Editors’ Note: William Leach is a member of the Detroit Black Panther Party and a staff member of the Inner City Voice and The South End newspapers. “Look, we ain’t going to work with white people…they aren’t serious…why do we …
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Army found guilty…sentenced to death
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970
Reprinted from The Bond: The Voice of the American Servicemen’s Union SEATTLE—GIs from Fort Lewis and McChord Air Force Base held a trial of the Brass and its war in Vietnam before an audience of 1,500 at the University of …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
NEW YORK—CBS president Frank Stanton (who fired the Smothers Bros.) passed down the word to Columbia Records to stop advertising in the dirty, little underground papers.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 94, December 11-24, 1969
Fellow Good Vibrationists, Ever since I’ve been reading Hank Malone’s articles, I acquired the irresistible urge to blast his ideas out of our midst into oblivion, where they belong. Malone’s reflections on art are a classical example of revolutionary cretinism.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
BOOKSTORE HOURS: Monday and Tuesday-1pm to 5pm—Wednesday 7pm to 10pm. LOCATION: 4403 Second (on the corner of Second & Canfield), Detroit, Michigan 48201
‘A First Class Texas Job’
by John Arden
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
Reprinted by permission from England’s PEACE NEWS: Oct. 7, 1966 Discussed in this article: Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane; Inquest by E.J. Epstein Somebody once said that “the man on the Clapham omnibus” was the sort of typical figure …
History of the Fifth Estate
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
“The Fifth Estate supports the cause of revolution everywhere.” —FBI Report In my estimation, the above twelve-word summary by the nation’s secret police serves adequately as an abbreviated history of this paper on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.
Postscript for the anti-capitalist movement
by Jennifer Whitney, John Jordan
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
Argentina may well prove to be the crisis which irrevocably splits the ever-widening crack in the neoliberal armor, especially if things continue to unravel in other parts of Latin America. Recent events in Venezuela, and the possibility of left wing …
The Alchemy of Luddism
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
for Diane di Prima St. John’s Eve (Midsummer) 2006 1. It’s the idea of code that’s cool not the actual bother of decipherment: the utopia of not having been in a state of anticipation or regret. The Dowager Empress took …
Janis Joplin
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 41, November 1-15, 1967
Mark me words, Janis Joplin is fated to be the next American pop superstar.
Saturn and Scientism
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
There she is, looking vaguely pornographic on the glossy covers of the weekly magazines, the planet Saturn. What have we discovered? I don’t know, I haven’t read them, feeling squashed as I do to the Earth by the giddying inertia …
They can’t get any nuder
by Robert Wolf
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
(Other Scenes/UPS) Tom Cushing added the last line of his play about nudism 40 years ago, then wrote above its original title: “The Unplayable Play.” The play jocularly concerned a nudist girl who invited her swain home, on the condition …
Explaining Anarchism to a Parent Can Be Tough!
by Steve Izma
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
a review of Anarchy Explained to My Father by Francis Dupuis-Deri and Thomas Deri; Translated from the French by John Gilmore. New Star Books, Vancouver, 2017
Interest v. Principal
by Andrew Mehall
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
a review of This Is Not a Photo Opportunity: The Street Art of Banksy Artist: Banksy, Photographs by Martin Bull. PM Press, 2014 pmpress.org
Poetry for Peltier
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
For 22 years the doors of justice have been closed to Leonard Peltier. Now, the door may be opening a crack. A few months ago AIM activist Dennis Banks announced that Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Chairman of the Senate Select …
What are we going to do now?
by William R. Boyer (Bill Boyer)
Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023
A review of The Clash: All the Albums, All the Songs by Martin Popoff. PM Press, 2022
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
Fri. Oct. 18 GRANDE BALLROOM fun with the Kensington Market and the fantastic MC-5. All sorts of psychedelic bullshit happening. Don’t forget to check out Barry Kramer’s groovy counter, he has a very complete assortment of English records, hippie Bob …
Civilization is Like a Jetliner
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
The night the Korean airliner crashed into the newspapers, I dreamed of a tornado. A tornado is a kind of spiral, which is the labyrinth and which is Death.
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
FRI. FEB. 21 KNIFE IN THE WATER, film presented by Films Arts International in the Library Lecture Hall, Marygrove College. 7:30 p.m. JOHN GARY, recording artist, will be appearing at Masonic Auditorium. 8:20 p.m. Tickets: $5, $4, $3. MEN AND …
Real Blues in Ann Arbor
by Howard A. Husock
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
Within the past year, America has suddenly found time to experience something called the “rebirth of the blues.” On magazine covers, in underground journals, in popular music—the blues.