On 19 May this year Brenda Earl Christie, a co-founder of the anarchist publishing house Cienfuegos Press, and her two-year-old daughter Branwen, were arrested at Hanover Airport in West Germany as they were boarding a Gatwick (England) bound flight following …
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Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
On Gogol Boulevard In Exile “On Gogol Boulevard” is the bulletin of the New York City Neither East Nor West Group which gives support and aids in communication between Eastern European anarchists and dissidents and similar movements in the West. …
GIs Riot in Germany
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
MANNHEIM, West Germany—In a violent clash with military police, imprisoned G.I.s staged a massive riot at the Army stockade in Mannheim, West Germany. On March 19th, the U.S. Command there fought with imprisoned soldiers for 5 hours and the reported …
Flies Swarming
by William Rudolph
Fifth Estate # 414, Fall 2023
In this cafeteria flies swarm the recruiter’s cropped hair. “One thing I hate—” he spits out—”flies!” His dominant hand swipes the air. Pure reflex. . In this same room girls carry plastic babies, lifeless until internal mechanisms inspire crying when …
Bob McGlynn Dies at 60
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
Bob McGlynn, a longtime fighter, organizer and visionary in New York City’s anarchist scene, who became known internationally for his solidarity work with activists in the East Bloc, died of a heart attack Aug. 23 at his home in Yonkers. …
The Real Welfare Cheats
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
a review of Waste of the West: Public Lands Ranching, Lynn Jacobs, 1991, P.O. Box 5784, Tucson, AZ 85703, 8-1/2 x 11, 602 pp, $28.
Anarcho-spirituality and its Discontents
by MaxZine Weinstein
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
“What is inflated too much will burst into fragments.” —Ethiopian proverb “Spiritual zombies no longer hear their inner guide.” —Alice Walker In 1986, at the Haymarket anniversary anarchist gathering in Chicago, I landed in a “radical ritual.” We’re told that …
No Borders!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
Borders are authoritarian by their nature. Nation state borders are formed by men with weapons; those in our heads by fear and conditioning. Each creates suffering, and even death, as at the boundaries between the U.S. and Mexico, those demarking …
Bits of the World in Briefs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 290, March 2, 1978
CHINA The Chinese people have a new hero, according to the Peking Peoples Daily. He is Teng Hsiang-erh, a Shantung province coal miner who is being hailed as a model worker. To earn the distinction, Teng did the following: refused …
An American Anarchist in Berlin
by Rachael Stoeve
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
FE note: Berlin is a city whose rich history rings with memories of anarchist martyrs who organized clandestinely against the Nazi and communist East German regimes, suffering tremendous repression. Since WWII, Berlin anarchists have been at the forefront of militant …
Drama Workshop Open
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 37, September 1-15, 1967
An ad in the July 15-30 Fifth Estate calling for unknown playwrights and aspiring actors to help rejuvenate the American stage has blossomed into the Detroit Drama Workshop. First performance… two original one-act plays—Joan Feret’s “The Nightmare” and Sam Cohen’s …
True Stories
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
a review of True Stories: Tales from the Generation of a New World Culture by Garrick Beck. iUniverse, 2017
Mich. Activists Hit
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
Several full-time movement activists in the Michigan area have been arrested in recent weeks on trumped-up felony charges.
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966
The Fifth Estate 923 Plum Street Detroit, Michigan 48201 962-9336 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Harvey Ovshinsky NEWS EDITOR Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASST. Cathy West ART EDITOR Gary Grimshaw PHOTOGRAPHY Lena Sinclair CARTOONIST Rob Derminer The Fifth Estate is a member of …
Terrorists’ Revenge
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
While waiting at a traffic light in the city of Karlsruhe, West Germany, Chief Prosecutor Siegfried Buback was assassinated just as the light turned green.
Albany Freedom Singers
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 1, November 19-December 2, 1965
“The songs they sing come from their own experiences. They are not entertainers but are leaders who want everyone in the audience to join in singing songs that serve to inspire us to go on further to hold on ’til …
Not again
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970
SAN FRANCISCO (LNS)—People are determined not to allow the murderous police raids which have been carried out in Chicago, Los Angeles, Kansas and other areas to occur in Berkeley and San Francisco.
Museum Chronicles Fightback & Victories Against Gentrification
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
Above the front door to C-Squat, on Ave. C on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, a weather-worn sign hangs from the fire escape reading “THIS LAND IS OURS, NOT FOR SALE,” with the squatter symbol of a circle bisected by a …
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Fifth Estate Staff
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 20, December 15-31, 1966
EDITOR & PUBLISHER Harvey Ovshinsky MANAGING EDITOR Peter Werbe NEWS & POLITICAL EDITORS R. Fleck & F. Joyce ART & LAYOUT Gary Grimshaw EDITORIAL Assistant Cathy West CIRCULATION Wilson Lindsey PHOTOGRAPHY E. Bacilla, Wilson Lindsey, Magdaline Sinclair TRAVEL EDITOR Sheil …