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News and Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
When I compare the straight columns, boxed graphics and even type of the Fifth Estate to the graphic wildness and literary adventure of the ‘zine Babyfish Lost Its Momma, it makes me wonder if the FE hasn’t gotten a little …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 69, December 26, 1968-January 8, 1969
Dear Fifth Estate, Due to a surprising thing to come, I wish to cancel my subscription. I’m on a heavy cruiser off the DMZ (Vietnam) coast. On 18 Jan. 1969 the ship returns to the United States and I …
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970
in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure THURS MARCH 5 DETROIT TUBE WORKS, turn on your tube to John Lee Hooker, Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, Terry Reid and Dr. Paul Lowenger of Lafayette Clinic, plus an Open City rap. Channel 56, 10:30 …
Class War in Chicago
by Chris Clancy
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of The Haymarket Affair, Chicago, 1886: The “Great Anarchist” Riot and Trial by Corrine J. Naden. Moffa Press 1968
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 382, Spring, 2010
Send letters to fe – at – fifthestate – dot – org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale, MI 48220 All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten; letters may be edited for length.
Reviews
by Don LaCoss, J.L. Dale, John Brinker, Spencer Sunshine
Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008
Oystercatcher #5 Review by J.L. Dale I’m young, but I still had grade-school fantasies about bathing my neighborhood in a heavy wave of pirate radio–my voice and my songs out into the world.
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
On Saturday, June 22, a demonstration expressing support for French workers and students was held in front of the office of the French consulate in the First National Building in downtown Detroit.
The Familiar Presence
by Allen Ginsberg
Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970
Editors’ Note: The trial of the Chicago Conspiracy 7 is a trial of one consciousness by another. On December 11, Allen Ginsberg, poet and man of the planet, came to Julius Hoffman’s courtroom to speak in behalf of Abbie Hoffman, …
The Strategy of Concealment
by Roger Farr
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
Often, when I turn to the anarchist press these days, it’s certain I’ll find someone commenting on the lack of “clarity” in the discourse of the movement. In a recent editorial in Anarchy, for example, Lawrence Jarach writes “there is …
There’s More to Gangs than Just Gangs
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
Gang fever, like the Bird’s pitching, seems to have been just a-passing summer phenomenon. Both served their purpose for the Motor City and then disappeared. Of course, youth crime has not disappeared—just its exploitation by the media and city hall …
Armed Farces Day
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
MONTEREY, Calif. (LNS) — In over a dozen actions at military bases across the country on May 16, thousands of anti-war soldiers and civilians marched and rallied against the traditional celebration of Armed Forces Day.
Assaults on the Nuclear State
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
Fermi II Over the weekend of Sept. 30-Oct. 2, activists from around the country descended on the town of Monroe, Michigan to protest the restart of Detroit Edison’s crippled nuclear reactor, Fermi II.
Voltairine de Cleyre
by Robert Helms, Voltairine De Cleyre
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
Introduction by Robert Helms As interest in the history of anarchism increases with each passing year, we stumble across more lost gold mines of sources. I recently discovered one in Philadelphia which connects Voltairine de Cleyre, the celebrated anarchist speaker, …
The Question of Agriculture
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 331, Spring 1989
One irony of the deep ecology discussion is that almost at the same time that some deep ecologists were taking an explicit position for the abolition of agriculture as the prime cause of the widening spiral of civilization and ecological …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
THE ENEMY: If Hoover really did have RFK’s authorization to tap Martin Luther King’s phone why doesn’t he produce the signed memo that says so. James Bennett, director of Federal prisons for almost 30 years, has now written a book …
The DRUM Election
by Dick Parris
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
The struggle for political power within the United Auto Workers Union between the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the entrenched, conservative, white bureaucracy continued at the recent elections at Dodge local 3 of the Hamtramck Assembly Plant.
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective, john johnson
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
Compiled by john johnson KKK Does the Job for Us In November 2003, a bullet fired in the air during a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony near Johnson City, Tennessee came down and struck a participant in the head, critically …
The Revolution Begins in Bed
by John Landau
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
For me, daydreaming is a kind of prayer. To drift, to feel my body gently floating, to move with memory and the suggestiveness of phenomena, to be thankful, to enjoy, to praise this life with its wonder and vitality…this is …