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ISSUE   DATE   THEME

1960s

1, November 19-December 2, 1965 — ACLU Blasts Draft as Punishment; Bob Dylan, In Memoriam
2, December 2-16, 1965 — Interview: A Soldier in Vietnam; NFS Blues Concert
3, January 1966 — Free University of Detroit; SDS Conference; National Boycott
4, February 12-March 1, 1966 — Detroit Protest set for March; 5th Estate Filling Void; Farm Workers’ Theatre
5, March 6-20, 1966 — Free University of Detroit; Six C.O.s Jailed; fight for open housing in Birmingham, Mich.
6, March 20-April 1, 1966 — N.S.A. Maps ‘Poor Peoples Program’; Vietnam—Why? Why Not
7, April 1966 — The Big March; Breakthrough; Vietnam Report; Freedom Summer
8, May, 1966 — Vietnam Newsletter; Mass support for Grape Strikers; Students vs. Draft
9, June, 1966 — East Side Violence; Vietnam Newsletter; Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
10, July 15, 1966 — Bob Dylan interview (1 of 3); Black Power for Watts?; Anti-Napalm Protest; Elegy for Greektown
11, July 30, 1966 — Dow Chemical Napalm Protest; SNCC calls for aid to poor; Bob Dylan interview (2 of 3)
12, August 15, 1966 — Anti-Napalm March; Those who Refused; Socialist Scholars Meet; Dylan (3 of 3)
13, August 30, 1966 — LSD Cure For Schizophrenia; Beatles in Detroit; Fort Hood Three defense grows
14, September 15, 1966 — Inciting A Riot; College Freshmen subject to Draft; Ft. Hood 3 Found Guilty
15, October 1-15, 1966 — Expelled for Long Hair; Ft. Hood 3 appeal; What the Pot People are; Participatory Zoo Dance
16, October 16-31, 1966 — Who’s Afraid of Black Power?; Nov. War Protests; FE Bookstore
17, November 1-15, 1966 — Mime Troupe Busted; Fight for GIs to Dissent; Fort Hood Three
18, November 15-30, 1966 — March For Peace; Teach-In: Fights & Speeches; New Trip Unearthed
19, December 1-15, 1966 — ACLU Says No To HUAC; Underground Press; Ft. Hood 3 Sent to Leavenworth
20, December 15-31, 1966 — RFK or LBJ?; Narco Bust Set; No War Toys; Chemical Warfare at Columbia?
21, January 1-15, 1967 — Lowndes County Election; Napalm: Made In USA; War Tax on Phone
22, January 15-30, 1967 — Provo!; Anti-War Groups Meet; LEMAR Meeting Sparks Marijuana Campaign
30, May 15-31, 1967 — Cops Riot at Belle Isle; Anti-War Conference Set; Detroit Smoke-In
31, June 1-15, 1967 — “Obscene” Kite Busts FE Art Editor; Detroit Fan Fair; Piece Pow-Wow
32, June 15-30, 1967 — FE Moves to Warren Forest; The Louie Love-in; Chicago Cop brutality at Malcolm Park Memorial
33, July 1-15, 1967 — Hippies Confront New Left; FE Expansion Fund; PAR Benefit
34, July 15-31, 1967 — Grimshaw Convicted; Police Riot; Ft. Hood 3 sentences reduced
35, August 1-15, 1967 — City Ablaze: Detroit Rebellion
36, August 15-31, 1967 — A New Detroit?; New Politics Conference; Who Killed John Leroy? 
37, September 1-15, 1967 — King-Spock Ticket Discussed; Draft Resistance Pushes On 
38, September 15-30, 1967 — People’s Tribunal Condemns Cops; March on Washington Set 
39, October 1-15, 1967 — The San Francisco Mime Troupe; More Dope on Superpot 
40, October 15-31, 1967 — Fifth Estate Grows; LBJ, The Game Is Over—plans for huge Pentagon demo
41, November 1-15, 1967 — Antiwar Battle at the Pentagon; Hell No to the Draft; Know Your Rights
42, November 15-30, 1967 — Rightist Terror Grows; Pentagon: Did GIs Really Defect?; Israel Without Tears
53, May 1-15, 1968 — New Fascism: American Style?; German Students Revolt in streets
 54, May 16-31, 1968 — Insurgency on the streets, campuses, in the military
55, June 4-18, 1968 — Poor people in D.C.; more repression
56, June 19-July 1, 1968 — Opposition to Vietnam War; Assassination of Robert Kennedy
57, July 4-18, 1968 — Continuing repression; reflections on assassination
