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Search results for: Neither East Nor West

Book Review

by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)

Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982

A review of Powerline: The First Battle of America’s Energy War, Barry M. Casper and Paul David Wellstone, The University of Massachusetts Press, 1981, 314 pp.

SNCC Offices Raided in S.F.

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967

SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area Regional Office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was raided in the early hours last month by unknown parties. The office at 449 14th Street houses the SNCC office and the national office of …

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Tennescene

by john johnson

Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003

Long time readers of the Fifth Estate will remember the section called “Detroit Seen” which brought news from the radical scene in Detroit. We hope to continue “scene” reports in the new incarnation of the Fifth Estate.

Letters to the Editor

by Various Authors

Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013

Send letters via email to fe – AT – fifthestate.org or Fifth Estate, P.O. Box 201016, Ferndale MI 48220. All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten. Letters may be edited for length.

The L.A. Earthquake

by Adam Bregman

Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994

At 4:30 am, January 17th, an earthquake…measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale hit Los Angeles. Everyone was suddenly awakened as the earth tossed the city around for thirty seconds or so.

Events Calendar

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968

Wed. Sept. 18 LUMBERJACK DAYS. Here’s your big chance to stock up on firewood for the winter. You can even pretend you’re Paul Bunyan in East Tawas, Michigan. And don’t forget your blue ox.

History of Women’s Day

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971

On March 8 in 1857 hundreds of women textile workers marched from a poor, working-class district on the Lower East Side of New York City to a wealthy area nearby. They were demonstrating against poor working conditions, low wages, and …

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The Rojava Revolution

by Andrew Flood

Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology

On May 17, military forces of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) captured Ramadi, Iraq, and with it another huge stock of US-supplied modern weaponry. Six thousand US-trained Iraqi soldiers fled the city without putting up much of …

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Unmasking the Custer Myths

by Ward Churchill

Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989

George Armstrong Custer, whose “last stand” has been depicted by more than 200 artists since it occurred during the summer of 1876, has been made into a prime symbol of this country’s “winning of the West” from American Indians.

The Forgotten Anarchist Commune in Manchuria

by Francesco Dalessandro

Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020

During World War II the famous Hollywood filmmaker Frank Capra was commissioned by the U.S. Military to make a seven-part documentary film series titled “Why We Fight.” Its purpose was to counter Nazi propaganda films and justify U.S. involvement in …

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Newsreel’s Here to Stay!

by Detroit Newsreel Collective

Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969

Newsreel is a national organization of revolutionary filmmakers with bases in 10 cities and Puerto Rico. We came to Detroit at the beginning of the summer to make a film on auto workers and set up regional distribution of our …

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From the Other Side of the Tracks

by Julius Lester

Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968

Sometimes it seems that history does, indeed, repeal itself. The mistakes of a radical movement are sometimes repeated several generations later by another radical movement. At other limes, a radical movement will repeat its own mistakes within the same generation. …

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War in Iraq

by George Bradford (David Watson)

Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91

The Empire, gorged and sclerotic from its daily gnawing on the marrow of the world, has now called up its armies and declared its “new world order.” Its commander-in-chief, a mediocrity in a civilization of hollow mediocrities, lays aside his …

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Is Michigan Slated For Nuclear Landfill?

by Bob Nirkind

Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976

This article is the second of a two-part series on the effects that the indiscriminate care and usage of radioactive waste materials and dangerous chemicals are having, and will continue to have in the future, on man and his environment. …

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An Anti-statist Outlook

by Unruhlee

Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002

  Israel, The U.S. in Miniature Much of the population of Israel, no different from people in the United States, denies its past as an invader/settler nation, is oblivious to the suffering which creates its plentitude, revels in self-generated myths …

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“State-Fetishism”

by anon.

Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979

Over the past year, there has been a discussion within the pages of the Fifth Estate as to what constitutes revolutionary violence, and what the uses and relevance of such violence might be.

