On 19 May this year Brenda Earl Christie, a co-founder of the anarchist publishing house Cienfuegos Press, and her two-year-old daughter Branwen, were arrested at Hanover Airport in West Germany as they were boarding a Gatwick (England) bound flight following …
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In this cafeteria flies swarm the recruiter’s cropped hair. “One thing I hate—” he spits out—”flies!” His dominant hand swipes the air. Pure reflex. . In this same room girls carry plastic babies, lifeless until internal mechanisms inspire crying when …
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Bob McGlynn, a longtime fighter, organizer and visionary in New York City’s anarchist scene, who became known internationally for his solidarity work with activists in the East Bloc, died of a heart attack Aug. 23 at his home in Yonkers. …
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“What is inflated too much will burst into fragments.” —Ethiopian proverb “Spiritual zombies no longer hear their inner guide.” —Alice Walker In 1986, at the Haymarket anniversary anarchist gathering in Chicago, I landed in a “radical ritual.” We’re told that …
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Borders are authoritarian by their nature. Nation state borders are formed by men with weapons; those in our heads by fear and conditioning. Each creates suffering, and even death, as at the boundaries between the U.S. and Mexico, those demarking …
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a review of Waste of the West: Public Lands Ranching, Lynn Jacobs, 1991, P.O. Box 5784, Tucson, AZ 85703, 8-1/2 x 11, 602 pp, $28.
CHINA The Chinese people have a new hero, according to the Peking Peoples Daily. He is Teng Hsiang-erh, a Shantung province coal miner who is being hailed as a model worker. To earn the distinction, Teng did the following: refused …
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FE note: Berlin is a city whose rich history rings with memories of anarchist martyrs who organized clandestinely against the Nazi and communist East German regimes, suffering tremendous repression. Since WWII, Berlin anarchists have been at the forefront of militant …
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a review of True Stories: Tales from the Generation of a New World Culture by Garrick Beck. iUniverse, 2017
Several full-time movement activists in the Michigan area have been arrested in recent weeks on trumped-up felony charges.
An ad in the July 15-30 Fifth Estate calling for unknown playwrights and aspiring actors to help rejuvenate the American stage has blossomed into the Detroit Drama Workshop. First performance… two original one-act plays—Joan Feret’s “The Nightmare” and Sam Cohen’s …
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The Fifth Estate 923 Plum Street Detroit, Michigan 48201 962-9336 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Harvey Ovshinsky NEWS EDITOR Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASST. Cathy West ART EDITOR Gary Grimshaw PHOTOGRAPHY Lena Sinclair CARTOONIST Rob Derminer The Fifth Estate is a member of …
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While waiting at a traffic light in the city of Karlsruhe, West Germany, Chief Prosecutor Siegfried Buback was assassinated just as the light turned green.
“The songs they sing come from their own experiences. They are not entertainers but are leaders who want everyone in the audience to join in singing songs that serve to inspire us to go on further to hold on ’til …
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by The Layabouts Daily Barbarian Number 2 Fifth Estate #316, Spring 1984, Vol. 19 No. 1 Governments lie! Yeah, governments lie! Governments lie—well I’m not talking only ’bout some of ’em Governments lie—I mean every single one of ’em Governments …
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SAN FRANCISCO (LNS)—People are determined not to allow the murderous police raids which have been carried out in Chicago, Los Angeles, Kansas and other areas to occur in Berkeley and San Francisco.
Above the front door to C-Squat, on Ave. C on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, a weather-worn sign hangs from the fire escape reading “THIS LAND IS OURS, NOT FOR SALE,” with the squatter symbol of a circle bisected by a …
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As a public service, the Fifth Estate will present eight times daily, newscasts on WABX, Detroit’s contemporary radical FM station. With a little help from our friends, the broadcasts will be a success. We are asking for high school and …
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THE FIFTH ESTATE 1107 W. Warren Detroit 48201 831-6800 EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe NEWS EDITOR Frank Joyce EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION MANAGER Tommye Wiess MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR John Sinclair ART Gary Grimshaw FILM EDITOR Joe Fineman CALENDAR …
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The Trans-Love Energies commune of Detroit, including the MC5 and the Trans-Love Light Company, have left the city of Detroit for good, to settle in Ann Arbor, that green and airy town some 45 miles west of Detroit.