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The Strange History of the Word “Democracy”
by Francis Dupuis-Déri
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
Surprisingly, the Founding Fathers of the United States were anti-democrats. Democracy is supposed to be a regime where the people rule themselves directly. Such a system was thought to be favourable to the poor, who would easily have the majority …
League of Revolutionary Black Workers
by Fifth Estate Collective, John Watson
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
[Part 2 of the interview appeared in FE #79, May 15-28, 1969.] Editors’ Note: John Watson, editor of the Wayne State University South End, has been involved in Detroit revolutionary politics for a number of years. Former editor of the …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Both this newspaper in our last issue and Bad Attitude, No. 3 (POB 11589, Detroit Ml 48211) failed to give credit for the poem/ritual, “The Appeal of Anarchy.” It was taken from the compelling pamphlet by John Moore, Anarchy & …
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
Fri. Sept. 6 DIALOGUE ’68. A festival of radical rock music for three nights. The UP, Billy C. and his Killer Blues Band, and the Psychedelic Stooges will play Prior to the performances
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
in cooperation with Detroit Adventure
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
Fifth Estate Books is located at 4632 Second Avenue, just south of W. Forest, in Detroit, in the same space as the Fifth Estate newspaper. Hours vary, so please call before visiting.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
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: …
A Right Wing Man Named Cotton
by Frank Joyce
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
As the story goes, Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the bestselling and game changing Uncle Tom’s Cabin. “So,” he said, “you’re the little lady who started all the trouble.”
Free Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
Though we do not accept commercial advertising, this Unclassified ad space is free for our readers’ use. We do not accept ads over the telephone, so please send your ads in writing to our office at: 4403 Second Ave., Detroit …
Transhumanism vs. Primitivism
by Bellamy Fitzpatrick
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
“Come and hear the views of two thinkers who arguably have defined the two polar opposite views on the effects of technology” blared the invitation to a November 15 debate between Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan and Anarcho-Primitivist John Zerzan at California’s …
Getting Away with Murder
by William Allen
Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969
Two cases of “getting away with murder” of blacks by whites are currently occupying the attention of Detroiters.
Draft Tests
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 9, June, 1966
The Selective Service Classification Exams given in May and June have been the center of much peace activity in Michigan. The Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam has distributed leaflets at the six testing stations in Detroit and …
Transhumanism?
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
Transhumanism, which rarely rates a mention in the media, suddenly had a brief moment of infamy recently due to the reported interest in it by the late, evil, child sex trafficker, Jeffry Epstein.
Letters To The Editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
To the Editor: The article in your last issue—”Playboy’s Tinseled Seductress”—I liked [FE #17, November 1-15, 1966]. The pointing out Playboy’s magnificent superficiality was, I thought, sound and much needed. But the conclusion!—ugh!—that the marriage institution suffers thereby—that “somehow …
Conversations with Allen Ginsberg
by Allen Ginsberg, Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Two interviews with the poet on life, death, sex, poetry, Kerouac, and meditation—the first from 1991, published here for the first time; the second from the October 1969 issue of Fifth Estate.
Cops Continue Park Hassle
by Joe Check
Fifth Estate # 88, September 18-October 1, 1969
The Stoepel Park Incident of Sunday, August 24 was not an isolated instance of police harassment [see “Pigs Riot in Park,” FE #87, September 4-17, 1969]. On-duty and off-duty, legally and illegally, police harassment of the young people who gather …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997
Fifth Estate Books is located at 4632 Second Avenue, just south of W. Forest, in Detroit, in the same space as the Fifth Estate Newspaper. Hours vary, so please call before coming by. HOW TO ORDER BY MAIL 1) List …
In any language: NEVER WORK!
by Kim A. Broadie
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of Never Work: Essays Against the Sale of Life. Detritus Books, 2022
Anti-war demonstrations, April 27, 1968
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 54, May 16-31, 1968
Washington, D. C., April 28 (LNS)—Hundreds of thousands of Americans demonstrated against the war in Vietnam and in some cities against racism yesterday in parades and rallies in 17 American cities.
