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Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
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Still Wobbly After All These Years
by Sid Brown
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
I was a Wobbly in the late 1950’s, through a portion of the tumultuous ’60s and into the always seeking-sometimes finding, ‘Seventies. Learning and honoring the historic traditions of the IWW and sharing tasks and decision-making with “fellow workers” changed …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
Send letters to fe – at – fifthestate – dot – org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220 All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten; letters may be edited for length Want to write a letter about our …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
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Mars First!
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
“The tighter that our humanity closes ranks to conquer nature on Mars, the tighter the elements close theirs to avenge the victory.” —from Aleksandr Malinovskii Bogdanov’s Red Star (1908)
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
Prison Food Greetings! Me, and some good comrades are being held prisoner in this pigsty called prison, and we came upon a copy of the April Fifth Estate. Needless to say, we are always trying to Fuck Authority, but there …
I.W.W. Resource Page
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
I.W.W. Resource Page Home > Archive > Learn more about the Industrial Workers of the World Articles published in Fifth Estate related to the I.W.W. (in date order) Bombing won’t stop Redwood Summer by Luba Fifth Estate #334, Summer, 1990 …
Letters to the FE
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
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 …
Uncovering a Corpse
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
The letters which appear in this issue of the Fifth Estate do not represent the entire correspondence which has grown out of the discussion on technology. Some of our exchanges with readers of the paper became too broad, too lengthy, …
Green Anarchism and Oil Depletion
by Richard Heinberg
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
The march of human social organization is essentially the story of how people have found ways of harvesting ever more energy from their environments in order to sustain ever more humans. The story began with the harnessing of fire and …
Will Success Spoil Chumbawamba?
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
I arrived early at Clutch Cargo’s, once an imposing church, but now a trendy rock joint in yuppified downtown Pontiac, a gritty, predominantly black, industrial Detroit suburb. The occasion was a concert by Chumbawamba, the anarchist pop group from Leeds, …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
Obscene Competition To the FE: Let me make some observations regarding the recent debates in the FE on organization, worker’s councils, and so on. I hope you take what I say as friendly criticism rather than as the beginning of …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
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Stumbling Upon Public School Utopias
by William Boyer (Bill Boyer)
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Part One: Utopia Outlined February 1999: I’m pivoting on my desk, basking in a student-led discussion, momentarily featuring a couple of black-clad teenagers contrasting the ideological differences between Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid with Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment.
The Collapse of the Armed Forces
by Robert D. Heinl Jr.
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
FE Note: The article reprinted here first appeared in the Armed Forces Journal, June 7, 1971, and is excerpted here from The Movement Against the War, Ramparts Press, 1972. Col. Heinl’s hawkish military columns were a regular feature in the …
Camatte, Collu & On Organization
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
To the Fifth Estate: Realizing that he who jumps into the middle of a fight gets shot at from both sides, I must say that both sides in the debate over “On Organization” are wrong: Ed Clark with his impersonal …
Comments on Central America
by Blueberry, Fifth Estate Collective, George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Fifth Estate: I want to offer some criticisms of the latest issue. The Vietnam article [Web archive note: This article first appeared in FE #320, Spring 1985. With an added Introduction by Richard Drinnon it was reprinted in FE #346, …
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 …
The End of Money
by Daniel Pinchbeck
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
The crisis of the financial markets has taken on gargantuan proportions.