In an odd twist of democratization, the fires in California’s Oakland Hills this Fall, turned the tables on who usually are the victims of catastrophic house fires. Destruction by fire is an event usually suffered by the poor due to …
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Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
The Fifth Estate is a cooperative project, published by a group of friends who are in general but not necessarily complete agreement with the articles herein. Each segment of the paper represents the collective effort of writing, typesetting, lay-out and …
EF! Trial Ends with Deal
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
The U.S. government got the pound of flesh it wanted from the radical environmental movement, but not from Earth First! co-founder Dave Foreman, the prime target of a three-year FBI entrapment scheme.
Response to the Poor: Cops
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
The response of Detroit’s city government to the crisis of the homeless is what the poor can always expect: the cops were set on them! With the cutoff of the General Assistance welfare program (see accompanying article), entire buildings housing …
Anarchism Returns to Cuba
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
The Anarchist Social Center and Library (Abra: Centro Social y Biblioteca Libertaria) was inaugurated in Havana on May 5. The first word in the Spanish name, Abra, means a place or action through which possibilities can be opened up, which …
Coke adds life to every party…
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
The Coca Cola Bottling Co. extends its hand in congratulations to the People’s Republic of China on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of its Revolution and on its ambitious plans to become a modern technological society by the year …
Free Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
Though we do not accept commercial advertising, this Unclassified ad space is free for our readers’ use. We do not accept ads over the telephone, so please send your ads in writing to our office at: 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, …
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 …