The possible trial and execution of United States airmen as war criminals by the Hanoi government has been handled by the administration and by the press as a crucial turning point in the war in Vietnam. Partially to justify the …
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U.S Marine Says No To Invasions
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 317, Summer 1984
It’s too bad that he had to hear the word from Allah, but still it is heartening to know that at least one Marine refused to be used as cannon fodder in Reagan’s reckless war schemes. Marine Cpl. Alfred Griffen, …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 272, May 1976
Hungary ’56 by Andy Anderson Black & Red-Solidarity 138 pp., $1.25 Revolt In Socialist Yugoslavia by Fredy Perlman Black & Red 23 pp., $.25
Two Poems
by Christina Pacosz
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
The poetry of Christina Pacosz is remarkable for its insistent and deeply compassionate crossing of that deceptive boundary between what we have been tragically trained to think of as the separate domains of culture and nature. Grief, protest, nurture and …
A Carnival Parade of Political Forms
by Eric Laursen
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
a review of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976
JUST PUBLISHED! Letters of Insurgents by Sophia Nachalo & Yarostan Vochek Black & Red 831 pp., $4.50 (add 35 cents postage After 20 years, two participants in an Eastern European insurrection recreate through a series of letters their often contradictory …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
Dear Brothers: Myself and another head, were very mellow on the bunker line, when we happened to glance at your paper “The Fifth Estate.” Since then it hasn’t left our hands. Our souls and hearts would be yours if we …
Earth house hold
Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969
a review of Earth House Hold by Gary Snyder, New Directions Paperback, 143 pp., $1.95
No Ten Million for Cuba
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
HAVANA (LNS) In two speeches May 19 and 20, Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced that the projected mark of ten million tons of sugar would not be reached this year.
A Second (& More Honest) Mao Tsetung Memorial Meeting
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
Hold high the banner of Mao Tsetung’s immoral contributions and the achievements and lessons of the Cultural Revolution! COMRADES! Fellow Marxist-Leninists of the Revolutionary Proletarian Vanguard! Let us be open and honest, using the revolutionary method of criticism-self-criticism to sum …
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Cuba’s New Constitution
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
Pity the poor Marxist-Leninist militants now bereft of the police states for which they so earnestly apologized. But, not real pity as their dishonesty has caused as much damage to revolutionary possibilities as have the objects of their political ardor.
Eat It
by Judie Davis
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
It’s been so long now since I’ve written a column that I hardly know where to begin. I was turned off writing about recipes and am hoping this column can take a different direction, but it’s all still going around …
What’s Wrong With Nuclear Power?
by Adam Baum
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
Nuclear power is a primary threat in the ongoing global environmental struggles at the end of the twentieth century. However, nuclear power is an issue many shy away from because of its complex and technical nature and the opaque power …
A Changing Vietnam
by Jonny Ball
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
Having lived and worked in Vietnam for a year now, I have only a slightly better understanding of the country than when I first arrived. This is a country of extremely complex paradoxes and antagonisms. I remain dumbfounded by the …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave. Detroit—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that you give …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
Amazing! This issue follows the last faster than any one since we became a quarterly ten years ago. In good part it is motivated by the quickening pace of political events throughout the world and the sense that revolution is …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and can be found at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 48201 (telephone-313-831-6800). Our hours vary, but we are generally open on Monday and Thursday afternoons (from 1pm to 5pm) and at …
From Adoration to Rebellion
by Huang Ho Group (Hong Kong)
Fifth Estate # 290, March 2, 1978
Introduction The article below is part of a series of discussions that took place in Hong Kong in the early part of 1977, in which the participants (all ex-Red Guard members) attempt to make clear their reaction to Mao Tse-Tung …
Interview with a Chinese Rebel
by Mu Xidi
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
The following interview with Mu Xidi, a former sailor, Chinese rebel, and since 1990, a refugee in Barcelona was taken from the French book Bureaucratie, Bagnes et Business (Bureaucracy, Prisons and Profits), published in Paris by L’insomniaque last year.
The Press of Peace
by Ben Habeebe
Fifth Estate # 33, July 1-15, 1967
Hey! Hey! LBJ—Look What’s happenin’ in America today: Vietnam Summer, 1967. From coast-to-coast 4,000 people in 48 states have stepped forward to work on Vietnam Summer projects to end the war…and that number is on the rise. Here in Detroit …