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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 …

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For an Ecology of the Marvelous

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Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019

“Every time I think about us women, I think about the trees, the subversive trees laden in blood but not bleeding the rebellious trees encrusted but not cracking.” —Jayne Cortez “Unless rooted in poetry the experience of ‘outside’ from within—even …

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Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019

Send letters to fe AT fifthestate DOT org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220. All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten. Letters may be edited for length.

Technology Debate Continues

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Fifth Estate # 305, March 18, 1981

FE—A Safe Niche? To the Fifth Estate: Over the past couple of years that I have been reading your paper, I have been alternately intrigued, provoked, or irritated by some of the things you folks have written. And that’s as …

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Fifth Estate # 305, March 18, 1981

Entropy Revulsion Dear FE, I have absolute revulsion for the “Friends of Entropy,” Animals Liberation Front and others of that ilk. While they will take the most violent and desperate measures to “rescue” a dog, guinea pig, and white mice …

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FE Readers Debate Technology

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Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980

The letters on this page are responses to John Zerzan’s “The Refusal of Technology” which appeared in the October 20, 1980 edition [#303] of the Fifth Estate; below are our comments on the question. In the article, Zerzan accuses those …

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Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980

Mutual Aid Comrades: At the recent cena (dinner) held by the Italian comrades $1,061 was raised. It was decided to divide it among the following publications: Black Flag, Fifth Estate, Freedom, Internationale, Open Road, Revista A, SRAF, North American Anarchist, …

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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 …

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Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980

Pessimism Optimistic Dear FE: “Carter’s Phony War Crisis” (FE #301, Feb. 26, 1980) was excellent. I’d only fault it in one respect—I feel that ‘you’re unduly optimistic in stating that, “Third World countries such as Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia…(will become) …

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Fifth Estate # 302, June 1, 1980

A Pre-Frontal Dear Fifth Estate, I believe Harvey Ovshinsky (talkshow host of WRIF) is doing the FE a lot of harm by claiming he has “founded that paper.” If indeed he did, someone must have done a frontal lobotomy on …

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