“It is time now to meet the escalation of the War in Vietnam with an escalation of opposition to that War. I think the time has come for all people of good will to engage in a massive program of …
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TV-2 Interview—POW!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
John Watson, the Editor-in-Chief of Wayne State’s revolutionary student newspaper, the South End, has been charged with assault and battery on a TV newsman.
Wobblies & Music
by John Pietaro
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
Is there ought we have in common with the greedy parasite, Who would lash us into serfdom and crush us with his might? Is there anything left for us but to organize and fight? The Union makes us strong! —”Solidarity …
Contents of Print Edition
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
Woodstock Music Festival, 1969. The Fifth Estate was in its fourth year of publication and was part of the counter-culture music scene as much as the anti-war and resistance movements of the times. The festival gave the then-tabloid paper press …
Newsreel Films Seized
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
NEW YORK (LNS) — Three Newsreel photographers just back from North Vietnam have sued the State Department, U.S. Customs, and Trans World Airlines to recover movie film which was seized through trickery and deceit by government authorities at Kennedy International …
Rock and Roll Revival!
by Dennis Frawley
Fifth Estate # 81, June 12-25, 1969
Detroit’s 1st Rock and Roll Revival held Memorial Day weekend at the Fairgrounds significantly began the summer’s slew of pop festivals across the country.
Getting Off The Road
by I.M. Beat (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
a review of On the Road, Jack Kerouac. Penguin Modern Classics, London, 1976 Naked Angels, The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation, John Tytell. McGraw Hill, New York, 1977
Salamanders for Allah
by Blue Jesus
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
“As long as the oppressive relations of capitalist production prevail, the character of work will continue to assume all of the features of a bad acid trip.” —Karl Marx, The Communist Dreambook Work engenders the progressive unemployment of the mind …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968
One of the most noticeable things about the primary election this month was the unusually low turnout especially for a Presidential year. The excitement of a forthcoming national election contest generally creates among the electorate a greater interest in the …
Rightist is Obscene
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
Breakthrough and Donald Lobsinger’s tactics may have backfired in their most recent confrontation with the Establishment—tackled from the right.
‘Zappening (Events Calendar)
by Karen Kovac, Naiomi Epil
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
The calendar is prepared by Fifth Estate calendar girls Karen Kovac and Naiomi Epil with cooperation from Detroit Adventure. Copy deadline is the 6th and 22nd of each month and should be sent to the Fifth Estate, Calendar 1107 W. …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
Unclassifieds cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible). DISCOUNT RATES: …
Morrison “Slips”
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
MIAMI (LNS)—Jim Morrison, erotic magician and lead singer for the Doors, is in big trouble in Florida.
Fifth Estate a-gassed
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
There is a Hebrew idiomatic expression, K’ninah Houra, which Joel Altus explained to me as sort of being equivalent to saying knock on wood after telling of some good fortune you have incurred and you want it not to change. …
Council Rejects City’s Bike Ban
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 33, July 1-15, 1967
Intelligence finally reigned supreme recently when Detroit’s Common Council tore apart Ray Girardin’s stupid proposal to ban motorcycles from city parks without a special permit. The proposal was immediately condemned by the American Civil Liberties Union as unconstitutional and in …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
Send letters to fe AT fifthestate DOT org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220. All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten. Letters may be edited for length.
Yellow Submarine
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
“Once upon a time, or maybe twice, there was an earthly paradise called Pepperland, which existed 80,000 leagues beneath the sea…” And so it was, a land of brilliant color and elegant people and Ming music, with words such as …
JFK: Cold Warrior
by Jack Straw
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
“I shall never be able to forget where I was standing on that dramatic day when President John Fitzgerald Kennedy nearly killed me. It was during the nuclear confrontation that arose out of his war on Cuba.” —Christopher Hitchens in …
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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Anti-War GIs Face Trial, Court Martial
by Louie Collins
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
Can the Army brass deny a GI his constitutional rights to hold and express ideas differing from those held by the administration in Washington—including ideas in direct opposition to the Vietnam war?
