Fifth Estate Radical Publishing since 1965 Vol. 60, No. 2, #417 Winter 2025 The Fifth Estate is an anti-profit, anarchist project published by a volunteer collective of friends and comrades. www.FifthEstate.org No ads. No copyright. Kopimi – reprint freely
The Fifth Estate is in its 60th year of continuous publication and for the last 40, our front-page usually bears artist Stephen Goodfellow’s graphic assault on power accompanied by the Latin phrase, Non Serviam. Its translation is “I will not …
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Within the broad spectrum of real and non-real cultural/political revolution, many diverse and contradictory tendencies exist side-by-side. The sensitive “spiritual” types deplore the nihilism and violence of the revolutionaries with righteous indignation. The wilted flower children pack their bags and …
Worried about the drug problem? How about the chemical problem? Do you know how many you had for lunch?
The demonstration in Kalamazoo that resulted in a police riot on Feb. 17 has given rise to a full-scale witch hunt in the city. The local citizens grand jury has turned in indictments against members of the United Front, a …
On a recent Monday evening, a Detroit Police Department patrol wagon, license number X25061, blocked the alley next to the Forest-Third Market, better known as Sharkey’s, for well over an hour.
At 4:00 am Sunday morning, February 21, Michael Fylstra of the Detroit Gay Liberation Front was busted for “accosting and soliciting” at the corner of Woodward and the Fisher Freeway. The cops mixed up the situation, however, because it was …
The following excerpts are taken from John Sinclair’s statement on the Court of Appeals decision, Feb. 17, 1971:
Recorder’s Court Judge Robert DeMascio is a vicious man who wields a heavy hand against poor and black defendants that have the misfortune to enter “his” courtroom. He is almost as hard on youth dope offenders that come before him. …