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Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
On Gogol Boulevard In Exile “On Gogol Boulevard” is the bulletin of the New York City Neither East Nor West Group which gives support and aids in communication between Eastern European anarchists and dissidents and similar movements in the West. …
On Mutiny Considered as One of the Fine Arts
by Cap'n John Yossarian
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
Mutiny is such a potent threat to military organizations—and the States who use them avoid even mentioning the word. Instead, military commanders and civil authorities fall back on euphemism in order to avoid announcing the news that they most fear—during …
Freejazz & Other Insurrections
by Richard Gilman-Opalsky
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
“Freejazz reaches back to what jazz was originally, rebelling against the ultra-sophisticated art form it has become.” –Archie Shepp
Pastoral Letter
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 367, Winter 2004-2005
Imagine an alternate dimension where dervishes are roaming around America sects of Swedenborgian hobos, etc. You’re there camping in the cemetery long black hair in tangles ghostwhite face
History of the Fifth Estate: The Early Years
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
This article was originally written for our 30th anniversary edition which appeared in 1996. It has been updated and expanded for this issue.
All Gods, All Masters
by Will Weikart
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
Almost all contemporary radical thought is marked by dialectics.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
Unclassifieds cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
Anti-Nuke Demo Planned Against Edison
by H. Genghis Kahn
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
Eleven years ago an accident at Detroit Edison’s Fermi 1 nuclear power plant in Monroe, Michigan, almost destroyed Detroit. If you accept the utility’s own commissioned study, the death rate could have been as high as 133,000 dead in the …
Art & Anarchy
by Michael Scrivener
Fifth Estate # Daily Barbarian Number 3
Fifth Estate Home > Issue 319, Winter, 1985 > Note: The following article originally appeared in the journal Black Rose (Boston, Mass.), with the title “An Introduction to An Anarchist Aesthetic.” The title “Art & Anarchy” is our doing….Unfortunately, we …
Alien(h)ated
by Sheila Nopper
Fifth Estate # 357, Summer 2002
In this country, I am called a “permanent resident alien” or, more to the point, a “non-citizen.” What that means in the patriotic war frenzy that has taken hold of the minds of the American populace following the tragedy of …
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.
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
Bound Together Books, 1369 Haight Street, San Francisco CA 94117, a bookstore specializing in anti-authoritarian titles, has copies available of Paul Goodman’s The Black Flag of Anarchism and Other Essays, a 46-page pamphlet from the long dormant Employee’s Theft Press. …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
Unclassifieds cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
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.”
Clinton Bombs Iraq
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
Why isn’t anyone doing anything to protest Clinton’s bombing of Iraq? There seems to be a growing resignation about the U.S. bashing Saddam Hussein to boost the approval ratings of American politicians.
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
Compiled by Barbara Wellner and Ivana Gottfried. Those events marked with an asterisk (*) need Fifth Estate salesmen. If you want to earn some extra money, come down to our office and pick up some papers. FRI. APRIL 4 * …
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.” …
Playing in the Key of Clown
by L.M. Bogad
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
Related: Clown Army Recruiting Poster At the July 2005 Carnival for Full Enjoyment in Edinburgh, Scotland, riot police mass on the streets with shields and truncheons, fireproof armor; all very imposing. They use their shields to shove protesters, who are …
Federico Comes Home to Barcelona
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
In June and July, during a visit to Spain, my partner Marilynn Rashid and I spread some of the ashes of Federico Arcos, a companero, friend, and mentor to many of us in Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, including those on …