The Evergreen Alliance, a Detroit-based federation of individuals devoted to stopping the Detroit trash incinerator, has put out a call for a Regional and International Mobilization to Save the Great Lakes, May 13-May 16. [See schedule in this issue.] This …
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Vagaries of the Left
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
On February 6, progressive columnist Chris Hedges wrote a fairly predictable attack on Black Bloc militancy, “The Cancer in Occupy,” in Truthdig, the on-line news site.
Execution Date Set for Mumia Abu-Jamal
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
On June 12, Pennsylvania Gov. Thomas Ridge signed a death warrant for Mumia Abu-Jamal—meaning that unless a judicial stay is granted, he’ll be executed in the state’s electric chair at 10 p.m. on Aug. 17.
Remembering Jim Campbell
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
Our longtime friend and comrade Jim Campbell died suddenly last September 17 of heart failure. He was 57 years old. Jim was a mainstay of the Toronto (and larger Canadian and international) anarchist community. Though we had not been in …
FE Live
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
Fifth Estate Live Tuesdays, 1 p.m. EDT, 10 a.m. PDT [ WATCH LIVE STREAM ] or [ WATCH LATER ] or [ LISTEN ] Fifth Estate Live is a weekly hour-long livestreamed broadcast each Tuesday at 1 p.m. Eastern, 10 …
Stashing the Tacky Little Pamphlets
by Jason Rodgers
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
You might assume that a Tacky Little Pamphlet (TLP) is just another name for a mini-zine. In a way, you are correct. It usually refers to a format of a single sheet folded into eight sections, cut up the middle, …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
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 …
Support Those Who Rattle Cages
by Marius Mason
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
a review of Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners, Editors: Eric King and Josh Davidson; forward by Angela Davis. AK Press, 2023
Bookchin Agonistes
by Max Cafard
Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997
a review of Murray Bookchin, Re-enchanting Humanity: A defense of the human spirit against anti-humanism, misanthropy, mysticism and Primitivism (London: Cassell, 1995) 284 pp
Miscellaneous news items
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 281, March, 1977
POLICE HALT ATOM DEMO On February 19, thousands of heavily armed riot police were massed on the Elbe River just outside of Brokdorf, W. Germany to prevent 10,000 demonstrators from occupying the site of a new nuclear power station as …
No Anarchy? No Money!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Endless philosophical or ideological battles have been fought for years attempting to define political identity. In the case of this publication, we have self-identified during the last 40 years as, progressive, socialist, ultra-left, council communist, nothing, anarchist, and anti-authoritarian. To …
Beyond Backward and Forward
by Derrick Jensen
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Introduction by Sunfrog When I first connected with the radical milieu in the mid-1980s, certain books and writers changed me. Activists passed around dog-eared, marked-up volumes that would transform people forever. A certain work would be read by everyone in …
On Gogol Boulevard
by Neither East Nor West/NYC
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Where’s OGB been? For several issues of the Fifth Estate, On Gogol Boulevard (OGB) produced a two-page spread on former Eastern Bloc and Third World anti-authoritarian struggles. However, due to numerous glitches, we’re missing from the FE again except for …
Fighting Racism & the Bosses
by Robert Ovetz
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly by Peter Cole. PM Press, 2021
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201 Telephone No. (313) 831-8600 Bookstore hours vary, but we are generally open on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and at scattered other times. Please call before coming down to be sure we are here.
The Medium is the Medium
by Labor of Ludd
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
aborigines anticipate apocalypse…agriculture aggrandizes arable areas and allots acreage, assuming acquisition and alienation…arithmetic adds another abstract axis…authority appreciates art—already accepting abstractions’ ascendancy—as authenticating appearances…by banishing bounty, bureaucracy’s blackmail breeds bitterness between brothers behind benign banality; business believes boundless buying brings …
Comments on John Zerzan’s Critique of Agriculture
by Bob Brubaker
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
John Zerzan’s essay, “Agriculture: Essence of Civilization,” appeared in FE #329, Summer 1988 and is available for one dollar from 4632 Second Ave., Detroit, MI 48201. It is also part of a collection of John’s essays entitled Elements of Refusal …
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“I am the Viet Cong”
by Raymond Mungo
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
Editor’s note: Dave Dellinger, editor of Liberation magazine, arranged in Hanoi last spring for a group of Americans to meet with the North Vietnamese and members of the NLF in a midway meeting point—which developed to be Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. The …
The Path to Change: Community
by Steve Welzer
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
The movement for social change must be comprehensive and multi-dimensional. There is no simple Solution and no single Best Way to get from here to there.
Books from The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
New Bush League Spectacles: Empire, Politics, and Culture in Bushwhacked America by Fran Shor (Factory School 2005) $13 “In the aftermath of 9/11, many of us looked to the Internet for the desperately needed analysis that was pushed out of …