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Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968
THURS. AUG. 15 THE AMERICAN DRAMA FESTIVAL continues at Greenfield Village. Under-the Gaslight will be presented in the Henry Ford Museum Theatre. 8:30pm.
Anti-Anarchism
by Jim Feast
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
We are all familiar with the ruthless stereotyping and blatant falsification of anarchism in the mass media employing out-dated, long exploded cliches such as that anarchists are solely interested in destruction, fueled by an infantile rage. It was these stereotypes …
How we can exit the era of ecological destruction & affirm life
by Peter Linebaugh
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
a review of Between Earth and Empire: From the Necrocene to the Beloved Community by John P. Clark. PM Press 2019 pmpress.org
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four Words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words.) Abbreviations should be sensible, DISCOUNT RATES …
Presidio Mutiny Trial
by Giuseppi Slater
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
SAN FRANCISCO (LNS)—Military justice, it says in the manuals. But to observers of the trial, the two words form a mutual contradiction, one that emerged more starkly than ever when Pvts. Lawrence Reidel and Louis Osczepinski were sentenced on Feb. …
‘Ear Ye!
by Bob Stark
Fifth Estate # 89, October 2-15, 1969
While local music business people continue to hype the Detroit scene as a major center of the pop world the scene itself continues to deteriorate and no one seems to care enough about it to do anything constructive.
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
CHANGES: Hundreds of empty cans were dumped on the doorstep of Continental Can company in San Francisco by a group calling itself the Canyon League of Re-Cyclists. If the company makes money out of creating garbage it should do something …
New Groups and Non-Groups
by Mike Kerman
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
There is a lot happening in pop music and it is ridiculous to predict trends. One noticeable occurrence is the breaking up of groups and the need for individual artists to “go it alone.”
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
Current rash of skyjacking is nothing new, merely a new outbreak of the age-‘old custom of piracy in the newest uncontrolled medium: the air. Diverting planes to Cuba is kid stuff. Wait until international pirates see the potential for just …
Schools of the Americas
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
In The Underground History of American Education, the renegade educator John Taylor Gatto traces the genealogy of compulsory public-school education in the US back to the system of pedagogy created in the nineteenth-century northern European state of Prussia. Prussia is …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
Threat of War Cancels Plans for Fifth Estate 25-Year Retrospective That’s as good a reason as any for why the observance of our 25 years of publishing is reduced to a short mention in this column. We had intended more, …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 317, Summer 1984
The FE BOOKSERVICE is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, both of which are at 5928 Second, Detroit, MI 48202. Telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours we are open vary considerably, so it’s always best to give …
Decentralization Bill a Sham
by J.R. Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970
Decentralization of the Detroit Public School System has emerged as a major issue confronting this city. Within this conflict there exists a strong potential for radical change. Recognizing this, many activist groups have joined in the struggle for effective decentralization.
Walking Down Pleasant Street with Tim Buckley
by Guan Kosemach
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
A telephone call at noon on September 29 from Elektra Records confirmed our plans for an interview with Tim Buckley. His second album (GOODBYE AND HELLO) was just released and Tim was here to play the Canterbury House in Ann …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
Ammunition Books, 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201 Bookstore Hours: Mon. thru Fri. 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
Tokyo, Sept. 18 There’s no Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan—which certainly needs one—and so the 1969 Miss International Beauty Pageant went off without a hitch in the Hall of Martial Arts here last week.
Shawnee Timber Sale Stopped
by Orin Langelle
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
Beginning on June 20th, a determined group of Earth First!ers (EF!), Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and anarchists, maintained a blockade at the site of the Fairview timber sale area in southern Illinois’ Shawnee National Forest.
