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The DRUM Election

by Dick Parris

Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970

The struggle for political power within the United Auto Workers Union between the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the entrenched, conservative, white bureaucracy continued at the recent elections at Dodge local 3 of the Hamtramck Assembly Plant.

Tales from the Planet

by Fifth Estate Collective, john johnson

Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004

Compiled by john johnson KKK Does the Job for Us In November 2003, a bullet fired in the air during a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony near Johnson City, Tennessee came down and struck a participant in the head, critically …

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The Revolution Begins in Bed

by John Landau

Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003

For me, daydreaming is a kind of prayer. To drift, to feel my body gently floating, to move with memory and the suggestiveness of phenomena, to be thankful, to enjoy, to praise this life with its wonder and vitality…this is …

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The White Left—Serious or Not?

by William Spencer Leach

Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969

Editors’ Note: William Leach is a member of the Detroit Black Panther Party and a staff member of the Inner City Voice and The South End newspapers. “Look, we ain’t going to work with white people…they aren’t serious…why do we …

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Army found guilty…sentenced to death

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970

Reprinted from The Bond: The Voice of the American Servicemen’s Union SEATTLE—GIs from Fort Lewis and McChord Air Force Base held a trial of the Brass and its war in Vietnam before an audience of 1,500 at the University of …

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Other Scenes

by John Wilcock

Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969

NEW YORK—CBS president Frank Stanton (who fired the Smothers Bros.) passed down the word to Columbia Records to stop advertising in the dirty, little underground papers.

Letters

by Various Authors

Fifth Estate # 94, December 11-24, 1969

Fellow Good Vibrationists, Ever since I’ve been reading Hank Malone’s articles, I acquired the irresistible urge to blast his ideas out of our midst into oblivion, where they belong. Malone’s reflections on art are a classical example of revolutionary cretinism.

Ammunition Books

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977

BOOKSTORE HOURS: Monday and Tuesday-1pm to 5pm—Wednesday 7pm to 10pm. LOCATION: 4403 Second (on the corner of Second & Canfield), Detroit, Michigan 48201

‘A First Class Texas Job’

by John Arden

Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966

Reprinted by permission from England’s PEACE NEWS: Oct. 7, 1966 Discussed in this article: Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane; Inquest by E.J. Epstein Somebody once said that “the man on the Clapham omnibus” was the sort of typical figure …

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Postscript for the anti-capitalist movement

by Jennifer Whitney, John Jordan

Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003

Argentina may well prove to be the crisis which irrevocably splits the ever-widening crack in the neoliberal armor, especially if things continue to unravel in other parts of Latin America. Recent events in Venezuela, and the possibility of left wing …

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The Alchemy of Luddism

by Peter Lamborn Wilson

Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006

for Diane di Prima St. John’s Eve (Midsummer) 2006 1. It’s the idea of code that’s cool not the actual bother of decipherment: the utopia of not having been in a state of anticipation or regret. The Dowager Empress took …

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Janis Joplin

by Frank Kofsky

Fifth Estate # 41, November 1-15, 1967

Mark me words, Janis Joplin is fated to be the next American pop superstar.

Saturn and Scientism

by T. Fulano (David Watson)

Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980

There she is, looking vaguely pornographic on the glossy covers of the weekly magazines, the planet Saturn. What have we discovered? I don’t know, I haven’t read them, feeling squashed as I do to the Earth by the giddying inertia …

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They can’t get any nuder

by Robert Wolf

Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969

(Other Scenes/UPS) Tom Cushing added the last line of his play about nudism 40 years ago, then wrote above its original title: “The Unplayable Play.” The play jocularly concerned a nudist girl who invited her swain home, on the condition …

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Explaining Anarchism to a Parent Can Be Tough!

by Steve Izma

Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018

a review of Anarchy Explained to My Father by Francis Dupuis-Deri and Thomas Deri; Translated from the French by John Gilmore. New Star Books, Vancouver, 2017

Interest v. Principal

by Andrew Mehall

Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019

a review of This Is Not a Photo Opportunity: The Street Art of Banksy Artist: Banksy, Photographs by Martin Bull. PM Press, 2014 pmpress.org

Poetry for Peltier

by Various Authors

Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997

For 22 years the doors of justice have been closed to Leonard Peltier. Now, the door may be opening a crack. A few months ago AIM activist Dennis Banks announced that Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Chairman of the Senate Select …

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What are we going to do now?

by William R. Boyer (Bill Boyer)

Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023

A review of The Clash: All the Albums, All the Songs by Martin Popoff. PM Press, 2022

Events Calendar

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968

Fri. Oct. 18 GRANDE BALLROOM fun with the Kensington Market and the fantastic MC-5. All sorts of psychedelic bullshit happening. Don’t forget to check out Barry Kramer’s groovy counter, he has a very complete assortment of English records, hippie Bob …

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Civilization is Like a Jetliner

by T. Fulano (David Watson)

Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983

The night the Korean airliner crashed into the newspapers, I dreamed of a tornado. A tornado is a kind of spiral, which is the labyrinth and which is Death.

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