NIGREDO Our darkening world has dressed itself up in vestment of blue Void. Has lain on its self-discrowned head the lazy eyelid corpse. Vacuum abhorrent naturam. That’s what they say. What they say. Forests burn in a world that has …
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Anarchists & Sex Work
by Aaron Lakoff
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
Responses welcome; see Questions & Guidelines in this issue. Which is most consistent with anarchist ideals? Supporting sex workers as an act of solidarity or calls to stop men from consuming women’s bodies?
The Abolition of Work
by Bob Black
Fifth Estate # The South End insert
No one should ever work. Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost all evil you’d care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop …
Body at Work
by Ashlyn Mooney
Fifth Estate # 408, Winter, 2021
A review of Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle: Beyond the Periphery of the Skin by Silvia Federici PM Press 2020 Before history appears on any page, it is written on the bodies of those who live …
Women’s work is never done
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
In this column we’d like to share with you some of the work and ideas of women in Detroit. There are many more things to be done, like starting your own rap group, theater group, women’s newspaper, child care center, …
A revolt isn’t a game unless it is
by Nadia Di Fiore
Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023
a review of Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, The Insurrection Game 3rd edition (Out of Order Games)
Unions & the Nature of Work
by B. Durrutti
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
a review of “But What About the Workers?,” a pamphlet by James Boggs and James Hocker, available from the Advocators, Box 07249, Gratiot Sta., Detroit MI 48207; $0.75, 43 pp.
The Revolt of Women in Horror Flicks
by Jess Flarity
Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023
a review of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror by Johanna Isaacson. Common Notions 2022
The Literature of Revolt
by Anthony Rayson
Fifth Estate # With Conviction: Art and Letters from Behind Prison Walls
A talk by Anthony Rayson January 14, 2014
Animal Revolt
by Aesop
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
In late March, Takoma, a 22 year-old Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphin trained by the US Navy to detect underwater mines for Marine Corps reconnaissance divers, went absent without leave while on patrol in the Persian Gulf outside of Umm Qasr. In …
Clancy’s novel starts with everyday work-consume terror
by David Annarelli
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
a review of We Take Care of Our Own by Christopher Clancy. Montag Press 2021
Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
“Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control” continues John Zerzan’s work demonstrating the massive erosion of traditional American values, in this case centering on popular allegiance to the work ethic. Following it [in this issue, FE #309, June 19, 1982] is …
The work of Glauber Rocha
by Muriel Lucas
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
a review of Glauber Rocha, Ismail Xavier, editor; I.B. Tauris, 2019
Revolt Lives!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
The following article is reprinted from the 7 June 1977 edition of the Mexican newspaper Excelsior and was translated for us by a comrade in Montreal. Although written in a journalistic style (for instance calling people “anarchists” who might have …
Walla Prisoners Revolt
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 298, June 19, 1979
On May 9, 1973, three prisoners of Washington State Penitentiary, Carl Harp, Shane Green and Clyde Washburn seized the Classification and Parole Building with ten hostages, and held it nonviolently for 12 hours. During that time they were in constant …
Fort Hood GIs Revolt
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
KILLEEN, TEXAS—More than 160 black soldiers from Fort Hood refused to take part in riot control operations in Chicago.
German Students Revolt in the Streets
by Hatti Heimann, Irwin Limsky
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
Liberation News Service — The thousands of left-wing German students clashing with police on the streets of Berlin, Frankfort, Hanover, Munich and other German cities rallied for reasons beyond the original motivation of the shooting of Rudi Dutsche.
The Secret of Work Revealed
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
WASHINGTON, DC—A noted New Jersey physician of social malaises, Dr. Maynard G. Krebs, recently told a federal panel investigating the causes behind the current epidemic of job refusals, “The less you have to do, the more you must ask a …
We Have Work to do Before Catastrophe Strikes
by Dave Hanson
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
The most important tasks for those of us who would wear the anarcho-primitivist label, are to wait and watch the acceleration of the collapse of modernity and technology while we learn how to live without them.
“The Folly of Beginning a Work Before We Count the Cost”
by Michael Gurnow
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
“You don’t own property; property owns you.” –B. Traven (Treasure of Sierra Madre)