Escapes Clutches Dear Fifth Estate: As one about to escape the clutches of the US Army (an equal opportunity oppressor) I want to thank you for your paper and its role in keeping me sane/insane. Keep it up, even if …
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Lording in the Corridor
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
Corridor Lording Ten years ago, the number of residents in the Cass Corridor, bounded by Adams, Cass, Penn Central RR, and the John Lodge X-Way, numbered well over two hundred thousand. Today that number has dwindled to under ninety thousand.
Medium Cool
by George dePue
Fifth Estate # 92, November 13-26, 1969
Review of “Medium Cool,” written, directed and photographed by Haskell Wexler, starring John Forster and Verna Bloom.
The New Bethel Incident
by Chris Singer
Fifth Estate # 77, April 17-30, 1969
Members of the Black United Front mass on the steps of the Old County Building on April 3 in one of the many demonstrations of support for Judge George W. Crockett. During the day over 3,000 persons took part in …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 385, Fall, 2011
Send letters to fe – AT – fifthestate.org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220 All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten; letters may be edited for length.
The Revenge of Albion
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
FE Note: David Watson’s “Swamp Fever” appears in Fifth Estate #350, Fall, 1997
Revolution at Columbia
by Steve Diamond
Fifth Estate # 54, May 16-31, 1968
with Tom Hamilton, Craig Spratt, Kip Shaw, George Weiss, Marge Werner NEW YORK, April 29 (LNS, NY) A new, more fluid style of revolutionary activity on the American campus has been introduced by Columbia University students, black and white, who …
The Man Who Shot Frick
by Gary L. Doebler
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
I would like to invite your participation in an event that will remember Alexander Berkman on the centenary of his attempt to assassinate Henry Clay Frick during the Homestead Strike of 1892. This will not be an event glorifying the …
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968
* Asterisks mean this is a good place to sell FIFTH ESTATES. If you are going to the event anyway, stop by our office or the Green Grass House on Plum Street and pick up some papers. Make bread and …
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
In cooperation with Detroit Adventure THURS. -OCT. 16 NEWSREEL SHORTS and features in Lower DeRoy Aud. 8 pm. Adm. 75 cents. They will be presenting Newsreel flics every Thurs. nite. Be sure to attend. OPEN CITY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC. They …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
Cuban Alternative To the FE: Cuban Greens/anti-authoritarians need our aid. Orlando Polo and Mercedes Paez of Cuba’s anti-authoritarian/ecological/ anti-Militarist Green Path group have been touring the U.S. recently. Arrested many times in Cuba, they are being repressed again as Cuban …
SDS Weatherman War Council
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970
FLINT, Mich. (LNS) — Weathermen, Weatherwomen, some of their friends and some of their critics, met in a “war council” Dec. 27-30. The gathering was a serious political meeting, although it had been widely billed as an outasight international youth …
News and Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 310, Fall 1982
North American anarchist/libertarian news and publications Issue No. 14 of Open Road is now out. This issue was made possible thanks to the generous response to the OR’s financial appeal. They welcome additional support, of course. The OR now costs …
Letters to The Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Not terror To FE: In the last issue of FE in the Letters section, FE made a comment that I really didn’t understand, and as a P.O.W., I was somewhat disappointed with: “This paper has a long history of supporting …
The Exploding Rose
by M.K. Shibek
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
I first encountered André Breton’s surrealist manifestoes as a young anarchist in the late ’80s, and was attracted to the ideas within.
Year of the Bible or Year of the Computer
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
While Time magazine was announcing the computer as its Man-of-the Year, Ronald Reagan, a former B-movie actor presently in command of the most sophisticated computerized system of annihilation in history, had something else in mind.
