I keep stressing the LOCAL in this column because it is precisely what we all have to work with—what is in front of us. Our lives are here, at this instant, and we should make the most of our local …
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EF! Trial Ends with Deal
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
The U.S. government got the pound of flesh it wanted from the radical environmental movement, but not from Earth First! co-founder Dave Foreman, the prime target of a three-year FBI entrapment scheme.
The Berkman Conference
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
A few days before the commencement in Pittsburgh of the July 23rd conference, “A Remembrance of Alexander Berkman, The Man Who Shot Frick,” Sunfrog and I headed for a little town on the Pennsylvania/West Virginia border called Confluence where several …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 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: …
Book reviews
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
a review of Richard Wright, a biography by Constance Webb. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, NYC, 442 pages $8.95. William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond, edited by John Henrik Clarke. Beacon Press, Boston, hardbound $4.95, paperback: $1.95
FE Live
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
Fifth Estate Live Tuesdays, 1 p.m. EDT, 10 a.m. PDT [ WATCH LIVE STREAM ] or [ WATCH LATER ] or [ LISTEN ] Fifth Estate Live is a weekly hour-long livestreamed broadcast each Tuesday at 1 p.m. Eastern, 10 …
Farce at Oakland
by Oscar Garcia
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
What a good year this has been for farce. We’re talking about theatre here, not politics.
Editorial
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
As several people who have seen this issue prior to publication have noted, the correct quote is “The love of money is the root of all evil,” but its truncated form seems more accurate than the original. Money itself, not …
Candy: doesn’t make it
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
“Candy” must be the world’s first avant-garde Gallop poll movie; there’s something for everybody… dirty old men, freaks, sadists, mom and dad, the kiddies, and homosexuals. The director, Christian Marquand, started out with a fool-proof formula guaranteed to appeal to …
Huey Convicted in Oakland
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
The Black Panthers have begun a campaign for the immediate admission to bail of their Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton, who was convicted Sept. 8th of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death, Oct. 28th of last year, of an …
July 1967
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
July ’87 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Detroit riots: the largest American rebellion of the century. Reactions to an early morning police raid on a ghetto after-hours drinking spot began with stones and bricks aimed at cop cars and …
The Empire Strikes Back at Itself
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
Media hoopla commemorating the Quincentennial of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to the New World, however sanitized, should have convinced anyone paying attention that the Spanish conquest was a disaster for both Native Americans and Africans.
A Word on Civilization & Collapse
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
Civilizations have come and gone over the past 6,000 years or so. Now, there’s just one—-various cultures, but a single, global civilization.
Gay Meeting Causes Church Dispute
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
In a virtually unprecedented move, Reverend Robert Morrison, rector of St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church, has called for the resignation of Richard Emrich as diocesan Bishop of Michigan, calling him “unchristian, inhuman and irresponsible.”
Letters To The Editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
To the Editor: The first meaning in The American College Dictionary defines “reform” as “…the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, etc.; social reform.”
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 269, February, 1976
Dreary Marx Dear FE: Our high at your printing of our article on the decomposition of capitalist society waned appreciably when we noted that about 30% of the original had been deleted. We had, of course, performed our own editing …
Howling Wilderness and the Promised Land
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
In mid-August, a three year-old lawsuit charging that environmentalist groups were religious extremists comparable to some of the more violent, intolerant ultra-orthodox Islamic sects collapsed when the attorney failed to meet a re-filing deadline with the U.S. Supreme Court.
“To Embrace the World Rather than Conquer It”
by Dogbane Campion (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
a review of Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings, by Joanna Macy, John Seed, et al, illustrations by Dailan Pugh, New Society Publishers, 122 pages, paper, $8.95
Uptight Honkies Meet
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
There are only two paths open to a country whose internal and external empires are in the state of decay prevailing in the United States. That of the left or fascism.
More Reasons to Visit New Orleans
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
This issue of FE was finished on the first anniversary of Katrina. A year later, our friends in New Orleans still need our help. At the beginning of June, our comrade, regular contributor, friend, and Louisiana native John Clark wrote: …
Seattle’s Left Bank Books
by Sylvie Kashdan
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
Good news! Seattle’s Left Bank Books is republishing Letters of Insurgents, Fredy Perlman’s historical novel about love and revolution in the East bloc and Western states of the mid-20th century.
