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.
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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 …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective, Primitivo Solis (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 319, Winter, 1985
We continue to receive a tremendous variety of publications for mention in this column, some of them anarchist and/ or syndicalist and libertarian communist, but many of them uncategorizable. It appears that an anarchic, autonomous underground press is flowering. Whereas …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 292, June 19, 1978
FE A HOBBY? To F.E.: Anarchism can provide the perfect defense mechanism for dilettantes. In your “reply” to John and Paula Zerzan [“FE Criticized & Our Response,” FE #291, April 30, 1978] you come perilously close to demonstrating this when …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
Send letters to fe – AT – fifthestate – DOT – org or Fifth Estate, POB 204016, Ferndale MI 48220.
Letter from the Trenches
by Kim A. Broadie
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
The late David Graeber perhaps said it best. “Bureaucracy has become the water in which we swim.”
Confronting Poverty and the Poor
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
a review of Food Not Bombs: How to Feed the Hungry and Build Community, C.T. Lawrence Butler and Keith McHenry, New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, 1992, 120 pp., $8.95. Street Lives: An Oral History of Homeless Americans, Steven Vanderstaay, New Society …
Empire Flounders in Iraq
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Thirteen months into Operation Iraqi Humiliation (actually 14 years into the Bush Family’s well-financed takeover Of the Middle East), all of the predictions made by activists and other assorted radicals a year ago about the utter stupidity of the Empire’s …
No Justice, No Peace
by Sean Alan Cleary
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, A Graphic Novel by David Lester, author and artist, with editors, Paul Buhle and Marcus Rediker. Beacon Press 2021
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
ANARCHY OR CHAOS by George Woodcock Written as World War II raged around him, Woodcock’s brief history of anarchism is filled with youthful enthusiasm. Lysander Spooner, 124 pp. $9.50 THE REVOLUTION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, by Raoul Vaneigem First published in …
Volunteers of Amerika
by Miller Francis Jr.
Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970
Reprinted from The Great Speckled Bird Look what’s happening out in the streets Got a revolution Got to revolution Hey, I’m dancing down the streets Got a revolution Got to revolution Ain’t it amazing all the people I meet Got …
Bits of the world in brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
Big Mountain News announces the annual spring “Survival Gathering” April 19-22 to be held at Big Mountain Dine (Navajo) Nation. Native peoples and their supporters are invited to participate in the gathering which has been planned to commemorate and honor …
In Defense of Self-Defense
by Paul Walker (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
THWACK! My fighting stick landed exactly where I aimed it—diagonally across the face of a fascist who was trying to rip down a banner a friend and I were holding, to which the stick was attached.
Presidio Mutiny Case
by George Shuba
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
TACOMA, Wash. (LNS)—Good news in the Presidio “Mutiny” case: Linden Blake, the third of the 27 stockade prisoners to escape while awaiting trial, has arrived safely in Canada. And the Department of the Army, feeling the unaccustomed weight of public …
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
Compiled in cooperation with Detroit Adventure FRIDAY, JUNE 27 THE GOLDEN AGE OF COMEDY a selection from over 2,000 reels of magic moments with Laurel and Hardy, Will Rogers, Harry Langdon and others. And HAPPY-ANNIVERSARY (1961) and RUPTURE (1967) two …
1984 Still Knocking at Our Door
by Sean Alan Cleary
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
a review of 1984: The Graphic Novel: George Orwell, Adapted & illustrated by Fido Nesti. HMH 2021