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Riots Revisited
by Peter Werbe, T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 376, Halloween, 2007
“July1967” by T. Fulano, from FE 326, Summer 1987 It was a full scale beggar’s banquet, the return of the repressed, a surprise party. The city people, young and old, black and white, went through the pawnshop windows like meteorites. …
Notes toward a history of the Fifth Estate
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
“Only movement can know movement.” –Herakleitos Someday, if anything is left of any of this, and this epoch’s fascination with historical records and documentation endures, I imagine some historian, grad student, or amateur archivist will write a text detailing, accurately …
Music as Revolution
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
The Fifth Estate has, since its inception, been inspired by radical music and various collective members have composed, played, produced, and reviewed music. In the first issue, the lead story lamented that Bob Dylan had given up folk music for …
Court Protest, July 1969
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Outside the Detroit Recorder’s Court in July 1969, supporters gather at the trial of White Panther leader and former FE columnist John Sinclair.
History of the Fifth Estate: The Early Years
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
This article was originally written for our 30th anniversary edition which appeared in 1996. It has been updated and expanded for this issue.
Anarchy online?
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Millard Berry–Long time Fifth Estate photographer and staff member. www.millardberry.com Detroit Artists Workshop–Founded in 1964 in Detroit’s art and cultural community. Personnel and events frequently coincided with the Fifth Estate. www.detroitartistsworkshop.org
Two Cheers For Anarchism?
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
a review of James C. Scott: Two cheers for Anarchism; Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play, Princeton University Press, 2012, 169 pp., $35 cloth and e-book
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Fifth Estate Archive Back issues Resource pages Fifth Estate Live interview archive (May 2020 – May 2021) Fifth Estate Live, a weekly hour-long livestreamed broadcast hosted by singer/songwriter and Fifth Estate contributor David Rovics and produced by Fifth Estate editorial …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 29, May 1-15, 1967
People seem not to believe me when I say the Artists’ Workshop needs money to operate, or Trans-Love needs money, or the Sun needs money—but it’s true. I know it shouldn’t be that way, people, but this is America and …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 28, April 15-30, 1967
The Detroit Love-In, to be held on Belle Isle April 30th, will be the first large-scale manifestation of the New Spirit of Detroit, and everyone who feels that spirit and believes in it, and everyone who doubts it or would …
Detroit Love-In Set for April 30
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 28, April 15-30, 1967
“Hey people now smile on your brother. Let me see you get together and love one another right now.” The Detroit tribes will gather together for the first time in many moons for the first modern Michigan Pow Wow on …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 27, April 1-15, 1967
The Marijuana Scare is getting weirder and weirder, with the grass police moving backwards faster every day, trying to bust everybody they can before the laws won’t let them do it any more. As far as I’m concerned the busts …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
Detroit has been a stubborn place and does not want to be changed, but as I write now and the sun is shining through my window and the spring is with us, the snow is melting, people are getting together, …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 25, March 1-15, 1967
On Valentine’s Day at WSU a strange coalition was effected and the Student-Faculty Council ended up sponsoring a “Bitch-In” on campus, which was an honorable attempt to move from the usual “left-hippy” practice of simply haranguing everyone, to pointing out …