“The layman Ho asked Basho: ‘What is it that transcends everything in the universe?’ (another version: ‘If all things return to the one, to what does the one return?’)
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Muhammad Ali
by John Lottier, Muhammad Ali
Fifth Estate # 33, July 1-15, 1967
Editor’s Note: The following interview with Muhammad Ali appeared originally in two parts in the Michigan Daily. It was conducted by John Lottier of the Daily immediately prior to Muhammad’s departure to Houston, where he was convicted of violation of …
Fort Dix Trial
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
FORT DIX, N.J. (LNS)—The Army has decided to take three years of Jeffrey Russell’s life. “It’s a total fraud,” says one establishment reporter.
Commodifying experience
by Frank Joseph Smecker
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
In the mid- to late 19th Century, the rapidly expanding Industrial Age provided the impetus behind the expansion of the public school system. Reading, writing and arithmetic were pressed into service in order to form a needed literate labor force.
First they Came for Ward Churchill
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
In “Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,” Churchill invoked Malcolm X’s comments immediately following the assassination of president John F. Kennedy as he maintained that American foreign policy provoked the attacks on New York. At root …
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
(in cooperation with Detroit Adventure) THURS. NOV. 27 THANK GOD! Just like your forefathers did. Kill a turkey for peace. Many places will be closed so call ahead before you go out. FRI. NOV. 28 BEAUTY & THE BEAST directed …
The Death of Randolph Scott, Gabby Hayes and the Canadian Pacific Railway
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
I. “Of the heavy losses we have sustain e d”, author-sentimentalist Charles Beaumont once said, “none can be regarded with more melancholy than the loss of the great movie theatres.” A generation ago they proliferated, today they exist like brontosaurus, …
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A “Culture-in-Action”
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987
FE note: This is one of three responses to John Zerzan’s “The Case Against Art,” in FE #324, Fall 1986. The other two articles are: “Art, Life & Death” by Ratticus and “Journal Notes on Art” by George Bradford. “Culture …
In the High Schools
by Dave Watson (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
Free Speech Fight in Plymouth—Students around Detroit may have been misled by the so-called “news reports” on what recently went down in Plymouth. I cleared up the story after talking to Jim Kalliel, editor of Free Verse, an underground paper …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 305, March 18, 1981
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 …
Selfridge: No more shit
by F.T. Andrews
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
Racism has been heavy at Selfridge Air Force Base, twenty miles north of Detroit, for quite a while. Especially in the last year, there have been numerous incidents, and a great deal of harassment and intimidation of black airmen and …
Zines as Means for Change
by Len Bracken
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
a review of War of Dreams: A Field Guide to DIY Psy-Ops by Jason Rodgers. PM Press, 2024
RNC: Shut It Down!
by RNC Welcoming Committee
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
The 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC) will descend on Minneapolis-St. Paul, September 1 through 4, as the opening act in the pacifying spectacle of the coming presidential election. The most direct way to oppose a dog-and-pony show is just to …
Capitalism’s Industrial Plagues
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
This article is the first in a two-part series on the effects that the indiscriminate handling and usage of radioactive waste materials and dangerous chemicals are having, and will have in the future, on human beings and their environment. Part …
Trumbullplex
by Jhon Clark
Fifth Estate # 384, Spring, 2011
In a not-so-typical area of Detroit, close to Wayne State University, slowly redefined and made more attractive for investment and middle-class living, the Trumbullplex and some of its immediate neighbors stand out. Trumbull (for short) is a 17 year-old shabby …
Did U.S. Cause AIDS?