A Short History of our Offices as Autonomous Zones
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Hakim Bey, whose writings frequently appear in these pages, is perhaps best known for his book the TAZ–temporary autonomous zone–that describes when normally domesticated space is liberated, if only for a moment, for festive and subversive moments of happiness.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
To the Editors, Since their seems to be some controversy about calling police “Pigs,” I would like to say that when you call any group any one name, that you are generalizing. Whether you call a policeman a pig, …
The S.C.U.M. Bag
by Nancy Homer
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
a review of S.C.U.M. Manifesto by Valerie Solanas. Olympia Press, 1968, Paperback 75 cents.
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure THURS. JULY 10 DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA at Meadowbrook, Ehrling conducting; Itzthak Perlman, violinist. 8:30 pm.
Grimshaw Convicted for Obscene Kite
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
The infamous Grimshaw kite case has reached its first conclusion, with an astounding miscarriage of justice.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
Open City Meeting
by David Gaynes
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
On Monday evening, February 20th, Alvin’s Delicatessen hosted the second “official” meeting of the OPEN CITY project.
Letters to the editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
We encourage your participation in this project with your comments on the publication & its perspectives. While we will read every letter, we will usually print the most enticing & engaging. E-mail letters or letters sent on disk are appreciated. …
Larry Miller
by Larry Miller
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
First, I would like to thank the editors of The Fifth Estate for asking me to contribute. Folk music and the new music, called Folk-rock are my own areas of endeavor, and I hope I will be able to add …
Last of ’68
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
Every Christmas season, the movie market is positively flooded with the year-end glut of new releases, and 1968 proved no exception.
Ten Million
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970
Returning members of the Venceremos Cane Cutting Brigade encountered their comrades who will take up the work of the first contingent of the brigade in the sugar cane fields of Cuba. The Venceremos Brigade is a group of young Americans …
Vietnam Summer
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
There is, even though you may not have noticed it lately, still a war going on in Vietnam.
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
Welcome to the Summer 1994 Fifth Estate. Our center eight pages feature the return of the once-a-decade Daily Barbarian, which last appeared as an FE supplement in 1984. Just wait until 2004! Also, this 40-page issue is the largest in …
Films
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
“The First Time” (Studio-North) When you see “The First Time” you begin to think that this “Graduate” bit is becoming a pretty poor excuse for a movie. This time the striking Jacqueline Bisset has the Mrs. Robinson role, and Wes …
Do Unions Raise Wages?
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 273, June 1976
Although unions have long been identified by left revolutionaries as auxiliary organs of capital whose function is to regulate the sale of their members’ labor power, the myth still persists that they are “defense organs of the working class.” Even …
Let’s Eat!
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
Ford Surgery Fails Inside sources have reported that Betty Ford, formerly of state furniture capital Grand Rapids, Michigan, has fallen into a deep depression since her celebrated plastic surgery at a laetrile clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. Unknown to most people, …
Medium
by Emil Bacilla
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
A lot of changes have been taking place lately on the local independent underground film scene. Ralph Pickett, of the Indian Pickers, has left the Detroit Repertory Theatre. Bill Unger is now in charge of the film showing. It’s interesting …
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
FILMS Cass City Cinema—First Unitarian Church (Cass and Forest), $1.50 admission, 7:30 & 10:00 p.m. Nov. 19 & 20: “The Twelve Chairs,” (Mel Brooks). Nov. 26 & 27: “Emitai” (1971 from Senegal). Dec. 3 & 4: “This Man Must Die” …
Honkies Can’t Dig Soul Music
by Bill Kerby
Fifth Estate # 39, October 1-15, 1967
FE note: The following is excerpted from an interview with Mike Bloomfield, lead guitarist of the Electric Flag. In deleted portions of the interview, which will appear in its entirety in the next issue of Scene magazine, Bloomfield traces his …