Swamp Rats & Urban Rats Unite!

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Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91

a review of Legend of the Great Dismal Maroons, Presented as a public service of the Grand Ludic Lodge, Ancient Scald Miserable Order, Great Dismal Maroons, celebrating 400 years of struggle for universal jubilation, 1589-1989, by James Koehnline. Panic Publishing, …

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War in Iraq

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Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91

The Empire, gorged and sclerotic from its daily gnawing on the marrow of the world, has now called up its armies and declared its “new world order.” Its commander-in-chief, a mediocrity in a civilization of hollow mediocrities, lays aside his …

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An Exemplary Life

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Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990

referred to in this article: Having Little, Being Much: A Chronicle of Fredy Perlman’s Fifty Years, by Lorraine Perlman, Black & Red (Detroit, 1989), 155 pages, $3.50

War without end

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Fifth Estate # 310, Fall 1982

In response to “Readers dispute FE on Nuclear Freeze issue,” FE #310, Fall, 1982 (this issue). On one point we all seem to be in agreement: the campaign for a nuclear freeze is not enough. So, I find it perplexing …

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The Nuclear Freeze

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Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982

The rapidity with which a movement against nuclear weapons and war has blossomed has been as surprising to us as it has been to everyone else. There can be no doubt that the possibility of nuclear holocaust, and the understandable …

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FE & the Anti-nuke War Movement

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Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982

Contrary to the impression the accompanying photo may give, we have not been lying down on the job. Rather, since our last issue we have been quite heavily involved in holding several anti-nuclear war conferences (including the one announced in …

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The Fifth Estate Meets the All People’s Congress

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Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981

A couple of us went downtown to Cobo Hall on a cold Friday night to check out the rally to “overturn the Reagan program” and to pass out a few copies of the last issue to the curious. The rally …

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Blood and Soil Ideologies

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Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018

The following is an excerpt from an article commenting on the 1993 Palestine Liberation Organization/Israel peace agreement, “The PLO/Israeli Treaty: Another Defeat for the Palestinians,” from Fifth Estate #343, Fall/Winter 1993.

The War on the Poor

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Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992

Capitalism is never good to all of its subjects. Regardless of its carefully honed mythology of democratic access to success and class mobility, capitalist society is a system of looting whereby a few at the top and a small substratum …

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How Deep is Deep Ecology?

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Fifth Estate # 327, Fall, 1987

Introduction For a number of years, the Fifth Estate has been writing about the crisis of Western civilization and its industrial/technological plague. At the same time we have been profoundly interested in primitivism and the cultures of earth-based peoples, realizing …

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