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Fifth Estate Opens Red Squad Files
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
Seventeen years after a lawsuit begun by social activists, including this newspaper, against the Detroit Police Red Squad, the sordid episode of cop spying has almost come to its climax. During its 50-year history of dogging radicals, peeping over transoms, …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
Welcome to our Winter 1992 edition. This was our final issue for the 1991 year. continuing our recent pattern of three papers per year. As we’ve said in the past, the fact that we publish so infrequently comes neither from …
What are you reading this summer?
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
We put great emphasis on the phrase “the many books available” in our headline since the extent of titles that reflect the anarchist world view are so numerous that even if we were to publish a regularly appearing Anarchist Review …
Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons Meet & Rally in Pittsburgh
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
The Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons held its third annual conference in Pittsburgh, June 8-10. It included lectures, workshops, and discussions about the Prison/Industrial Complex’s mass incarceration and its links to erosion of environmental health both inside and out. Workshops …
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Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
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 …
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 …