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“Workin’ on the Railroad”
by anonymous euonymous
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
SAN FRANCISCO — On September 5, 1987, an event occurred which may signal a breakthrough for the North American anti-war movement. Forty yards of railroad track and ties serving the Concord Naval Weapons Station (CNWS) in Port Chicago, were torn …
Resolve to Evolve
by Karen Elliot Jr.
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
Introduction Recently, the rulers of the Western Hemisphere met in Miami to continue negotiations on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) treaty, another blatant power grab by the corporate oligarchy. At the summit, Nov. 17-21, trade ministers signed …
Zerowork
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
Zerowork No. 1; Available from P.O. Box 515, Station C, Toronto, Ontario, Canada or through Ammunition Books (see further in this issue). The last few years have seen the appearance of few new journals, even fewer of which are worth …
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
Planning for Anarchist Gathering / 88 A meeting to plan the 1988 Anarchist Gathering was held Sept. 12 in Toronto which will be the host city. About sixty people from all over North America attended, indicating to the local planning …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 305, March 18, 1981
Entropy Revulsion Dear FE, I have absolute revulsion for the “Friends of Entropy,” Animals Liberation Front and others of that ilk. While they will take the most violent and desperate measures to “rescue” a dog, guinea pig, and white mice …
Still From Detroit: Fifth Estate reflection
by Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Gritty and grimy to the core, inner-city Detroit was a daily regimen of gravel and glass.
Stoney Point Reclaims Land and Voice
by Kathleen Rashid
Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997
Background on Stoney Point In 1942, the Canadian Department of National Defense invoked the War Measures Act to seize the land of the Potawatomi people of Stoney Point Reserve and established an “advanced infantry training center.” Many of the …
Sacred, Sweet, Wicked Ecstasy
by Apollo
Fifth Estate # 361, Summer 2003
Editors’ note: Thanks to some typically sleazy last-minute conniving by Democratic Senator Joseph Biden, the “Reducing Americans’ Vulnerability to Ecstasy” (R.A.V.E.) Act was signed into Federal law by Bush on April 30, 2003.
Escaping from Europe
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
“[The Arawaks]…brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks’ bells. They willingly traded everything they owned …They were well built, with good bodies and handsome features….They …
The Tao of Anarchy
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
This essay originally appeared in John Clark’s now out-of-print The Anarchist Moment: Reflections on Culture, Nature and Power (Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1984) as “Master Lao and the Anarchist Prince.” John is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Environmental Studies …
The Decline of the Choral Dance
by Paul Halmos
Fifth Estate # 361, Summer 2003
FE Note: This is an excerpted version of Halmos’ article which appears in Man Alone: Alienation in Modern Society (Dell 1962)
Murder In Nigeria
by Mitchel Cohen
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
In the old days, when the state hung somebody and the braided rope broke or the gallows came crashing to the ground it was taken by God-fearing men as a sign that a mistake had been made and the condemned …
On Organization
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), Ed Clark
Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976
Within the small circles that constitute the libertarian movement in the United States, the question of whether to combine in organizations, associations, federations, etc., has become a subject of some debate and much interest Many feel that the only obstacle …
Plan Wellstone
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
Back in October 2002, driving from the hills to the anti-war rally in the city, we had plenty of time to talk. Conversation immediately turned to a possible conspiracy behind the plane crash the previous day. Did Bush’s people assassinate …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 327, Fall, 1987
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 …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 306, July, 1981
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 …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
CHRISTIAN ANARCHY? Fifth Estate: People can call themselves anything they like but I would think the differences between Christianity and anarchism are so massive as to preclude anyone calling themselves Christian anarchists (see FE June19, 1982 Letters column). There are …
The Russian Revolution Unfinished
by SK
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
“Whether one chooses to examine the opening phases of the French Revolution of 1789, the revolutions of 1848, the Paris Commune, the 1905 revolution in Russia, the overthrow of the Tsar in 1917, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the French …
Berkman’s Tunnel to Freedom
by Gary L. Doebler
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
Related story: “Tony” Revealed, Fifth Estate #377, March 2008 On July 26, 1900, officials of Western Penitentiary in Woods Run, Pennsylvania, discovered a tunnel which zigzagged some three hundred feet from the basement of the red brick house of 28 …