58, July 19-31, 1968 — Berkeley Revolt; Underground press invade prime time Public TV
59, August 1-14, 1968 — “New cries of battle and victory”
60, August 15-September 4, 1968 — Chicago: Yippie!; Hump Free in Detroit; dope, peace, magic… 
61, Sept. 5-18, 1968 — 2, 3, Many Chicagos; Fort Hood GIs Revolt; Detroit Battle Count  
62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968 — Huey Convicted; Ann Arbor Mothers, Students Unite and Win 
63, October 3-16, 1968 — Huey Sentenced; San Francisco Mime Troupe; Black GIs Convicted  
64, October 17-30, 1968 — Viet Solidarity Week; DRUM Beat Shakes UAW; HS Students Unite
65, October 31-November 13, 1968 — Anti-war protest; U of M Bombed; High Priest of LSD
66, November 14-27, 1968 — Cobo Hall Creep Scene; Arrests Made in Bombings
67, November 28-December 11, 1968 — Conspiracy Laws; Presidio GIs in Mutiny Trial; Hitch-hiking in Laos; Yellow Submarine
68, December 12-25, 1968 — Czechago Blasted by Panel; GI Conference Set; The News Gets Ready
69, December 26, 1968-January 8, 1969 — Creeps Strike FE; France ’68; No money, no barter; Score-o-Scope
70, January 9-22, 1969 — The Grape Strike; Dumping on Daley; Ft. Hood Soldiers Busted; Nixon protests planned
71, January 23-February 5, 1969 — Strike at S.F. State; FBI going after SDS; Fighting Fascism in Greece; GIs Fight Army Brass
72, February 6–19, 1969 — Big Bust at S.F. State; Michigan Witch Hunt; Voodoo in Detroit; D.C. Inhoguration
73, February 20-March 5, 1969 — Mutiny Trial; Black anti-Semitism?; Students Join Striking Workers
74, March 5-19, 1969 — Presidio Mutiny Trial; GI March Set; Open City Opens; Political Repression
75, March 20-April 2, 1969 — Cops Disciplined; GI-Civilian March; Mich. Activists Hit
76, April 3-16, 1969 — Black Students Protest; Chicago Conspiracy; Presidio Mutiny Case
77, April 17-30, 1969 — New Bethel Incident; Civilian-GI Anti-War Marches Sweep Country; High School Protests
78, May 1-14, 1969 — Chicago Conspiracy trial; The News—White Man’s Paper; Life in the County Jail
79, May 15-28, 1969 — SF Panthers Attacked; More Say No to Draft; Justice in Detroit
80, May 29-June 11, 1969 — Murder in Berkeley; Algiers murder trial
81, June 12-25, 1969 — More on Berkeley; American Servicemen’s Union; Algiers trial ends
82, June 26-July 9, 1969 — Ann Arbor struggle continues; GI free speech victory
83, July 10-23, 1969 — SDS Takes New Turn; Real radicals in high schools; Workers Feel Squeeze
84, July 24-August 6, 1969 — Army stockades blow; Police riot manual revealed; Moonism
85, August 7-20, 1969 — John Sinclair imprisoned; Moon landing; Letter to SDS
86, August 21-September 3, 1969 — Trans-lovers busted; “Easy Rider” interviews; SDS replies to FE; GI coffee houses
87, September 4-17, 1969 — Vietnam: ‘A’ Co. Won’t Go; Woodstock Nation; planning October anti-war moratorium
88, September 18-October 1, 1969 — Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969); Fort Dix Stockade; Fall Offensive
89, October 2-15, 1969 — Conspiracy Trial is a Riot; Vietnam’s fight is our fight; Nixon’s war on dope; SDS in Chicago
90, October 16-29, 1969 — Report from Chicago; Ft. Dix Erupts; Selfridge: No more shit; Justice: A can of worms
91, October 30-November 12, 1969 — Strike against War, Imperialism; Ginsberg: The trees are our allies
92, November 13-26, 1969 — Black Workers’ Power; Fort Dix Riot Trial Starts; Seale won’t be silenced
93, November 27-December 10, 1969 — Whither the anti-war movement?; Political Repression in U.S.A.
94, December 11-24, 1969 — State murder of Black Panthers; Northland cops attack freaks; GIs resist the war
95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970 — “If you want peace, you got to fight for it”; Repression at Northland

