Introduction FE NOTE: When we first published a critique of the deep ecology movement last fall (“How Deep Is Deep Ecology? A Challenge to Radical Environmentalism,” [FE #327, Fall, 1987] available through our book service for $.75 plus postage), …
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Statement from the Hole
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
FE Note: The Fifth Estate has a long history of granting free subscriptions to prisoners of the state—inmates and GIs, but often their masters object to our content. No wonder since our ideas challenge the concept of rulers and ruled …
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
In our last issue George Bradford reported there are some five thousand pieces of junk floating around in space, including several nuclear reactors that will eventually fall back to earth. (See “Biosphere 2: The Future of the Planet?” FE #343, …
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Books Bill Ayers Fugitive Days (2001) $10 James Bell The Last Wizards (2002) $5.00
The Fort Hood Three: An American Tragedy
by Marlene Tyre
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
“Conscience is a costly thing, and I am paying dearly for the rights to my mind. Five years a cement wall and cold iron bars… is the price I am paying for real freedom. If it must be this way, …
Prison and Gary Gilmore
by Marcus Graham
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
During the last score of years there have been numerous prison outbreaks and attempted prison escapes throughout the United States. The media has invariably labeled these as “riots” and acts of “dangerous criminals.” What the media deliberately fails to reveal …
How a Forest Really Grows
by Marius Mason
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
a review of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard. Alfred A. Knopf, 2021
Giving Back Wild
by Ria
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
Consensus is boiling that humans have become hyper-exploiters, impacting and taking so much from nature that remaining ecosystems are entering death spirals. Is it possible for human’s bred-in exploiter culture to shift from a taking lifeway from the wild to …
Manuscript Style Sheet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Writers' Guidelines
Manuscript Style Sheet Manuscripts should be submitted in 12pt Times New Roman, 1.5-spaced between lines, flush left. We prefer them in Microsoft Word, but will accept and consider all formats including typescript and handwritten. No indentation; the InDesign desktop publishing …
Underground Press Has Tribal Meeting
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
San Francisco (UPS) The Underground Press Syndicate, of which the Fifth Estate is a member, was founded more than a year ago in order to facilitate the communication of information which the Establishment press ignores, suppresses, or never dreamed of.
Revelations!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
This edition begins our 42nd year of continuous publishing as the longest running, English language anarchist publication in American history. We’ve got a ways to go to catch the Yiddish language Freie Arbeiter Stimme (Free Voice of Labor) which printed …
The Brighter Side of Conflict
by Carl Hughes, George Lakey
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
How Conflict Encourages Growth Most of us don’t like dealing with conflict in movement politics. There are times when our projects are rolling along smoothly and then we hit a point of contention and suddenly the room is full of …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
Boa No. 2 (June 1988), a publication of the Bevy of Anarchist-Feminists from Vancouver and Montreal, is a wild, provocative, angry, often depressing but also humorous collection of poems, graphics, short essays and stories (some in French) covering a wide …
Anarchist Cabaret
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 361, Summer 2003
a review of The Anarchist and the Devil Do Cabaret by Norman Nawrocki, Black Rose Books, 2002, 192 pp., $20
The Question of Agriculture
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 331, Spring 1989
One irony of the deep ecology discussion is that almost at the same time that some deep ecologists were taking an explicit position for the abolition of agriculture as the prime cause of the widening spiral of civilization and ecological …
Resistance
by Ron Halstead
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
On June 19 a group of young men declared their intention to confront the draft. The ceremony, originally scheduled for St. Patrick’s Church had to be quickly rescheduled for St. Joseph’s Church when church authorities declared the meeting would not …
Walla Walla Prison Revolt Continues
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 299, October 22, 1979
During the last five months, the ongoing battle between prisoners and prison administrators over the inhuman conditions at the Washington State Prison at Walla Walla, Wash., has escalated to the savage beatings of hundreds of people by guards after an …
Contents of print edition
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
Fifth Estate Issue #377, March, 2008, Vol. 43 No. 1
Larry Miller
by Larry Miller
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
First, I would like to thank the editors of The Fifth Estate for asking me to contribute. Folk music and the new music, called Folk-rock are my own areas of endeavor, and I hope I will be able to add …
Objections to Councilism
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
FE Note: This is a response to “More Minneapolis Anarchy,” the letters beginning on page 15 of this issue.