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
As predictions for the eventual toll of the deadly AIDS disease grow higher, speculation as to the origin of the virus remain unanswered. Reports continue to surface that rather than a natural occurring new strain, the disease was a result …
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
Fri. Dec. 13 GRANDE BALLROOM: Deep Purple, Lee Michaels, and the Candel w1 headline the super psychedelic floor show. Groove to the bands, magic Jerry’s light show and visit the hippy bullshit counter. $3.50. LIVING THEATER presents “Antigone,” at the …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 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: …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
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.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
What About Gangs? To the Fifth Estate: The FE is usually a delight to read. Only a couple of small things have detracted from that: Using “man” to mean “people”(in the article on a Michigan landfill) is sexist and a …
Tennescene: Radical Actions & Summer Tours Deep in the Bible Belt
by Fifth Estate Collective, Upside Down Culture Collective
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
This summer, the Rule of Thirds recently dubbed by the Nashville Scene as a “subversive art space”—played host to numerous politically proactive collectives. June saw the educational and entertaining Upside Down Culture Collective hailing from our other outpost: Detroit. They …
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In the World of Digital, Print Raises A Challenge
by Rich Dana (Ricardo Feral)
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of Urgent Publishing after the Artist’s Book: Making Public Movements Toward Liberation by Paul Soulellis (Book Design: Be Oakley). GenderFail 2021
The Practical Marx
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 299, October 22, 1979
FE Note: The following article, an attempt to come to grips with the implications of Karl Marx’s everyday life by long-time FE contributor John Zerzan, has stirred considerable controversy among those of us presently working on the paper and necessitates, …
Revelation Vertigo
by Stevphen Shukaitis
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
“Autonomy is both the goal sought after and that whose presence–virtual–let us say, has to be supposed at the outset of an analysis or a political movement. This virtual presence is the will to autonomy, the will to be free.” …
Rebellion in Nowhere
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
I Rioting by 250 Black youths, says a UPI dispatch dated March 23, 1969, brought 200 police from 10 communities to the 20,000-student campus at Northern Illinois University at DeKalb.
Anarchy, food and sustainability
by john johnson
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
In this section: Anarchy, food and sustainability Against agriculture The Hungry Sheep Look Up And Are Not Fed Feral Forager #1 Someday the power will die Grange Appeal Two Ecological Fancies Biophilia Wasted, Indeed Grow Food or Die! exclaims the …
test October 8
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate #
Fall 2025Fifth Estate #417 Follows Spring 2025 CONTENTS WORKS REVIEWED Anarchy in the Big EasyMax Cafard Ten Little AnarchistsDaniel de Roulet Soccer for a Better WorldVasilis Kostakis NadjaAndre Breton Stop Thief! Anarchism & PhilosophyCatherine Malabou Animal ResistanceSara Colling Snow DayWillow …
Carl Harp found Dead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
“If they didn’t physically slash him and tie the cord around his neck, the years of sensory deprivation, beatings, setups, transfers, hole time, mind and law games, and the psycho-torture which this place is famous for had the same effect. …
Anarchist Violence or State Violence?
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
The question of violence as a revolutionary tactic is neither new nor unfairly associated with anarchists, although debate has recently emerged over its use by Black Blocs during mass demonstrations, including Occupy events. [See FE, Summer 2012; John Zerzan, “The …
We Get a Computer and Hate It!
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
“Things are in the saddle and ride Man.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson One blind man leads many blind men Into the fire hole hand in hand. —Zen saying After several years of discussing and debating the implications of a newspaper which …
The Northman
by John Thackary
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of “The Northman” Dir: Robert Eggers, 2022 There was an unavoidable discomfort in my bones upon deciding to view “The Northman.” It felt difficult to ignore how, from advertisements, the film’s early Norse historical setting seemed like unfortunate—if …
Rock and Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
I want to take up where I left off last time and get into some of the alternatives to the present scene in the local rock and roll industry. There has been some fantastic response to my last column—even Russ …
Shamanism, anarchy and the end of the world
by Dave Hanson
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
After twenty years of teaching shamanic practices to small groups in several circles in Washington and California, I found the results to be mixed. In the groups in which I participated, there were many moving visionary experiences, but the flabby …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986
Natural Abortions To “A Comrade” c/o The FE: I am fed up with the “murder of the innocents” argument re: abortion. (See Letters, FE #321, Indian Summer 1985). Nature murders the “innocents,” i.e. fertilized cell clusters, by the billions …
Fredy Perlman
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Fredy Perlman was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia on August 20, 1934. He emigrated with his parents to Cochabamba, Bolivia in 1938 just ahead of the Nazi takeover. The Perlman family came to the United States in 1945 and lived variously …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
We have finally firmed up plans for the Fifth Estate 20th Anniversary celebration. It will be held at Alvin’s, 5756 Cass Ave., Detroit, on Dec. 7. Hopefully, the event will bring together many of those who have worked on the …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 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: …
Anarchic Justice at the End of History
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
It has been said that self-preservation is the first law of nature, and that the basis of justice lies in protecting ourselves from one another. This is a perennial lie of the system of domination.
The Revolution Will be Powered by Shakti Energy
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
I traveled to Dharamsala, India in 2005 to set up a one-month summer study program, in collaboration with the Louisiana Himalaya Association, and have taken groups of students there periodically since then. During last summer’s trip, we visited renowned ecofeminist …