Almost exactly two years ago, tens of thousands of demonstrators came down on Washington, D.C., to let the Pentagon feel the force of their opposition to the war in Vietnam.
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Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
PORTUGAL: The Impossible Revolution? Phil Mailer The still unfinished story of the Portuguese upsurge of 1974-75. An eye-witness account of a deeply involved spectator. A new type of historiography with the view from different groups vying for power and the …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
The rabid anti-Communist vultures are now having a field day. They are suddenly showing a concern for the people of Czechoslovakia which they never exhibited for the Blacks in Rhodesia and South Africa or the Orientals in Vietnam.
Russia Revolution Books – Review
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
a review of Bloodstained: One Hundred Years of Leninist Counterrevolution eds. Friends of Aron Baron; Luigi Fabbri, Rudolf Rocker, Nestor Makhno, Iain McKay, Alexander Berkman, Maurice Brinton, Ida Mett, Otto Wile, Emma Goldman, et al. AK Press akpress.org, 2017
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
Harrises Freed Bill and Emily Harris, the Symbionese Liberation Army members who pleaded guilty to kidnapping newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst in 1974 and were imprisoned in 1978, will be paroled in June. Their attorney, Stuart Hanlon, said Bill Harris will …
Repression Escalates on Panthers
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
NEW YORK—As part of a nationwide conspiracy to smash the Black Panther Party, 21 New York Panther members were arrested on charges of conspiracy April 2 in a 5 a.m. roundup.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 290, March 2, 1978
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 the Other Side of the Tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
Reprinted with permission of the Guardian, independent radical weekly, NYC One of the most difficult responsibilities of the revolutionary is to be self-critical. To be self-critical means being able to ask yourself if you are wrong, and if so, to …
Ginsberg: The trees are our allies
by Allen Ginsberg, David Gaynes
Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 1969
Editors’ Note: this interview with poet Allen Ginsberg took place at 10 a.m. on October 15 while driving from Detroit’s inner city to Macomb College, where he was reading. Ginsberg was in the area doing a series of readings for …
From the Other Side of the Tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
Sometimes we are the victims of our own words. At best, words are poor conveyors of information. They are imprecise and must be used with the utmost care if they are to do what we want them to do. When …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 42, November 15-30, 1967
The Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) had its long-awaited dinner at the Rackham Bldg. recently, only a few days after anti-war demonstrators had clashed with the warmakers and local gendarmes in the same locals.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 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 1 pm to 5 pm) …
News and Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
Within the past several months the FE has received many publications and letters from Greece trying to make contact with radicals and libertarian revolutionaries in the U.S.
Eat Your President for Breakfast
by The Mormyrids
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
The long and tiresome electoral campaign of President Posterior revealed to home audiences (we can hardly call the unmobilized American masses anything else) the dyspeptic underbelly of the liberal-democratic fantasy.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 271, April, 1976
The revolution is a thing of the people, a popular creation; the counterrevolution is a thing of the State. It has always been so and will always be so, whether in Russia, Spain or China. –Anarchist Federation of Iberia (FA …
“The People’s Luck”
by Jim Feast
Fifth Estate # 380, Spring 2009
For the past two summers, I accompanied my wife, who speaks Cantonese and Mandarin, to China so we could tour part of the country before she started summer school in a master’s program in Chinese literature in Nanjing, a city …
Free Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
Though we do not accept commercial advertising, this Unclassified ad space is free for our readers’ use. We do not accept ads over the telephone, so please send your ads in writing to our office at: 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 293-294, August 21, 1978
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper (?) [sic] and can be found at 4403 Second Ave, (telephone (313) 831-6800. Our hours vary quite a bit, so it’s always best to give us a telephone call before coming …
An anarchist operetta set in Taiwan
by Norman Nawrocki
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
a review of Peter & Emma’s Bookcafe (operetta) by Lenny Kwok, 2021
Bits of the World in Briefs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 290, March 2, 1978
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 …
Vietnam—Why? Why Not
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 6, March 20-April 1, 1966
I would like at this time to point out what I believe to be the central considerations involved in my position that the United States is totally unjustified in pursuing its current policy in Vietnam.
