Bound Together Books, 1369 Haight Street, San Francisco CA 94117, a bookstore specializing in anti-authoritarian titles, has copies available of Paul Goodman’s The Black Flag of Anarchism and Other Essays, a 46-page pamphlet from the long dormant Employee’s Theft Press. …
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Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
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: …
The Original Affluent Society
by Marshall Sahlins
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
FE Note: The following is an edited version of the first chapter of Marshall Sahlins classic and groundbreaking work, Stone Age Economics (Aldine, 1972), entitled “The Original Affluent Society.”
Clinton Bombs Iraq
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
Why isn’t anyone doing anything to protest Clinton’s bombing of Iraq? There seems to be a growing resignation about the U.S. bashing Saddam Hussein to boost the approval ratings of American politicians.
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
Compiled by Barbara Wellner and Ivana Gottfried. Those events marked with an asterisk (*) need Fifth Estate salesmen. If you want to earn some extra money, come down to our office and pick up some papers. FRI. APRIL 4 * …
Anarchist Poetics
by Roger Farr
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
“[The poet never] voices received opinions, or gives clear expression to the confused feelings of ‘the masses’: that is the function of the politician, the journalist, the demagogue.” — Herbert Read, “Art and Alienation” “Poetry is the end(s) of politics.” …
Playing in the Key of Clown
by L.M. Bogad
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
Related: Clown Army Recruiting Poster At the July 2005 Carnival for Full Enjoyment in Edinburgh, Scotland, riot police mass on the streets with shields and truncheons, fireproof armor; all very imposing. They use their shields to shove protesters, who are …
Federico Comes Home to Barcelona
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
In June and July, during a visit to Spain, my partner Marilynn Rashid and I spread some of the ashes of Federico Arcos, a companero, friend, and mentor to many of us in Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, including those on …
Black Day in July—one Year later
by Chris Singer
Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968
Who are the long list of names in the oceans Who are the figures standing in the cabin doors as the train highballs North Who are the wailing children, bodies ripped into bits of flesh? I catch aspects of their …
Change the World
by Norman Nawrocki
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
Imagine if more people believed in the power and the magic of collective creativity, what a crazy wonderful new anarchist world we could build. Under capitalism, any form of creativity is usually seen as an individual pursuit, the domain of …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
Send letters to fe@fifthestate.org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220. All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten; letters may be edited for length.
Critique of FE
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
cited in this article: The Decline of (Anti-)Western Civilization: A Critique of Fifth Estate, by Dan Todd, 27 pages, $1.00 from New Rage, PO Box 11492, Eugene OR 97440
News Shorts
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
FUZZY PIG BOSTON—Fuzzy the pig is going to be alright. Fuzzy is, fittingly, the mascot of the National Patrolman’s Association, and underwent a weekend operation for an intestinal disorder at the Angell Memorial Animal Hospital last week. Richard MacEachner, …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 289, January 24, 1978
Lire Needed To The Fifth Estate: The latest issue of Invariance (in French) is at the printers in Milan, but to pay for the printing we need one million Italian lire (FE note: about $1,350). So we’re wondering if among …
Big Mountain
by Richard Grow
Fifth Estate # 317, Summer 1984
In the Southwest, “U.S. Out of North America” is not just another pretty slogan. In 1680, when Spain presided over the Four Corners Area, Indian ‘runners ran from village to village, launching the Pueblo Revolt, in which Pueblo, Navajo and …
History of the Fifth Estate: The Early Years
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
This article was originally written for our 30th anniversary edition which appeared in 1996. It has been updated and expanded for this issue.
Your Money and Your Life, Part II
by Alan Franklin
Fifth Estate # 273, June 1976
Part I of this article appeared in Fifth Estate #272, May, 1976. “Horse sense and humanitarianism dictate that we phase out most and probably all municipal hospitals before the end of the century.” —New York Commissioner of Health Lowell Benin, …
Endgame
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
a review of Endgame, Volume I: The Problem of Civilization, Volume 2: Resistance by Derrick Jensen. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2006
Anarchism & Science Fiction
by Ben Beck
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
Most anarchists are familiar with Ursula K. Le Guin’s utopian science fiction novel, The Dispossessed. But its fame has somewhat served to overshadow other works of science fiction that are also of great interest. Here are a few of those.