NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (Liberation News Service)—The HUAC circus is coming to town once more. And the fireworks should fly in Washington.
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Jesus Called the Cops
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
“The National Black Economic Development Conference (NBEDC) will in no way yield to threats of prosecution for non-existent crimes or other intimidation. On the contrary, we will continue to press our demands which are known to be just by all, …
Thee Column
by Larry Kaplan
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
A high school diploma. Whether it’s meaningful or not is your own trip, but I think you’ll have to agree that it’s often an essential ingredient in getting a job or going to college in this bizarre country we inhabit. …
Detroit Diggers Start Digging
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
A Detroit Diggers Society has materialized in the Warren-Forest area and is in the process of being “organized” by two neighborhood hippies, Dan Vincent and Cindy Lee. Organization to the Diggers means getting a place to operate out of, scrounging …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
To Those People Who Like The Stooges: I used to like ’em too, just like everyone else, caught-up in that follow-the-other-people, emotional group-cohesion thing. But then I began to think! The Stooges are one example of a group that takes …
Good Karma
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 1969
a review of “Karma,” Pharoah Sanders (Impulse)
Fort Dix Riot Trial Starts
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 92, November 13-26, 1969
But in two days of court martial proceedings (Nov. 4 and 5), the Army has been able to get only two scared young GIs—both of whom admit having been threatened with charges of their own if they refused to help …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
Dear Editor and Staff: Is it wrong to hope? Is it wrong to have a dream and to keep searching for the realization of that dream? I’ve been told that anything worth obtaining is invariably very difficult to obtain. To …
Fifth Estate contributors
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
This issue was edited and produced in Detroit with extensive assistance from our friends and comrades of the FE collective around the country. Also, thanks is due to our contributing artists and photographers.
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 20, December 15-31, 1966
I keep stressing the LOCAL in this column because it is precisely what we all have to work with—what is in front of us. Our lives are here, at this instant, and we should make the most of our local …
EF! Trial Ends with Deal
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
The U.S. government got the pound of flesh it wanted from the radical environmental movement, but not from Earth First! co-founder Dave Foreman, the prime target of a three-year FBI entrapment scheme.
The Berkman Conference
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
A few days before the commencement in Pittsburgh of the July 23rd conference, “A Remembrance of Alexander Berkman, The Man Who Shot Frick,” Sunfrog and I headed for a little town on the Pennsylvania/West Virginia border called Confluence where several …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969
Unclassifieds cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
Book reviews
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
a review of Richard Wright, a biography by Constance Webb. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, NYC, 442 pages $8.95. William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond, edited by John Henrik Clarke. Beacon Press, Boston, hardbound $4.95, paperback: $1.95
FE Live
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
Fifth Estate Live Tuesdays, 1 p.m. EDT, 10 a.m. PDT [ WATCH LIVE STREAM ] or [ WATCH LATER ] or [ LISTEN ] Fifth Estate Live is a weekly hour-long livestreamed broadcast each Tuesday at 1 p.m. Eastern, 10 …
Farce at Oakland
by Oscar Garcia
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
What a good year this has been for farce. We’re talking about theatre here, not politics.
Editorial
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
As several people who have seen this issue prior to publication have noted, the correct quote is “The love of money is the root of all evil,” but its truncated form seems more accurate than the original. Money itself, not …
Anarchists & The War in Ukraine
by Thomas Martin
Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023
Despite the appeal of nationalism among today’s Ukrainians, the legacy of anarchism in that tormented region has not been forgotten. In fact, it is resurgent, though not always in ways that anarchists in more comfortable lands might like.
Candy: doesn’t make it
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
“Candy” must be the world’s first avant-garde Gallop poll movie; there’s something for everybody… dirty old men, freaks, sadists, mom and dad, the kiddies, and homosexuals. The director, Christian Marquand, started out with a fool-proof formula guaranteed to appeal to …
Huey Convicted in Oakland
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
The Black Panthers have begun a campaign for the immediate admission to bail of their Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton, who was convicted Sept. 8th of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death, Oct. 28th of last year, of an …