The Rev. Charles Williams is a conservative, Negro, Republican Baptist. Robert Tindal is the executive director of the tradition-bound Civil Rights Organization to The Establishment—the NAACP. The Rev. Albert Cleage is a militant black power advocate and chairman of the …
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The Politics of Carnival
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
FE Note: In the random manner carnivals can get out of hand, so, too, does this article appear in our pages. A staff member sent it to us months ago, and we found it tucked away in our on-line files. …
Protesters Fibrillate Bush
by Rob Broccoli
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
It rarely happens that the king comes in contact with rabble, but he did here in Michigan on May 4, the 21st anniversary of the state murders at Kent State Univ.
GIs Resist the War
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 94, December 11-24, 1969
GIs Resist the WarFort Dix FT. DIX, N.J.—The trials of the Ft. Dix 38 accused of a variety of charges stemming from a stockade rebellion last June are continuing.
Shorts
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
A.F. Kooks The Air Force admitted in a recent hearing that at least three men with dangerous psychiatric problems had been assigned to guard a super-secret nuclear weapons installation at Hamilton Air Force Base, 25 miles south of San Francisco. …
Pigs get blank check
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968
Inhaling deeply on his political hookah, Detroit mayor Jerry Cavanagh, leading contender for the August “Uptight Honkie of the Month” award, attempted to justify his approval of the controversial “stop and frisk” ordinance which moments earlier he had signed into …
Is syndicalism outdated?
by Paul Buhle
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
a review of Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present Edited by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini. Chicago, Haymarket Books, 2011, 417pp, $19
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
Harrises Freed Bill and Emily Harris, the Symbionese Liberation Army members who pleaded guilty to kidnapping newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst in 1974 and were imprisoned in 1978, will be paroled in June. Their attorney, Stuart Hanlon, said Bill Harris will …
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, …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
Dear Dr. Schoenfeld, Regarding your column warning about literal blow jobs. A few years ago, one of the psychiatric journals carried a paper on an unusual accidental death of a woman following coital foreplay. Her lover had an impulse to …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
It couldn’t happen in Detroit! That was the proud proclamation of our city’s leaders all summer long until that fateful morning of July 23. Detroit had supposedly been the nation’s leader among big cities in making civil rights progress.
Mothers of Invention
by Paula Stone
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
With his Groucho eyes, Punch nose and Howdy Doody body, Frank Zappa is a replete image for his particular brand of satire. The medium for his message is the presentation of The Mothers of Invention, who recently appeared at the …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 58, July 18-31, 1968
An interesting entry to the TV “talk show” circuit locally is “Haney’s People,” at 11:15 p.m., on Channel 7 (WXYZ-TV).
GI coffee house bust set up
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
WRIGHTSTOWN, N.J. (LNS)—This town is a commercial appendage to Fort Dix. Wrightstown is shopping centers, gas stations, greaseburger palaces and bars.
The Coat Puller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
You know that it would be untrue / You know that I would be a liar / If I was to say to you / “Girl, we can’t get much higher”—/ Come on baby light my fire / Come on …
Fifth Estate on the Web
by Quincy B. Thorn
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
Longtime contributor Penelope Rosemont has given the Fifth Estate a great many articles and graphics, all of them insightful and inciting to revolt (See her Fall 2013, “The Poisonous Cobra of Surrealism” essay). Her achievements go beyond writing and graphic …
The Coat Puller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968
Editor’s note: Brother Sinclair’s Coatpuller column is re-printed here exactly as it appeared in this paper one year ago. It was written at the height of the July Rebellion and contains one of the best impressionistic sketches of that week.
Poetry
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
MY CUNT POEM by Lisa Last My cunt is a battleground of life and death pain and pleasure it opens up to swallow whole beings then spits them out on command My cunt is a battleground of senators and stockbrokers …
Teach-In: Fights & Speeches
by Edward Rom
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
Monday, Nov. 7, the Wayne Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged a Teach-In as part of the November Mobilization for Peace, Jobs, and Freedom at Wayne University’s Community Arts Auditorium. Breakthrough, a militant right-wing group, provided a slight …
Ford Turns One Hundred
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
This year the Ford motor company celebrates its 100th anniversary. To proponents and critics alike, Ford is the perfect illustration of the corporate world-view. Henry Ford’s rationalization of the assembly-line process was a great advance for industrial technology, and the …