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Controversy Over Wooden Shoe Trashing
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
As we were completing work on our current issue, we received a letter for publication from the Wooden Shoe collective in Philadelphia regarding the vandalism of their bookstore last October. At that time the premises were entered with a key, …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
As you may have noted, the name of our book project has dropped the title “Ammunition” in favor of “Fifth Estate” or simply, “FE.” We have been talking about making the change actually for several years, but were always looking …
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
HOPE FOR DOPE — High Times magazine reports that the recent Paraquat scare is just that and “not to believe the government.” Paraquat paranoia developed a few months ago when it surfaced that the U.S. had financed the spraying of …
In The On-Deck Circle
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
The authoritarian, proto-fascist religious cults such as the Moonies, Krishna Consciousness and the People’s Temple have always thrived at the fringes of what was once called the “counter-culture” and which is today euphemistically referred to as “New Age” consciousness—a catch-all …
Hungary ’56
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
Thirteen years ago the Hungarian people, led by the Budapest working class, launched an attack on the ruling police state. In the process, the despotism of the state was briefly eliminated and councils of workers emerged, signaling a dramatic break …
Fifth Estate Slips Quietly Into 14th Year
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
The 13th Anniversary of this newspaper passed last month with only the Detroit liberal daily, the Free Press, taking any notice (they called us “an anarchist National Lampoon”). We had initially planned a big hoopla celebration, not so much to …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
Emily’s, the downtown shop where all the nicey-nice smile faces go to get their over-priced touchy-feely thingys is apparently plagued with the same problem as any other Motor City store—shoplifting. The proprietor has displayed a sign reading, “Free double-dip ice …
British Anarchists Given Bail
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
We recently received the good news from England that some of the six comrades who were arrested last spring on charges of “Conspiracy to Cause Explosions” (see “Anarchists Arrested in Britain,” FE #293-294, August 21, 1978), have been released on …
Staff & Contributors
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
Alan Franklin Ralph Franklin E.B. Maple Tina Nachalo Mr. Venom Marilyn Werbe Peter Werbe Richard Rollins and Boy Wonder The Fifth Estate Newspaper (ISSN 0015-0800) is published bi-monthly at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit MI 48201; phone (313)831-6800. Office hours are …