Excerpted from Fifth Estate #367-368, Spring-Summer 2005 40th anniversary issue. This is an edited version of Don’s essay. The design shows a pyramid surmounted by an eye being blasted by a bolt of lightning. Bannered beneath the collapsing pyramid is …
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Fifth Estate Archive Back issues Resource pages Fifth Estate Live interviews This section of our site contains articles from Fifth Estate’s past issues, grouped by the number of the issue in which they were published. You can also purchase back …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
PORTUGAL: The Impossible Revolution? Phil Mailer The still unfinished story of the Portuguese upsurge of 1974-75. An eye-witness account of a deeply involved spectator. A new type of historiography with the view from different groups vying for power and the …
Romeo and Juliet—Hagbard and Signe
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
The biggest mistake in bringing Shakespeare to the screen is to construct some sort of stone effigy to him. But France Zeffirelli’s film production of “Romeo & Juliet,” at the Studio 8, pulsates with a life all its own.
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
Fri. Nov. 1 JEFF BECK GROUP back at the Grande to do some heavy blues (English style) along with the Toad and Pavement. Check out the hippy bullshit counter run by Barry Kramer and Bob Stark, they have some real …
Love Bite Bites off More than it Can Chew
by Debye Highmountain
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
a review of Lovebite: Mythography and the Semiotics of Culture by John Moore, Aporia Press, distributed by Counter Productions, P.O. Box 556, London SE5 0RL UK, 44 pages.
Talkin’ ‘Bout My Demonstration
by Bob Fleck
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
Hardly louder than the wet snow that was falling over the assembled marchers, Al Harrison softly said “All right brothers, lock your elbows and let’s march for peace and freedom,” as he and members of the Afro-Americans For Peace led …
Planning for Peoples’ Power
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 92, November 13-26, 1969
Open City is the service organization for the free community and has already opened a free medical service, a non profit general store, a food co-op, a free University, a counseling center and switchboard that operates twenty four hours a …
The Strange History of the Word “Democracy”
by Francis Dupuis-Déri
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
Surprisingly, the Founding Fathers of the United States were anti-democrats. Democracy is supposed to be a regime where the people rule themselves directly. Such a system was thought to be favourable to the poor, who would easily have the majority …
League of Revolutionary Black Workers
by Fifth Estate Collective, John Watson
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
[Part 2 of the interview appeared in FE #79, May 15-28, 1969.] Editors’ Note: John Watson, editor of the Wayne State University South End, has been involved in Detroit revolutionary politics for a number of years. Former editor of the …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Both this newspaper in our last issue and Bad Attitude, No. 3 (POB 11589, Detroit Ml 48211) failed to give credit for the poem/ritual, “The Appeal of Anarchy.” It was taken from the compelling pamphlet by John Moore, Anarchy & …
Conversations with Allen Ginsberg
by Allen Ginsberg, Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Two interviews with the poet on life, death, sex, poetry, Kerouac, and meditation—the first from 1991, published here for the first time; the second from the October 1969 issue of Fifth Estate.
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
Fri. Sept. 6 DIALOGUE ’68. A festival of radical rock music for three nights. The UP, Billy C. and his Killer Blues Band, and the Psychedelic Stooges will play Prior to the performances
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
in cooperation with Detroit Adventure
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
Fifth Estate Books is located at 4632 Second Avenue, just south of W. Forest, in Detroit, in the same space as the Fifth Estate newspaper. Hours vary, so please call before visiting.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 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: …
A Right Wing Man Named Cotton
by Frank Joyce
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
As the story goes, Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the bestselling and game changing Uncle Tom’s Cabin. “So,” he said, “you’re the little lady who started all the trouble.”
Free Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
Though we do not accept commercial advertising, this Unclassified ad space is free for our readers’ use. We do not accept ads over the telephone, so please send your ads in writing to our office at: 4403 Second Ave., Detroit …
Transhumanism vs. Primitivism
by Bellamy Fitzpatrick
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
“Come and hear the views of two thinkers who arguably have defined the two polar opposite views on the effects of technology” blared the invitation to a November 15 debate between Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan and Anarcho-Primitivist John Zerzan at California’s …
Getting Away with Murder
by William Allen
Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969
Two cases of “getting away with murder” of blacks by whites are currently occupying the attention of Detroiters.