Now that things have cooled down a little for the MC5 and myself after all the excitement of recent weeks maybe I can get into some of the things I promised when I started this column—although the stuff you’ve been …
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Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
Fifth Estate Books is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit, in the same space as the Fifth Estate Newspaper. Hours vary, so please call before coming by.
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 269, February, 1976
Bad news for the Ann Arbor Sun. “Detroit’s Hottest Paper” (as they call it) was hit in January with a coordinated wave of vandalism which left 40 of their newspaper coinboxes disabled after a liquid solder was poured in the …
History of the Fifth Estate
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
“The Fifth Estate supports the cause of revolution everywhere.” —FBI Report In my estimation, the above twelve-word summary by the nation’s secret police serves adequately as an abbreviated history of this paper on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
Correcting Yippies! The following is in response to an item which appeared in the Fall 1983 Fifth Estate which listed the Columbia (Mo.) Anarchist League as one of the sponsors of a Yippie! coordinated demonstration to be held at the …
Letters to My Children
by Stan Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
First Letter: ‘In The House of the Hanged, One Does Not Speak of the Hemp.’ Today there’s a great deal of preaching to young people. One can hear the tongue clicking of sophisticated adults worrying about what is happening to …
Escapism
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
Swear fealty to the dark leprechaunism of revenge Social Camouflage Fabulous Insularity become a lump of sensual actuality in the thin gruel of Spectacular Electromagnetism Set your basement afloat.
Armed Madhouse
by Bryan Tucker
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
As the disturbing trend of mass shootings has steadily become a staple of American society, they serve as one extreme example of the collapsing modern social order.
Classified Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
CLASSIFIEDS 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: …
Voltairine de Cleyre
by Robert Helms, Voltairine De Cleyre
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
Introduction by Robert Helms As interest in the history of anarchism increases with each passing year, we stumble across more lost gold mines of sources. I recently discovered one in Philadelphia which connects Voltairine de Cleyre, the celebrated anarchist speaker, …
Anarchy and the Left
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987
In recent months, we have been critical of a number of anarchists, through correspondence and in person, on the question of working politically with marxist-leninists on specific projects of joint interest. Those we have been in contact with on these …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976
The Fifth Estate’s benefit party on February 20th was a rousing success which saw the paper raise $400 over expenses and provided a party-down good time for about 450 revelers. Although the 5 kegs of beer went out faster than …
On Living in the World
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
Recently, the Anarchist Political Ecology Group (the APE Group) read and discussed Ursula Le Guin’s book Always Coming Home. Though it’s a work I often go back to, this was the first time I had read it cover to cover …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
Welcome to our Summer 1998 edition. Thanks to everyone who had a hand in creating our 351st issue. This issue follows our Fall 1997 edition, so please note that there was not an issue designated Winter or Spring.
Cops are the heroes in Spike Lee’s film
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
a review of “BlacKkKlansman” Director: Spike Lee 135 min.
DVD review: The Net
by John Brinker
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
reviewed in this article The Net: The Unabomber, LSD, and the Internet by Lutz Dammbeck Other Cinema, San Francisco, 2003 www.othercinemadvd.com/net.html
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969
in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure WED. AUG. 6 THE FROST record their second album at the Grande Ballroom, from 7 to 11 pm. Adm. is only $2 which is well-worth it, considering you’ll finally be able to hear Dick Wagner …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 376, Halloween, 2007
Picking on Chavez To the Fifth Estate: I disagree with Fifth Estate picking on Hugo Chavez (See Spring 2007 FE, “In Chavez’s Venezuela: Continued Repression of Popular Protest”).
Strike!
by Alan Gotkin
Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970
Three ramshackle, trash-can heated huts on York Avenue between Second and Third stand as mute testimony to a strike against the General Electric Corporation which has gone on in Detroit and across the nation since October 26th of last year.