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Sam Mbah Dies
by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
Sam Mbah, Nigerian activist, journalist, lawyer, and co-author of African Anarchism: The History of a Movement, passed away November 6, after suffering unexpected complications from a heart condition for which he had recently undergone surgery.
Report from Algiers
by Kathy Mulherin
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
(via Dock of the Bay/UPS) Eldridge Cleaver is coming home within the year—maybe; Kathleen Cleaver gave birth to a baby boy named after black Cuban revolutionary Antonio Maceo; The Black Panther Party is setting up centers of information and propaganda …
Free Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
Though we do not accept commercial advertising, this Unclassified ad space is free for our readers’ use. We do not accept ads over the telephone, so please send your ads in writing to our office at: 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 7, April 1966
Drums are rolling early and heavy in the Michigan Democratic Party’s forthcoming internal civil war with Detroit’s 37-year-old Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh pitted against just-retired Asst. Sec. of State for African Affairs and former governor, 55-year-old G. Mennen villiams.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 299, October 22, 1979
Bad In Stone Age Dear Fifth Estate, After reading the June 19th issue [FE #298, June 19, 1979] I would like to make some comments regarding your attack on “civilization” and your glorification of hunter/ gatherer life.
May Protests in Detroit
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 329, Summer, 1988
After months of intense organizing, Detroit’s Evergreen Alliance carried off a four-day “Mobilization to Save the Great Lakes,” May 13-16, centered around opposition to the world’s largest trash incinerator scheduled to open in May 1989.
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 6, March 20-April 1, 1966
Liberal Detroiters were recently mildly surprised and, perhaps, even a little bit shocked, by a recent picket line thrown by the West Central Organization (WCO) before a union hall where a victory” fund-raising dinner was being held for recently re-elected …
San Francisco GIs March
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
from LNS and the Guardian SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12 — Over 10,000 marchers turned out on a drizzly, overcast morning to show their solidarity with the largest anti-war march ever organized by active-duty GIs and veterans.
Lessons from Cancun
by Mouse
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
“…[A] small number of big WTO Members are leading an undesirable globalization that is inhumane, environmentally degrading, farmer-killing, and undemocratic. It should be stopped immediately. Otherwise the false logic of neo-liberalism will wipe out the diversity of global agriculture and …
Medieval Revolts against Church and State
by John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976
In a fairly recent booklet, I came across a very standard view of pre-modern class society. It was stated that the life of the individual was completely controlled, and based on something quite external to him. “The central mode of …
King-Spock Ticket Discussed at Conference
by Harvey Robb
Fifth Estate # 37, September 1-15, 1967
At this point, the only safe speculation regarding the New Politics Conference to be held in Chicago over Labor Day is that you shouldn’t believe what the underground press is going to say about it.
Alt-Right Brain Drain
by Nick Oltmann
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
Has an unintended alliance of Silicon Valley censorship, alternative news rebuttals, mainstream journalistic scrutiny, and especially antifa street-fighters, discouraged what passes as the intellectual wing of the most reviled political movement of the last half-century?
Turn on the Light and Say Goodnight
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
“A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food each year.” — Dixy Lee Ray, former head of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), now governor of Washington “You can’t have a riskless …
Turn on the Light and Say Goodnight
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
Reprinted from FE #283, June 1977.
Civilian-GI Anti-War Marches Sweep Country
by Guardian (New York)
Fifth Estate # 77, April 17-30, 1969
The anti-war movement surged back onto the streets Easter weekend with major demonstrations taking place in six cities, and smaller actions in 44 others.
Revolution as Spectacle
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
A review of Venezuela: Revolution as Spectacle by Rafael Uzcategui, Introduction by Octavio Alberola, Translated by Chaz Bufe, Tucson, See Sharp Press, 2011, 232 pages; seesharppress.com
JFK: Cold Warrior
by Jack Straw
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
“I shall never be able to forget where I was standing on that dramatic day when President John Fitzgerald Kennedy nearly killed me. It was during the nuclear confrontation that arose out of his war on Cuba.” —Christopher Hitchens in …
Stop the incinerator, Stop the megamachine…
by Ruby Lips
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
The continuing movement to stop Detroit’s killer incinerator reached a high point on June 3rd when over 500 people turned out to protest the existence of the $438-million polluter.
Ukraine
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
As we write at the end of March, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is at full fury with deaths and destruction increasing daily. By the time you read this, the conflict will hopefully have ended. If not, any number of …