To the Reader: In the last issue of the Fifth Estate [#283, June 1977], a letter appeared signed by a Joe Doaks criticizing Black Rose Books of Montreal. Doaks charged that a recent BRB publication, Durruti: The People Armed, by …
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Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
Due to space considerations, some of the letters on these pages may have been excerpted. We ask that letter writers make their remarks as concise as possible. Pretty Bad Taste Dear FE, The Christians to the lions stuff in the …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
IDEAS AS SERIOUS Over five different decades, though dogmas inside my head and your pages have come and gone, something seems to have largely been constant: the Fifth Estate treats ideas as serious things even worth pissing-off friends for (now …
Insurgent Mexico!
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
“The political status quo in Mexico died on January 1. Every Mexican institution is now in a state of crisis.” —El Financiero (Mexican business newspaper)
Journal Notes on Art
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987
FE note: This is one of three responses to John Zerzan’s “The Case Against Art,” in FE #324, Fall 1986. The other two articles are: “A ‘Culture-in-Action’” by George Bradford and “Art, Life & Death” by Ratticus. 20 May: Art …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983
Expanded Sexuality Fifth Estate: The debate on sex; the burning of Porno Palaces, etc. was quite amusing. Last issue’s letter writer fumed over the actions of the Wimmin’s Fire Brigade who stated with alarming urgency—”the struggle for universal sexual freedom …
Detroit trash incinerator closing
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
The news in March 2019 that, due to “financial and community concerns,” the Detroit trash incinerator was to be closed was weirdly reminiscent of news back in the spring of 1986 that it was going to be built: It came …
The U.S. War against the Iraqi People
by Ali Moossavi
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
If you were to ask most people in this country to define the Persian Gulf War, they probably would describe it as a victorious, six-week long military conflict, in which the U.S. repelled Iraq, a hostile invader, and restored the …
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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Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
White Rule Dear Fifth Estate, Without wanting to get involved in your mag too much, there is one criticism that I feel more important than whatever else I might want to say about it. It’s where you say “South Africa …
The Israeli Massacre
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 310, Fall 1982
Introduction Various technical and resource problems delayed publication of this issue of the FE (see article elsewhere). Hence, the sweep of events in the Middle East has already rendered some of the focus and information in this article a bit …
Revolution Against the Megamachine
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Staff note: George Bradford was a pseudonym used by David Watson in these pages. 1. Autopsy of a Petrochemical Disaster Remember the Exxon Valdez? The ship was the source of the worst oil spill to date in U.S. history, spilling …
Comments on Revolutionary Violence
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
1. Responses to “New York, New York” Dear F.E.: It would be very interesting to know more about the character of the N.Y. looting but it is not clear to me that we can tell anything from the figures which …
Looking Back on the Vietnam War
by David Watson, Richard Drinnon
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
This article first appeared in FE #320, Spring 1985 under the pen-name George Bradford. It is reprinted on the 20th anniversary of the defeat of the U.S. empire in Vietnam.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
Tornado Warning Dear Fifth Estate: We appreciate your kind mention of our group in your last issue (see “300,000 at Pro-Choice Demo—Plus Us,” FE #333, Winter, 1990), but we are not “Storm Warning” as the article identified us.
“Life-style” vs. “Social” Anarchism
by Peter Sabatini
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
Murray Bookchin must be getting cranky in his old age. Upon reading his latest broadside, Social Anarchism Or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm, I was rudely smacked in the face by déja vu. Evidently Bookchin is beating a dead horse, …
Not our Troops
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 361, Summer 2003
They Create a Desert & Call it Peace: Welcome to the Occupation With the horrible invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq threatening to expand to one or more of the other fifty-nine countries on the White House hit list, it’s …
A Treatise on Electronic Anarchy & the Net
by Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
“Every year of her life…the Net had been growing more expansive and seamless. Computers did it. Computers melted other machines, fusing them together. Television-telephone-telex. Tape recorder-VCR-laser disk. Broadcast tower linked to microwave dish linked to satellite. Phone line, cable TV, …
Freedom, Individualism, Revolution
by Allan Antliff
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Artistic anarchism has a long and complex history. Certainly one of its most interesting chapters in France is the development of two competing anarchist discourses about art’s libertarian possibilities during the years leading up to the ill-fated Paris Commune of …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
Joy To Read The following writer is one of the Vancouver Five. See our coverage of the start of their trials elsewhere in this issue.