Sticks & Stones Dear Fifth Estate, In response to E.B. Maple (“On Organization: Two Reviews of The Camatte/Collu Pamphlet,” FE #279, December 1976), I can only say that calling me a “Leninist” does not make it so.
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Lost Anarchism & Surrealism of the 1960s
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
The next project of Abigail Susik, author of Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work, investigates the radical connections between anarchism and surrealism through the little-known figure of Jonathan Leake and his work in the 1960s with the magazine, Resurgence. …
Revolution from below
by Martin Comack
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of El Socialism Salvaje: Autoorganizacion y democracia directa desde 1789 hasta nuestros dias (Wild Socialism: Self-organization and direct democracy from 1789 to the Present) Charles Reeve. Virus Editorial, 2020
The Return of the irrepressible
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
“The question is always how to move from a social insurgency to an anarchistic society?” —Voline, The Unknown Revolution
The Rojava Revolution is a Women’s Story
by Paul Buhle
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS by Janet Biehl, PM Press, 2021
Countering the Mystique of the Proletariat
by Gerard
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in 1848, asserts that “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles,” that social transformations grow out of the contradiction between productive forces and the …
Anti-Electoralism and William Morris
by Wayne Price
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
It is generally a waste of time to argue with individuals about their voting or not voting. Among tens of thousands, one vote either way makes no difference (even when it gets counted).
Readers respond (II)
by Naomi Klein
Fifth Estate # 357, Summer 2002
“We do not want others, more or less of the right, center or left, to decide for us. We want to participate directly in the decisions which concern us, to control those who govern us, without regard to their political …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
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 …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
The Daily Barbarian is loose again after almost a year’s absence. The large, 8-page broadsheet filled with libertarian news, poetry, an essay on S & M, a great back-page Reagan poster, irreverent humor and imaginative layout makes one wish for …