The Hungry Sheep Look Up And Are Not Fed
by James John Bell
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
Related: see “Anarchy, food and sustainability” (theme intro) in this issue. “But what can they hope to gain by attacking the only company that devotes itself exclusively to pure foods? “My guess…Maybe collect data on as many slip-ups as …
Rubin vs. Ochs
by Jerry Rubin, Phil Ochs
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
In the aftermath of L.B.J.’s sudden shocker,* a heated dialogue between Phil Ochs, folksinger, and Jerry Rubin, Yippie organizer, took place on the subject of America, Johnson, Kennedy and the movement. Perhaps it was not untypical…
Detroit: A Progress Report
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 14, September 15, 1966
After closing the office on Plum Street and selling my last “Sterilize LBJ” button, I walked downtown where the old Vanguard Theatre used to be. It provided a few minutes of indecision because two skin-flicks were playing and I had …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave. Detroit—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that you give …
Fascist Youth Gangs Plague West Coast
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986
In the last few years there has been a rapid increase of right-wing white gangs in Southern California’s white, middle-class suburbs. Known as “white-boy gangs,” they are not as territorial as the traditional cultural gangs in black or Mexican urban …
At Northland Theatre
by Joe Fineman
Fifth Estate # 23, February 1-15, 1967
Once, one approached Truffaut with satiate expectancy, awaiting only to be chewed up and spat upon beneath the marquee. In stark wonderment and in bitter tears one expected to be engulfed by the pleasures of cinema at its best. The …
The Torch Drive
by Dennis Witkowski
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
The Fifth Estate has published information exposing the Torch Drive hustle for the past several years. In keeping with this tradition, the following article presents an up-to-date account of what the Torch Drive is really about; how they initially get …
Where is Home?
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
Acknowledging the existence only of individuals and families, Margaret Thatcher declared, “There’s no such thing as society.”
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
If there’s anything more disgusting than a person who has no guts, its a person who has half-guts. For example, Rep. John Conyers, Jr. For the past several weeks I’ve been writing about the wonderful job he was doing in …
Archive
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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 …
“We Have No Country!”
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 5, March 6-20, 1966
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an edited transcription of a press conference held in the Greenville office of the Delta Ministry Tuesday evening, February 1, 1966. The participants include three spokesmen of the over 70 poor Negroes who occupied the barracks …
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
The calendar will be a regular FIFTH ESTATE feature. We know that there is more happening in the Detroit and Ann Arbor areas than what we have listed, so we need your help. Send us information about what your group …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 290, March 2, 1978
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and can be found at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 48201 (telephone-313-831-6800). Our hours vary, but we are generally open on Monday and Thursday afternoons (from 1pm to 5pm) and at …
How to Support Anti-War GIs
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 367, Winter 2004-2005
As Bush’s Iraq quagmire begins to take on the same qualities as the war in Vietnam—fighting an insurgent population, mounting US casualties, increased slaughter of civilians, destruction of the country to “save it,” no exit strategy—so, too, does military opposition.
Calemdar
by Karen Kovac, Naiomi Epil
Fifth Estate # 42, November 15-30, 1967
The calendar is prepared by Fifth Estate calendar girls, Karen Kovac and Naomi Epel, [Naiomi Epil —Web Archiver] with cooperation from Detroit Adventure. Copy deadline is the 6th and 22nd of each month and should be sent to the Fifth …
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
Quick! Call the Anarchist Anti-Defamation League (AADL). It’s bad enough when every corporate media outlet uses anarchism as a synonym for chaos, but now an English company has gone even further.
Expose ’67
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
The Fifth Estate has obtained a copy of a letter, one paragraph of which states: “As far as I am concerned, the local police in every community must be prepared to draw fast and not let the bleeding hearts again …
Utah Phillips (1935-2008)
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
The IWW and the labor movement lose a troubadour Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music, who performed tirelessly on two continents for 38 years, died May 23 of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California, a small …
League of Revolutionary Black Workers
by Fifth Estate Collective, John Watson
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
This interview was conducted and transcribed by Dena Clamage. [Part 1 of the interview appeared in FE #78, May 1-14, 1969.]
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 42, November 15-30, 1967
The Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) had its long-awaited dinner at the Rackham Bldg. recently, only a few days after anti-war demonstrators had clashed with the warmakers and local gendarmes in the same locals.