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Mother Earth
by Alon K. Raab
Fifth Estate # 356, Spring, 2002
a review of Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth, Edited with Commentary by Peter Glassgold, Counterpoint, 2001, 428 pages, $25.
Rock & Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
The Legal Self Defense (LSD) benefit February 4th was the greatest success in my memory: over 1200 people attended and offered their bread for support, and the LSD Fund netted over $2200.00 for the community.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 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: …
“Detroit”
by William Boyer (Bill Boyer)
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
a review of Detroit (2017) Director: Kathryn Bigelow 143 min.
From Economic Meltdown to Grassroots Rebellion
by Jennifer Whitney, John Jordan
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
The Tin Pot Insurrection December the 19th was the turning point, the day when the Argentinean people said “enough!” The stage was set the day before, when people began looting shops and supermarkets, so they could feed their families. …
U.S. Out of the Americas!
by Primitivo Solis (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
How could anyone fail to notice the sickening irony in the announcement from U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz that no reprisals would be taken against Nicaragua for shooting down an unmarked U.S. military helicopter and killing the pilot at …
The State is the Real Threat
by Jeff Shantz
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
a review of Manufacturing the Threat, Dir: Amy Miller, 2023
Encapsulating Anarchism
by Eric Laursen
Fifth Estate # 414, Fall 2023
a review of Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Alex Prichard. Oxford University Press, 2023
Conspiracy: end of the circus
by Jeff Shero
Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970
The U.S. ended the trial of the Conspiracy Eight with all the subtlety of a bludgeoning. Despite the messy close and the muted cries of the professional observers in the press gallery, the defendants’ demise came by club rather than …
Anything new in the “Revolt Against Work?”
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Charles Reeve has raised a number of important questions in his critique of John Zerzan’s “Unions Against Revolution.” [See The “Revolt Against Work” or Fight for the Right to be Lazy (FE 279, December, 1976).] These questions should not be …
Pigs Riot in Park
by Joe Check
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
On Sunday, August 24, a group of men attending the Ever-Seven (Evergreen-Seven Mile Road) neighborhood association picnic in Stoepel Park harassed and beat up a group of young people who were also in the park.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 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: …
Carmen Retold
by John Thackary
Fifth Estate # 414, Fall 2023
a review of “Carmen” (2022) Dir: Benjamin Millepied
Technology Debate Continues
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 305, March 18, 1981
FE—A Safe Niche? To the Fifth Estate: Over the past couple of years that I have been reading your paper, I have been alternately intrigued, provoked, or irritated by some of the things you folks have written. And that’s as …
My Green Scare Arrest
by Marie Mason
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
Up until March 10, I lived in a small, wooded, old neighborhood on the edge of Northside in Cincinnati.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
Language I Dear FE, Neither the simple abuse by Ratticus nor the extended commentary by George Bradford seemed to me to engage the two most basic points or arguments of “Language: Origin and Meaning” (FE #315, Winter 1984), namely that …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
An anarchist group and bookstore, Impossible Books (Suite 202, 3435 N. Sheffield Chicago, IL 60657) has been formed by a group of friends in the Chicago area. Although their resources are limited and funds low, they have initiated a newsletter …
New Orleans Free School Network
by Esther Martin, Kate Smash
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
“In the New Orleans Free School Network, people are there because they want to be. There are no grades, people are free to participate, but they don’t have to.” This is how John Clark, Loyola University professor, activist, and a …
Rock & Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
“If we want to do much more fucking, we’re going to have to start fighting. If we want to be able to live we have to start fighting and not let ourselves be fucked around any longer by this shitpile …
Living Our Lives
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
If anarchist politics, the politics of communal liberation, is to escape from its present historical impasse, it must become, above all, a practice of creating the free community, here and now.
Sam Dolgoff
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
a review of Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff by Anatole Dolgoff; Introduction by Andrew Cornell. AK Press, 2016, 391 pp., $22.
