Fifth Estate Issue #307, November 19, 1981 WEB CONTENTS Front page text: War! The weapons are in place. The language of war is accepted everywhere. The rulers of the opposing empires confront each oher menacingly. Their fingers are poised on …
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Call for Submissions
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
Theme: I Will NOT Obey! We are seeking analytical articles, news reports, essays, poetry, and fiction on acts of refusal and resistance, either individually or collectively; also graphic illustrations and photographs. Before submitting essays or articles, please read our writer’s …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
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 …
Draft Foes Growing
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
When bullet-headed Selective Service Director Bernard D. Rostker looked sternly into the TV cameras last July and predicted that all but 2% of the nation’s 19- and 20-year-old men would comply with the scheduled draft registration his self-confidence was chilling. …
Meanwhile, in Arkansas
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
Unlike the computer failures mentioned in the article above, they couldn’t hide this one on the back page of the newspapers. When a fuel explosion rocked the underground Titan II nuclear missile silo sending flaming debris 500 feet in the …
Yes, We Have no Mañanas
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
The message relayed by the U.S. Strategic Air Command headquarters’ computer was unmistakable—Soviet missile attack! SAC B-52 bomber engines roared to life, their bomb bays laden with 20-megaton thermonuclear weapons; intercontinental ballistic systems were switched to command function—all that was …
Come On America
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
You were mad about Iran, mad about Afghanistan, mad about that and a whole lot more. You want to fight communism and the foreign scurvy who undermine our American way of life? Well, are you ready to go toe-to-toe with …
Republicans, get out of town
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
To the left is a reproduction of a one-page broadsheet published as a Convention Extra and distributed to the delegates who it managed to shock and enrage and to Detroit residents who took it a bit better. Reprinted below is …
Convention & Counter-Convention
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
We should have realized that the anti-convention efforts in Detroit were going to be a flop when only two people responded to the FE article about planned activity which invited others to “join us in a game with no rules” …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
When we start receiving letters asking if we are still publishing, we know it’s time to get an issue out. One reason that the gap between our last issue and this one must appear so large to those who receive …