It is hard to reach you guys. Once you go through the doors of that induction center it is almost impossible to get to you. Well, you are inside now. Maybe you are at some base in the U.S. getting …
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Yes, We Have no Mañanas
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
The message relayed by the U.S. Strategic Air Command headquarters’ computer was unmistakable—Soviet missile attack! SAC B-52 bomber engines roared to life, their bomb bays laden with 20-megaton thermonuclear weapons; intercontinental ballistic systems were switched to command function—all that was …
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 94, December 11-24, 1969
(in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure) THURS. DEC. 11 HEAR COME THE REVOLUTION (too bad its about the American one) a gallery talk with Glenn Still, Curator of Fort Wayne Military Museum. At the Det. Hist. Museum. 3:30 p.m. Free. DETROIT …
Why Zines Refuse to Die
by Jason Rodgers
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
Why would someone continue to read and publish xeroxed zines two decades into the 21st century? Didn’t the technocracy announce that this variety of underground publishing was superseded by the hyper-mediated cybernetic dream web?
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
Fifth Estate Letters Policy We welcome letters commenting on our articles, stating opinions, or giving reports of events in your area. We don’t guarantee to print everything received, but all letters are read by our staff and considered for publication. …
Industrial Domestication
by Leopold Roc
Fifth Estate # 329, Summer, 1988
“If science was put to the service of capital, the recalcitrant worker’s docility would be assured.” —Andrew Ure, Philosophie des manufactures, 1835 “In the past, if anyone called a tradesman a worker, he risked a brawl. Today, when they are …
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Book distribution has been a mainstay of our collective for many years. We believe that reading can be a revolutionary activity, and in that spirit, we continue this service.
Post-war Postmortem
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
Although death and environmental destruction are continuing in Iraq and Kuwait, the Persian Gulf war is over in America. The remains can be seen in the dirt-streaked, plastic yellow ribbons sagging from trees and lampposts and at half-off sales for …
Make LBJ the Issue
by Dave McReynolds
Fifth Estate # 15, October 1-15, 1966
An open letter can be read by anyone. You are welcome to read it or not, but let me explain what this letter is about and to whom it is addressed. It is a letter about Vietnam and Johnson and …
Alexander Berkman: Life of an Anarchist
by Gary L. Doebler
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
a review of Life of an Anarchist: The Alexander Berkman Reader, by Gene Fellner, Four Walls Eight Windows, P.O. Box 548, Village Station, New York, NY 10014, 354 pp.
The New Earth First!
by David Watson, Snail Darter
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
Dear Fifth Estate: As an Earth First! sympathizer and subscriber to many deep ecology principles, I read David Watson’s How Deep Is Deep Ecology? with great interest. I learned a tremendous amount from it. His criticisms were penetrating and well …
This is what Anarchy Looks Like
by Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
The forces of capital have once again called upon their storm troopers and talking heads to physically and symbolically crush the growing, global anti-capitalist movement. In the United States, building from the tragic embarrassment of September 11 and overreacting to …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
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 hours …
An Anti-statist Outlook
by Unruhlee
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Israel, The U.S. in Miniature Much of the population of Israel, no different from people in the United States, denies its past as an invader/settler nation, is oblivious to the suffering which creates its plentitude, revels in self-generated myths …
Industrialism and its discontents
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
Download PDF [174 KB] fe-389-19-industrialism-and-its-discontents Nearly two hundred years ago, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley gave us a classic warning about the hubris of technology’s combat against nature. Her late Gothic novel, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818), depicts the revenge nature …
The Nuclear Freeze
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
The rapidity with which a movement against nuclear weapons and war has blossomed has been as surprising to us as it has been to everyone else. There can be no doubt that the possibility of nuclear holocaust, and the understandable …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Readers may have noticed that the important content last time limited our reviews sections. But now we are back. This summer, we caught up on our reading and offer the following four pages to comment on some of the many …
Group Sex
by Andy Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
Fifth Estate Note: Since his 1991 review/essay “Operation Gender Blur” [FE #336, Spring, 1991] Sunfrog has written about radical sexuality for the Fifth Estate. Both 1992’s “Pornography and Pleasure: Beyond Capital, Beyond Patriarchy” [FE #340, Autumn 1992] and 1993’s “Queer …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 356, Spring, 2002
Fifth Estate Letters Policy We welcome letters commenting on our articles, stating opinions, or giving reports of events in your area. We don’t guarantee to print everything received, but all letters are read by our staff and considered for …
The War on the Poor
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
Capitalism is never good to all of its subjects. Regardless of its carefully honed mythology of democratic access to success and class mobility, capitalist society is a system of looting whereby a few at the top and a small substratum …