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RFK or LBJ?
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 20, December 15-31, 1966
The Vietnam War has exacerbated what is clearly every generation’s occupational hazard: the desperate dissatisfaction with the ruling clique’s policies by people who lack the power, and often the age, to do anything about it. The frustration has been further …
For Pat ‘the Rat’ Halley
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
“The layman Ho asked Basho: ‘What is it that transcends everything in the universe?’ (another version: ‘If all things return to the one, to what does the one return?’)
Motor City Happenings
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
Resa Jannett in cooperation with Detroit Adventure
Techno Madness
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
We live in a technological life-world, more so by the hour. Our ecology is now all too largely technology, which has been irreversible, directional, and cumulative. The process that now characterizes civilization is a generalized technicization. Its success is measurable …
Like a Hitchcock thriller with smart devices
by John Thackary
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
a review of Kimi, Dir: Steven Soderbergh, 2022
Letters to the Editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
To the Editor: “Where were the police and how could such a thing happen” were the questions asked by a stunned audience at the Art Institute on Friday, Oct. 21. They had come for an evening of beautiful music, superbly …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 41, November 1-15, 1967
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: …
Discussion on Anti-work
by Bob Brubaker, John Zerzan, Tim Luke
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
“Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control” in this issue [FE #309, June 19, 1982] continues John Zerzan’s work demonstrating the massive erosion of traditional American values, in this case centering on popular allegiance to the work ethic. Below is a …
Hong Kong’s Black Book Fair
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
Hong Kong’s Black Book Fair took place November 17-19, 2017 in the lecture theatre of the Visual Arts Centre, close to the Admiralty area where the Umbrella Movement was ignited by a police attack on demonstrators three years earlier.
The Jazz Scene
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 22, January 15-30, 1967
Critics (II) In my last column [FE #21, January 1-15, 1967] I enumerated some of the more outstanding malfeasances on the part of the leading representatives of the jazz critics’ Establishment. In what follows I intend to go beyond …
Muhammad Ali
by John Lottier, Muhammad Ali
Fifth Estate # 33, July 1-15, 1967
Editor’s Note: The following interview with Muhammad Ali appeared originally in two parts in the Michigan Daily. It was conducted by John Lottier of the Daily immediately prior to Muhammad’s departure to Houston, where he was convicted of violation of …
Fort Dix Trial
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
FORT DIX, N.J. (LNS)—The Army has decided to take three years of Jeffrey Russell’s life. “It’s a total fraud,” says one establishment reporter.
Commodifying experience
by Frank Joseph Smecker
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
In the mid- to late 19th Century, the rapidly expanding Industrial Age provided the impetus behind the expansion of the public school system. Reading, writing and arithmetic were pressed into service in order to form a needed literate labor force.
First they Came for Ward Churchill
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
In “Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,” Churchill invoked Malcolm X’s comments immediately following the assassination of president John F. Kennedy as he maintained that American foreign policy provoked the attacks on New York. At root …
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
(in cooperation with Detroit Adventure) THURS. NOV. 27 THANK GOD! Just like your forefathers did. Kill a turkey for peace. Many places will be closed so call ahead before you go out. FRI. NOV. 28 BEAUTY & THE BEAST directed …
The Death of Randolph Scott, Gabby Hayes and the Canadian Pacific Railway
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
I. “Of the heavy losses we have sustain e d”, author-sentimentalist Charles Beaumont once said, “none can be regarded with more melancholy than the loss of the great movie theatres.” A generation ago they proliferated, today they exist like brontosaurus, …
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A “Culture-in-Action”
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987
FE note: This is one of three responses to John Zerzan’s “The Case Against Art,” in FE #324, Fall 1986. The other two articles are: “Art, Life & Death” by Ratticus and “Journal Notes on Art” by George Bradford. “Culture …
In the High Schools
by Dave Watson (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
Free Speech Fight in Plymouth—Students around Detroit may have been misled by the so-called “news reports” on what recently went down in Plymouth. I cleared up the story after talking to Jim Kalliel, editor of Free Verse, an underground paper …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 305, March 18, 1981
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave. Detroit—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that you give …