Racism has been heavy at Selfridge Air Force Base, twenty miles north of Detroit, for quite a while. Especially in the last year, there have been numerous incidents, and a great deal of harassment and intimidation of black airmen and …
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RNC: Shut It Down!
by RNC Welcoming Committee
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
The 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC) will descend on Minneapolis-St. Paul, September 1 through 4, as the opening act in the pacifying spectacle of the coming presidential election. The most direct way to oppose a dog-and-pony show is just to …
Capitalism’s Industrial Plagues
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
This article is the first in a two-part series on the effects that the indiscriminate handling and usage of radioactive waste materials and dangerous chemicals are having, and will have in the future, on human beings and their environment. Part …
Trumbullplex
by Jhon Clark
Fifth Estate # 384, Spring, 2011
In a not-so-typical area of Detroit, close to Wayne State University, slowly redefined and made more attractive for investment and middle-class living, the Trumbullplex and some of its immediate neighbors stand out. Trumbull (for short) is a 17 year-old shabby …
Did U.S. Cause AIDS?
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
As predictions for the eventual toll of the deadly AIDS disease grow higher, speculation as to the origin of the virus remain unanswered. Reports continue to surface that rather than a natural occurring new strain, the disease was a result …
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
Fri. Dec. 13 GRANDE BALLROOM: Deep Purple, Lee Michaels, and the Candel w1 headline the super psychedelic floor show. Groove to the bands, magic Jerry’s light show and visit the hippy bullshit counter. $3.50. LIVING THEATER presents “Antigone,” at the …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
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: …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
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.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
What About Gangs? To the Fifth Estate: The FE is usually a delight to read. Only a couple of small things have detracted from that: Using “man” to mean “people”(in the article on a Michigan landfill) is sexist and a …
Tennescene: Radical Actions & Summer Tours Deep in the Bible Belt
by Fifth Estate Collective, Upside Down Culture Collective
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
This summer, the Rule of Thirds recently dubbed by the Nashville Scene as a “subversive art space”—played host to numerous politically proactive collectives. June saw the educational and entertaining Upside Down Culture Collective hailing from our other outpost: Detroit. They …
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In the World of Digital, Print Raises A Challenge
by Rich Dana (Ricardo Feral)
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of Urgent Publishing after the Artist’s Book: Making Public Movements Toward Liberation by Paul Soulellis (Book Design: Be Oakley). GenderFail 2021
The Practical Marx
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 299, October 22, 1979
FE Note: The following article, an attempt to come to grips with the implications of Karl Marx’s everyday life by long-time FE contributor John Zerzan, has stirred considerable controversy among those of us presently working on the paper and necessitates, …
Revelation Vertigo
by Stevphen Shukaitis
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
“Autonomy is both the goal sought after and that whose presence–virtual–let us say, has to be supposed at the outset of an analysis or a political movement. This virtual presence is the will to autonomy, the will to be free.” …
Rebellion in Nowhere
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
I Rioting by 250 Black youths, says a UPI dispatch dated March 23, 1969, brought 200 police from 10 communities to the 20,000-student campus at Northern Illinois University at DeKalb.
Anarchy, food and sustainability
by john johnson
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
In this section: Anarchy, food and sustainability Against agriculture The Hungry Sheep Look Up And Are Not Fed Feral Forager #1 Someday the power will die Grange Appeal Two Ecological Fancies Biophilia Wasted, Indeed Grow Food or Die! exclaims the …
Carl Harp found Dead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
“If they didn’t physically slash him and tie the cord around his neck, the years of sensory deprivation, beatings, setups, transfers, hole time, mind and law games, and the psycho-torture which this place is famous for had the same effect. …
Anarchist Violence or State Violence?
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
The question of violence as a revolutionary tactic is neither new nor unfairly associated with anarchists, although debate has recently emerged over its use by Black Blocs during mass demonstrations, including Occupy events. [See FE, Summer 2012; John Zerzan, “The …
We Get a Computer and Hate It!
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
“Things are in the saddle and ride Man.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson One blind man leads many blind men Into the fire hole hand in hand. —Zen saying After several years of discussing and debating the implications of a newspaper which …
The Northman
by John Thackary
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of “The Northman” Dir: Robert Eggers, 2022 There was an unavoidable discomfort in my bones upon deciding to view “The Northman.” It felt difficult to ignore how, from advertisements, the film’s early Norse historical setting seemed like unfortunate—if …