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News & Reviews
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
Reviewed by Allan Antliff unless otherwise noted The Uncontrollables vs the Grotesque Frame-Up Against Anarchists in Italy: Dossier, 1997 documents the Italian government’s efforts to target Italy’s anarchist movement using the confession of an activist’s former lover. The government is …
Anarchist Poetics
by Roger Farr
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
“[The poet never] voices received opinions, or gives clear expression to the confused feelings of ‘the masses’: that is the function of the politician, the journalist, the demagogue.” — Herbert Read, “Art and Alienation” “Poetry is the end(s) of politics.” …
FE Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991
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 …
Everyday Violence: Wife Beating
by Amelia Jones
Fifth Estate # 289, January 24, 1978
I read the news today, oh boy. A million holes in American Apple Pie. Thirty-eight million to be exact; thirty-eight million battered wives in the good ole U.S.A! Thirty-eight million wife-beaters! That means that 26% of the population of the …
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Instead of a Primer
by Pono Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
What is anarchism? This question continues to crop up as anarchists debate amongst themselves as how to accurately express their perspectives to non-anarchist activists in the antiwar and global justice movements. Subsequently, a new wave of anarchist primers has appeared …
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FE Readers Debate Technology
by Fifth Estate Collective, Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
The letters on this page are responses to John Zerzan’s “The Refusal of Technology” which appeared in the October 20, 1980 edition [#303] of the Fifth Estate; below are our comments on the question. In the article, Zerzan accuses those …
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Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
What About Gangs? To the Fifth Estate: The FE is usually a delight to read. Only a couple of small things have detracted from that: Using “man” to mean “people”(in the article on a Michigan landfill) is sexist and a …
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Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
Anarchism Flops To the Fifth Estate: If it is wrong for a woman to be put on trial when she is raped, isn’t it equally wrong for a society to be put on trial when it is raped? Prejudice predates …
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Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
Fifth Estate letters policy We welcome letters commenting on our articles, ones stating opinions, or reports from your area. We can’t print every letter we receive, but each is read by the collective and considered for publication. Letters via email …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that you give …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 327, Fall, 1987
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 …
1918: Russian Artists of the Anarchist Revolution
by Allan Antliff
Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997
Three artists spent the night in the mansion, since outside the museum a studio was set aside for making art. As the artists told it, that memorial morning We were awakened by shouts of “We’ll shoot! Hands up!” Armed soldiers …
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Beginning of Time, End of Time
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983
Just as today’s most obsessive notion is that of the material reality of time, self-existent time was the first lie of social life. As with nature, time did not exist before the individual became separate from it. Reification of this …
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Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
ANARCHY OR CHAOS by George Woodcock Written as World War II raged around him, Woodcock’s brief history of anarchism is filled with youthful enthusiasm. Lysander Spooner, 124 pp. $9.50 THE REVOLUTION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, by Raoul Vaneigem First published in …
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Anarchy in San Francisco
by Bob Brubaker, Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith), Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Introduction “Without Borders,” this year’s Anarchist Conference and Festival was held in San Francisco from July 20th to 25th. Taking place at the Horace Mann Middle School in the city’s Mission District, the gathering drew somewhere between 1,000 and 3,000 …
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A Revolution without Enemies
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
An experimental rant titled “Radical Poetry, Heretical Religion, and the Psychedelic Revolution” provided the germ and genesis for this rambling, review-essay. I delivered that sermon in my over-the-top Reverend Bonobo mode for a gathering in western North Carolina called “Croatan.” …
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FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 331, Spring 1989
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 …
Against Leviathan
by Fredy Perlman
Fifth Estate # 311, Winter, 1983
This article, which began as a review of Frederick Turner’s inspiring work of intuitive history, Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness, is now the introductory section of a book in progress treating similar and related questions—the origins of …