During the past few months, Michigan activists fighting the global economy’s developing market for water extraction have fought a multi-national corporation, the legal system, and the state’s liberal governor.
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Vets Oppose Rambo
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Despite its much publicized popularity, the film “Rambo…Part II”, has been blasted nationwide by many groups and individuals. A San Francisco Vietnam veterans group, calling themselves “Veterans’ Speakers Alliance,” picketed in July in front of a local theater showing the …
World Forums Fighting for Water and Justice
by Veronica Lake
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
In preparation for the fourth World Social Forum, held in Mumbai, India, January 16-21, a call went out around the world for people to come to Delhi to work out a program of protection for water and water access to …
Danger: Inflammatory Literature
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
A review of Scratching the Tiger’s Belly by Ron Sakolsky, 2012, Eberhardt Press, Portland, Oregon, 160pp., price listed as, “Until we achieve a world free of currency, this book is $9.95,” eberhardtpress.org.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
SRAF Report To Whomever Is Interested: Well, it seems it was a pretty tame bunch of tabbies up at Wildcat Mountain late in July. Once again, nothing was accomplished at a Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (SRAF) conference, but the determination …
Birmingham Student Paper Assails Fifth Estate
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 33, July 1-15, 1967
Editors note: The Fifth Estate continued to win readers and supporters throughout the Detroit Metropolitan area. The following review of the paper recently appeared in the school newspaper of Covington Jr. High School in Birmingham. Covington student Claudia Marcun II …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
Welcome to the Spring 1992 issue of the Fifth Estate (Vol. 27, No. 1, our 339th paper)! As usual, we are later than we had planned, due in part to our worst nightmare: the breakdown, in the heat of production, …
Detroit Incinerator Now Part of Landscape
by Lewis Cannon
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
The Detroit trash incinerator, focus of years of opposition in the community, continues to operate in spite of numerous technical, legal and financial problems. Since last Winter, the City of Detroit has been involved in negotiations to sell the facility …
An Open Entrance to the Shut Palace of Anarcho-Surrealism
by David Tighe
Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023
a review of Surrealism and Anarchism by Pietro Ferrua, edited by Ron Sakolsky. Eberhardt Press, 2022.
Red-Brown Politics
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
Fascists are seeking to exploit and co-opt anti-war forces in the US, and build support for war criminals like Assad and Putin. Anarchists have a responsibility to reject such overtures and offer solidarity to those resisting in Syria.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
Dear Sirs, I have been a subscriber to your paper for a long time and hope to be a subscriber for a long time to come, but that’s not why I wrote. I wish to congratulate you on your last …
Soldiers Busted
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
On Saturday, January 4, Victory Fidelman and Ron Halstead, two members of the Resistance, along with two servicemen, Seaman Norman Gelnaw and Ray Greer, a member of U.S. Army Military Intelligence and a Vietnam veteran, distributed copies of The Bond …
Vietnam Summer
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
There is, even though you may not have noticed it lately, still a war going on in Vietnam.
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
FRI. FEB. 21 KNIFE IN THE WATER, film presented by Films Arts International in the Library Lecture Hall, Marygrove College. 7:30 p.m. JOHN GARY, recording artist, will be appearing at Masonic Auditorium. 8:20 p.m. Tickets: $5, $4, $3. MEN AND …
GI Caucus
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
A caucus of anti-war GIs meeting at the Feb. 15 Student Mobilization Committee conference in Cleveland decided to call for a national anti-war GI meeting. GIs at the conference represented bases from Alaska to Texas, and from Ft. Dix, N.J. …
Anatomy of a Strike
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
A green pickup truck with living space for ten or twelve if you squeeze together. Rain-soaked, faded picket signs barely readable: RECOGNIZE OUR UNION, WSU USES STUDENTS FOR CHEAP LABOR, WSU IS ANTI-LABOR.
China Supports US on Taiwan
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
Now that the Hua Kuo-feng faction of the Chinese Communist party is firmly in control of the People’s Republic any number of Maoist concepts have been slated for the waste basket of history.
Anti-War March
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
The mass anti-war march set for April 15 down Woodward Ave. may have wider support than all previous such demonstrations. Plans call for the march to begin at the Wayne State University campus at 2:00 pm and march to Kennedy …
Stopping the Incinerator, Starting the Movement
by Lynne Clive (Marilynn Rashid)
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
There were a number of inaccurate and misleading statements made in E. B. Maple’s both congratulatory and critical article on the Evergreen Alliance and its May Mobilization to Save the Great Lakes in the last issue [FE #329, Summer, 1988]. …