a review of The Me Nobody Knows: Children’s Voices from the Ghetto edited by Stephen M. Joseph. Avon Books, 1969, paperback, 95 cents.
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We know the Wolves are On our Side
by Franklin Rosemont
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
This is an excerpt from a 2003 essay, “Surrealism & Wilderness” that is included in Rosemont’s anthology Revolution in the Service of the Marvelous: Surrealist Contributions to the Critique of Miserabilism (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 2004).
Briefs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Cheerleaders of the Revolution Radical cheerleaders give a playful, yet militant, feminist flavor to anti-authoritarian protest. After reading through the third edition of the Radical Cheerleader Handbook, I want to grab a pair of pompoms and take to the …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969
The shit is coming down all over America from Greensboro, N.C. to Berkeley, Calif. Blood is flowing in the streets as people battle for their rights.
Devil’s Music
by Don LaCoss, Paul Garon
Fifth Estate # 361, Summer 2003
Interview by Don LaCoss, April 2003, Chicago
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970
To the Editors: I’d like to reply to SP Marc Nadeau whose trash was published in the Feb. 4, F.E. [Letters, FE #98, February 4-18, 1970] Baby, I’m not under 25, and am old enough to be your mother. …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
Rep. John Conyers, Jr. cast, as he promised, the only dissenting vote in a House judiciary subcommittee against that idiotic, probably unconstitutional, law which would make it a Federal crime to burn, deface, etc. the American flag. (The “offense” is …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
To Those People Who Like The Stooges: I used to like ’em too, just like everyone else, caught-up in that follow-the-other-people, emotional group-cohesion thing. But then I began to think! The Stooges are one example of a group that takes …
Open City Opens
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
Several hundred people attended Open City’s first benefit held February 28 at Alvin’s Delicatessen. The three hundred dollars collected at the door was used to purchase the community switchboard now in operation at the Open City office. For the last …
Open Letter To Judd Arnett & Lou Gordon
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
To: Judd Arnett, The Detroit Free Press Lou Gordon, The Detroit News Lift up a rock in Detroit these days—more correctly, in one of its outlying suburbs—and out will crawl a newspaper columnist.
The Jazz Scene
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 23, February 1-15, 1967
In his recently published book FOUR LIVES IN THE BEBOP BUSINESS, A.B. Spellman relates that Buell Neidlinger, former bassist with Cecil Taylor, told him: “I think Cecil Taylor is potentially the most important musician in the Western World … And …
The Mouthpiece
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970
Editors’ Note: At long last, here is the legal column we have been promising for several issues. “The Mouthpiece” will be a regular feature of the Fifth Estate and is in keeping with our motto of Serve The People.
Worker’s Letter to Wayne Strikers
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
One morning last week I was approached at the plant gate after my shift-by a student passing out your handouts. I spoke to him briefly, and noting the peace symbol painted on my lunchbox, he asked me to pass out …
“Revolt Against Work” or the End of Leftism?
by John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 281, March, 1977
FE Note. The December 1976 Fifth Estate carried a critique by Charles Reeve (see “The Revolt Against Work or Fight for the Right to Be Lazy,” p. 9) of the contentions of John and Paula Zerzan that the crisis point …
News and Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
The Work Resister’s Handbook is presently being assembled by John Zerzan and Morgan Feralchilde. The authors want true stories of work resistance, how to do scams, and practical hints for curing consumption blues, e.g. shoplifting, etc. Write: Box 11331, Eugene …
Attica: Victory at the trials
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 271, April, 1976
NEW YORK (LNS)–A little more than three years after the first Attica indictments were handed down at a snow-covered courthouse a few miles from Attica State Prison in upstate New York, the Attica defendants and their supporters have won an …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 23, February 1-15, 1967
Councilman Nicholas Hood’s recent “anti-crime” breakfast of Negro “leaders” may have been a lot more clever than one would think at first glance. This writer’s first reaction was: What kind of crap is this—that, according to Hood, “Negroes should utilize …
Rock and Roll Dope
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
It’s really good to see that Brother Ear is hearing the Detroit bands and digging them, especially since people around here have to be told how heavy the bands are. The Frost and the Thyme aren’t the only together groups …
The Ballad of Donna Lewis
by Robin Banks
Fifth Estate # Daily Barbarian Number 3
Fifth Estate Home > Issue 319, Winter, 1985 > On the night of November 1, 1982, one day after Halloween, Donna Lewis, Clarita Henry and Lawrence and Arnet McClung had their lives transformed from rags to riches when money bags …