The mass anti-war march set for April 15 down Woodward Ave. may have wider support than all previous such demonstrations. Plans call for the march to begin at the Wayne State University campus at 2:00 pm and march to Kennedy …
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Stopping the Incinerator, Starting the Movement
by Lynne Clive (Marilynn Rashid)
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
There were a number of inaccurate and misleading statements made in E. B. Maple’s both congratulatory and critical article on the Evergreen Alliance and its May Mobilization to Save the Great Lakes in the last issue [FE #329, Summer, 1988]. …
Motor City Sister in Vietnam, Part 2
by Linda Evans
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
Editors’ Note: Linda Evans, from Motor City SDS, was one of 7 Movement people who went to North Vietnam last month to bring back three captured American military men. Along with her were Rennie Davis of the National Mobilization Committee; …
Mutual Aid in Times of Crisis: Ecological, Economic, and Political
by scott crow
Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that it has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of …
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Sinclair, from Prison
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
Dear Brothers & Sisters, It was good to hear from you last week. My transfer to Marquette has been postponed at least a few weeks, but they are determined to send me there as soon as they can. A pig …
Anarchy in the Midwest
by Rob Blurton
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
When 17th century Europeans arrived in the Great Lakes region, they discovered Native Americans living in what today we would call an anarchist society. These Lake natives had horizontal social relationships governed by kin obligations and employed consensus decision-making.
Anarchist Conference in Connecticut Draws 300 from Around the Country
by Paul J. Comeau
Fifth Estate # 382, Spring, 2010
Anarchist activists and academics from around the country gathered at Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford, CT November 21st and 22nd for the inaugural conference of the North American Anarchist Studies Network.
Right for America
by Durruti
Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 1969
Six million Jews did not die in Germany during World War II, anyone should know there was but sixty thousand of them in all of Europe. Franklin Roosevelt was a dirty commie. John Sinclair is a dirty commie. Water fluoridation …
Welcome to Detroit, Mr. Murphy
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970
“Patrick Murphy is no great shakes as Public Safety Director. He is a poor administrator; he is weak, and he has no rapport with his men.” —Richard Judd, former aide to Sen. Wayne Morse on D.C. Affairs Committee, U.S. Senate
Strange Bedfellows?
by Michael Staudenmaier
Fifth Estate # 361, Summer 2003
From a talk given at the Fourth Annual Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, May 18, 2003
A Belgrade Ecologist Cries Out for Peace
by David Bacon
Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999
< Kosovo: The Empire at War NATO bombs rained down on her city, beginning in its suburbs and then moving into the heart of Belgrade. First the planes and cruise missiles came just at night. But then their aerial assault …
Free Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
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 …
The News from Yugoslavia is not All Bad
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
The news from the former Yugoslavia is not all bad. Disaffection is showing among Serbian soldiers, though their aims are at present confused. Serbian soldiers have taken control in Banja Luka, northern Bosnia, and are holding local officials and demanding …
100th Anniversary of the Automobile
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
When eager crowds pushed through the turnstiles of Detroit’s North American International Auto Show last winter, they had the look of fans at a championship game or dreamy-eyed kids thinking of presents under the Christmas tree. Although all of them …
Strange Bedfellows?
by Michael Staudenmaier
Fifth Estate # 361, Summer, 2003
From a talk given at the Fourth Annual Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, May 18, 2003
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
If there’s anything more disgusting than a person who has no guts, its a person who has half-guts. For example, Rep. John Conyers, Jr. For the past several weeks I’ve been writing about the wonderful job he was doing in …
Utah Phillips (1935-2008)
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
The IWW and the labor movement lose a troubadour Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music, who performed tirelessly on two continents for 38 years, died May 23 of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California, a small …
Capital Big Winner in Italy Elections
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976
The results of the Italian parliamentary elections held June 20 and 21 toppled the predictions of political forecasters (including us; see FE last issue, June 1976) that the Italian Communist Party (PCI) would emerge as the greatest vote getter. As …
Puppets Against Pollution
by Dogbane Campion (David Watson), Mary Wildwood
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
Some 200 local residents turned out to show their opposition to the Detroit incinerator and the ongoing destruction of planetary life systems in early June. Following a dormant phase, this demonstration did much to clear away a pall hanging over …
Desert Storm
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991
“Oil is industrial capitalism’s ‘crack.’” —anti-war placard