Mutiny Trial
by Giuseppi Slater
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
SAN FRANCISCO (LNS)—Pvt. Louis Osczepinski, one of 27 soldiers being tried for mutiny at the Presidio Army Base in San Francisco, attempted to commit suicide on Feb. 14. He slashed his arms four times. Osczepinski, along with Pvt. Lawrence Reidel, …
Tales from the Planet
by john johnson
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Sherman is Out, But not Free Anarchist organizer Sherman Austin has been released from prison after serving most of a one year sentence after being framed for controversial content on his website RaiseTheFist.com. He faces three years of federal probation …
The Jazz Scene in America
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
A few weeks ago the New Yorker’s man in jazz, Whitney Balliett, went out to the Coast to catch the Monterey Festival. While he was there he spoke with some of the “workers’ aristocracy” of jazz, the white musicians who …
Z – An Interview with Costa-Gavras
by Dan Georgakas
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
NOTE: Costa-Gavras, the director of “Z,” was born in Athens, Greece in 1933. In 1964 he made his first film, “The Sleeping Car Murders” and since has completed “One Man Too Many” and “The Avowal.” While in New York for …
Briefs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
3rd Annual Twin Cities Anarchist Book Fair The 3rd Annual Twin Cities Anarchist Book Fair (TCABF) is the weekend of Sept. 15-16 at the Powderhorn Park building in Minneapolis.
Pigs Bust Panther Chairman
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
This time it’s Bobby Seale. With Eldridge in exile, and Huey in jail, the punk-ass power-structure has turned its racist wrath on the Black Panther Party Chairman. Seale’s troubles are simply the latest government attempt to crush the Panthers by …
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
No Rock-Jazz Merger Seen, but Close
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
In effect, rock has become the white man’s jazz. Bob Dylan, had he been born black, would surely have found a place somewhere in the jazz revolution; and a white Archie Shepp (the mind boggles!) would feel quite at home …
Memoirs of a Beer Drinker
by Richard Centing
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
Acey-Acey is a game that used to be played at Lou Walker’s Bar on Woodward. It is easy to learn and became quite popular a few years ago.
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
The Poet’s Coven is a relatively new photocopied publication distributed free in the Vancouver, B.C. area. It consciously defies categorization and is open to a wide variety of expression—poetry, collage, fiction, articles. The Coven describes its vision as coming from …
Violence, Guns
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
I A few days ago a friend of mine asked me to amortize my obligations to RFK’s assassination by rendering a stirring Stars and Stripes article titled something like—Ban the Guns (it occurs to me that we haven’t even Banned …
What’s On
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 4, February 12-March 1, 1966
SATURDAY HANOI, Eyewitness Report by Dr. Herbert Apthekar. Central Methodist Church 8:00 p.m. 2/12 FILM: “Beauty and the Beast” (1946), directed by Jean Cocteau. Sponsored by UCAE at WSU Community Arts Aud, Cass and Kirby. 8 p.m. Adm. charge. 2/12 …
Kangaroo Kourt Kontinues
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 1969
Special to the Fifth Estate CHICAGO, Oct. 25—This week the Conspiracy is still learning about agents and informers.
Statement from the Hole
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
FE Note: The Fifth Estate has a long history of granting free subscriptions to prisoners of the state—inmates and GIs, but often their masters object to our content. No wonder since our ideas challenge the concept of rulers and ruled …
A Brief History of Anarchist Fiction
by Margaret Killjoy
Fifth Estate # 385, Fall, 2011
People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
Much attention in the community from now on will be focused on the primary election to be held Tuesday, August 6. Perhaps the largest effort will be that of the McCarthy for President Committee, together with the Michigan Conference for …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 88, September 18-October 1, 1969
Abbie Hoffman explains the reason for the grass shortage in his new book, The Woodstock World (about to be published by Random House). Federal narcs armed with hundreds of thousands of dollars went to Mexico, says Abbie, and outbid the …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 386, Spring, 2012
Send letters to fe – AT – fifthestate.org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220 All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten; letters may be edited for length
Rock and Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
Hi kids, sorry I wasn’t here last time but I got a little depressed by Cella Alderson’s letter and just couldn’t get it together in time for the deadline. The only reason I write this shit is because people seem …
Briefs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
Greek Junta Hits Students ATHENS, Greece (LNS) – Greece’s military dictatorship has imposed a rigid code of conduct on university students. Greece is already under martial law, but the new code could be used if martial law is relaxed later …
The Revolutionaries of Columbia
by Ralph J. Gleason
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
LIBERATION News Service — Columbia Records is owned by CBS. It owns the Yankees and God knows what else. Its offices are at 51 West 52 Street in New York in a new skyscraper whose walls are already peeling and …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 58, July 18-31, 1968
Other Scenesman, John Wilcock, has begun one of his frequent around the world trips. This report is filed from Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. We will publish his impressions of his visits to other European and Asian cities as they are received.