Unionization in America
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
The struggle for unionization in the 1930s has always been shrouded in myth and revered by both the labor movement and the Left as a period of labor militancy. A closer look at the developments shows a much different picture …
Viera-Fuller
by Sam Stark
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
A little more than a year ago, David Brown, Jr. of Compton, California sat isolated and frightened in a Wayne County jail cell awaiting trial on charges of assault with intent to commit murder.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
Ammunition Books 4403 Second Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48201, Tele. No. (313) 831-6800 Bookstore hours vary, but we are generally open on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and at scattered other times. Please call before coming down to be sure we are …
Sovereignty & the State
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Meet the New Boss When US occupation authorities pretended to return sovereignty to Iraq, they erected a pliable government of quisling-proxies. To cover up the devastating failure of the invasion, they created a mirage of Iraqi independence.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
FE note: Due to space considerations, some of the letters on these pages may have been excerpted. We ask that letter writers make their remarks as concise as possible. We will print the addresses of letter writers who request it.
Exposé: Press Biggies Rake Media
by Jan Harald
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
(Page 2 of The South End insert)
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
Pessimism Optimistic Dear FE: “Carter’s Phony War Crisis” (FE #301, Feb. 26, 1980) was excellent. I’d only fault it in one respect—I feel that ‘you’re unduly optimistic in stating that, “Third World countries such as Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia…(will become) …
Snitch Gets a Reduced Term
by John F. Royal
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
The Never Alone national tour hit 30 cities in April, speaking to hundreds about long-term anarchist prisoner support. It focused on the cases of Eric McDavid and Marie Mason, using multimedia presentations and included strategizing about how to effectively encourage …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
Fifth Estate Letters Policy We welcome letters commenting on our articles or other topics, but can’t print every one we receive. Each, however, is read and considered for publication.
A Brief Story of The Clash, Radio & the Fifth Estate
by Bill Blank
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
a review of Stealing All Transmissions: The Secret History of The Clash by Randal Doane, Foreword by Barry “The Baker” Auguste, 2014, PM Press, 192 pp. $15.95 pmpress.org
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 318, Fall, 1984
Eat The Rich Dear Fifth Estate, “Meat as Murder” in last issue’s letters [FE #317, Summer 1984], should have been titled “Vegetarian Fascism.” Vegetables are also living and to eat them is also murder. We suggest sucking on rocks …
U.S. Concentration Camps Illustrated
by David Lester
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe, script and story; Tamiko Nimura, story; art, Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki. Chin Music Press Inc, 2021
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
The FE Bookstore is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit. We share space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and may be reached at the same phone number: (313) 831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our …
Motor City Sister in Vietnam, Part 2
by Linda Evans
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
Editors’ Note: Linda Evans, from Motor City SDS, was one of 7 Movement people who went to North Vietnam last month to bring back three captured American military men. Along with her were Rennie Davis of the National Mobilization Committee; …
Magoo’s Vengeance
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970
CHICAGO—Judge Julius (Magoo-Hitler) Hoffman finally had his day in court as he sentenced all of the Chicago Conspiracy Seven and their defense counsel to long jail terms in prison for contempt of his Kangaroo court.
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969
NEW YORK—Norman Mailer kicked off his mayorality campaign with a rally at the Village Gate attended by George Plimpton’s party crowd and assorted dilettantes and sycophants. Targets of the evening were the NY Times, which hasn’t been giving Mailer the …
The San Francisco Mime Troupe
by Robert Hurwitt
Fifth Estate # 39, October 1-15, 1967
Editor’s Note — The San Francisco Mime Troupe will perform Saturday, October 28 at 8:15 in The Detroit Institute of Arts Auditorium in a benefit performance for the Fifth Estate. The Mime Troupe was in Detroit last Fall and received …
The Reasonable “Madness” Of Revolt
by Richard Gilman-Opalsky
Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013
In the existing world, largely governed by the logic of capital and the pathologies of accumulation, real madness is the absence of revolt.