Brother: I have a rather peculiar problem. When my girlfriend was younger, she had a rather bad dream concerning her breasts. The gist of the dream was that her breasts were kissed, sucked, etc., by a man who she thought …
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HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
QUESTION: I am a very early riser, strictly a morning man and my mate is a late sleeper. Therein lies my dilemma.
Limitations of Leftism
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
The article from which this excerpt is taken, “Stopping the Industrial Hydra: Revolution Against the Megamachine,” appeared in our Winter 1990 issue. It provides analyses of the Exxon Valdez oil spill of March 1989 from the standpoint of a global …
Recruitment
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
Prosecution of some fifty-five known resisters of draft registration was to begin in June. However, in an effort to avoid student protests and demonstrations, the government has decided to postpone prosecution until later in the summer. Also, according to an …
Running on Emptiness
by John Brinker
Fifth Estate # 361, Summer 2003
a review of Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization, By John Zerzan, Feral House, Los Angeles, 2002, 214 pp., $12
Can a computer virus create anarchy?
by Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
“You could say that cyberpunk is intrinsically anarchistic. It’s endlessly anti-authoritarian, and it can be employed like a weapon, like a computer virus, injecting new information by means of the existing mechanisms. The pop image of anarchism has always been …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
Eco-Defense, A Field Guide to Monkey Wrenching, edited by Earth First! founder Dave Foreman and Bill Haywood, is once again available.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
Ammunition Books 4403 Second Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48201, Tele. No. (313) 831-6800 Bookstore hours vary, but we are generally open on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and at scattered other times. Please call before coming down to be sure we are …
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
In the hills of Tennessee, about an hour east of Nashville, on the outskirts of Dismal (population zero), there exists a barn. It’s an ordinary old barn from all outward appearances—except for a few anti war banners and the buzzing, …
Love & Rage Splits
by Liz Highteyman
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
Love & Rage (L&R), a continental anarchist organizing and newspaper network, underwent a major split at its annual conference in San Diego last July as a result of long-standing internal differences concerning structure and goals. The debates which brought the …
Anarchy & the Sacred
by Dogbane Campion (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
FE Note: This is a response to “More Minneapolis Anarchy,” the letters beginning on the previous page. To Joe Wojack, first of all, let me emphasize that I was in no way discouraging people from reading the anarchist classics; on …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word, including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words.) Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
San Francisco GIs March
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
from LNS and the Guardian SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12 — Over 10,000 marchers turned out on a drizzly, overcast morning to show their solidarity with the largest anti-war march ever organized by active-duty GIs and veterans.
Green Scare Prisoner Eric McDavid Freed From Prison
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.–On January 8, Green Scare prisoner Eric McDavid was ordered released from prison after nine years because the government admitted to withholding documents from the defense at his 2007 trial.
May Protests in Detroit
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 329, Summer, 1988
After months of intense organizing, Detroit’s Evergreen Alliance carried off a four-day “Mobilization to Save the Great Lakes,” May 13-16, centered around opposition to the world’s largest trash incinerator scheduled to open in May 1989.
Swamp Fever (excerpts)
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
FE note. Excerpts from “Swamp Fever, Primitivism & the ‘Ideological Vortex’: Farewell to All That” first published in the Fall 1997 issue of Fifth Estate (vol. 32 #2 (Whole Number 350)). End note.
Earth People’s Park
by Burning River Oracle
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
Note: The Hog Farm is an apolitical commune which has set up shop in New Mexico. A few innovators who had been involved in People’s Park and Woodstock got together with the Hog Farm and kindred spirits and have recently …
When someone invites you to vote, JUST SAY NO!
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
They’re hee-ere! Yes, folks, it’s the quadrennial electoral charade where power-seeking charlatans attempt to craft tricky speeches and programs designed to convince people to abandon common sense and reason and elect them to political office.
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
Jolt to James Bay In an era when almost all environmental battles seem doomed to defeat, it was heartening to see Quebec’s energy megaproject at James Bay dealt a crippling blow by the decision of the State of New York …
The Dialectic of Enchantment
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
According to a certain conventional wisdom, there has been an unfortunate disenchantment of the world, and what is desperately needed is that we rediscover and recreate an enchanted world. This is, however, at best a half truth, and perhaps even …