a review of Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic by David Lester and Marcus Rediker; Illustrated by David Lester; Edited by Paul Buhle. Beacon Press 2023
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‘Ear ye!
by Bob Stark
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
The idea of getting a lot of great musicians together to work as a back-up band for a featured artist on rock recordings is almost as old as rock itself.
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 …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
The several thousand unapproved, pirate radio stations operating in the U.S. won a Pyrrhic victory in July when the Federal Communication Commission agreed to license hundreds of the low power broadcasting operations, many which feature anarchist, punk, black, and community …
WABX Gets It On
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
As Tony Reay says [FE #65, October 31-November 13] “WABX strikes again.” And they did, with ripples from the blow coming all the way back to Detroit from England. The WABX audience was the first, anywhere in the world, to …
Contents of print edition
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
COVER: “St. Mary of the Machines”–Stephen Goodfellow BACK: Joey Salamon 3 AnarchoShorts & Other tales from the planet 3 Letters 4 Fifth Estate celebrates 50th year 5 The Rojava Revolution Andrew Flood
What Time Is It?
by Bob Brubaker
Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983
In response to “Beginning of Time, End of Time,” FE #313, Summer, 1983.
Police Your Local Support
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 71, January 23-February 5, 1969
Police are always complaining about what dangerous jobs they have. Some of this is justified; some of it is of their own making. When you are part of an occupying army, the people do tend to get a little uptight …
Political Repression in U.S.A.
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
“One man of 74 said he opposed the war but declined to write or send a telegram for fear that ‘if they find out, they’ll take my social security away.’ A housewife said, ‘My son’s in college now and I …
The Coat Puller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
The news this time seems to be that many people are getting busted for grass in a lot of funny ways and don’t know what to do about it when it happens. I have gone through three marijuana arrests and …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 88, September 18-October 1, 1969
QUESTION: What are the potential dangers of the new “3-way” tablets (mostly mescaline plus a little LSD and a wee bit of cocaine?) One of my friends got stoned wild for 9 hours on this but spent the last 3 …
Anarchy at the Grinning Duck
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 308, January 19, 1982
You don’t have to watch the nightly TV news to realize that money is tight these days. It is an international problem that has put many anti-authoritarian printing projects in jeopardy including this one. For that reason we are planning …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 88, September 18-October 1, 1969
Dear Fifth Estate, I’m still alive and well in the U.S. Navy. Much has happened since the MP hassled with Ray Greer last Jan. 4th at Metro airport. If you’ll remember I was on a TV news spot last Feb. …
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SUMMER 2013 ISSUE COMING SOON Issue theme: Sex and Anarchy (This issue follows #388, Winter 2012. A Spring edition was not published.) FEATURING Sex and Anarchy – Changing Society & Ourselves Sex and Revolution by Marie Mason Industrialism & Its …
Books and Publications received
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
Cazzaarola!: Anarchy, Romani, Love, Italy by Norman Nawrocki, PM Press, 2013, 300 pp, $18, pmpress.org. Anarchy and the anti-fascist struggle in 20th century Italy and the oppression of the Roma and other immigrants in contemporary Italy are intertwined in this …
Bullets Fly at Anti-Draft Center
by Kae Halonen
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
The resistance to the Draft Resistance Committee office at 12820 Hamilton in Highland Park has been stepped up into a Mississippi-style harassment campaign.
Hope Among the Ruins
by Ruhe
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
a review of Why Hope? The Stand Against Civilization by John Zerzan; introduction by Lang Gore. Feral House, 2015, 136 pp.
Medical Fund Appeals for Aid
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
The Emergency Medical Fund for Bernard, Garrett & Graham is making a widespread appeal for funds on the first anniversary of the – shooting at Debs Hall, headquarters of the Socialist Workers Party, where Leo Bernard was killed and Jan …
Oh My
by Bob Stark
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
The Detroit area is getting desperately short of places for rock bands to play. Three months ago things looked really good with the Grande, the Hideouts, and the Crow’s Nests all doing well; the Eastown getting ready to open, and …
Armed Against Fascism
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
With “These faggots kill fascists” emblazoned on their banner, an army of international volunteers formed the first LGBT fighting unit to “smash the ISIS caliphate. This July photo shows them raising the rainbow flag in Raqqa, Syria. According to an …
“What this country needs is a good 5-cent reefer”
by Collegiate Press Service
Fifth Estate # 54, May 16-31, 1968
WASHINGTON (CPS)—College students voted for Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) and an end to the war in Vietnam in Choice 1968, the national campus presidential primary held April 24. McCarthy polled 26.7 per cent of the almost 1.2 million votes cast, …
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Detroit Doctors Might Treat War Victims
by Ben Habeebe
Fifth Estate # 28, April 15-30, 1967
A team of medical men is in South Vietnam on a mission that might result in a group of napalm-burned children coming to Detroit for surgery and treatment.
