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“State-Fetishism”
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
Over the past year, there has been a discussion within the pages of the Fifth Estate as to what constitutes revolutionary violence, and what the uses and relevance of such violence might be.
Thoughts on the Disappearance of History
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # Daily Barbarian Number 8
Thoughts on the Disappearance of History by David Watson Daily Barbarian > Thoughts on the Disappearance of History “so that when there is no more story that will be our story when there is no forest that will be our …
Why Zines Refuse to Die
by Jason Rodgers
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
Why would someone continue to read and publish xeroxed zines two decades into the 21st century? Didn’t the technocracy announce that this variety of underground publishing was superseded by the hyper-mediated cybernetic dream web?
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by Fredy Perlman
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
See also: “The Machine against the Garden” (author’s introduction) in this issue, FE #321, Indian Summer, 1985. Web archive note: Numbers in the text are related to references at the end. They are not errors in numbering endnotes. While skimming …
The Rosenberg Case
by K. Horak
Fifth Estate # 273, June 1976
This article is the fifth in a series of counter-Bicentennial pieces dealing with the more sordid and often less-acknowledged incidents in America’s 200-year-old history.
Post-war Postmortem
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
Although death and environmental destruction are continuing in Iraq and Kuwait, the Persian Gulf war is over in America. The remains can be seen in the dirt-streaked, plastic yellow ribbons sagging from trees and lampposts and at half-off sales for …
The Unabomber and the Future of Industrial Society
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
“…If one has courage and daring without benevolence, one is like a madman wielding a sharp sword; if one is smart and swift without wisdom, one is as though riding on a fast mount but not knowing which way to …
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Pencils Like Daggers
by tomás
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
It starts with a story: My grandma, worried that her 3-year-old son had not spoken a word yet, had him chase down a grasshopper. Diligently, without complaint, the boy did and returned with a smile. Open she said; confused and …
Alexander Berkman: Life of an Anarchist
by Gary L. Doebler
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
a review of Life of an Anarchist: The Alexander Berkman Reader, by Gene Fellner, Four Walls Eight Windows, P.O. Box 548, Village Station, New York, NY 10014, 354 pp.
Indian Summer
by Jim Campbell
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
On September 26; 1990 a 78-day siege of two Mohawk territories near Montreal, Quebec, ended when the last group of holdouts walked out of a rehabilitation centre where they had been surrounded by Canadian army troops since September 1st. Rather …
On Having Nothing to Say
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
The long delay between this issue and the last one published at the end of January resulted from our being confronted by a bout of cerebral paralysis which left us feeling empty of words and ideas. We mostly articulated this …
Civilization in Bulk
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991
Having had the privilege of living for a time among stone age peoples of Brazil, a very civilized European of considerable erudition wrote afterwards, “Civilization is no longer a fragile flower, to be carefully preserved and reared with great difficulty …
Earth Day?
by Lewis Cannon
Fifth Estate # 333-A, Earth Day Special, 1990
1. Earth’s Day or Capital’s Spectacle? If there was ever a need for an “Earth Day,” “Earth Week,” or “Earth Year” “to get people thinking creatively about the problems we now confront, and looking for new ways to tackle them,” …
Zerowork
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
Zerowork No. 1; Available from P.O. Box 515, Station C, Toronto, Ontario, Canada or through Ammunition Books (see further in this issue). The last few years have seen the appearance of few new journals, even fewer of which are worth …
Earth Day?
by Lewis Cannon
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
Earth Day supplement page 1 1. Earth’s Day or Capital’s Spectacle? If there was ever a need for an “Earth Day,” “Earth Week,” or “Earth Year” “to get people thinking creatively about the problems we now confront, and looking for …
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
Planning for Anarchist Gathering / 88 A meeting to plan the 1988 Anarchist Gathering was held Sept. 12 in Toronto which will be the host city. About sixty people from all over North America attended, indicating to the local planning …
Against agriculture
by Witch Hazel
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
Related: see “Anarchy, food and sustainability” (theme intro) in this issue. It doesn’t take a health food nut to see that modern society has a dysfunctional relationship with food. As in almost every other arena of life, our priorities …
Fifth Estate/Earth First!
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), George Bradford (David Watson), Lynne Clive (Marilynn Rashid)
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
It already seems like a long time ago, but this past June three of us from the Fifth Estate staff headed out by train to New Mexico for our first Earth First! (EF!) Round River Rendezvous (RRR). This was the …
Who Can Stop the Apocalypse?
by Rudolf Bahro
Fifth Estate # 333-A, Earth Day Special, 1990
A Note on Rudolf Bahro In 1977, East German dissident Rudolph Bahro was arrested and accused of publishing “state secrets” in a book entitled The Alternative in Eastern Europe in which he used a Marxist critique buoyed by the principles …