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 …
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What is Capital?
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
Let us give a brief definition of the way in which Capital or capitalism is used in articles in the Fifth Estate: Capital is based on wage-labor, the production and exchange of commodities, with an agency above the working class …
Trots & Nukes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
Apparently there is honor among thieves and the anti-nuclear power struggle has exposed the totally reactionary tendencies of several marxist groups as they line up behind the governments of totalitarian regimes and mouth the same pro-nuclear statements as its most …
Hong Kong’s Black Book Fair
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
Hong Kong’s Black Book Fair took place November 17-19, 2017 in the lecture theatre of the Visual Arts Centre, close to the Admiralty area where the Umbrella Movement was ignited by a police attack on demonstrators three years earlier.
Venezuelan anarchists see Noam Chomsky as Chavez’s Clown
by Octavio Alberola
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
FE Note: The comrades of Venezuela’s El Libertario magazine are unrelenting in their criticism of what they call the myth of Hugo Chavez’s “Eco-socialism of the XXI Century.”
Bibliographic Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 320, Spring, 1985
Some bibliographic notes on articles in this issue
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976
The Brain Police To the Fifth Estate: The feature on the “Crisis in Health Care” (June FE) is O.K. However, I think it should include some coverage of the so-called mental health system. (The Brain Police wear white uniforms!)
Notes on Captivity
by John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
“Few books today are forgivable. Black on the canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper, are perhaps feasible.” — R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience
Trots and Nukes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
Reprinted from FE #284, July 1977. Apparently there is honor among thieves and the anti-nuclear power struggle has exposed the totally reactionary tendencies of several marxist groups as they line up behind the governments of totalitarian regimes and mouth the …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
To paraphrase an ex-president; we won’t have The Detroit Sun to kick around anymore—the city’s “hottest paper” collapsed financially after its Oct. 22 issue, ending several months of weekly publication. In a desperate attempt to raise needed cash (the staff …
From the Other Side of the Tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
Sometimes it seems that history does, indeed, repeal itself. The mistakes of a radical movement are sometimes repeated several generations later by another radical movement. At other limes, a radical movement will repeat its own mistakes within the same generation. …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
James Koehnline’s inventive collages often grace our pages including this issue. His mixture of the ancient with the modern, sacred idols with the banal, and the improbable alongside the ordinary, are often ominously unsettling. The jarring juxtaposition creates a combination …
Sarah Jane Moore
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 268, January, 1976
A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER A recent poll has concluded that this year’s “American Mother of the Year” is none other than Sarah Jane Moore, a San Francisco area resident. Moore was however unavailable for comment on this news, as …
Helping an old woman, age 90, turn on
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
Age 90 is very different. A dusty journey has been traveled, a time-tunnel has been penetrated. Her 20th Century is a vast prismatic blur, a fantasy in which some parts hold up for the Truth.
Mega-Cities
by Bellamy Fitzpatrick
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
“…the city is not fitting human habitat. Architecturally, in form and function, they resemble nothing so much as endless aisles of battery hen cages.” —Dion Workman, Thinking Like A Forest: Towards an Agricultural Counter-Revolution
Michigan Democratic Convention Likes U.A.W., Loves L.B.J.
by Rodger Robinson
Fifth Estate # 13, August 30, 1966
The State convention of the Democratic party of Michigan was with few exceptions a total victory for L.B.J. and his local apologists the U.A.W.-C.I.A. The workings of organized labor at the convention was not at all like the moderate socialists …
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Jerry Rubin Busted in New York
by Martin Jezer
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
NEW YORK, N.Y., June 15 (Liberation News Service)—Three plainclothes police arrested YIPPEE coordinator Jerry Rubin at his apartment late Thursday afternoon and charged him with possession of dangerous drugs—a felony. From the conduct of the police, it was clear that …
Letters to the Editor
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 15, October 1-15, 1966
To the Editor: Just finished reading a friend’s copy of THE FIFTH ESTATE. Enjoyed very much Mr. Ovshinsky’s article about Dr. Hoffer and LSD [FE #13, August 30, 1966]. It was refreshing to read an article that dealt with …
Hong Kong
by Norman Nawrocki
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
Hong Kong, a steamy, enchanting, green pearl of an island with an amazingly efficient public transit system is also the ultimate temple to last gasp, fast buck, crass consumerism. Mega-towering, teetering, multi-national corporate headquarters ablaze with over-sized neon logos that …
Dossier: Escape
by D.Z.M.A.W.
