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Rock and Roll Dope

by John Sinclair

Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968

Now that things have cooled down a little for the MC5 and myself after all the excitement of recent weeks maybe I can get into some of the things I promised when I started this column—although the stuff you’ve been …

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Fifth Estate Books

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995

Fifth Estate Books is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit, in the same space as the Fifth Estate Newspaper. Hours vary, so please call before coming by.

Detroit Seen

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 269, February, 1976

Bad news for the Ann Arbor Sun. “Detroit’s Hottest Paper” (as they call it) was hit in January with a coordinated wave of vandalism which left 40 of their newspaper coinboxes disabled after a liquid solder was poured in the …

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History of the Fifth Estate

by Peter Werbe

Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996

“The Fifth Estate supports the cause of revolution everywhere.” —FBI Report In my estimation, the above twelve-word summary by the nation’s secret police serves adequately as an abbreviated history of this paper on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.

Letters

by Various Authors

Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984

Correcting Yippies! The following is in response to an item which appeared in the Fall 1983 Fifth Estate which listed the Columbia (Mo.) Anarchist League as one of the sponsors of a Yippie! coordinated demonstration to be held at the …

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Questions we Have to Ask

by Charlie Ebert

Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020

Letters to My Children

by Stan Ovshinsky

Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966

First Letter: ‘In The House of the Hanged, One Does Not Speak of the Hemp.’ Today there’s a great deal of preaching to young people. One can hear the tongue clicking of sophisticated adults worrying about what is happening to …

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Escapism

by Peter Lamborn Wilson

Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008

Swear fealty to the dark leprechaunism of revenge Social Camouflage Fabulous Insularity become a lump of sensual actuality in the thin gruel of Spectacular Electromagnetism Set your basement afloat.

Armed Madhouse

by Bryan Tucker

Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015

  As the disturbing trend of mass shootings has steadily become a staple of American society, they serve as one extreme example of the collapsing modern social order.

Classified Ads

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971

CLASSIFIEDS 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: …

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Voltairine de Cleyre

by Robert Helms, Voltairine De Cleyre

Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000

Introduction by Robert Helms As interest in the history of anarchism increases with each passing year, we stumble across more lost gold mines of sources. I recently discovered one in Philadelphia which connects Voltairine de Cleyre, the celebrated anarchist speaker, …

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Anarchy and the Left

by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)

Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987

In recent months, we have been critical of a number of anarchists, through correspondence and in person, on the question of working politically with marxist-leninists on specific projects of joint interest. Those we have been in contact with on these …

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Detroit Seen

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976

The Fifth Estate’s benefit party on February 20th was a rousing success which saw the paper raise $400 over expenses and provided a party-down good time for about 450 revelers. Although the 5 kegs of beer went out faster than …

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On Living in the World

by John Clark

Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021

Recently, the Anarchist Political Ecology Group (the APE Group) read and discussed Ursula Le Guin’s book Always Coming Home. Though it’s a work I often go back to, this was the first time I had read it cover to cover …

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Detroit Seen

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998

Welcome to our Summer 1998 edition. Thanks to everyone who had a hand in creating our 351st issue. This issue follows our Fall 1997 edition, so please note that there was not an issue designated Winter or Spring.

Cops are the heroes in Spike Lee’s film

by Peter Werbe

Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019

a review of “BlacKkKlansman” Director: Spike Lee 135 min.

DVD review: The Net

by John Brinker

Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007

reviewed in this article The Net: The Unabomber, LSD, and the Internet by Lutz Dammbeck Other Cinema, San Francisco, 2003 www.othercinemadvd.com/net.html

Events Calendar

by Resa Jannett

Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969

in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure WED. AUG. 6 THE FROST record their second album at the Grande Ballroom, from 7 to 11 pm. Adm. is only $2 which is well-worth it, considering you’ll finally be able to hear Dick Wagner …

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Letters

by Various Authors

Fifth Estate # 376, Halloween, 2007

  Picking on Chavez To the Fifth Estate: I disagree with Fifth Estate picking on Hugo Chavez (See Spring 2007 FE, “In Chavez’s Venezuela: Continued Repression of Popular Protest”).

Strike!

by Alan Gotkin

Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970

Three ramshackle, trash-can heated huts on York Avenue between Second and Third stand as mute testimony to a strike against the General Electric Corporation which has gone on in Detroit and across the nation since October 26th of last year.

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