John B. Logan, a professor at Notre Dame University, has been named the Miles Memorial Poet for 1967 at Wayne State University. Professor Logan, currently a visiting professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, will accept the …
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Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 24, February 15-28, 1967
Surprise “hero” of the recent narcotics bust—Recorder’s Court Judge Frank Schemanske. Lena Sinclair (John’s wife) and three others were going to be held a second night without being formally charged, pending a chemical analysis of the stuff seized in the …
Gary Grimshaw 1946-2014
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
The passing of graphic artist, Gary Grimshaw, is mourned by his family and all those who knew him, as well as the rock and art community.
MOVE Background
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
It’s difficult for a newspaper to admit ignorance, but in the MOVE situation in Philadelphia—we admit it. After MOVE’s shoot-out with the police in that city on Aug. 8 to protect their home (see “Police Attack MOVE,” FE #293-294, August …
Examining Zerzan
by Bob Brubaker, E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), Fifth Estate Collective, John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Much of primitivist theorist John Zerzan’s early work appeared in the Fifth Estate. His Cassandra-like predictions of imminent collapse of modern society began in 1976 with his FE article, “The Decline and Fall of Everything” [FE # 268, January, 1976]—a …
White Panther Statement
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968
First I must say that this statement, like all statements is bullshit without an active program to back it up. We have a program which is on-going and total and which must not be confused with anything that is said …
The Big March
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 7, April 1966
On Saturday, March 26, demonstrations protesting the war in Vietnam were held in Detroit as this city’s effort in the Second International Days of Protest. In preparation for this event, sponsored by the Detroit Committee to End the War in …
Cops and Freaks
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
The Detroit Police has begun a reign of terror in the Warren-Forest area near Wayne University.
Excerpts from a Rebellion
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
The following are excerpts from stories published in the Fifth Estate immediately following the July 1967 events. Reading them a half century later, one is saddened and angered by the fact that the causes of the Rebellion—police brutality, racial discrimination, …
Poem for Warner Stringfellow
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969
Detective Lieutenant, Detroit Narcotics Squad, who has been single-handedly responsible for busting me on two separate occasions for possessing and selling marijuana . and who stumbled into my new apartment last night by accident over a year since the last …
Czechago Blasted by Panel
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
When the President appointed a Commission to study violence after Chicago’s freak-out Convention activity last August, not even the most turned on prophet in the movement could have suspected the bombshell report which would become, after a single day on …
Serve the People Coalition News
by Len Schafer
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
“We have finally seen that we are brothers and sisters in spite of ideological differences. We finally sense that we hold much in common.” —STP Coalition Working together on this basis, 16 community based organizations got together May 19 to …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 22, January 15-30, 1967
Yes it IS a New year. This year Detroit will be born into flesh and spirit and we will have what we want finally. It’s been a long time acomin’, but it IS here. Yes. Last Friday night I was …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 98, February 4-18, 1970
“Where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the establishment, violence may be the only effective response.” —Justice William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court “Violence? We hate it. But is it violent to shoot a cop who …
Detroit 1967 Rebellion
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
The July, 1967 Detroit rebellion left 42 dead, hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and scars still unhealed today. The Fifth Estate office was in a hard-hit area: the August 1, 1967 issue featured first-hand accounts from staff members …
Pontiac’s speech to the whiteman
by Dave Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Out of the blue sky, out of the waters, out of the woods, of the deer, the beaver, the bush, the bird flies, out of my people, the blood, out of so many moons in this place a man
Inner City Voice hit by Censorship
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
“Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom…of the press.” —First Amendment, United States Constitution “It’s a free country, but it’s their thing.” —John Sinclair, Detroit House of Correction, July, 1966
Contest of Contests!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 290, March 2, 1978
The response to last issue’s “Contest of Contests” [FE #289, January 24, 1978] was underwhelming to say the least, but we did receive enough entries to fill the first three winning spots (in fact, exactly that number). The contest was …
Would You Burn A Child?
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 27, April 1-15, 1967
Support The Spring Mobilization To End The War In Vietnam.
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
This newspaper, WSU’s South End, and the Inner City Voice are going to sponsor a revolutionary newspaper conference on April 11, 12, and 13. It will be held on the Wayne University campus. The need for such a conference rises …