Dear F.E. A few months ago we read a blurb in your “letters” column from a couple of prisoners in an Ohio penitentiary who wanted to hear from any of your readers. We wrote, expecting to join the hundreds …
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The Doom Scroll of History Undone in Poetry
by Deep Strawberry
Fifth Estate # 417, Winter 2025
They are fighting for the sovereignty of capital. Warlike adamance, pressurized plunder. Capitalism has always been war, but this sadism is evangelism in the name of their only belief. Fully activated and pushed to its furthest limits, this version ends …
Motor City Happenings
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 127, March 18-31, 1971
Compiled by Resa Jannett in cooperation with Detroit Adventure Wed. March 17 GRANDE BALLROOM, Fifth Estate Benefit to help support the Youth New Coalition, 7 til 11 pm. Adm. $2.50. Lots of music and even films, light show too. Y’all …
Life, Peace
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 127, March 18-31, 1971
March 24—Black Moratorium Committee will hold all-day teach-in at Highland Park Community College, theme “Black America and the War in Southeast Asia” 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Emphasis on the War and its effects on black community and planning for …
Peace Island Gathering
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
Peace Island Gathering Announcement Longtime anarchists and artist-performers Lenny and June are inviting like-minded people to the Peace Island Assemblage. This gathering will take place from September 18 to 22, 2025, in Keelung prefecture, Taiwan. As Lenny tells us… My …
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
FILM CINEMA GUILD PRESENTS: a series of films being shown on Thurs., Fri., Sat., and Sun. at 7 and 9:05 p.m. at the Architecture Auditorium in Ann Arbor. Adm. 50 cents. March 16 & 17: Les Quatre Cents Coups (The …
Concentration Camps U.S.A.
by Charles R. Allen Jr.
Fifth Estate # 25, March 1-15, 1967
The Arizona road dipped suddenly out of a high serpentine ridge and fell straight out like a great javelin dropping ever faster and deeper down, down until it was lost from sight in the blinding rays of a white-hot sun.
Letters to the Editor
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 23, February 1-15, 1967
To the Editor: I want to compliment you on the very fine article which you co-authored in the January 1 through 15, 1967, issue of the Fifth Estate [“Spare the Rod…?” FE #21, January 1-15, 1967]. I think that it …
The Future Is…Written?
by Eric Laursen
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
a review of End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin. Penguin Press, 2023
Smash the Fascists From Below!
by Liam Kliment
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
a review of It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History, Editors: Moe Bowstern, Mic Crenshaw, Alec Dunn, Celina Flores, Julie Perini, and Erin Yanke. PM Press, 2023 We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action by Shannon …
Free Lessons
by Pam Shriman
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
“To the accusation that Cuba wants to export its revolution, we reply: revolutions are not exported—they are made by the people.” —Fidel Castro, Second Declaration of Havana, 1962 Another witch-hunt is underfoot. The late ’60s and moreover the ’70s are …
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 20, December 15-31, 1966
The calendar is a regular feature of the FIFTH ESTATE. It carries news of what is happening in the Detroit to Ann Arbor area. You can help make the calendar more complete by sending us information about activities you know …
Headin’ North, Yank?
by Andy Mikolasch, Ron Thody
Fifth Estate # 19, December 1-15, 1966
Special to the Fifth Estate from Satyrday Publications, Toronto Toronto—as well as most large Canadian cities—is becoming a haven for youthful Americans who, for reasons of their own, don’t want any part of U.S. President Johnson’s war on the Vietnamese …
Letters to My Children
by Stan Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
First Letter: ‘In The House of the Hanged, One Does Not Speak of the Hemp.’ Today there’s a great deal of preaching to young people. One can hear the tongue clicking of sophisticated adults worrying about what is happening to …
Hidden Chapter in the Fight Against War
by Mary Alice Waters
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
I have called this a “Hidden Chapter in the Fight Against War” because the vast majority of our generation is totally unaware of the fact that the end of 1945 and the beginning of 1946 saw the greatest troop revolt …