Once, one approached Truffaut with satiate expectancy, awaiting only to be chewed up and spat upon beneath the marquee. In stark wonderment and in bitter tears one expected to be engulfed by the pleasures of cinema at its best. The …
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The Torch Drive
by Dennis Witkowski
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
The Fifth Estate has published information exposing the Torch Drive hustle for the past several years. In keeping with this tradition, the following article presents an up-to-date account of what the Torch Drive is really about; how they initially get …
Where is Home?
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
Acknowledging the existence only of individuals and families, Margaret Thatcher declared, “There’s no such thing as society.”
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 34, July 15-31, 1967
If there’s anything more disgusting than a person who has no guts, its a person who has half-guts. For example, Rep. John Conyers, Jr. For the past several weeks I’ve been writing about the wonderful job he was doing in …
“We Have No Country!”
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 5, March 6-20, 1966
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an edited transcription of a press conference held in the Greenville office of the Delta Ministry Tuesday evening, February 1, 1966. The participants include three spokesmen of the over 70 poor Negroes who occupied the barracks …
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
The calendar will be a regular FIFTH ESTATE feature. We know that there is more happening in the Detroit and Ann Arbor areas than what we have listed, so we need your help. Send us information about what your group …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 290, March 2, 1978
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and can be found at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 48201 (telephone-313-831-6800). Our hours vary, but we are generally open on Monday and Thursday afternoons (from 1pm to 5pm) and at …
How to Support Anti-War GIs
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 367, Winter 2004-2005
As Bush’s Iraq quagmire begins to take on the same qualities as the war in Vietnam—fighting an insurgent population, mounting US casualties, increased slaughter of civilians, destruction of the country to “save it,” no exit strategy—so, too, does military opposition.
Calemdar
by Karen Kovac, Naiomi Epil
Fifth Estate # 42, November 15-30, 1967
The calendar is prepared by Fifth Estate calendar girls, Karen Kovac and Naomi Epel, [Naiomi Epil —Web Archiver] with cooperation from Detroit Adventure. Copy deadline is the 6th and 22nd of each month and should be sent to the Fifth …
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
Quick! Call the Anarchist Anti-Defamation League (AADL). It’s bad enough when every corporate media outlet uses anarchism as a synonym for chaos, but now an English company has gone even further.
Expose ’67
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
The Fifth Estate has obtained a copy of a letter, one paragraph of which states: “As far as I am concerned, the local police in every community must be prepared to draw fast and not let the bleeding hearts again …
Utah Phillips (1935-2008)
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
The IWW and the labor movement lose a troubadour Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music, who performed tirelessly on two continents for 38 years, died May 23 of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California, a small …
League of Revolutionary Black Workers
by Fifth Estate Collective, John Watson
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
This interview was conducted and transcribed by Dena Clamage. [Part 1 of the interview appeared in FE #78, May 1-14, 1969.]
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 42, November 15-30, 1967
The Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) had its long-awaited dinner at the Rackham Bldg. recently, only a few days after anti-war demonstrators had clashed with the warmakers and local gendarmes in the same locals.
Bach on Rock
by Franklin Bach
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
I remember that there was a time not too long ago when yours truly sat in one of Detroit’s few coffee houses wanting so badly to have a good time and hear some good music that I actually applauded the …
What’s On
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 1, November 19-December 2, 1965
FRIDAY LECTURE: An Evening With Clifford West. Bloomfield Art Association. 6 p.m. Admission charge. 11/19
The San Francisco Mime Troupe
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
And now ladies and gentlemen… The San Francisco Mime Troupe is preparing for its third annual cultural assault on Detroit. Presented by this newspaper, the guerrilla theatre group whose home ground is the public parks of San Francisco and Berkeley, …
Joseph Déjacque
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
Joseph Déjacque was a major 19th-century communist anarchist political theorist and visionary utopian writer, born in Besancon, France on December 27, 1821. To celebrate the bicentennial year of his birth, two New Orleans-based groups, are convening a Déjacque Bicentennial Conference …
Census Resisters Snub Government
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 302, June 1, 1980
The 1980 census has come and gone without much ado. On the face of it, it appears as though most Americans dutifully mailed back their forms and provided the government with its constitutionally mandated information needed to apportion each state’s …
Wars of Liberation
by Sidney Lens
Fifth Estate # 8, May, 1966
Reprinted from Liberation Magazine. Secretary of State Dean Rusk doesn’t seem to appreciate the monumental irony of his own position. On the one hand he insists fervidly on the right of small nations like South Vietnam to independence”: on the …