EDITOR’S NOTE: The Following is part one in a series of articles subtitled “a guide to bumming in the U.S.A.” The author is unknown, and we wouldn’t have found out about it if it weren’t for the keen eye of …
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Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 5, March 6-20, 1966
David Susskind’s office decided to investigate “Bohemia” in a one- or two-hour “Open End” television show. Called Israel Young’s Folklore Center for information. Poets Allan Katzman, an EVO editor and Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs were standing by. Next scene, …
Looking at Animals
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997
Everyone knows the origin of meat, but few want to face the facts. Sue Coe’s art and Alon Raab’s review [this issue, FE #349, Summer 1997] invite the reader to a “naked lunch,” Burrough’s pungent phrase for that moment when …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999
Fifth Estate Letters Policy We welcome letters commenting on our articles, stating opinions, or giving reports of events in your area. We don’t guarantee to print everything received, but all letters are read by our staff and considered for publication. …
Superkid
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
a review of The Assault on Childhood, Ron Goulart, Sherbourne Press, Los Angeles, 1969, $6.50
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Sticks & Stones Dear Fifth Estate, In response to E.B. Maple (“On Organization: Two Reviews of The Camatte/Collu Pamphlet,” FE #279, December 1976), I can only say that calling me a “Leninist” does not make it so.
Anarchism
by Ian Lovelace
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
In one sense, anarchy is a desired end. In another, it’s an ever-present means, a universal tendency, a generative force that gives birth to new worlds. In this latter sense, anarchy represents the ultimate achievement in human self-consciousness; the point …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
NEW YORK—Strange and very hypocritical how Dwight D. Eisenhower seems to have been loved and revered by everybody. While he was alive one could scarcely hear a good word for or about him; now he’s dead the air is full …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
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 …
For Pat ‘the Rat’ Halley
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
“The layman Ho asked Basho: ‘What is it that transcends everything in the universe?’ (another version: ‘If all things return to the one, to what does the one return?’)
Brass Boiling over Fort Wayne Exposé
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
The brass at Fort Wayne have taken their revenge for Spec. 4 Jerry Brown’s criticism of induction center medical examinations. Brown was given 36 hours to leave the post after an article appeared in the last issue of this paper …
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 69, December 26, 1968-January 8, 1969
compiled by Naomi Epel THURS. DEC. 26 MC5 at the Fillmore East, New York, free tickets obtainable if you happen to be heading in that direction. Call Trans-Love 1/769-2017. GUERRILLA THEATER: a pacifist play by Sam Cohen performed at the …
Unionism and Taylorism
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
Tay-lor-ism n. 1. The scientific management of industrial operations. 2. The systematic reduction of work within a given industrial operation to separate, distinct, routinized tasks devoid of policy decisions. Each aspect is measured and timed for its highest efficiency. 3. …
Evergreen 19 Beat Rap
by Bill Blank, George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
A minor victory in the midst of an ongoing major disaster, the “Evergreen 19” have walked free, but only from the stench of a courtroom. After prolonged exposure to exhausting testimony on our disorderly conduct charges and a judge who …
The Jazz Scene
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 21, January 1-15, 1967
Why the critics? That is a question I get asked fairly frequently, by friends and correspondents who want to know why I expend so much energy on this particular aspect of the jazz Establishment.
We Brought Our Piss to Reagan
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
The lure of a spectacle and the fact that we love a parade made President Reagan’s Sept. 24 Detroit campaign stop-over irresistible to us. A protest had been called by a liberal/leftist/labor/religious coalition and one could only expect the ritual …
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 …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 281, March, 1977
THE RUSSIAN TRAGEDY Alexander Berkman The Russian Tragedy first appeared in 1922 as three separate pamphlets (The Russian Tragedy, The Russian Revolution and the Communist Party & The Kronstadt Rebellion), and is compiled here under one cover for the first …
Spiritual Anarchism
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
“Cowper came to me and said: ‘O that I were insane always. I will never rest. Can you not make me truly insane? I will never rest till I am so. O that in the bosom of God I was …
Academic Musicology and Its Revolutions
by William D. Buckingham
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
a review of Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades that Changed the Country & Its Sounds by Michael Broyles. Norton 2024 in his 1955 book, America’s Music, Gilbert Chase raised a question that has remained of central concern to academic …