Fifth Estate

12/08/2025

Everyone who was expecting a subscriber copy or bulk shipment should have received the Winter 2025 edition. If not, let us know at our address on our website. Links to the issue articles are beginning to appear on the main page.
We still have lots of issues left for free distro. If you can get some out to potential subscribers, let us know a number and your address. Sending free copies is an expensive proposition, one we budget for, but we prefer to see them passed out rather than just place at a coffeeshop or the like.
Now, comes the only part of publishing we dislike (other than dealing with banks!). The renewal mailing. If you're subscriber, please look at your address label. If it bares 417 or lower, your subscription has expired. We will be sending renewal notices to those with 418 soon, and we ask that you beat us to it by resubscribing before we do the mailing.
You can do so online at https://www.fifthestate.org/product-category/print-edition/
If you still have issues left in your subscription you can still renew and perhaps take advantage of our many special offers for books, t-shirts, CDs, LPs, book bags, and posters.
Subscribers are our only source of income, so we count on you to support the anarchist press. https://www.fifthestate.org/product-category/special-offers/
As always, we will continue to refuse, resist, and rebel.

Fifth Estate Magazine, radical publishing since 1965

11/26/2025

Now, more than ever. The Fifth Estate gets a name drop in this article.

As Talia Levin noted last year in an Esquire article, “eat the rich” has become a popular expression among a new generation of leftists who have inherited, among many other obscenities,…

10/29/2025

The Radical Cat is a feminist bookstore, cat adoption center, and community space located at 1500 S. Virginia Street in Reno, Nevada. They also sell the Fifth Estate. Support your local, radical bookstore!
https://theradicalcat.square.site/

10/12/2025

The Winter 2025 Fifth Estate has just been published and has already arrived at many subscribers' homes. Canada Post workers are on strike so those won't go out until the dispute is settled.
If you are a subscriber and haven't received yours in the U.S., it might still be in the mail system, or your subscription may have expired. Contact us at [email protected] with questions.
If you've moved, magazine mail is not forwarded. If you have, contact us for a replacement copy.
The Winter edition follows the Spring edition.
If you are a distributor or store, we are sending out bulk shipments, but it might be a good idea to contact us at [email protected] to remind us of how many you would like.
Now, more than ever: Resist, refuse, revolt!

09/24/2025

The second Annual Kansas City Anarchist Book Fair will take place October 25-26 at and will feature music, workshops, skillshares, literature, food, and more! Info at [email protected]" rel="ugc" target="_blank">[email protected] for tabling, music, or workshop inquiries! Or, https://anarchistnews.org/index.php/content/kansas-city-anarchist-bookfair-october-25-26

08/25/2025

No problem in search of a crisis. No one is burning flags at demonstrations, but with this announcement, look for them to start going up in flames again.
Our feelings towards flag burning? A whole lot of it was done by the authoritarian-Maoist RCP which didn't work very well in terms of winning support for a demonstration's concern.
However, we've written before, BURN ALL FLAGS. Here's an article with that title from the Summer 1989 Fifth Estate. https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/368-369-spring-summer-2005/burn-flags/

US president attempts to circumvent 1989 supreme court decision which said flag burning is protected speech

08/20/2025

Fifth Estate editorial group member, Peter Werbe's book, "Summer on Fire: A Detroit Novel," is being used again in an English class at a Southern university. This is a photo at the school bookstore.
We don't name it since in these days of book banning and right-wing politics, particularly in the South, might not go over so well with the uptight, all-white politicians in the state or fearful school officials.
It's a fictionalized account that follows the Fifth Estate staff through the hot summer of 1967 with the Detroit riots, anti-war and anti-fascist action, a bomb plot, drugs, rock and roll at the Grande Ballroom, anarchism, the White Panther Party, and a bomb plot.
All proceeds go to support the Fifth Estate. It can be ordered through our website as a single copy or combined for a subscription or renewal. www.FifthEstate.org
Copies of a collection of Werbe's essays, "Eat the Rich and Other Interesting Ideas" are also available at the site.

07/04/2025

Patriotism: The FIRST refuge of a scoundrel.

Here's a better declaration than the original.

Emma Goldman A New Declaration of Independence 1909 Published in Mother Earth, Vol. IV, no. 5, July 1909.

07/03/2025

Fire Ant journal for anarchist prisoners is back with letters from Michael Kimble and Anson Chi as well as June 11th statements from Michael, Marius Mason, and Ryan Roberts. There is a PDF download so you can send a paper copy to locked down comrades.

Fire Ant journal for anarchist prisoners is back! We’ve got letters from Michael Kimble and Anson Chi as well as June 11th statements from Michael, Marius Mason, and Ryan Roberts.

05/31/2025

June 11th is the International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners.
The old expression, they're in there for us; we're out here for them, holds increasingly true. There are numerous actions and online events through which to show our solidarity with our locked down comrades. https://june11.noblogs.org/
It's Going Down has a list of worldwide events and organizing resources. Got to one; host one!
https://itsgoingdown.org/june-11th-resources-actions-anarchist-prisoners/

04/30/2025

Norman Nawrocki is a Montreal-based anarchist activist artist and community organizer. His articles frequently appear in the pages of the Fifth Estate. https://www.fifthestate.org/fe_author/norman-nawrocki/

"Squat The City! How To Use The Arts For Housing Justice" is an inspiring and practical resource for anyone anywhere curious about how the arts can help navigate the current housing crisis. It's full of lessons, strategies and examples based on Nawrocki's decades of ongoing work as an activist/artist/organizer and educator across Canada using music, theatre, comedy and poetry to address the issues.
His 18th book, but first work of non-fiction, it assembles his essays, articles, and extracts from his plays, albums, stories and Creative Resistance workshops, plus material from his legendary "community cabarets” seen by thousands throughout Quebec.
Book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCwn1A3LuSA Order your copy from Leftwingbooks: https://leftwingbooks.net/products/squat-the-city-how-to-use-the-arts-for-housing-justice Or from the author: https://normannawrocki.blogspot.com/2025/03/squat-city-squat-city-how-to-use-arts.html

04/25/2025

This is a May Day event taking place on the UN Plaza to set ablaze the symbols of every nation's flag. Why? It's laid out in this 1989 Fifth Estate article from the archives.
https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/332-summer-1989/action-at-the-federal-bldg/
"All flags are rags; they are symbols of the nation state which traps the human spirit within artificially established boundaries guarded by men with guns. Flags are part of the whole parcel of tricks rulers use to make us act in their interests rather than our own."
Info on the May Day action at https://autonomedia.org/burning-the-flags-of-all-nations/