Staff note: George Bradford was a pseudonym used by David Watson in these pages. 1. Autopsy of a Petrochemical Disaster Remember the Exxon Valdez? The ship was the source of the worst oil spill to date in U.S. history, spilling …
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Revolution Against the Megamachine
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Comments on Revolutionary Violence
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
1. Responses to “New York, New York” Dear F.E.: It would be very interesting to know more about the character of the N.Y. looting but it is not clear to me that we can tell anything from the figures which …
Looking Back on the Vietnam War
by David Watson, Richard Drinnon
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
This article first appeared in FE #320, Spring 1985 under the pen-name George Bradford. It is reprinted on the 20th anniversary of the defeat of the U.S. empire in Vietnam.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
Tornado Warning Dear Fifth Estate: We appreciate your kind mention of our group in your last issue (see “300,000 at Pro-Choice Demo—Plus Us,” FE #333, Winter, 1990), but we are not “Storm Warning” as the article identified us.
“Life-style” vs. “Social” Anarchism
by Peter Sabatini
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
Murray Bookchin must be getting cranky in his old age. Upon reading his latest broadside, Social Anarchism Or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm, I was rudely smacked in the face by déja vu. Evidently Bookchin is beating a dead horse, …
Not our Troops
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 361, Summer 2003
They Create a Desert & Call it Peace: Welcome to the Occupation With the horrible invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq threatening to expand to one or more of the other fifty-nine countries on the White House hit list, it’s …
A Treatise on Electronic Anarchy & the Net
by Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
“Every year of her life…the Net had been growing more expansive and seamless. Computers did it. Computers melted other machines, fusing them together. Television-telephone-telex. Tape recorder-VCR-laser disk. Broadcast tower linked to microwave dish linked to satellite. Phone line, cable TV, …
Freedom, Individualism, Revolution
by Allan Antliff
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Artistic anarchism has a long and complex history. Certainly one of its most interesting chapters in France is the development of two competing anarchist discourses about art’s libertarian possibilities during the years leading up to the ill-fated Paris Commune of …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
Joy To Read The following writer is one of the Vancouver Five. See our coverage of the start of their trials elsewhere in this issue.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
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 our staff and considered for publication. Letters via …
Symbolic Protest & The Nuclear State
by George Bradford (David Watson), N. Bates
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
1. The Rebel in Religious Guise by N. Bates 2. God and the Nuclear State by George Bradford The articles appearing on this page were written by two people who took part in the Williams protests. The first article is …
Against the Megamachine
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 306, July, 1981
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot’ stamping on the human face—forever.” —O’Brien, in Orwell’s 1984 How do we begin to discuss something as immense as technology? To investigate it means to investigate the totality of …
Vietnam Resource Page
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
Vietnam Resource Page Fifth Estate articles in date order Dr. Norman Pollack Vietnam Fifth Estate #2, December 2-16, 1965 https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/2-december-2-16-1965/vietnam/ “Perhaps the biggest mistake many of us make when speaking about Vietnam is that we focus only on Vietnam, and …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
FE Letters Policy The Fifth Estate always welcomes letters commenting on our articles, giving reports of events in your area, or stating your opinion. We don’t guarantee we will print everything we receive, but all letters are read by our …
The Vietnam War
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
INTRODUCTION When this essay first appeared in the Fifth Estate in Spring 1985, the Vietnam War already seemed to be receding into ancient history. Central America was at that time being battered with money and proxies, rather than with “American …
Return of the Son of Deep Ecology
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 331, Spring 1989
Introduction The letter above [“Deep Ecology as Strategic Knowledge,” FE #331, Spring, 1989] was sent to the Fifth Estate last year in response to the essay I wrote, “How Deep Is Deep Ecology? A Challenge to Radical Environmentalism” (FE #327, …
How Deep is Deep Ecology?
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 327, Fall, 1987
Introduction For a number of years, the Fifth Estate has been writing about the crisis of Western civilization and its industrial/technological plague. At the same time we have been profoundly interested in primitivism and the cultures of earth-based peoples, realizing …
Looking back on the Vietnam War
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 320, Spring, 1985
“Without the exposure of these Vietnam policies as criminal, there is every likelihood of their repetition in subsequent conflicts.” —Richard Falk, speaking at the Congressional Conference on War and National Responsibility, convened in Washington, D.C. in early 1970 “Historical memory …
The Triumph of Capital
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
INTRODUCTION “Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
Fifth Estate Letters Policy The Fifth Estate always welcomes letters commenting on our articles, stating opinions, or giving reports of events in local areas. We don’t guarantee we will print everything we receive, but all letters are read by our …