July ’87 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Detroit riots: the largest American rebellion of the century. Reactions to an early morning police raid on a ghetto after-hours drinking spot began with stones and bricks aimed at cop cars and …
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The Empire Strikes Back at Itself
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
Media hoopla commemorating the Quincentennial of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to the New World, however sanitized, should have convinced anyone paying attention that the Spanish conquest was a disaster for both Native Americans and Africans.
A Word on Civilization & Collapse
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
Civilizations have come and gone over the past 6,000 years or so. Now, there’s just one—-various cultures, but a single, global civilization.
Gay Meeting Causes Church Dispute
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
In a virtually unprecedented move, Reverend Robert Morrison, rector of St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church, has called for the resignation of Richard Emrich as diocesan Bishop of Michigan, calling him “unchristian, inhuman and irresponsible.”
Letters To The Editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
To the Editor: The first meaning in The American College Dictionary defines “reform” as “…the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, etc.; social reform.”
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 269, February, 1976
Dreary Marx Dear FE: Our high at your printing of our article on the decomposition of capitalist society waned appreciably when we noted that about 30% of the original had been deleted. We had, of course, performed our own editing …
Howling Wilderness and the Promised Land
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
In mid-August, a three year-old lawsuit charging that environmentalist groups were religious extremists comparable to some of the more violent, intolerant ultra-orthodox Islamic sects collapsed when the attorney failed to meet a re-filing deadline with the U.S. Supreme Court.
“To Embrace the World Rather than Conquer It”
by Dogbane Campion (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
a review of Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings, by Joanna Macy, John Seed, et al, illustrations by Dailan Pugh, New Society Publishers, 122 pages, paper, $8.95
Uptight Honkies Meet
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
There are only two paths open to a country whose internal and external empires are in the state of decay prevailing in the United States. That of the left or fascism.
More Reasons to Visit New Orleans
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
This issue of FE was finished on the first anniversary of Katrina. A year later, our friends in New Orleans still need our help. At the beginning of June, our comrade, regular contributor, friend, and Louisiana native John Clark wrote: …
Seattle’s Left Bank Books
by Sylvie Kashdan
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
Good news! Seattle’s Left Bank Books is republishing Letters of Insurgents, Fredy Perlman’s historical novel about love and revolution in the East bloc and Western states of the mid-20th century.
Sounds
by Wilson Lindsey
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
This column is primarily concerned with contemporary jazz, relevant jazz, music with not only social significance, but sounds derived from environment, relating directly from experience. The very word jazz to many listeners conjures up stereotyped images. Most common is the …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 81, June 12-25, 1969
To the Editor: In March of this year, citizens of the Republic of New Africa suffered physical attacks by the Detroit Police Dept., were deprived of their legal rights by the police and the Wayne County Prosecutor, and were the …
The Chicago Conspiracy
by Chris Singer
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
CHICAGO—The repression that many have forecast may have come.
Me Nobody Knows
by Sandy Feldheim
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
a review of The Me Nobody Knows: Children’s Voices from the Ghetto edited by Stephen M. Joseph. Avon Books, 1969, paperback, 95 cents.
We know the Wolves are On our Side
by Franklin Rosemont
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
This is an excerpt from a 2003 essay, “Surrealism & Wilderness” that is included in Rosemont’s anthology Revolution in the Service of the Marvelous: Surrealist Contributions to the Critique of Miserabilism (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 2004).
Briefs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Cheerleaders of the Revolution Radical cheerleaders give a playful, yet militant, feminist flavor to anti-authoritarian protest. After reading through the third edition of the Radical Cheerleader Handbook, I want to grab a pair of pompoms and take to the …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969
The shit is coming down all over America from Greensboro, N.C. to Berkeley, Calif. Blood is flowing in the streets as people battle for their rights.
Devil’s Music
by Don LaCoss, Paul Garon
Fifth Estate # 361, Summer 2003
Interview by Don LaCoss, April 2003, Chicago
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970
To the Editors: I’d like to reply to SP Marc Nadeau whose trash was published in the Feb. 4, F.E. [Letters, FE #98, February 4-18, 1970] Baby, I’m not under 25, and am old enough to be your mother. …