Talk to almost any parent with “teen aged” children and you can hear the same litany endlessly chanted: rock is tasteless (American society being so notable for its good taste!), rock is loud, the only thing that counts is the …
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Anarchists gather everywhere
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
This Spring saw many anarchist gatherings and book fairs. For the second consecutive year, Fifth Estate had a table at the mother of all anarchist book fairs organized by the Bound Together collective in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. In …
San Francisco GIs March
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
from LNS and the Guardian SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12 — Over 10,000 marchers turned out on a drizzly, overcast morning to show their solidarity with the largest anti-war march ever organized by active-duty GIs and veterans.
Campaign ’66
by Frank Joyce
Fifth Estate # 12, August 15, 1966
The August second primary was almost enough to send one to the political physicists with their slide rules and computers to find out what happened. Why was it such a disaster?
Death & the Zeitgeist
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
We are in mass society’s Age of Pandemics. At this stage of civilization nothing is stable or secure. The Age of Pandemics is also the Age of Extinction, as in no longer existing. Death as an existential, ontological matter. Nursing …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Forget those L.L. Bean and Harry & David catalogs! When you’re picking out presents for the holidays, send revolutionary literature as gifts and help support independent publishers and booksellers. If you want a wider selection of anti-authoritarian titles, contact Left …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
Things You Like Dear Dr. Schoenfeld, Here’s a reply to the reader of your column in OZ (the English underground monthly) who wanted information about circumcision. I was circumcised as an adult, at the age of 24, some 14 …
Is Destruction of Private Property Violence?
by Acme Collective
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
On November 30, several groups of individuals in black bloc attacked various corporate targets in downtown Seattle. Among them were (to name just a few):
Anti-Authoritarian Personalities & Standard Schools
by Bruce E. Levine
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
Mark Twain, one of America’s most beloved anti-authoritarians, gave young people sound advice: “Never let your schooling get in the way of your education.”
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
Welcome to our Spring 2000 issue. The last one we published was dated Summer 1999, so subscribers and libraries, please take note; you haven’t missed any intervening papers. This edition is numbered 354, the previous one, 353, so we are …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
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 visiting.
Financial Advice for the Working Class: Unemployment
by John Hardin
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
You can’t turn on the news these days without hearing about unemployment. The national unemployment rate hovers at about 8.3 percent, although experts agree that the number of people outof-work far exceeds that figure.
They once were rebels
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
a review of Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century by Raoul Vaneigem, translation by Bill Brown. ERIS, 2023 While evangelical Protestantism has for generations overwhelmingly been a force of deep reaction …
Giving up the gun fetish
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
When small political groupings of people raise the possession of weapons to the level of military strategies and tactics, rather than the need for protecting their personal security, it usually guarantees the reverse.
Bach on Rock
by Franklin Bach
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
In 1964, when almost everyone in Greenwich Village was playing an acoustic guitar and singing “folk, there was a red-haired ex-Marine named Tim Hardin who was using an electric guitar and sang a sort of jazz flavored blues. Before Hardin …
Larry Miller
by Larry Miller
Fifth Estate # 14, September 15, 1966
There are some records around that are worth taking a look at…The Sunshine Superman album by Donovan is one of the best records of its kind ever done. On this record, we hear great writing, good tunes, excellent musicianship, and …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987
The FE Bookservice may be reached at the same address as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, P.O. Box 02548, Detroit MI 48202 USA, telephone (313) 831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our hours vary so please call before dropping in.
News & Reviews
by Allan Antliff, David Watson, Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
In his foreword to Clifford Harper’s Designs for Anarchist Postage Stamps: Postage Stamps for After the Revolution, Colin Ward reminds us that some public institutions are worth saving. No radical activist could deny the immense importance of sending and receiving …
Books from the Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
NEW Gothick Institutions by Peter Lamborn Wilson (Xexoxial 2005) $10 (see the review on page 38) Garden Planet by William Kotke (AuthorHouse 2005) $11 (see the reprint on page 33)
If a Cluster Bomb could Talk
by Norman Solomon
Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999
< Kosovo: The Empire at War Hi! My name is CBU-871B, but let’s not be formal. A lot of my friends call me Cluster Bomb. I’ve been busy lately, doing what I’m supposed to. And, I sure appreciate the careful …