1970s

96, January 8-21, 1970 — Free John Sinclair Day; Community Ready to Move on WSU; GE strike
97, January 22-February 4, 1970 — Anti-repression Conference; Weatherman War Council; Argus Obscene
98, February 4-18, 1970 — PCAUR Drives it Home; Calley Rally Flops; A Night in Detroit General
99, February 19-March 4, 1970 — Community Fights Wayne State; Pig Media Joins Police; Growing No
100, March 5-18, 1970 — Conspiracy: end of the circus; Community-PCAUR Fight WSU Toy Police
101, March 19-April 1, 1970 — Cops of America: Attention; Anti-War March; Abortion—a woman’s natural right
102, April 2-15, 1970 — The DRUM Election; The Mail Strike; April 15 March; New York Liberated
105, May 14-27, 1970 — Kent State Massacre; GIs Picnic for Peace; Women’s News Co-op
106, May 28-June 10, 1970 — Warfare 1970 (anti-war actions nationwide); Fort Wayne Exposé; Detroit Riot 1943
126, March 4-17, 1971 — Women’s Issue – Largest FE issue
266, September, 1975 — FE Beats Phone Co.; Portugal; Who Pays for Religion? 
267, November, 1975 — Unions & the Nature of Work; Spain: The continuing revolution
268, January, 1976 — Decline and Fall of Everything; More on Red Squad; FE Anniversary Bash
269, February, 1976 — Nationalist Gangs Battle for Angola; Zionism Past & Present; Cuba
270, March, 1976 — The My Lai Massacre; Power Struggle in China; Pig Guts for Gutless Pigs
271, April, 1976 — Kills Husband–Acquitted; Easter Canceled (Christ’s body found)
272, May 1976— Your Money and Your Life; Police Block Spy File Disclosure
273, June 1976 — Economic recovery a lie; Crimestoppers Textbook
274, July 1976 — Self-management & the Spanish Revolution; Bicentennial Salute
275, August, 1976 — Pirate Radio; Unions & Reformism; Why You Hate Work
276, September 1976 — Cop Gang vs. Street Gangs; Industrial Plagues
277, October, 1976 — Capitalism & Vietnamese “Socialism”; Italian Chem Disaster 
278, November, 1976 — Swine flu scare; Zerowork; Unionism & Taylorism 
279, December, 1976 — Latest on Murray Case; Indian Genocide; On Organization 
280, February, 1977— Worker Revolts, Political Strife Belie China’s Peaceful Image 
281, March, 1977 — “Revolt Against Work” or End of Leftism?; Modern Medicine 
282, April-May, 1977 — Last SLA Statement; Poland: 1970-71; Terrorists’ Revenge 
283, June, 1977 — Nuclear Cover-Up; Behavior Mod—Walla Walla; Everyday Love 
284, July, 1977 — Insurrection Centennial; Clamshell Alliance; Seveso Update 
285, August, 1977— Revolt Lives!; Crunch at the I-Hotel; Nukes & Civil Liberties 
286, September, 1977 — Back to the Stone Age?; On the Proliferation of Egocrats 
287, October 28, 1977 — German Political Repression; Political Prisoners in China 
288, December, 1977 — Terrorism: The State marches on
289, January 24, 1978 — Women in a distorted world
290, March 2, 1978 — Star Wars; Technology & the State
291, April 30, 1978 — Debate on porn, sexism, fascism; Society against the State
292, June 19, 1978 — Interactive TV, Internet foretold; Assaults on rebels in prison
293-294, August 21, 1978 — Italy: Return of the social revolution; anarchists arrested in U.K.
295, November 3, 1978 — Battle of France, May-June 1968; FBI disruptions disclosed
296, January 29, 1979 — “State-Fetishism;” Jonestown massacre; British comrades update
297, April 18, 1979 — Nuclearism and its State; Feds plan for atomic disaster
298, June 19, 1979 — Prison revolt; First Affluent Societies; Daily Barbarian #1
299, October 22, 1979 — Mexican oil spill disaster; more on Walla Walla prison revolt
300, December 4, 1979 — Crisis in Iran, war threatens…None for me, thanks