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
The misanthropic and dystopian speculative-fiction writer J.G. Ballard once mused that the two most important inventions of the Twentieth Century were the aircraft ejection seat and the birth-control pill.
Views
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
The possible trial and execution of United States airmen as war criminals by the Hanoi government has been handled by the administration and by the press as a crucial turning point in the war in Vietnam. Partially to justify the …
U.S Marine Says No To Invasions
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 317, Summer 1984
It’s too bad that he had to hear the word from Allah, but still it is heartening to know that at least one Marine refused to be used as cannon fodder in Reagan’s reckless war schemes. Marine Cpl. Alfred Griffen, …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 272, May 1976
Hungary ’56 by Andy Anderson Black & Red-Solidarity 138 pp., $1.25 Revolt In Socialist Yugoslavia by Fredy Perlman Black & Red 23 pp., $.25
Two Poems
by Christina Pacosz
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
The poetry of Christina Pacosz is remarkable for its insistent and deeply compassionate crossing of that deceptive boundary between what we have been tragically trained to think of as the separate domains of culture and nature. Grief, protest, nurture and …
A Carnival Parade of Political Forms
by Eric Laursen
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
a review of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976
JUST PUBLISHED! Letters of Insurgents by Sophia Nachalo & Yarostan Vochek Black & Red 831 pp., $4.50 (add 35 cents postage After 20 years, two participants in an Eastern European insurrection recreate through a series of letters their often contradictory …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
Dear Brothers: Myself and another head, were very mellow on the bunker line, when we happened to glance at your paper “The Fifth Estate.” Since then it hasn’t left our hands. Our souls and hearts would be yours if we …
Earth house hold
Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969
a review of Earth House Hold by Gary Snyder, New Directions Paperback, 143 pp., $1.95
No Ten Million for Cuba
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
HAVANA (LNS) In two speeches May 19 and 20, Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced that the projected mark of ten million tons of sugar would not be reached this year.
A Second (& More Honest) Mao Tsetung Memorial Meeting
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
Hold high the banner of Mao Tsetung’s immoral contributions and the achievements and lessons of the Cultural Revolution! COMRADES! Fellow Marxist-Leninists of the Revolutionary Proletarian Vanguard! Let us be open and honest, using the revolutionary method of criticism-self-criticism to sum …
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Cuba’s New Constitution
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
Pity the poor Marxist-Leninist militants now bereft of the police states for which they so earnestly apologized. But, not real pity as their dishonesty has caused as much damage to revolutionary possibilities as have the objects of their political ardor.
Eat It
by Judie Davis
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
It’s been so long now since I’ve written a column that I hardly know where to begin. I was turned off writing about recipes and am hoping this column can take a different direction, but it’s all still going around …
What’s Wrong With Nuclear Power?
by Adam Baum
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
Nuclear power is a primary threat in the ongoing global environmental struggles at the end of the twentieth century. However, nuclear power is an issue many shy away from because of its complex and technical nature and the opaque power …
A Changing Vietnam
by Jonny Ball
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
Having lived and worked in Vietnam for a year now, I have only a slightly better understanding of the country than when I first arrived. This is a country of extremely complex paradoxes and antagonisms. I remain dumbfounded by the …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave. Detroit—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that you give …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
Amazing! This issue follows the last faster than any one since we became a quarterly ten years ago. In good part it is motivated by the quickening pace of political events throughout the world and the sense that revolution is …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and can be found at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 48201 (telephone-313-831-6800). Our hours vary, but we are generally open on Monday and Thursday afternoons (from 1pm to 5pm) and at …
From Adoration to Rebellion
by Huang Ho Group (Hong Kong)
Fifth Estate # 290, March 2, 1978
Introduction The article below is part of a series of discussions that took place in Hong Kong in the early part of 1977, in which the participants (all ex-Red Guard members) attempt to make clear their reaction to Mao Tse-Tung …
Interview with a Chinese Rebel
by Mu Xidi
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
The following interview with Mu Xidi, a former sailor, Chinese rebel, and since 1990, a refugee in Barcelona was taken from the French book Bureaucratie, Bagnes et Business (Bureaucracy, Prisons and Profits), published in Paris by L’insomniaque last year.
The Press of Peace
by Ben Habeebe
Fifth Estate # 33, July 1-15, 1967
Hey! Hey! LBJ—Look What’s happenin’ in America today: Vietnam Summer, 1967. From coast-to-coast 4,000 people in 48 states have stepped forward to work on Vietnam Summer projects to end the war…and that number is on the rise. Here in Detroit …