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.
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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 …
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.
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 …
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…
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 …
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 …