1980s

301, February 26, 1980 — Phony war crisis; British anarchists found not guilty
302, June 1, 1980 — Controversial feminist march; The Promise of the ’80s
302A, EXTRA, July 14-16, 1980 — Convention Special Edition – Republicans: Get out of Town
303, October 20, 1980 — Poland: triumphs & defeats; Doomsday technologies
304, December 31, 1980 — Poland on the Edge; On the Future of the Earth
305, March 18, 1981 — Austerity and War Ahead; Tech debate continues
306, July, 1981 — Against the Megamachine: critiques of industrial civilization
307, November 19, 1981 — Critique of tech defended; prisoner support movement
308, January 19, 1982 — Draft registration resistance; Gift Exchange and Imagination
309, June 19, 1982 — FE and anti-nuke war movement; Collapse in Poland
310, Fall 1982 — First Draft Foes Convicted; Zionism Victorious; Latin-American Terror
311, Winter 1983 — Norman Mayer and the Missile X; Tylenol killings; Draft resistance
312, Spring, 1983 — Primitive vs. Civilized War; Nuclear drama on TV
313, Summer, 1983 — Detroit & High Tech; World-Wide Crisis; Litton Bombing
314, Fall 1983 — They’re at War!; Civilization is Like a Jetliner; Vancouver 5 trial begins
315, Winter, 1984 — Symbolic Protest & The Nuclear State; U.S. Out of the Americas!
316, Spring, 1984 — Draft still an issue; 1984 worse than expected? Daily Barbarian
317, Summer, 1984 — Debate on El Salvador; Anarchy & Christianity; Big Mountain
318, Fall, 1984 — Media: Capital’s global village; Criminals & anarchists; Toronto: Harassment Continues
319, Winter, 1985 — We All Live in Bhopal; The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism; Daily Barbarian Number 3
320, Spring, 1985 — Nicaragua & Reagan’s Big Lie; War on Vietnam; Biotech: The Next Wave; U.S. Plans Death Star
321, Indian Summer, 1985 — South Africa: reform or revolution; Black Hills: get serious; Number: origin, evolution
322, Winter-Spring, 1986 — 20 Years of the Fifth Estate; Space Not The Place; Anarchy in the Age of Reagan
323, Summer, 1986 — Haymarket Centennial; Kent State; Mutinies can Stop U.S. Wars 
324, Fall, 1986 — We Brought Our Piss to Reagan; Kids—say no to Government; Rebel Violence; Fashionable Feminism
325, Spring, 1987— Anarchy and the Left; Art, Life & Death; Nationalism 
326, Summer, 1987 — War on the Poor; Indigenous Resistance
327, Fall, 1987 — How Deep is Deep Ecology?; Alien-Nation
328, Spring, 1988— Palestine: Legacy of Conquest; Mobilization to Save the Great Lakes
329, Summer, 1988 — France, May-June 1968; Deep Ecology Debate Continues; Anarchy in Toronto
330, Winter, 1988-89 — Gathering in San Francisco; Stopping the Incinerator; Live Wild Or Die
331, Spring, 1989 — Deep Ecology as Strategic Knowledge; Cheerleaders for the Plague
332, Summer, 1989 — Incinerator Protest; Nevada Test Site; Unmasking the Custer Myths; Gov’t Attacks Earth-First!

