Progressive High School students throughout the Detroit area were shocked April 22 to read in the Detroit “News”: “Ferndale H.S. Drops 138 Negro Protesters.”
FE Author: David Watson
Plymouth, Mich.
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
Plymouth, Michigan, is a small town. To say that it is conservative would be an understatement. It is run by a small group of politicians and pigs, among them Carl “Pig” Berry, the chief narc; Chief of Pigs “Daley” Straley; …
On Keeping Our Critical Faculties
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
I wonder if anyone else feels the same nausea and despair I experience when reading missives like R. Tate’s [see in this issue “More Debate on the Balkans,” FE #360, Spring, 2003]. Apparently, such jumbled, simple-minded invective, with its breathless …
Two Ecological Fancies
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
The Miraculous Birth Only later did some say that the first of what were to be many miraculous births was presaged in signs. Only much later did a long list of the omens appear. Some could not resist applying …
The Sad Truth
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Slobodan Milosevic has been at The Hague for a little more than a year, the first head of state to face a war crimes tribunal since the crime of genocide was codified in the UN Charter. The former autocrat stands …
Catastrophe as a way of life
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 356, Spring, 2002
1. Burn your bibles, not your neighbors Now that a significant number of both patricians and plebes of the American metropole, from wealthy futures traders to dishwashers, have become collateral damage in the crossfire between Jihad and McWorld, it …
Workers Aid & the Betrayals of the Left
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 356, Spring, 2002
The failure of dissidents in the West to come to terms with the Yugoslav debacle & the subsequent slaughters weighs like a nightmare on the mind & spirit of anyone trying to sort through the complex realities of the present …
Khafji—February 1991
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
“It’s rubble now.” —General Henry H. Shelton, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, surveying damage from U.S. missile attacks on Iraq, December 17, 1998. You were once a place before maps were drawn and what became of you was named, a …
News & Reviews
by Allan Antliff, David Watson, Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
In his foreword to Clifford Harper’s Designs for Anarchist Postage Stamps: Postage Stamps for After the Revolution, Colin Ward reminds us that some public institutions are worth saving. No radical activist could deny the immense importance of sending and receiving …
Bicycles and the Spirit
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
a review of Under the Sign of the Bicycle by Alon K. Raab (Portland: Gilgul Press), 31 pages, $3. from the Community Cycling Center, 2407 NE Alberta, Portland OR 97211.