Editor’s note: Frank Kofsky’s byline was inadvertently left off his piece, “End of Jazz Clubs?” in the last issue. Joseph Jarman, whose picture ran with the article, is a young altoist from Chicago. It always comes as a distinct pleasure …
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What It’s All About
by Hugo Hill
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
VIENTIANE, Laos (LNS)—Nixon’s desperate plunge into Cambodia, like his earlier escalation here in Laos, has made public an old secret: that the U.S. campaign to stall the Southeast Asian revolution is an international conspiracy. This campaign, involving half a dozen …
Viet Committee Plans Nov. 5-8 Protests as Rocks Fly
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966
Other Scenes
by Maryanne Raphael
Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970
Editors’ Note: This week’s Other Scenes is written by Maryanne Raphael and appeared originally in the UPS paper Other Scenes, published by John Wilcock.
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 318, Fall, 1984
The FE Bookservice may be reached at the same address as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, P.O. Box 02548, Detroit, MI 48202 USA — telephone (313) 831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our hours vary so please call before dropping in.
Uncle Russ in England
by Russ Gibb
Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968
The English musical scene is really a bummer. English audiences are mostly composed of teenyboppers that still dig “The Midnight Hour.” Yet there is a growing group that is really beginning to get into the music thing and love to …
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 281, March, 1977
FILMS Cass City Cinema, 1st Unitarian Church, Cass and Forest: March 4-5—MEAN STREETS, Martin Scorsese (1974); March 11-12, ‘HOW TASTY WAS MY LITTLE FRENCHMAN, Brazil (1971); March 18-19, EXTERMINATING ANGEL, Luis Bunel (1962), Mexico; April 8-9 ROMA (1971) Fredrico Fellini; …
A Short History of Radical Puppetry
by Kerry Mogg
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
“Puppets are not cute, like muppets. Puppets are effigies and gods and meaningful creatures.” —Peter Schumann, Bread and Puppet Theatre
News and Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
When I compare the straight columns, boxed graphics and even type of the Fifth Estate to the graphic wildness and literary adventure of the ‘zine Babyfish Lost Its Momma, it makes me wonder if the FE hasn’t gotten a little …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 69, December 26, 1968-January 8, 1969
Dear Fifth Estate, Due to a surprising thing to come, I wish to cancel my subscription. I’m on a heavy cruiser off the DMZ (Vietnam) coast. On 18 Jan. 1969 the ship returns to the United States and I …
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970
in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure THURS MARCH 5 DETROIT TUBE WORKS, turn on your tube to John Lee Hooker, Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, Terry Reid and Dr. Paul Lowenger of Lafayette Clinic, plus an Open City rap. Channel 56, 10:30 …
Class War in Chicago
by Chris Clancy
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of The Haymarket Affair, Chicago, 1886: The “Great Anarchist” Riot and Trial by Corrine J. Naden. Moffa Press 1968
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 382, Spring, 2010
Send letters to fe – at – fifthestate – dot – org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale, MI 48220 All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten; letters may be edited for length.
Reviews
by Don LaCoss, J.L. Dale, John Brinker, Spencer Sunshine
Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008
Oystercatcher #5 Review by J.L. Dale I’m young, but I still had grade-school fantasies about bathing my neighborhood in a heavy wave of pirate radio–my voice and my songs out into the world.
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
On Saturday, June 22, a demonstration expressing support for French workers and students was held in front of the office of the French consulate in the First National Building in downtown Detroit.
The Familiar Presence
by Allen Ginsberg
Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970
Editors’ Note: The trial of the Chicago Conspiracy 7 is a trial of one consciousness by another. On December 11, Allen Ginsberg, poet and man of the planet, came to Julius Hoffman’s courtroom to speak in behalf of Abbie Hoffman, …
The Strategy of Concealment
by Roger Farr
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
Often, when I turn to the anarchist press these days, it’s certain I’ll find someone commenting on the lack of “clarity” in the discourse of the movement. In a recent editorial in Anarchy, for example, Lawrence Jarach writes “there is …
There’s More to Gangs than Just Gangs
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
Gang fever, like the Bird’s pitching, seems to have been just a-passing summer phenomenon. Both served their purpose for the Motor City and then disappeared. Of course, youth crime has not disappeared—just its exploitation by the media and city hall …
Armed Farces Day
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
MONTEREY, Calif. (LNS) — In over a dozen actions at military bases across the country on May 16, thousands of anti-war soldiers and civilians marched and rallied against the traditional celebration of Armed Forces Day.