During the last five months, the ongoing battle between prisoners and prison administrators over the inhuman conditions at the Washington State Prison at Walla Walla, Wash., has escalated to the savage beatings of hundreds of people by guards after an …
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Symbolic Protest and the Nuclear State
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Where, then, are the roots of revolt, how can the machine be halted?
With Conviction: Art and Letters from Behind Prison Walls
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
“With Conviction: Art and Letters from Behind Prison Walls,” was displayed in January at Sacramento’s Exhibit S Gallery featuring prisoner art, letters, and zines. Chicago-based Anthony Rayson and Michael Ploski, amassed hundreds of pieces of original artwork rarely before exhibited …
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Renew the Earthly Paradise
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
The evolution of the FE has been characterized by a willingness to reexamine all the assumptions of radical criticism, which has led it away from its earlier libertarian communist perspective toward a more critical analysis of the technological structure of …
Obedience to the law is freedom
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
Graphic: photo of US Army installation with overhead sign reading Obedience to the law is freedom. Text superimposed on photo reads: Rather than inanely repeating the old formula ‘Respect the law’ we say, ‘Despise law and all its attributes!’ In …
Where Anarchism Meets Surrealism
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
Birds of a Feather: Flights of the Anarcho-Surrealist Imagination by Ron Sakolsky. Eberhardt Press, 2017 eberhardtpress.org
May Day
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
Beltane is the high festival of Spring. Its origins are ancient Celt. In the old times, people celebrated the end of Winter and the turning of the Wheel to the greening of the land with dancing, feasting and lovemaking. They …
Fashionable Feminism
by Lynne Clive (Marilynn Rashid)
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
How quickly and easily feminism, like all ideology, is used to affirm the language of power and powerlessness. The superficiality and marketability of its demands have been evident since its inception; but now feminism is being used to openly celebrate …
Issue Intro
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
At a time when everyone is declaring the death of print media, our magazine, now in its 47th year, is not only alive, but prospering. We have many new subscribers, new staff, more renewals, increased newsstand sales, and an exciting …
The Absurdity of Politics (cover text)
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 271, April, 1976
The voter is a man who comes where he is summoned one day like a flunkey, to one who whistles for him as for a dog trained to obey, who comes on the said day only and not on any …
Millennials
by Josefine W.W. Parker (Voyager)
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
a review of Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials. Little, Brown and Company 2017
Workers of the world…Relax!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
This was the centerfold of the May 1-7, 1975 (we were a weekly then!) Fifth Estate, as part of a special Mayday supplement. The drawing is by Gilbert Shelton, of “Fabulous, Furry, Freak Brothers” fame.
Becoming Masterless
by Quincy B. Thorn
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
a review of In Search of the Masterless Men of Newfoundland by Seaweed & Ron Sakolsky. Ardent Press, 2017 ardentpress.com
Introduction to Fifth Estate Issue 374
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
Welcome to the New York City issue of Fifth Estate. The editorship of the magazine now rotates, and two of us in NYC have stepped in to give the peops in Detroit and Tennessee a rest (making this the first …
In Havana?
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
It seems improbable that a conference was held in Havana last May to examine the life and ideas of the Russian Bolshevik, Leon Trotsky. One would think the Cuban Stalinist bureaucracy would be averse to allowing a gathering sympathetic to …
Public Notice
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
The Artists’ Workshop was formed over two years ago by a group of WORKING artists—mainly poets & musicians—who found that by banding together they could accomplish a great deal in terms of getting themselves together and getting their work to …
Left Rites
by The Last International
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
In astronomy, “revolution” refers to a return to the same place. For the left it seems to mean about the same. Leftism is literally reactionary. Just as generals prepare to fight the last war, leftists incite the last revolution. They …
Underground Paper in Ann Arbor
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
The latest newspaper to make the UPS scene is Ann Arbor’s LOOKING GLASS. Editor and publisher Jeffrey Hoff, hoping to stress the political more than the psychedelic in his paper, predicts that “the white hippy scene, the black revolt, everyone …
Stop Assimilating; Start Revolting
by MaxZine Weinstein
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
a review of That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, Edited by Mattilda, (AKA Matt Bernstein Sycamore), Soft Skull Press, Brooklyn, 2004, 318 pages, $16.95.
Stop the War but don’t stop there
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
Editors’ Note: The following excerpts come from subversive anti-war flyers distributed at mass demonstrations; the first comes from an FE collective member in Tennessee, the second from the Chicago Surrealists, and the third from comrades in the San Francisco Bay …