To the Editors: William Leach from the Black Panther Party is absolutely correct (“The White Left—Serious or Not?” FE #70, January 9-22, 1969) when he points out that white so-called revolutionaries have not organized anyone in the white community—we …
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Briefs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970
Ontario May Abolish Pot Laws OTTAWA, Ont. (LNS)—Canadian Health Minister John Munro has indicated that the Canadian government is considering action within months to liberalize, and possibly abolish, laws which ban possession and use of marijuana. Munro told a Canadian …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
One nice thing about public feuds between politicians is that it gives everybody a rare chance to see part of what’s going on inside governmental circles. We learn, that at least to some extent, many decisions are made on the …
Right for America
by Durruti
Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 1969
Six million Jews did not die in Germany during World War II, anyone should know there was but sixty thousand of them in all of Europe. Franklin Roosevelt was a dirty commie. John Sinclair is a dirty commie. Water fluoridation …
Mixed Mead-ear
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
John Mayall is an incredible musician—insomuch that not only is he a formidably versatile and adept instrumentalist, but he possesses a respect for his music which is unswerving.
Beatle News
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
LONDON (LNS)—The Beatles are considering doing a series of free concerts in the U.S. next spring or early summer, according to a report in the rock tabloid, Rolling Stone. The concerts would be an expression of the Beatles’ thanks for …
Gary Grimshaw 1946-2014
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
The passing of graphic artist, Gary Grimshaw, is mourned by his family and all those who knew him, as well as the rock and art community.
MOVE Background
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
It’s difficult for a newspaper to admit ignorance, but in the MOVE situation in Philadelphia—we admit it. After MOVE’s shoot-out with the police in that city on Aug. 8 to protect their home (see “Police Attack MOVE,” FE #293-294, August …
The Big March
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 7, April 1966
On Saturday, March 26, demonstrations protesting the war in Vietnam were held in Detroit as this city’s effort in the Second International Days of Protest. In preparation for this event, sponsored by the Detroit Committee to End the War in …
White Panther Statement
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968
First I must say that this statement, like all statements is bullshit without an active program to back it up. We have a program which is on-going and total and which must not be confused with anything that is said …
Examining Zerzan
by Bob Brubaker, E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), Fifth Estate Collective, John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Much of primitivist theorist John Zerzan’s early work appeared in the Fifth Estate. His Cassandra-like predictions of imminent collapse of modern society began in 1976 with his FE article, “The Decline and Fall of Everything” [FE # 268, January, 1976]—a …
Excerpts from a Rebellion
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
The following are excerpts from stories published in the Fifth Estate immediately following the July 1967 events. Reading them a half century later, one is saddened and angered by the fact that the causes of the Rebellion—police brutality, racial discrimination, …
Czechago Blasted by Panel
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
When the President appointed a Commission to study violence after Chicago’s freak-out Convention activity last August, not even the most turned on prophet in the movement could have suspected the bombshell report which would become, after a single day on …
Poem for Warner Stringfellow
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969
Detective Lieutenant, Detroit Narcotics Squad, who has been single-handedly responsible for busting me on two separate occasions for possessing and selling marijuana . and who stumbled into my new apartment last night by accident over a year since the last …
Cops and Freaks
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
The Detroit Police has begun a reign of terror in the Warren-Forest area near Wayne University.
Serve the People Coalition News
by Len Schafer
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
“We have finally seen that we are brothers and sisters in spite of ideological differences. We finally sense that we hold much in common.” —STP Coalition Working together on this basis, 16 community based organizations got together May 19 to …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 22, January 15-30, 1967
Yes it IS a New year. This year Detroit will be born into flesh and spirit and we will have what we want finally. It’s been a long time acomin’, but it IS here. Yes. Last Friday night I was …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 98, February 4-18, 1970
“Where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the establishment, violence may be the only effective response.” —Justice William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court “Violence? We hate it. But is it violent to shoot a cop who …
Detroit 1967 Rebellion
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
The July, 1967 Detroit rebellion left 42 dead, hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and scars still unhealed today. The Fifth Estate office was in a hard-hit area: the August 1, 1967 issue featured first-hand accounts from staff members …
Pontiac’s speech to the whiteman
by Dave Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Out of the blue sky, out of the waters, out of the woods, of the deer, the beaver, the bush, the bird flies, out of my people, the blood, out of so many moons in this place a man