Thirty years ago, the most powerful military colossus ever assembled, its triumphant legions spread throughout the world, committed an expeditionary force of its best troops to the Asian mainland. “The American Army of 1965,” wrote an admiring historian, “was headstrong …
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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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On The Future of the Earth
by Russell Means
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
Related: see FE Staff introduction, “Against Civilization,” in this issue. The only possible opening for a statement of this kind is that I detest writing. The process itself epitomizes the European concept of “legitimate” thinking; what is written has an …
The My Lai Massacre
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976
This article is the second in a series of counter-Bicentennial pieces dealing with the more sordid and less-acknowledged incidents in America’s 200-year-old history.
Cuba: From State to Private Capitalism
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
HAVANA — We entered the elevator on the ground floor of Havana’s renowned FOCSA building in the city’s Vedado district and were quickly whisked, non-stop, to the 33rd floor. When the doors opened, tuxedoed waiters welcomed us to La Torre, …
Turn on the Light and Say Goodnight
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
“A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food each year.” — Dixy Lee Ray, former head of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), now governor of Washington “You can’t have a riskless …
Turn on the Light and Say Goodnight
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
Reprinted from FE #283, June 1977.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997
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 …
On the Machine in the Garden
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. Your comments as well as the urgings of other friends stimulated me to read Leo Marx’s book The Machine in the Garden. I …
Poetry
by Guerrilla
Fifth Estate # 69, December 26, 1968-January 8, 1969
[Web Archive note: This centerfold insert is a two-sided 15 x 22 inch poster, of which this page can be considered the back side. The other side of the poster is rendered at https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/69-december-26-1968-january-8-1969/poetry-2/ .] The Consumer Society Must Die …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
Our Firm Convictions Dear Fifth Estate: I enjoy your publication and find it very thought provoking. As far as criticism of the existing social order is concerned, it is perhaps the most consistently inclusive I have run across. It is …
On the road to nowhere
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Looking to change my life, at the age of nineteen I decided to pack my belongings into a knapsack and hitch-hike to California. Two miraculous rides carried me through prairies, deserts and mountains into Los Angeles to a friend’s place …
The End of Communication?
by Jesse Cohn
Fifth Estate # 376, Halloween, 2007
As long as we’re on the subject of endings–or rather, the rhetoric of “the end”–I’d like to intervene in the ongoing conversation about what Roger Farr recently referred to in these pages as “the end of an era,” i.e., the …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
FE Letters Policy The Fifth Estate always welcomes letters commenting on our articles, giving reports of events in your area, or stating your opinion. We don’t guarantee we will print everything we receive, but all letters are read by our …
Beyond Bookchin (excerpts)
by David Watson, Steve Welzer
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
Introduction by Steve Welzer The text which begins on the following page is excerpted from Beyond Bookchin: Preface for a Future Social Ecology, a new title co-published in fall 1996 by Black & Red, Detroit, and Autonomedia, Brooklyn. Its author …
The Promise of the ’80s
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 302, June 1, 1980
Related: see Intro to Zerzan in this issue. For many, the 1970s were—and the 1980s bid fair to continue—a kind of “midnight of the century,” an arrival at the point of complete demoralization and unrelieved sadness. What follows is one …
Becoming Seattle
by Jack Bratich
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
One characteristic that seems pervasive recently among many political actors (including anarchists) is a fixation with the State’s incessant “failures.” From the vulnerability that the State experienced on 9/11/01 to the breakdown of the State during Hurricane Katrina, there is …
Carter’s Phony War Crisis
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 301, February 26, 1980
“I don’t want to startle you, but they mean to kill us all.” —e.e. cummings War—the word on everyone’s lips—the deadly end of the capitalist cycle of prosperity and economic collapse, appears close at hand as the major world empires …
The Original Affluent Society
by Marshall Sahlins
Fifth Estate # 298, June 19, 1979
adapted from Marshall Sahlins, Stone Age Economics
Indigenism & its Enemies
by Primitivo Solis (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 306, July, 1981
indigenous, adj. 1. Occurring or living naturally in an area; not introduced; native. 2. Intrinsic; innate. [From Latin indigena, native. See indigene.