I remember that there was a time not too long ago when yours truly sat in one of Detroit’s few coffee houses wanting so badly to have a good time and hear some good music that I actually applauded the …
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What’s On
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 1, November 19-December 2, 1965
FRIDAY LECTURE: An Evening With Clifford West. Bloomfield Art Association. 6 p.m. Admission charge. 11/19
The San Francisco Mime Troupe
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
And now ladies and gentlemen… The San Francisco Mime Troupe is preparing for its third annual cultural assault on Detroit. Presented by this newspaper, the guerrilla theatre group whose home ground is the public parks of San Francisco and Berkeley, …
Joseph Déjacque
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
Joseph Déjacque was a major 19th-century communist anarchist political theorist and visionary utopian writer, born in Besancon, France on December 27, 1821. To celebrate the bicentennial year of his birth, two New Orleans-based groups, are convening a Déjacque Bicentennial Conference …
Census Resisters Snub Government
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 302, June 1, 1980
The 1980 census has come and gone without much ado. On the face of it, it appears as though most Americans dutifully mailed back their forms and provided the government with its constitutionally mandated information needed to apportion each state’s …
Wars of Liberation
by Sidney Lens
Fifth Estate # 8, May, 1966
Reprinted from Liberation Magazine. Secretary of State Dean Rusk doesn’t seem to appreciate the monumental irony of his own position. On the one hand he insists fervidly on the right of small nations like South Vietnam to independence”: on the …
Kelly Pflug-Back Sentenced — Issue 388
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
Kelly Pflug-Back sentenced to 15 months for attacks in Toronto by Fifth Estate Fifth Estate writer and editor, Kelly Rose Pflug-Back, was sentenced by a Canadian court July 19 to 15 months in prison for militant actions carried out by …
FE Criticized & Our Response
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 291, April 30, 1978
To the Fifth Estate: The letter from “Kirk Johnson” (FE #290, March 2, 1978), which equated Fifth Estate’s practice of running a profit-making book service (to support itself) with Search & Destroy’s record company ads (for the same end), makes …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 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: …
Comments on Revolutionary Violence
by Muswell Hillbillie, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977
Muswell Hillbillie Responds: Hi FE Folks, After reading the two letters (FE #287, October 28, 1977) responding to my article in the August FE (#285, August, 1977), I have decided to abandon the use of the term “terrorism,” because I …
Party Like It’s 1929!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008
Common radical wisdom suggests that capitalism won’t crumble on its own, so imagine the ironically comforting confidence with which we have watched the system convulse over the last few months. But as Don LaCoss reminds us in “The Disasters of …
Resister Update
by Mitchel Cohen
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
FE readers may remember the case of Danny Gillis [Fifth Estate #337, Late Summer 1991], a black man from Baltimore, who refused to board the Marine Corps bus to Saudi Arabia last December 17, and was beaten up (with his …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 89, October 2-15, 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: …
Pig Riot Manual Exposed!
by Howard Kohn
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
(via The Ann Arbor Argus) When the insurrection of July, 1967 began, Detroit police were ready with Schutzstaffel rules.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 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: …
Anarchy and Ecstasy
by Hakim Bey
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
a review of Anarchy & Ecstasy: Visions of Halcyon Days by John Moore. Aporia Press, 308 Canberwell New Rd., London SE5 UK, 44 pp., $4. Available from FE Books.
Calendar of Resistance
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
June 28-July 5 – Earth First! Round River Rendezvous Annual gathering of the Earth First! Movement. Contact: www.maineef.org, maineEF@yahoo.com, 1-800-MY-YAHOO mailbox # 922-487-3887, 224 West Side Drive, Verona Island, ME 04416
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 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: …
Black Workers’ Power
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 92, November 13-26, 1969
Another letter has been engraved on the tombstone of the dying United Auto Workers bureaucracy as 300 members of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers gathered outside Cobo Hall Sunday morning, Nov. 9, to protest the racist practices of the …
Campaign ’66
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966
“The free election of masters eliminates neither the masters nor the slaves.” —Herbert Marcuse American politics, as has been noted here before, is the politics of non-alternatives and pseudo-choices. If we needed any evidence, the present election provides it. Search …