Contents of print edition
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
Cover photo: Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army in Edinburgh, Scotland. 4 Insurgent Rebel Clown Army L.M. Bogad 7 Cultural Appropriation & Shaming Rod Dubey 9 The Myth of Che Guevara MLB 11 Ukrainian & Russian Repression FE Staff 12 The …
People’s Tribunal Condemns Cops
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
The worst thing one could say about the Algiers Motel Tribunal is that it was Recorder’s Court upside down. If the tribunal was biased and weighted against the four white defendants, Detroit Patrolman Robert Paille and Ronald August, National Guardsman …
Fifth Estate Announcements
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
Given our infrequent publishing schedule, it is often difficult to keep abreast of timely announcements for events across the world’s anti-authoritarian community, but we will try. Please understand, though, if your event does not appear, it may have come too …
Birchers Active in Detroit
by Tao Chu Kwang
Fifth Estate # 22, January 15-30, 1967
When most Detroiters think of the organized right-wing in this city they immediately conjure up images of Don Lobsinger and his lunatic organization, Breakthrough, throwing Soviet flags at speakers, disrupting concerts because groups from the Soviet Union are playing there, …
Fleetwood Mac at the Grande
by Tony Reay
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
For anyone who wanted a late Christmas present, the Fleetwood Mac at the Grande Ballroom provided a good one. Score one against all the Blue Cheer fans who said the Mac were “another British blues group.” But, for those of …
Not again
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970
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.
The Mob, Racism & Mayhem They Call a Sport
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of The Bittersweet Science; Racism, Racketeering, and the Political Economy of Boxing by Gerald Horne. International Publishers 2021
Studio & Court Theatre
by Merrill Lynn
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
A bizarre chiller which gives Rock Hudson a chance at drama, for a change, provides an evening of unusual entertainment in the John Frankenheimer film, “Seconds,” now appearing at the Studio New Center Theatre.
Ten Years of Montreal’s Mauvaise Herbe
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 386, Spring, 2012
The Montreal zine and distro, Mauvaise Herbe (MH; The Weed), celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2011. The journal, with its green and anarchist insurrectionist influences, prints articles in French and English, was first to publish this perspective in French in …
Death of a Salesman
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 269, February, 1976
Time Magazine wrote in its eulogy of Chou En-lai that he never forgave John Foster Dulles for refusing to shake hands with him at the 1954 Geneva Conference. That was where he engineered the famous “compromise” in which he convinced …
Rock Ghouls
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 1969
As groupies of the linear and electric media sniff at Janice Joplin’s empty whiskey bottles for the slightest whiff of a story, WKNR-FM of Detroit has taken rock coverage even farther down the ladder of respectability until it resembles Confidential …
Deee-Troit
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
WABX DJs Larry Miller and Dave Dixon both emphatically deny the report of last issue that they came to blows over station policy. “The real miracle of the station is how well we work together,” Miller said. Sorry fellas, we …
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 39, October 1-15, 1967
SAT., SEPT. 30 PLAY: Pantageize, APA repertory company, Michel de Gheldero’s “farce to make you sad” Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, Ann Arbor, 8:00 p.m. 9/30 SUN., OCT. 1 PLAY: Same as 9/30 2:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. adm. 10/1
World War 3 Illustrated
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
a review of World War 3 Illustrated Assorted Authors & Artists AK Press akpress.org ww3.nyc
Life Among the Piutes
by Tom Schulte
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
a review of Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1883; Kindle edition, 2017. Also, free online
Campaign ’66
by Frank Joyce
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
The following are some random comments and recommendations on the upcoming August 2 primary election races.
Press Conference Cancelled
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
The Midwest “Underground” Press Conference originally scheduled for Saturday, May 20, at WSU has been called off until further notice due to the machinations of Dean J. Don Marsh of Wayne State University, who refused the WSU Artists’ Society classroom …