a review of Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard by Peter Linebaugh. University of California Press, 2019
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Robert Anton Wilson
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
For all we knew, Robert Anton Wilson and I were related. On an intuitive basis–i.e., after several rounds of Jameson’s and Guinness–we decided we were cousins. Subsequently we came to believe ourselves connected to the Wilsons who play so murky …
The Vietnam Legacy of War Tax Resistance
by Erica Weiland
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
An enduring image of Vietnam War resistance is men burning their draft cards. And, draft resistance played a big role in raising the profile of war tax resistance. Vietnam era draft resisters like Randy Kehler and Ed Hedemann followed up …
Even More Minneapolis Anarchy
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
FE Note: This is a response to “More Minneapolis Anarchy,” the letters beginning on page 15 of this issue.
A history of a little Detroit printing co-op
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
a review of The Politics of the Joy of Printing: The Detroit Printing Co-op by Danielle Aubert. Artbook/D.A.P.
Living Our Lives
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
If anarchist politics, the politics of communal liberation, is to escape from its present historical impasse, it must become, above all, a practice of creating the free community, here and now.
Sam Dolgoff
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
a review of Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff by Anatole Dolgoff; Introduction by Andrew Cornell. AK Press, 2016, 391 pp., $22.
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
The calendar is prepared by Fifth Estate calendar girls Karen Kovac and Naomi Epel with cooperation from Detroit Adventure. Copy deadline is the 6th and 22nd of each month and should be sent to the Fifth Estate Calendar, 1107 W. …
The Coat-Puller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 8, May, 1966
There seem to have been a lot of very hip things going on in Detroit lately, though from my (disad-)vantage point I can only read about them or hear of them on the radio. I heard very beautiful things about …
A Changing Vietnam
by Jonny Ball
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
Having lived and worked in Vietnam for a year now, I have only a slightly better understanding of the country than when I first arrived. This is a country of extremely complex paradoxes and antagonisms. I remain dumbfounded by the …
Sexual Anarchy
by Allan Antliff, Mark Antliff
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
The Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris contains many tombs honoring artists and rebels, but the most striking of them all is the monument to the gay English playwright and anarchist Oscar Wilde. [1]
L’affaire Black Rose Books
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
To the Reader: In the last issue of the Fifth Estate [#283, June 1977], a letter appeared signed by a Joe Doaks criticizing Black Rose Books of Montreal. Doaks charged that a recent BRB publication, Durruti: The People Armed, by …
Dix Brass Plot Vengeance
by Bob Heilbroner
Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969
NEW YORK (LNS)—The Army is planning a heavy vengeance for the June 5 rebellion of over 150 GIs imprisoned in the Ft. Dix stockade. [See “Army Stockades Blow,” FE #84, July 24-August 6, 1969.]
The Mythology of Israel
by ronni kt
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Israel, The U.S. in Miniature Much of the population of Israel, no different from people in the United States, denies its past as an invader/settler nation, is oblivious to the suffering which creates its plentitude, revels in self-generated myths …
Cops, Press, Politicians
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
2000 may be the decisive year in the legal and political battle for the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal. As the campaign to save the falsely imprisoned journalist and ex-Black Panther gathers momentum, the police, politicians and media are stepping up …
Green Anarchism and Oil Depletion
by Richard Heinberg
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
The march of human social organization is essentially the story of how people have found ways of harvesting ever more energy from their environments in order to sustain ever more humans. The story began with the harnessing of fire and …
News and Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
After looking at the latest jam-packed issue of Factsheet 5, PO Box 170099, SF, CA 94117, “the magazine of record” for zines, it doesn’t seem like anyone should worry about the state of autonomous publishing. Still, a number of stalwart …
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Paul Jacob, the libertarian draft resister who went underground to escape prosecution, was convicted at a July 1 trial, sentenced and denied appeal bond. The penalty was six months imprisonment and 4-1/2 years of weekly community service.
Three Books on Israel
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983
a review of Israel’s Global Role: Weapons for Repression. Israel Shakak. Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Inc., Belmont MA, 61 pp., 1982, $2.95.
Portrait of a Snitch
by Margaret Killjoy
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
a review of Informant: A documentary directed and written by Jamie Meltzer. Information at informantdoc.com; also Netflix.