NEW YORK, NY — August 31 (Dissociated Press) The campaign to re-appoint George Bush President is in full swing as a heat wave continued with Central Park recording its third consecutive 95 degree-plus day.
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Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 308, January 19, 1982
Multi- vs. Universe Dear T. Fulano (and the FE) I read your response to the defenders of technology with great trepidation [“Uncovering a Corpse: A Reply to the Defenders of Technology,” FE #307, November 19, 1981]. At every turn I …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 56, June 19-July 1, 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: …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 301, February 26, 1980
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that you give …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
Funds Cut Staff note: For at least two years this newspaper has received a portion of money raised at dinners (cenas) held regularly in California by a group of Italian anarchists. The purpose of the fund raising was specifically to …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
Welcome to the Winter 1999 issue of the Fifth Estate, #352. This edition follows our Summer issue by about six months. Maybe, like Anarchy has in its recently published issue, we should stop any pretense of quarterly publication, and openly …
Interview with Ed Sanders
by Ed Sanders
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
Editor’s Note: Ed Sanders, founder and lead singer of the fuck-rock group The Fugs, is a legendary figure on the avant-garde poetry-peace-dope-fucking in the streets scene in the Lower East Side of New York City. A native of Kansas, Sanders …
Language
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
When Winston Smith, in Orwell’s 1984, sits down to begin the diary which he has secretly acquired and which in and of itself is a criminal possession, he is mortified to discover that he has nothing—and everything—to say, that to …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Fifth Estate Letters Policy We welcome letters commenting on our articles, ones stating opinions, or reports from your area. We can’t print every letter we receive, but each is read by the collective and considered for publication. Letters via email …
Letter from Chernobyl
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
Since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986, much information has come out about its terrible effects. The irradiation of (particularly European) people, animals and vegetation has been devastating. Dr. John Gofman, a Widely respected expert on radiation effects, estimated …
The FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 308, January 19, 1982
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, both of which are located at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit MI 48201—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours we are open vary considerably, so it’s always best to …
Selecting a Master or Ousting a Tyrant
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
Here in the heart of imperial North America, it’s (s)election year, and whether we like it or not, public discourse over the next several months will be dominated by campaign shenanigans.
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 299, October 22, 1979
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that—you give us …
Emma Goldman and the Russian Revolution
by Alice Wexler, David Porter, Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
Dear Fifth Estate: While I appreciate David Porter’s long and serious review of my book, Emma Goldman in Exile (see FE #333, Winter 1990), I’d like to take issue with some of his points. Porter criticizes my “intrusiveness” for allegedly …
Operation 8: Terror Down Under
by Valerie Morse
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
Ka whawhai tonu matou. Ake! Ake! Ake!–“We will fight forever and ever and ever.” — Rewi Maniapoto, leader of the armed resistance against colonial settlement in New Zealand, at the Battle of Orakau, 1864 It is hard to imagine the …
Everybody but Bush
by Don LaCoss, Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith), Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Don LaCoss The election is already over and we have lost. The name of the president for the next four years won’t be announced until November 3, but I know right now that the guy who won is a white …
The UK Struggle Against Roads
by Pablo Routledge
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
Just to the south of Glasgow, amid the woodlands and park lands of Pollok estate, a site of extraordinary resistance has emerged. From the roadside, a huge red banner with bright yellow letters proclaims “Pollok Free State,” and where the …
Remembering Peter Lamborn Wilson
by David Tighe
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
Peter Lamborn Wilson is best known for the book TAZ.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchism, Poetic Terrorism, and rightfully so. Written as Hakim Bey and first published by Autonomedia in 1991, many of the texts in TAZ had circulated …
Occupying the Citadels of the Mind
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
a review of After the Fall: Communiques from Occupied California by Aragorn! Edited by Little Black Cart Books, Berkeley, 2010. This free newsprint publication is presently out of print, but can be downloaded at afterthefallcommuniques.info.
