin’s Finer Deli on Cass at Palmer.
Dietrich Wins in Plymouth
by Victor Mansfield
Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970
Plymouth pigs went down in defeat in a frontal legal attack by Rolf Dietrich on December 18th.
People’s Tribunal Condemns Cops
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
The worst thing one could say about the Algiers Motel Tribunal is that it was Recorder’s Court upside down. If the tribunal was biased and weighted against the four white defendants, Detroit Patrolman Robert Paille and Ronald August, National Guardsman …
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.
The Way of the Passenger Pigeon
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
a review of A People’s History of Civilization by John Zerzan. Feral House, 2018 feralhouse.com
When the War Comes Home
by Marieke Bivar
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
a review of Be Safe I Love You by Cara Hoffman. Simon & Schuster, paper edition 2015, 289 pp. $26
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
Editors: In regard to the events of Chicago during the convention week, I would like to submit the following information: On August 26, 10:30pm, a friend and I went to Lincoln Park. At this time a large group of people, …
Toward A Surrealist Re-Enchantment of the World
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
Anarchy and surrealism have had many enchanting encounters over the years, and the convivial nature of their ongoing interplay is easy to understand. Much like anarchists, surrealists are dissatisfied with the impoverished version of reality that governs our relationship to …
The Syrian Quagmire
by Leila Al Shami
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
If 2011 looked like the moment when people could unite, both within and across countries, to topple decades-old dictatorships with the demand for freedom and social justice, today looks like the moment of counter-revolutionary success. After eight years of increasingly …
How White Supremacy Progresses
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
Frank Joyce, was the Fifth Estate News Editor 50 years ago, and rejoins us with reflections on the 1967 events. “I calmed the tremor in my gut. I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous …
Anarchy and the Left
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987
In recent months, we have been critical of a number of anarchists, through correspondence and in person, on the question of working politically with marxist-leninists on specific projects of joint interest. Those we have been in contact with on these …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
Dear E.B. Maple: As a writer who is often criticized for being too difficult, academic or stylistic, I was immensely heartened by your response to London Greenpeace’s letter (see FE #326, Summer 1987) taking you all to task for those …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
Language I Dear FE, Neither the simple abuse by Ratticus nor the extended commentary by George Bradford seemed to me to engage the two most basic points or arguments of “Language: Origin and Meaning” (FE #315, Winter 1984), namely that …
Revolution Against the Megamachine
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Staff note: George Bradford was a pseudonym used by David Watson in these pages. 1. Autopsy of a Petrochemical Disaster Remember the Exxon Valdez? The ship was the source of the worst oil spill to date in U.S. history, spilling …