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 …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
BOOKSTORE HOURS: Monday and Tuesday-1pm to 5pm—Wednesday 7pm to 10pm. LOCATION: 4403 Second (on the corner of Second & Canfield), Detroit, Michigan 48201
The Tao of Capitalism
by Max Cafard
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
Lao Tzu was the mythic “Old Sage” of ancient China. We’re not sure whether he actually existed, but we do know that he founded Taoist philosophy. His legendary Tao te Ching, the “Classic of the Way and its Power,” is …
Nixon Kicks Bucket
by Mr. Venom
Fifth Estate # Daily Barbarian Number 8
Nixon Kicks Bucket Ding Dong The Wicked Witch Is Dead! by Mr. Venom Daily Barbarian > Nixon Kicks Bucket The day after Richard Milhouse Nixon died, I noticed while driving to work that the flag at the McDonald’s on Woodward …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
Answer to last issue’s quiz: The designer of the nationally known Willow Run bomber plant was Charles Lindberg, former Warren-Forest resident and grandson of John C. Lodge, of X-way fame… Rumors of the week: The J.L. Hudson Co. will announce …
What it Means to be a Prison Abolitionist
by Amanda D.
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
I started this work a few years ago when I became fascinated by what prisons were like in other countries and what prisoners in Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, and China had to endure. Then I became more involved in the local …
Plague for Profit
by Carrie Laben
Fifth Estate # 408, Winter, 2021
a review of The Monster Enters: COVID-19 and the Plagues of Capitalism by Mike Davis. O/R Books 2020 As he has done in the past for California wildfires and famine in India, Mike Davis contextualizes pandemic disease in a matrix …
Letters to the Editor
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
To the Editor: A reply to Mr. Wilbert McClendon; not because he will listen (he won’t) but because someone has to maintain the balance:
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 306, July, 1981
The FE bookstore page is more than an advertisement—the actual bookselling part of the project takes time and makes little, if any, money. We like to pass on books that have interested us or that have been “self-published” by friends …
Letters to the Editor
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
Send letters via email to fe – AT – fifthestate.org or Fifth Estate, P.O. Box 201016, Ferndale MI 48220. All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten. Letters may be edited for length.
May-June 1968–The Exposure (excerpt)
by Jacques Camatte
Fifth Estate # 329, Summer, 1988
FE Note: What follows are thoughts on the revolutionary upsurge which shook France 20 years ago. Although ultimately unsuccessful, the message is that revolt is possible in modern society. In ours today, it is not the cops which prevent revolt, …
The Wheel of the Law Turns without Pause
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 89, October 2-15, 1969
“All over the world, people are laughing at America because they’re so stupid. They don’t know what time it is. This is a late hour for America. America is on her way out.” (Robert Williams at a Detroit press conference …
How to print zines, posters, flyers, and stickers
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
a review of Cheap Copies! Cheap Copies! The OBSOLETE! Press Guide to DIY Hectography, Mimeography, & Spirit Duplication by Rich Dana. Obsolete Press, 2022
How I Stopped Recycling
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
Recycling is a classic case of co-optation. The title of this article is somewhat misleading since I continue to recycle a portion of the waste produced daily by my household. What has changed is my previous diligence in making certain …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 273, June 1976
A PRIMER OF LIBERTARIAN EDUCATION by Joel Spring, Free Life Editions, 157 pp. $3.95 Traces the tradition of libertarian opposition to established education from Rousseau and Godwin to Neill and Freire. “Spring places the radical challenge into its own tradition …
Animal Revolt
by Aesop
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
In late March, Takoma, a 22 year-old Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphin trained by the US Navy to detect underwater mines for Marine Corps reconnaissance divers, went absent without leave while on patrol in the Persian Gulf outside of Umm Qasr. In …
From the Other Side of the Tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969
Reprinted with permission of The Guardian, independent radical weekly, NYC The revolutionary process takes many decades to fulfill itself. The generation which finally assumes power gives the appearance of having started a revolution in a short period of time. …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
Ammunition Books, 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201 ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY by Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson Part I The Eye in the Pyramid 304 pp. Part II The Golden Apple 272 pp. Part III Leviathan 253 pp. Incredible political …
Somali Pirates
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
“The past is not only not dead, it’s not even past.” — W. Faulkner