Welcome to the 400th issue of the Fifth Estate. Our first issue was published in Detroit in November 1965. It was born in the age of the 1960s New Left, civil rights, anti-war, feminist, and gay rights movements. The Fifth …
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HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 89, October 2-15, 1969
QUESTION: My old lady is a light sleeper and she can’t sleep because my snoring keeps her awake. I’ve never heard myself snore, but those who have say I’m really loud.
Nest Defense for Marie Mason
by William R. Boyer (Bill Boyer)
Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008
The savage crimes of civilization cannot mute the cries of the savage. But the voice of the savage is not the machine buzz of chainsaws in the forest or the clank of garbage trucks in the ghetto. Her savage voice …
How I Stopped Recycling
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
Recycling is a classic case of co-optation. The title of this article is somewhat misleading since I continue to recycle a portion of the waste produced daily by my household. What has changed is my previous diligence in making certain …
Polish Workers Face Repression
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
In the last August 1976 Fifth Estate [#275, Polish Food Riots] we gave a sketchy report (all that was then available) of repression against striking workers centering in the Polish cities of Ursus and Radom. This major strike wave which …
Alien-Nation
by Alien-Nation
Fifth Estate # 327, Fall, 1987
Introduction The following essay is from Alien-Nation, an interesting first issue of a newsletter produced by several people in Olympia, Washington, who until recently were associated with Earth First! No one wants to have their worst fears confirmed, but in …
Contents of print edition
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
FIFTH ESTATE #392, Fall/Winter, 2014, Vol. 49, No. 2
On Living in the World
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
Recently, the Anarchist Political Ecology Group (the APE Group) read and discussed Ursula Le Guin’s book Always Coming Home. Though it’s a work I often go back to, this was the first time I had read it cover to cover …
Zerzan Replies
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
Bob Brubaker’s defense of agriculture [this issue, FE #330, Winter, 1988-89] seems to have two main components, one in which agriculture itself recedes in favor of “symbolic exchange.” Here it is argued that “symbolism, not agriculture, was the sun around …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 88, September 18-October 1, 1969
QUESTION: What are the potential dangers of the new “3-way” tablets (mostly mescaline plus a little LSD and a wee bit of cocaine?) One of my friends got stoned wild for 9 hours on this but spent the last 3 …
The Lynching of Wobbly Frank Little
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
a review of “An Injury to One” (2002). Written and directed by Travis Wilkerson
This Is What Direct Democracy Looks Like
by Marieke Bivar
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
a review of Deciding For Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy, Cindy Milstein, Editor. AK Press, 2020, akpress.org
AnarchoShorts
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
It was fifty years ago this summer that the lead singer of a band from a working class Detroit suburb screamed into a mic, “Kick out the jams, motherfucker,” inaugurating a wild ride into rock history.
Earth house hold
Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969
a review of Earth House Hold by Gary Snyder, New Directions Paperback, 143 pp., $1.95
Hymns for Brueghel
by Jim Yarbrough
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
a review of Hymns for Brueghel: Brambles of Berries, Rants, and Poetic Orgies by (un)leash. Published by Ink and Scribe in coordination with Cafe Press, 2005. Contact: Primal Revival Press at wyrdwizard < a t > hotmail < d o …
Contents of print edition
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
ARTICLES 5 Occupied Iraq: The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill 7 First They Came For Ward Churchill 9 The New McCarthyism: On The Recent Purge Of David Graeber 11 Fear And Loathing At The University FE SPECIAL SECTION: WOBBLIES & …
Margaret Sanger
by Beni
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
a review of Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, Ellen Chesler, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1992, 639 pp.
Free Rob Los Ricos
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
Outrage is the only word that comes to mind to describe the reaction to the sentence handed down by a vindictive judge to an Eugene, Oregon anarchist following a militant action on June 18, 1999.
Murder in the Redwoods
by Earth First!
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
On September 17, 24-year-old Earth First! activist David “Gypsy” Chain was pronounced dead in the woods he was working to defend.
1989 Anarchist Gathering
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
Final planning is in high gear for the 1989 Anarchist Conference/Festival to be held in San Francisco on July 20-25. Its theme and name are “Without Borders.” Over 3,000 anti-authoritarians and anarchists from around the world are expected to attend, …