An Interview with Huey P. Newton
by Karen Wald
Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968
Editor’s Note: Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party and Peace and Freedom Party candidate for Congress is currently standing trial at the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland, California. Newton is charged with the murder, last …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 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: …
The Algebra of Need
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 127, March 18-31, 1971
“Junk yields a basic formula of ‘evil’ virus: The Algebra of Need. The face of ‘evil’ is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 293-294, August 21, 1978
At the Picnic Dear Comrades, At a picnic held July 9 at Los Gatos we received an income of $841 in which we distributed as follows:
Alex Comfort’s Joy of Sex was Matched by His Joy of Anarchism
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 414, Fall 2023
a review of Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr. Alex Comfort, Author of ‘The Joy Of Sex’ by Eric Laursen. AK Press 2023 “We are the enemies of society and we must learn disobedience. Then we shall probably inherit …
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FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
As you may have noted, the name of our book project has dropped the title “Ammunition” in favor of “Fifth Estate” or simply, “FE.” We have been talking about making the change actually for several years, but were always looking …
How to Bring the Ivory Tower Back to Earth
by Steve Izma
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber. Prickly Paradigm Press, 2004
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 317, Summer 1984
Well, we hope that those of you who have complained for the last two years about our full-sheet size are happy about a return to a tabloid. However, after doing the layout for this edition in the smaller size, it …
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
On Gogol Boulevard In Exile “On Gogol Boulevard” is the bulletin of the New York City Neither East Nor West Group which gives support and aids in communication between Eastern European anarchists and dissidents and similar movements in the West. …
On Mutiny Considered as One of the Fine Arts
by Cap'n John Yossarian
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
Mutiny is such a potent threat to military organizations—and the States who use them avoid even mentioning the word. Instead, military commanders and civil authorities fall back on euphemism in order to avoid announcing the news that they most fear—during …
Freejazz & Other Insurrections
by Richard Gilman-Opalsky
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
“Freejazz reaches back to what jazz was originally, rebelling against the ultra-sophisticated art form it has become.” –Archie Shepp
Pastoral Letter
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 367, Winter 2004-2005
Imagine an alternate dimension where dervishes are roaming around America sects of Swedenborgian hobos, etc. You’re there camping in the cemetery long black hair in tangles ghostwhite face
All Gods, All Masters
by Will Weikart
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
Almost all contemporary radical thought is marked by dialectics.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 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: …
Anti-Nuke Demo Planned Against Edison
by H. Genghis Kahn
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
Eleven years ago an accident at Detroit Edison’s Fermi 1 nuclear power plant in Monroe, Michigan, almost destroyed Detroit. If you accept the utility’s own commissioned study, the death rate could have been as high as 133,000 dead in the …
Art & Anarchy
by Michael Scrivener
Fifth Estate # Daily Barbarian Number 3
Fifth Estate Home > Issue 319, Winter, 1985 > Note: The following article originally appeared in the journal Black Rose (Boston, Mass.), with the title “An Introduction to An Anarchist Aesthetic.” The title “Art & Anarchy” is our doing….Unfortunately, we …
Alien(h)ated
by Sheila Nopper
Fifth Estate # 357, Summer 2002
In this country, I am called a “permanent resident alien” or, more to the point, a “non-citizen.” What that means in the patriotic war frenzy that has taken hold of the minds of the American populace following the tragedy of …
Execution Date Set for Mumia Abu-Jamal
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
On June 12, Pennsylvania Gov. Thomas Ridge signed a death warrant for Mumia Abu-Jamal—meaning that unless a judicial stay is granted, he’ll be executed in the state’s electric chair at 10 p.m. on Aug. 17.
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
Bound Together Books, 1369 Haight Street, San Francisco CA 94117, a bookstore specializing in anti-authoritarian titles, has copies available of Paul Goodman’s The Black Flag of Anarchism and Other Essays, a 46-page pamphlet from the long dormant Employee’s Theft Press. …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 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: …
The Original Affluent Society
by Marshall Sahlins
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
FE Note: The following is an edited version of the first chapter of Marshall Sahlins classic and groundbreaking work, Stone Age Economics (Aldine, 1972), entitled “The Original Affluent Society.”
Clinton Bombs Iraq
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
Why isn’t anyone doing anything to protest Clinton’s bombing of Iraq? There seems to be a growing resignation about the U.S. bashing Saddam Hussein to boost the approval ratings of American politicians.
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
Compiled by Barbara Wellner and Ivana Gottfried. Those events marked with an asterisk (*) need Fifth Estate salesmen. If you want to earn some extra money, come down to our office and pick up some papers. FRI. APRIL 4 * …
Anarchist Poetics
by Roger Farr
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
“[The poet never] voices received opinions, or gives clear expression to the confused feelings of ‘the masses’: that is the function of the politician, the journalist, the demagogue.” — Herbert Read, “Art and Alienation” “Poetry is the end(s) of politics.” …