1990s

333, Winter, 1990 — Stopping the Industrial Hydra
333-A — Earth Day Special, 1990
334, Summer, 1990 — Activists’ car bombed; Earth Day supplement; Innu People Resist NATO
335, Winter, 1990-91 — War in Iraq; Detroit, Demolished by Design; The Lessons of Vietnam
336, Spring, 1991 — Empire at war: These Are Not our Troops; Detroit Resists the War
337, Late Summer, 1991 — Thousands Said ‘No’ to Gulf War; Arizona EF! Trial; Eat the Rich!
338, Winter, 1992 — War on the poor; Prisons; France ’68
339, Spring, 1992 — Fall of Communism; Triumph of Capital
340, Autumn 1992 — Fall of the 500-Year Reich; Voting, JUST SAY NO!; UK Poll Tax, People Power wins
341, Spring 1993 — Third World Dumping; Was it Anarchy in Somalia?; Iraq Bombings
342, Summer 1993 — Queer Anarchy Coming Out; Anarchist Summer; Clinton Bombs Iraq
343, Fall-Winter, 1993 — Barcelona Anarchist Festival; Anarchist Spaces Open; Bosnia
344, Summer, 1994 — Insurgent Mexico!; Vietnam; Daily Barbarian No. 8; 404 Is Dead!
345, Winter, 1995 — Empire and Mass Society; Anarchy & the Net; Progress & Nuclear Power
346, Summer, 1995 — Looking Back on the Vietnam War; Haymarket Monument Defaced
347, Spring, 1996 — Mumia saved from the electric chair; Quebec nationalism; criticism of Bookchin
348, Fall, 1996 — Beyond Bookchin excerpts — Unabomber & future of tech society
349, Summer 1997 — Stoney Point Reclaims Land and Voice; Judi Bari Lives!; Russian Women
350, Fall, 1997- Primitivism & the Ideological Vortex: Swamp Fever
351, Summer 1998 – Media and 4th World War; Chumbawamba; Fallen Comrades
352, Winter 1999 – Support Mumia Abu-Jamal; Murder in the Redwoods; Israel: 50 years of conquest
353, Summer, 1999 — Kosovo: The Empire at War; Y2K: Will it all fall apart?; May Day in San Francisco

2000s

354, Spring, 2000 — Seattle: we shut down the WTO, now what?; The US War on the Iraqi People
355, Fall-Winter, 2000 — Worldwide Anarchy; Judi Bari bombing case; GOP and Dem Conventions
356, Spring, 2002 — Another World is Possible; Ethnic Cleansing in ex-Yugoslavia; Catastrophe as a way of life
357, Summer 2002 — Tennessee Radicals; Reflections from the Middle East; While Yugoslavia Burned, the Left Looked the Other Way
358, Fall, 2002 — Fight the empire, not its wars; Police Attack Protests in Portland; former Yugoslavia; Anarchist Summer Camp in Kansas
359, Winter, 2002-2003 — Stop the War but don’t stop there; Argentina’s Popular Rebellion; Anarcho-spirituality and its Discontents
360, Spring, 2003 — World Says No to War; Anti-Anarchist Propaganda; Anarchy, food and sustainability; Anarchist Communitarian Network
361, Summer, 2003 — Refuse the Victory Parade; The revolution will be a festival; Tales from the Police State
362, Fall 2003 — Insubordination; Live the Revolution Now
363, Winter 2003/2004 – Deconstructing Race
364, Spring 2004 – The Politics of Conspiracy
365, Summer 2004 — Reconsidering Primitivism
366, Fall 2004 — Radical Education
367, Winter 2004-2005 – Anti-Capitalist, Then, Now, & Forever
368-369, Spring-Summer 2005 – Special 40th Anniversary Issue
370, Fall 2005 – Wobblies & Work
371, Winter 2006 – The Psychology of Freedom
372, Spring 2006 – Venezuela, Spain & Haymarket
373, Fall 2006 — Literature; Rogue Statism; The Red Flag & the Black; New Orleans
374, Winter 2007 – New York City Issue
375, Spring 2007 – Revelations
376, Halloween 2007 – End of the World
377, March 2008 – Escape
378, Summer 2008 – Money
379, Fall 2008 – Play!
380, Spring 2009 – Subtext, Subversion, & Sabotage
381, Summer-Fall 2009 -Pirates

