“…the city is not fitting human habitat. Architecturally, in form and function, they resemble nothing so much as endless aisles of battery hen cages.” —Dion Workman, Thinking Like A Forest: Towards an Agricultural Counter-Revolution
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Esperanto & Anarchism
by Xavi Alcalde
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
“Paroli Esperanton estis iam esenca parto de anarkiismo.” (There was a time when speaking Esperanto was an essential part of being an anarchist.)
Techno Madness
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
We live in a technological life-world, more so by the hour. Our ecology is now all too largely technology, which has been irreversible, directional, and cumulative. The process that now characterizes civilization is a generalized technicization. Its success is measurable …
Architecture and Anarchism
by Fissiparous Michalski
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of Architecture and Anarchism: Building Without Authority by Paul Dobraszczyk. Paul Holberton Publishing 2021
Recycling & Liberal Reform
by Bert Wirkes-Butuar (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 333-A, Earth Day Special, 1990
It was perhaps an inappropriate time to ask a question since at that very moment two climbers from Greenpeace were struggling to unfurl a banner describing the pollution which would be emitted from Detroit’s giant trash incinerator. Their problems were …
Back to the Stone Age?
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
a review of “The Politics of Ethnopoetics” in The Old Ways, Six Essays, Gary Snyder, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 40077 “(Reckoning roughly from the earliest cave paintings)”, 96 pp.
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
Once again we have to extend gratitude to our subscribers for their generous contributions to insure this paper’s continued existence. Every time we thought the flow of letters containing checks or cash had ceased, we would receive yet another with …
This is Jail
by AKD868
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
Last spring, I became a prisoner in a rural California county jail for 90 days having been sentenced for a non-political offense.
The High Priest of LSD
by Karen Knorp
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
highThere is virtually no aspect of life in America today that is not concerned in one way or another with the drug scene. Hippies and politicians, students, parents, teachers. police and revolutionaries all contribute their harsh or thoughtful or inconsistent …
Goodbye to All That
by Robin Morgan
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
from The Rat/UPS — Let’s run it on down. White males are most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today. Yet who is controlling the supposed revolution to change all that? White males (yes, …
The Legacy of Omar Aziz
by Leila Al Shami
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
“A revolution is an exceptional event that will alter the history of societies, while changing humanity itself. It is a rupture in time and space, where humans live between two periods: the period of power and the period of revolution. …
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
XINGFU COLA HITS THE SPOT—The first television commercial in Chinese broadcasting history has been shown by a Shanghai station, Japanese monitors of Chinese broadcasts reported March 12. It showed a well known Chinese basketball star and several of his teammates …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
Charta 79: The Sami People & Human Rights is an English edition of a collection of essays by and concerning the indigenous peoples of northern Scandinavia. The Sarni of Semiland, which is comprised of the northernmost sections of Sweden, Norway, …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 310, Fall 1982
FE Moves It might seem self-indulgent, in the face of mounting worldwide horror, to call what has occurred around the FE the past several months a “crisis,” but a more precise word fails to come to mind. In August we …
Larry Miller Leaves Detroit
by Larry Miller
Fifth Estate # 15, October 1-15, 1966
Well, attentive readers, I must say there is nothing like an occasional attack to sharpen up one’s reflexes… Having had several lately, I shall at this point contribute several counter-attacks… To our friendly neighbor “Virile American”…(see letters, last issue) I …
Murray Appeal Still Pending
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
As of this writing the fate of Marie and Noel Murray, the two Irish anarchists who have been sentenced to hang for their alleged murder of a Dublin cop, remains uncertain.
Ron Sakolsky’s Swift Winds
by Andy Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
A review of: Swift Winds, Ron Sakolsky, artwork by Anais LaRue, Eberhardt Press, 2009, 128 pp., $8
Benjamin Péret and the Ecological Imagination
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Those who believe in a staunch ecological stance that subverts the dominant patterns of objectification, degradation, subordination, and commodification should take time to understand the revolutionary force of poetry.
Mexican Oil Spill Disaster
by Primitivo Solis (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 299, October 22, 1979
The gruesome tailspin of industrialism continues unabated in every sphere. Industrial society is at a malignant stage of decline with events like the Ixtoc 1 oil disaster providing all the more evidence of its impending collapse.
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 356, Spring, 2002
Contacting Us For submission of articles and art, contact Sunfrog, PO Box 6, Liberty TN 37095. For new subscriptions, renewals, donation, or other business matters, please continue to use our old address at Fifth Estate, 4632 Second Ave., Detroit …