Note: FE staffer Walker Lane interviewed Billy Bragg, the English singer/songwriter, when he played a 1998 Labor Day benefit for striking Detroit newspaper workers.
Note: FE staffer Walker Lane interviewed Billy Bragg, the English singer/songwriter, when he played a 1998 Labor Day benefit for striking Detroit newspaper workers.
Labor History Archives of Wayne State University is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the execution of Joe Hill, America’s most famous Wobbly and the “Man Who Never Died.”
a review of Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Working-class Counterculture, by Franklin Rosemont, Charles H. Kerr, Chicago, 2003, 639 pp. $17.00
NEW YORK (UPS)—Paul Krassner was supposed to appear on the Joe Pyne show Sunday, July 16, but the tape was never shown. Paul had doubts that Pyne would show the tape even though his guest appearance was announced in the …
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FIFTH ESTATE #31, June 1-15, 1967, Vol. 2 No. 5, page 6 EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West NEWS EDITOR Frank Joyce ART Gary Grimshaw MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR John Sinclair CALENDAR GIRLS Karen Kovach Naiomi Epel …
A big thanks to the Tennessee Ghost writer for socking it to you last issue. And thank you to everyone concerned about my hand. It wasn’t a bad burn and I was fine the next day. Sundays at Alvin’s continue …
In a victory for Russ Little, the California Supreme Court has let stand a lower court order reversing his conviction for the 1973 SLA assassination of an Oakland, California school official.
Joe Remiro, Russ Little, Bill and Emily Harris remain prisoners of the state as a result of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) urban guerrilla activity in 1973-74. All have been sentenced to long prison terms and have been subjected to …
a review of The Bittersweet Science; Racism, Racketeering, and the Political Economy of Boxing by Gerald Horne. International Publishers 2021
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THE FIFTH ESTATE 1107 W. Warren Detroit 48201 831-6800 Member, Underground Press Syndicate EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe NEWS EDITOR Frank Joyce EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West ART Gary Grimshaw MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR John Sinclair CALENDAR GIRLS: Karen Kovach Naomi …
Music From Big Pink—The Band (Capitol) This band formerly known as the Hawks has the distinction of being Bob Dylan’s backing group. They are polished musicians and this album boasts a lot in the way of imagination in regards to …
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Here are four records you might want to have: Otis Spann: Sweet Giant of the Blues, Bluestime BTS-9006. Harmonica Slim: The Return of Harmonica Slim, Bluestime BTS9005. T-Bone Walker/Joe Turner/Otis Spann: Super Black Blues, Bluestime BTS-9003. Earl Hooker: Don’t Have …
SLINGSHOT (700 Eshlecreature Hall, Berkeley, CA 94608) continues to be a thorough and thoughtful anarcho-newspaper from the always radical and socially tumultuous community of Berkeley. The Summer 1992 issue contains several interesting pieces of analysis on the Los Angeles rebellion …
a review of The Nirvana Blues by John Nichols. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981, 527 pp., $14.95 hardcover.
“Safe sex” has put sex in the safe. The three number combination lock reads: heterosexuality (two turns to the right) ultra-monogamy (two more turns to the right)—and condoms (one reluctant turn to the left), unlocking the Final Solution for the …