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999
Fifth Estate Books is located at 4632 Second Avenue, just south of W. Forest, in Detroit, in the same space as the Fifth Estate Newspaper. Hours vary, so please call before coming by.
Biting the Apple (or not)
by J.E. Hamilton
Fifth Estate # 386, Spring, 2012
It seems apt now, a few months after Steve Jobs passed away, to turn a skeptical eye to the energetic display of grief that followed the news of his demise on October 5. For a few weeks thereafter, one could …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
Fifth Estate Books is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit, in the same space as the Fifth Estate Newspaper. Hours vary, so please call before coming by. HOW TO ORDER BY MAIL 1) List …
Book Reviews
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), L.S.D.
Fifth Estate # 311, Winter, 1983
B. Traven, The White Rose, Lawrence Hill & Co., Westport, CT, 1979, 209 pages, ($5.95, available from Fifth Estate Bookstore) reviewed by L.S.D.
The Big Party
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969
I. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish’s original monkey dinner was held at 19 Gramercy Park in New York in 1908, wherein Mrs. Fish invited the “haute monde” of her day, according to writer Tom Wolfe, to a dinner in honor of the …
Underground Incorporated
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 58, July 18-31, 1968
FREE EDITORS WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 20) LNS — Possession charges against LNS editor Ray Mungo and WIN [magazine] editor Marty Jezer were dropped June 20 in Washington. The defendants suspect the police smoked the evidence,
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
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.
Bicentennial Salute
by Mr. Venom, Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976
Bicentennial A Living History 200 Years Ago Today Two hundred years ago today nothing happened. Literally nothing happened. Philadelphia was sweltering: the garbage men were threatening to strike, and had already enforced a slowdown. They knew that a goodly amount …
Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
“Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control” continues John Zerzan’s work demonstrating the massive erosion of traditional American values, in this case centering on popular allegiance to the work ethic. Following it [in this issue, FE #309, June 19, 1982] is …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
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 …
Segregation Rising
by MaxZine Weinstein
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
While attending a meeting in Gainesville, Georgia to learn about the horrific effects of environmental racism, the conversation quickly turned to education. For decades African Americans have been fighting pollution and coping with obscene leukemia rates in their community in …
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
(in cooperation with Detroit Adventure) Thurs. Sept. 4 ON A BUMMER? If your head is really messed up, or you want the army to think so, let Open City help with free psych counselling at their clinic, 4726 Third, corner …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 310, Fall 1982
The FE BOOKSERVICE is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, both of which are located at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit MI 48201—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours we are open vary considerably, so it’s always best to …
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970
(in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure) THURS. DEC. 25 Many places closed, better call ahead. Happy birthday; baby Jesus!! FRI. DEC. 26 FLOCK YOU with Chicago’s Flock & Detroit’s own Stooges and Savage Grace, plus Magic Veil trippy lights at the …
GI Resistance in the 21st Century
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
“Welcome to the Republic of Darkness and Unemployment” — Baghdad graffiti It’s hard to be gleeful about the deteriorating situation in Iraq even when realizing that everything the anti-war movement predicted about Bush’s invasion for oil and empire has come …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
Texas Anarchist Howdy, Fifth Estate! There is some serious stuff happening here in Austin. A liberated Learning Collective has been established. Part of it is a how-to course to teach would-be publishers to use the L LC press to produce …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
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 …
Burning Man Comes to China
by Pierre Garine
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
Burning Man began with a wooden effigy and a single match on a beach in San Francisco in the late 1980s. When the police came and closed down the beach burning of the Man it was John Law and Michael …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
England’s Green Anarchist magazine is now available as single issues or in bulk from Autonome Distribution, PO Box 79119, New Orleans LA 70179. In GA the Earth First! Journal meets Class War and puts forth an anti-civilization perspective as uncompromising …
Joseph Labadie and the Labor Movement
by Julie Herrada
Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999
a review of All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement, Carlotta R. Anderson, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1998, 324 pp., $34.95