Note about cover of print edition: This follows Vol. 21 No. 2 Wisconsin draft resister Gillam Kerley, 26, was sentenced May 29 to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine. This is the harshest sentence received by any convicted …
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RFK or LBJ?
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 20, December 15-31, 1966
The Vietnam War has exacerbated what is clearly every generation’s occupational hazard: the desperate dissatisfaction with the ruling clique’s policies by people who lack the power, and often the age, to do anything about it. The frustration has been further …
The Strait
by Lorraine Perlman
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
a review of The Strait: An Unfinished Novel by Fredy Perlman. Black & Red, Detroit
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
The FE Bookstore is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit. We share space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and may be reached at the same phone number: (313)831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our hours …
Kropotkin’s Metaphysics of Nature
by Graham Purchase
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
An Introduction to Graham Purchase’s Kropotkin Graham Purchase’s essay reveals what a subtle and revolutionary thinker Kropotkin was. While underestimating the importance of the mutual aid theory (certainly it was more than the one per cent of Kropotkin’s theoretical perspective …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 292, June 19, 1978
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 …
Somali Pirates
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
“The past is not only not dead, it’s not even past.” — W. Faulkner
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 301, February 26, 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 …
The Golden Age of the Barbarians
by James C. Scott
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
James C. Scott has written extensively on how people have transitioned from tribal societies to civilization as part of the process of state formation, and how resistance to state domination has occurred in this context. In Seeing Like a State: …
Whales
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
The point is that man is literally undoing the work of organic evolution. By creating vast urban agglomerations of concrete, metal and glass, by overriding and undermining the complex, often subtly organized ecosystems that constitute local differences in the natural …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
Back In Stock! Bolo Bolo, Anarchy Comix & other FE Favorites SOCIETY AGAINST THE STATE by Pierre Clastres
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 317, Summer 1984
On September 27, 1983, during a demonstration protesting the visit of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Ken Deyarmond, a Toronto activist, was pushed from behind toward Thatcher. He was tackled by a cop, thrown to the sidewalk, handcuffed, and charged …
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Fifth Estate Archive Back issues Resource pages Fifth Estate Live interviews This section of our site contains articles from Fifth Estate’s past issues, grouped by the number of the issue in which they were published. You can also purchase back …
Prison Letter from John
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
Sept. 30, 1969 Dear People, Sorry I haven’t written in so long but I wanted to get settled up here before writing you again. There seems to be a lot more going on out there in the streets than happens …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate Newspaper (?) [sic] and can be found at 4403 Second Avenue—telephone (313) 831-6800. Our hours vary quite a bit, so it’s always best to give us a …
Chile Uprising for Land & Freedom
by Anne Petermann, Gary Hughes, Orin Langelle
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
The sun of the austral summer rose warm on Santiago, the capital of Chile, as hundreds of thousands of women began to take to the streets on International Women’s Day. This traditional day of feminist mobilization celebrated annually on March …
Interview with Ed Sanders
by Ed Sanders
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
Editor’s Note: Ed Sanders, founder and lead singer of the fuck-rock group The Fugs, is a legendary figure on the avant-garde poetry-peace-dope-fucking in the streets scene in the Lower East Side of New York City. A native of Kansas, Sanders …
Million Refuse Registration
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 308, January 19, 1982
Faced with upwards of a million men who have refused to register for the draft, President Reagan announced on December 10, a halt to prosecutions scheduled in the cases of 161 resisters, This means that currently there are no legal …
Unclassified Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
Send to: The Fifth Estate, 1107 W. Warren, Detroit, Mich. 48201, phone 831-6800 Unclassified costs 50 cents per line per week. Figure 5 words per line. A word is a word, including I and 2 letter words. A phone number …
Who Are the Real Terrorists?
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 289, January 24, 1978
The following is a letter forwarded to us (after translation) by friends in Seattle. Though some of the factual information has already been published previously in the FE (see Oct./Nov. and Dec. ’77 issues) we found its first-hand nature and …