2010s

382, Spring 2010 – Tribute to the radical imagination of Ursula K. Le Guin
383, Summer 2010 – Belief/Disbelief/Unbelief.
384, Spring 2011 – D.I.Y.
385, Fall 2011 – Anarchist Fiction
386, Spring 2012 – Occupy! Time for Revolution!
387, Summer 2012 – Anarchist Summer Reading
388, Winter 2013 – Education
389, Summer 2013 – Sex & Anarchy
390, Fall 2013 – Mad
391, Spring/Summer 2014 – Anarchy!
392, Fall/Winter 2014 – Art & Anarchy
393, Spring 2015 – Anti-Marx
394, Summer 2015 – Technology
395, Winter 2016 – 50th Anniversary
396, Summer 2016 – No Borders
397, Winter 2017 – The Left and the Syrian Revolution; Clown Army; Myth of Che Guevara
398, Summer 2017 – Revolution, Revolts, Riots, & Rebellions
399, Fall 2017 – Anarchy & Solidarity in Action
400, Spring 2018 – Anti-fascism yesterday and today
401, Summer 2018 – Anarchist summer reading; France, May-June 1968; Red-Brown politics
402, Winter 2019 – Anything Can Happen!
403, Spring 2019 – Yellow Vests in France; Syrian Quagmire; History of subMedia
404, Summer 2019 – Hope Springs Forth From Fire; Re-Enchantment of the World

2020s

405, Winter, 2020 — Hawaii telescope resistance; exiting the era of ecological destruction & affirming life
406, Spring, 2020 — Dispatch from Exarchia; Anarchic Justice; Gov giving up on military draft?
407, Fall, 2020 — Now We All Know What Matters; Autonomous Zone Seattle; Liberating Public Health
408, Winter, 2021 — Fifth Estate Anarchist Review of Books
409, Summer, 2021 — The Path to Change: Community; Revolutionary Ecology; Summer on Fire review
410, Fall, 2021 — Solidarity in Plague Time; Secret Knowledge of Fulvia Ferrari; When Punk Was A Threat
411, Spring, 2022 — Ukraine (editorial); Disability and Creativity; An anarchist operetta; Space Not the Place
412, Fall, 2022 — Ukraine: Return of the irrepressible; Peter Lamborn Wilson; Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
413, Spring, 2023 — Anarchists & The War in Ukraine; Poems for John Coltrane; Is ChatGPT just a new tech toy?
414, Fall 2023 — Abolish the Family!; Alex Comfort’s Joy of Anarchism; Carmen Retold; Burning Colonialism
415, Summer 2024 — Pirate Utopias; The Alchemy of Revolt; If only the Luddites had Won

Resource pages

Bibliography 1995-2005
Cuba Resource Page
I.W.W. Resource Page
Remembering Federico Arcos
Spanish Revolution Resource Page
Vietnam Resource Page

Fifth Estate Live interview archive

Fifth Estate Live, a weekly hour-long livestreamed broadcast hosted by singer/songwriter and Fifth Estate contributor David Rovics and produced by Fifth Estate editorial collective member Peter Werbe. Visit the archive of interviews is H E R E.