The north Syrian town of Kobani has been under siege since mid-September by forces of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, popularly known as ISIS. Early in the siege, world leaders spoke as if they expected it to fall.
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Voltairine de Cleyre
by Robert Helms, Voltairine De Cleyre
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
Introduction by Robert Helms As interest in the history of anarchism increases with each passing year, we stumble across more lost gold mines of sources. I recently discovered one in Philadelphia which connects Voltairine de Cleyre, the celebrated anarchist speaker, …
Discordia Americana
by Jack Bratich
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
Daily life has a new rhythm: routine disruptions. DPacing an accelerated news cycle and affective bursts from smart phone notifications, our subjective autonomous systems are increasingly synced up with crisis-state and techno security tempos.
News and Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 310, Fall 1982
North American anarchist/libertarian news and publications Issue No. 14 of Open Road is now out. This issue was made possible thanks to the generous response to the OR’s financial appeal. They welcome additional support, of course. The OR now costs …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
The FE Bookservice may be reached at the same address as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, P.O. Box 02548, Detroit MI 48202 USA, telephone (313) 831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our hours vary so please call before dropping in. HOW TO …
DVD review: The Net
by John Brinker
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
reviewed in this article The Net: The Unabomber, LSD, and the Internet by Lutz Dammbeck Other Cinema, San Francisco, 2003 www.othercinemadvd.com/net.html
Anything Can Happen—Or Not
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
“Sous les paves, la plage!” [Under the paving stones, the beach!] —Revolutionary slogan; Paris 1968 1968 was an “Anything Can Happen” kind of year.
Pro-War Group Tries to Smear Lafferty, Fifth Estate in 17th District
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
James Lafferty’s campaign for the Congress from the 17th District on Detroit’s far West side took on a new dimension with the appearance in the district of a leaflet branding Lafferty a “traitor” and calling the FIFTH ESTATE an “anti-Christian, …
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Huey Convicted in Oakland
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
The Black Panthers have begun a campaign for the immediate admission to bail of their Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton, who was convicted Sept. 8th of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death, Oct. 28th of last year, of an …
All Gods, All Masters
by Will Weikart
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
Almost all contemporary radical thought is marked by dialectics.
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
Thanks to those of you who so promptly answered your subscription renewal letters we sent out after the last issue. Thanks, also, for sending along your comments on the paper; it’s always good to get your feelings about our effort, …
An Anti-statist Outlook
by Unruhlee
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 …
Post-Revolution Technology
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
All “modern” technology on the planet today is massive and centralized and demands, by its very nature, centralized political control—authoritarianism is built into those very instruments supposedly designed to free us from the drudgeries of life.
300,000 at Pro-choice Demo—Plus Us
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
On Sunday, November 12, approximately 300,000 pro-choice demonstrators, participating in a “Mobilization for Women’s Lives,” filled the lawn beside the reflecting pool facing the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.
The Further Adventures of Tom Sincavitch
by Marc Kadish
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
Editors’ Note: Marc Kadish is Mid-West organizer for the National Lawyer’s Guild and is active in Detroit with the National Organizing Committee (NOC).
The Original Affluent Society
by Marshall Sahlins
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
FE Note: The following is an edited version of the first chapter of Marshall Sahlins classic and groundbreaking work, Stone Age Economics (Aldine, 1972), entitled “The Original Affluent Society.”
No Borders
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
“In any form of duality, the one we have judged as inferior is the one that rules us.” –Rodolfo Scarfalloto Of all the intoxicating notions of insurrection, “without borders” is one of the most enduring. The toppling of walls, the …
The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919
by Eric Thomas Chester
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
On May Day 1919, in the immediate aftermath of World War I, a general strike began that shut down all economic activity in Winnipeg, Canada. The general strikes that took place in Glasgow, Scotland in January 1919, in Seattle in …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and can be found at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 48201 (telephone-313-831-6800). Our hours vary, but we are generally open on Monday and Thursday afternoons (from 1pm to 5pm) and at …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
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 …