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by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
The Fifth Estate Interviews
by Bob Fleck, Mike Kerman
Fifth Estate # 77, April 17-30, 1969
John Mayall is one of the most respected white musicians playing the blues today. While the blues are popular and being utilized by many pop musicians who are good copyists and technically proficient, there are few original or innovative performers.
The Big March
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 7, April 1966
On Saturday, March 26, demonstrations protesting the war in Vietnam were held in Detroit as this city’s effort in the Second International Days of Protest. In preparation for this event, sponsored by the Detroit Committee to End the War in …
Briefs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970
Ontario May Abolish Pot Laws OTTAWA, Ont. (LNS)—Canadian Health Minister John Munro has indicated that the Canadian government is considering action within months to liberalize, and possibly abolish, laws which ban possession and use of marijuana. Munro told a Canadian …
Mixed Mead-ear
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
John Mayall is an incredible musician—insomuch that not only is he a formidably versatile and adept instrumentalist, but he possesses a respect for his music which is unswerving.
Pontiac’s speech to the whiteman
by Dave Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Out of the blue sky, out of the waters, out of the woods, of the deer, the beaver, the bush, the bird flies, out of my people, the blood, out of so many moons in this place a man
Beatle News
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
LONDON (LNS)—The Beatles are considering doing a series of free concerts in the U.S. next spring or early summer, according to a report in the rock tabloid, Rolling Stone. The concerts would be an expression of the Beatles’ thanks for …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
This newspaper, WSU’s South End, and the Inner City Voice are going to sponsor a revolutionary newspaper conference on April 11, 12, and 13. It will be held on the Wayne University campus. The need for such a conference rises …
Excerpts from a Rebellion
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
The following are excerpts from stories published in the Fifth Estate immediately following the July 1967 events. Reading them a half century later, one is saddened and angered by the fact that the causes of the Rebellion—police brutality, racial discrimination, …
White Panther Statement
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968
First I must say that this statement, like all statements is bullshit without an active program to back it up. We have a program which is on-going and total and which must not be confused with anything that is said …
Czechago Blasted by Panel
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
When the President appointed a Commission to study violence after Chicago’s freak-out Convention activity last August, not even the most turned on prophet in the movement could have suspected the bombshell report which would become, after a single day on …
Serve the People Coalition News
by Len Schafer
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
“We have finally seen that we are brothers and sisters in spite of ideological differences. We finally sense that we hold much in common.” —STP Coalition Working together on this basis, 16 community based organizations got together May 19 to …
Poem for Warner Stringfellow
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969
Detective Lieutenant, Detroit Narcotics Squad, who has been single-handedly responsible for busting me on two separate occasions for possessing and selling marijuana . and who stumbled into my new apartment last night by accident over a year since the last …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 98, February 4-18, 1970
“Where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the establishment, violence may be the only effective response.” —Justice William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court “Violence? We hate it. But is it violent to shoot a cop who …
Detroit 1967 Rebellion
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
The July, 1967 Detroit rebellion left 42 dead, hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and scars still unhealed today. The Fifth Estate office was in a hard-hit area: the August 1, 1967 issue featured first-hand accounts from staff members …
MOVE Background
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
It’s difficult for a newspaper to admit ignorance, but in the MOVE situation in Philadelphia—we admit it. After MOVE’s shoot-out with the police in that city on Aug. 8 to protect their home (see “Police Attack MOVE,” FE #293-294, August …
Inner City Voice hit by Censorship
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
“Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom…of the press.” —First Amendment, United States Constitution “It’s a free country, but it’s their thing.” —John Sinclair, Detroit House of Correction, July, 1966
Examining Zerzan
by Bob Brubaker, E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), Fifth Estate Collective, John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Much of primitivist theorist John Zerzan’s early work appeared in the Fifth Estate. His Cassandra-like predictions of imminent collapse of modern society began in 1976 with his FE article, “The Decline and Fall of Everything” [FE # 268, January, 1976]—a …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
The Fifth Estate: I have read your newspaper many times and for the most part, found it very enlightening. You have helped answer many of my questions, and set me on the right foot on some important issues. Now, …
Cops and Freaks
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
The Detroit Police has begun a reign of terror in the Warren-Forest area near Wayne University.