Who are the long list of names in the oceans Who are the figures standing in the cabin doors as the train highballs North Who are the wailing children, bodies ripped into bits of flesh? I catch aspects of their …
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Change the World
by Norman Nawrocki
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
Imagine if more people believed in the power and the magic of collective creativity, what a crazy wonderful new anarchist world we could build. Under capitalism, any form of creativity is usually seen as an individual pursuit, the domain of …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
Send letters to fe@fifthestate.org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220. All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten; letters may be edited for length.
Critique of FE
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
cited in this article: The Decline of (Anti-)Western Civilization: A Critique of Fifth Estate, by Dan Todd, 27 pages, $1.00 from New Rage, PO Box 11492, Eugene OR 97440
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
Fifth Estate Letters Policy The Fifth Estate always welcomes letters commenting on our articles, stating opinions, or giving reports of events in local areas. We don’t guarantee we will print everything we receive, but all letters are read by our …
News Shorts
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
FUZZY PIG BOSTON—Fuzzy the pig is going to be alright. Fuzzy is, fittingly, the mascot of the National Patrolman’s Association, and underwent a weekend operation for an intestinal disorder at the Angell Memorial Animal Hospital last week. Richard MacEachner, …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 289, January 24, 1978
Lire Needed To The Fifth Estate: The latest issue of Invariance (in French) is at the printers in Milan, but to pay for the printing we need one million Italian lire (FE note: about $1,350). So we’re wondering if among …
Big Mountain
by Richard Grow
Fifth Estate # 317, Summer 1984
In the Southwest, “U.S. Out of North America” is not just another pretty slogan. In 1680, when Spain presided over the Four Corners Area, Indian ‘runners ran from village to village, launching the Pueblo Revolt, in which Pueblo, Navajo and …
Your Money and Your Life, Part II
by Alan Franklin
Fifth Estate # 273, June 1976
Part I of this article appeared in Fifth Estate #272, May, 1976. “Horse sense and humanitarianism dictate that we phase out most and probably all municipal hospitals before the end of the century.” —New York Commissioner of Health Lowell Benin, …
Endgame
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
a review of Endgame, Volume I: The Problem of Civilization, Volume 2: Resistance by Derrick Jensen. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2006
Anarchism & Science Fiction
by Ben Beck
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
Most anarchists are familiar with Ursula K. Le Guin’s utopian science fiction novel, The Dispossessed. But its fame has somewhat served to overshadow other works of science fiction that are also of great interest. Here are a few of those.
Writing an Anarchist Novel
by J.G. Eccarius
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
FE Note: The anarchist novel that J.G. Eccarius wrote is The Last Days of Christ the Vampire, excerpts from which appear in the box below. It was first published in 1988 with a second edition featuring a new front and …
More Minneapolis Anarchy
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
Our coverage of the 1987 Anarchist Gathering held in Minneapolis, June 18-22 [FE #326, Summer, 1987] engendered rather scant response given its criticism of “dyed-in-the-wool” anarchism, paganism as a “problematic current,” and the low level of “education(al) and historical discussion” …
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
Kent State Murders Memorialized Kent State University (KSU) announced that on May 4, 1999, the Ohio college parking lot where Sandra Scheuer, Jeffrey Miller, Allison Krause, and Bill Schroeder were shot to death by the Ohio National Guard on …
The Practical Marx
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
Karl Marx is always approached as so many thoughts, so many words. What connection is there between lived choices–one’s willful lifetime–and the presentation of one’s ideas? By 1846 Marx and Engels had written The German Ideology, which contains the full …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
The space which the Fifth Estate shares with three other groups has been the scene of a number of events recently, mostly rock performances, but also a smattering of theatre and comedy. They have been generally well-received with an exceptionally …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 305, March 18, 1981
A shortage of staff, and not money problems, kept us from putting out this issue sooner. For the first time in a long time we are in good financial shape, thanks to your numerous and extremely generous contributions. The contributions …
Anarchy in the Age of Reagan
by Fifth Estate Collective, John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986
Renew the Earthly Paradise Present Day Banalities The two essays printed here were written in response to a questionnaire sent out by the Italian anarchist magazine, Rivista anarchica, investigating the present situation for North American anarchist and libertarian groups and …
PCAUR Drives it Home
by J.R. Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 98, February 4-18, 1970
The cement never sets on the WSU empire. A sign is attached to the cement wall of the new Foreign Language Building at Wayne State University. It faces the John C. Lodge Freeway and the Matthaei Physical Education Complex beyond …