The most important tasks for those of us who would wear the anarcho-primitivist label, are to wait and watch the acceleration of the collapse of modernity and technology while we learn how to live without them.
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The U.N. & the Debt
by Mitchel Cohen
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
Last December, Lawrence Summers the chief economist for the World Bank issued a surprisingly forthright memorandum to other senior World Bank staff in which he called for the distribution of toxic wastes and pollution away from the big industrialized nations …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
Dear Dr. Schoenfeld: Recently my 14 month old daughter got ahold of some LSD tabs. The trip was apparently too much for her because she kept crying out in what seemed to be terror. My husband sat with her for …
Compromising and Computing
by Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
Staff writers at the Fifth Estate collective have been vigorous critics of technology for more than two decades. Rather than isolate particular tools or situations for a contextual attack, our challenges to the totalitarian tenets of the megamachine look to …
Fort Dix Stockade
by Sheila Ryan
Fifth Estate # 88, September 18-October 1, 1969
Editors’ Note: The following article was written last April by LNS staffer Sheila Ryan. The deplorable conditions she describes led to a massive stockade revolt at the base in June which was put down with severe brutality. Many of the …
The Feminine Letter
by Ody Saban
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
An Open Letter to Alphabets This story begins in the middle of a long night. I had been reading a tale in which the noted storyteller Baal Shem Tov appears and this was a dream I had in response …
Free Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 266, September, 1975
We hope this page becomes a place where we can communicate and take care of our basic needs outside of the capitalist, consumption market.
Latest on Murray Case
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976
There’s not much news on the fate of Marie and Noel Murray at this point. Although the two Irish anarchists have attempted to withdraw the appeals of their death sentences (see FE, October and November, 1976), they are still being …
The beasts of the Southwest desert have a message for us
by Jason Rodgers
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of A Desert Pilgrim’s Bestiary by Anthony Walent, author; Maurice Spira, Illustrator. Eberhardt Press, 2019
Political Prisoners
by Robcat
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
It’s a cold Friday night in November in Portland, Maine. Comrades from around the state have gathered at the Aphodian Theater to support our imprisoned friend, Herman Bell. The benefit features bands and speakers, including former political prisoner Ray Luc …
Bits of the world in brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
The following letter, at the top of which appeared the heading “Direct Action,” recently arrived at the FE office. Its view of the ecological crisis and the essential sameness of the capitalist West and the communist East is one with …
Vandals Hit Sexist Ads
by Dennis Witkowski
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
Mohawk and the other booze peddlers hit by anti-sexist vandals moved quickly to restore their insults to women. Further action against them has been promised.
Why be so Attached to your Penis?
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
Download MS Word .doc [29 kb] fe-389-13-Why-Penis “I haven’t seen anything like this before.” — Bernard Picton, Curator of Marine Invertebrates, National Museum of Northern Ireland Could the surreal imagination of even Karel Capek in his most bitingly satirical novel, …
GIs in Mutiny Trial
by Bob Seingrass
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
Liberation News Service/The Movement SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—Twenty-seven GIs at San Francisco’s Presidio Army Base stockade face the death penalty for staging a non-violent sit-down to protest the Oct. 11 murder of a fellow prisoner. The victim, Richard Bunch, 19, was …
CIRA at Sixty
by Sylvie Kashdan
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
Anarchist solidarity can take many forms, including collecting books, pamphlets, and letters. Through such activity, comrades active in the world’s anarchist archives are part of anchoring an important segment of the struggle for a libertarian and egalitarian world.
Diane di Prima (1934-2020)
by Marieke Bivar
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
Diane di Prima has died. Now we have no choice but to introduce her to each other, since she is no longer here to introduce herself.
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
Fifth Estate Books is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit, in the same space as the Fifth Estate Newspaper. Hours vary, so please call before coming by.
Abortion—a woman’s natural right
by Lisa Nowak James
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
I remember being carried from the treatment room to a pleasant, sun-filled living room as I regained consciousness. The doctor carefully tucked a blanket around me and presented me with a smile and a cup of tea and asked how …
What it Means to be a Prison Abolitionist
by Amanda D.
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
I started this work a few years ago when I became fascinated by what prisons were like in other countries and what prisoners in Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, and China had to endure. Then I became more involved in the local …
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. …