Reprinted from FE #284, July 1977. Apparently there is honor among thieves and the anti-nuclear power struggle has exposed the totally reactionary tendencies of several marxist groups as they line up behind the governments of totalitarian regimes and mouth the …
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Examining Zerzan
by Bob Brubaker, E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), Fifth Estate Collective, John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Much of primitivist theorist John Zerzan’s early work appeared in the Fifth Estate. His Cassandra-like predictions of imminent collapse of modern society began in 1976 with his FE article, “The Decline and Fall of Everything” [FE # 268, January, 1976]—a …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
Although we got a lot of positive response to our last issue (as well as our fair share of abuse), no one noted a major error in our Hungary poster which attributes the date of the events to being “13 …
The Zen Already in Anarchism
by Spencer Sunshine
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
The combination of anarchism with spiritual or religious beliefs is almost always controversial, even in the pages of Fifth Estate. Opposition to church, state, and capital is the holy trinity of the “classical” anarchist tradition, and the movement’s anti-clericism was …
The Idea of Detroit
by Jim Gustafson
Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976
Detroit just sits there like the head of a large dog on a serving platter. It lurks in the middle of a continent, or passes itself off as a civilization dangling at the end of a rope. The lumpiness of …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
This issue is in your hands for two reasons: 1) your generous and numerous response to our plea for financial assistance and 2) the feeling of support we got from the accompanying letters you sent in. Our problem was really …
Revolution and Other Writings
by David Tighe
Fifth Estate # 384, Spring, 2011
a review of Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader by Gustav Landauer, edited and translated by Gabriel Kuhn, PM Press, 2010.
From Tolstoy to Pussy Riot
by Ania Aizman
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
In the fall of 2019, I taught a course at the University of Michigan: “Art and Anarchism: from Tolstoy to Pussy Riot.” The curriculum at the Ann Arbor, Michigan college concentrated on Russian anarchists, historic and contemporary, and was designed …
On a MOVE In Maine
by Robcat
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
“MOVE’s work is to stop industry from poisoning the air, the water, the soil. And, to put an end to the enslavement of life—people, animals, any form of Life.” —MOVE Statement
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
WARNING: Word is out that some tripsters are using the anesthetic cyclopropane (Trimethylene) for their highs. I hope this message reaches you in time.
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
QUESTION: Would you please explain what tachycardia is? I am undergoing treatment by an analyst for anxiety which is causing tachycardia in my heart. However, neither he nor my M.D. will explain tachycardia to me. I also wonder if getting …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
Dear Dr. Schoenfeld: To be blunt, I’m scared. I was smoking some grass about 3 weeks ago and I started to feel dizzy. Next thing I remember is waking up on the floor and being told I’d been unconscious about …
Marie Mason Update
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
As BP continues to devastate the Gulf of Mexico for generations to come, militant eco-radicals like Marie Mason, who have dedicated their lives to halting exactly this kind of environmental destruction, helplessly watch from inside the dungeons of the State.
HipPocratese
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 92, November 13-26, 1969
QUESTION: I had enjoyed a close personal and sexual relationship with a girl to whom I was engaged. But then I began to vomit whenever I saw or thought of her. The frightening part of the story is that the …
Earth First! Again
by Lone Wolf Circles
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
Fifth Estate note: The 12th annual Earth First! Round River Rendezvous (RRR) was held in Colorado’s San Juan National Forest, June 28-July 5, with a direct action against an Amoco Corp. facility immediately after it.
Ginsberg: The trees are our allies
by Allen Ginsberg, David Gaynes
Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 1969
Editors’ Note: this interview with poet Allen Ginsberg took place at 10 a.m. on October 15 while driving from Detroit’s inner city to Macomb College, where he was reading. Ginsberg was in the area doing a series of readings for …
News Shorts
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
Argentine Ransom Buenos Aires, Argentina—Members of the Argentine National Liberation Front (ALF) bargained on March 25 over the exchange of two government-held political prisoners for their own political hostage, the Paraguayan Consul to Argentina. If the release was not made, …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968
We are initiating this column as a means of communicating with the Fifth Estate readership. We hope to be able to give you periodic progress reports, answer your questions about the paper, and hopefully give you the feeling that there …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 94, December 11-24, 1969
Dear Dr. Hip Pocrates, I seldom read your column, it usually actually makes me sick to my stomach to know there are such vulgar, uncivilized, people.
Adamant refusal will not go unnoticed
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
I’ve been giving the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) to my 3rd graders this week. I could be fired, possibly arrested, for telling you this, but do you want to know what’s on the test? Here’s one of the …