Sounds
by Wilson Lindsey
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
This column is primarily concerned with contemporary jazz, relevant jazz, music with not only social significance, but sounds derived from environment, relating directly from experience. The very word jazz to many listeners conjures up stereotyped images. Most common is the …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 81, June 12-25, 1969
To the Editor: In March of this year, citizens of the Republic of New Africa suffered physical attacks by the Detroit Police Dept., were deprived of their legal rights by the police and the Wayne County Prosecutor, and were the …
The Chicago Conspiracy
by Chris Singer
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
CHICAGO—The repression that many have forecast may have come.
Me Nobody Knows
by Sandy Feldheim
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
a review of The Me Nobody Knows: Children’s Voices from the Ghetto edited by Stephen M. Joseph. Avon Books, 1969, paperback, 95 cents.
We know the Wolves are On our Side
by Franklin Rosemont
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
This is an excerpt from a 2003 essay, “Surrealism & Wilderness” that is included in Rosemont’s anthology Revolution in the Service of the Marvelous: Surrealist Contributions to the Critique of Miserabilism (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 2004).
Briefs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Cheerleaders of the Revolution Radical cheerleaders give a playful, yet militant, feminist flavor to anti-authoritarian protest. After reading through the third edition of the Radical Cheerleader Handbook, I want to grab a pair of pompoms and take to the …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969
The shit is coming down all over America from Greensboro, N.C. to Berkeley, Calif. Blood is flowing in the streets as people battle for their rights.
Devil’s Music
by Don LaCoss, Paul Garon
Fifth Estate # 361, Summer 2003
Interview by Don LaCoss, April 2003, Chicago
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970
To the Editors: I’d like to reply to SP Marc Nadeau whose trash was published in the Feb. 4, F.E. [Letters, FE #98, February 4-18, 1970] Baby, I’m not under 25, and am old enough to be your mother. …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
Rep. John Conyers, Jr. cast, as he promised, the only dissenting vote in a House judiciary subcommittee against that idiotic, probably unconstitutional, law which would make it a Federal crime to burn, deface, etc. the American flag. (The “offense” is …
Open City Opens
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
Several hundred people attended Open City’s first benefit held February 28 at Alvin’s Delicatessen. The three hundred dollars collected at the door was used to purchase the community switchboard now in operation at the Open City office. For the last …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
To Those People Who Like The Stooges: I used to like ’em too, just like everyone else, caught-up in that follow-the-other-people, emotional group-cohesion thing. But then I began to think! The Stooges are one example of a group that takes …
Gov’t Attacks GI Group
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 127, March 18-31, 1971
MADISON, Wisc.—A Federal Grand Jury here has indicted three army enlisted men on charges that they dynamited installations at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin last July 26th, the anniversary of Fidel Castro’s attack on the Moncada Barracks.
Open Letter To Judd Arnett & Lou Gordon
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
To: Judd Arnett, The Detroit Free Press Lou Gordon, The Detroit News Lift up a rock in Detroit these days—more correctly, in one of its outlying suburbs—and out will crawl a newspaper columnist.
The Jazz Scene
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 23, February 1-15, 1967
In his recently published book FOUR LIVES IN THE BEBOP BUSINESS, A.B. Spellman relates that Buell Neidlinger, former bassist with Cecil Taylor, told him: “I think Cecil Taylor is potentially the most important musician in the Western World … And …
The Mouthpiece
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970
Editors’ Note: At long last, here is the legal column we have been promising for several issues. “The Mouthpiece” will be a regular feature of the Fifth Estate and is in keeping with our motto of Serve The People.
Worker’s Letter to Wayne Strikers
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
One morning last week I was approached at the plant gate after my shift-by a student passing out your handouts. I spoke to him briefly, and noting the peace symbol painted on my lunchbox, he asked me to pass out …
“Revolt Against Work” or the End of Leftism?
by John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 281, March, 1977
FE Note. The December 1976 Fifth Estate carried a critique by Charles Reeve (see “The Revolt Against Work or Fight for the Right to Be Lazy,” p. 9) of the contentions of John and Paula Zerzan that the crisis point …