Who Killed Durruti?

by Larry Talbot

Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006

a review of The Man Who Killed Durruti, Pedro de Paz, Translated from Spanish by Paul Sharkie, Postscript by Stuart Christie, Illustrations by Richard Warren. Christie Books (Read and Noir, PO Box 35, Hastings, East Sussex, U.K.), 2005, 135

1989 Anarchist Gathering

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989

Final planning is in high gear for the 1989 Anarchist Conference/Festival to be held in San Francisco on July 20-25. Its theme and name are “Without Borders.” Over 3,000 anti-authoritarians and anarchists from around the world are expected to attend, …

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There’s More to Gangs than Just Gangs

by anon.

Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976

Gang fever, like the Bird’s pitching, seems to have been just a-passing summer phenomenon. Both served their purpose for the Motor City and then disappeared. Of course, youth crime has not disappeared—just its exploitation by the media and city hall …

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Fear Grips Midwest—Easy Space Unstoppable

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 289, January 24, 1978

Tough times had befallen the Easy Space Theater, and to help them pull out of their financial woes, the Somebody Else Players called in the help of that perennial moneymaker, Jerry Loose, for a grand Begathon.

Montreal’s Fourth International Anarchist Theatre Festival

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 380, Spring 2009

It’s the biggest and only anarchist theatre festival in the world, and it’s happening again during the month-long May 2009 Festival of Anarchy in North America’s favourite anarchist playground, Montreal, Quebec.

Report from W. Germany

by anon.

Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979

The following was sent to us by a friend of the Fifth Estate living in West Germany and lays out the political implications of the “Nuclear State,” and gives a report on several mass anti-nuclear actions.

PM Press

by Craig O'Hara

Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018

Bay Area-based PM Press celebrated its tenth anniversary of publishing in May with a bang-up party in Oakland, Calif., where staff, authors, and well-wishers howled at political sketch comedy, smashed a captured Amazon delivery drone, and danced the night away …

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Berkman’s Tunnel to Freedom

by Gary L. Doebler

Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992

Related story: “Tony” Revealed, Fifth Estate #377, March 2008 On July 26, 1900, officials of Western Penitentiary in Woods Run, Pennsylvania, discovered a tunnel which zigzagged some three hundred feet from the basement of the red brick house of 28 …

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Events Calendar

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 69, December 26, 1968-January 8, 1969

compiled by Naomi Epel THURS. DEC. 26 MC5 at the Fillmore East, New York, free tickets obtainable if you happen to be heading in that direction. Call Trans-Love 1/769-2017. GUERRILLA THEATER: a pacifist play by Sam Cohen performed at the …

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Anti-Anarchism

by Jim Feast

Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016

We are all familiar with the ruthless stereotyping and blatant falsification of anarchism in the mass media employing out-dated, long exploded cliches such as that anarchists are solely interested in destruction, fueled by an infantile rage. It was these stereotypes …

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STP Gets You There On Time

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 29, May 1-15, 1967

Green peppers, bananas, peanuts and now STP. This latest addition to the armamentarium of the underground messiah has become a legend almost before it was made available. Reputed to have been named STP by the Grateful Dead “because it lasts …

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Gimme Shelter

by Len Schafer

Fifth Estate # 127, March 18-31, 1971

Directed by: David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin. Starring: The Rolling Stones, Hells Angels and a cast of thousands.

Letters

by Various Authors

Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022

Send letters to fe@fifthestate.org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220. All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten. Letters may be edited for length. CHOMSKYIAN Your editorial on the Ukraine war in FE #411, Spring 2022 starts out promising, …

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Black Panther Trial

by Liberation News Service

Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968

OAKLAND, CALIF., July 16 (LNS) A tense crowd of several thousand chanted outside the Alameda County Courthouse here as the trial of Huey Newton entered its second day.

Voices of the Underground

by Peter Werbe

Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012

A review of Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, Part 2 edited by Ken Wachsberger, Michigan State University Press, 2012, 442 pp, $40

Newsreel Films Seized

by Liberation News Service

Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969

NEW YORK (LNS) — Three Newsreel photographers just back from North Vietnam have sued the State Department, U.S. Customs, and Trans World Airlines to recover movie film which was seized through trickery and deceit by government authorities at Kennedy International …

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Events Calendar

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969

The Fifth Fstate Events Calendar was compiled by Bruce Montrose and Claudia Efimchik. Fri. Jan. 10 ANN ARBOR. Mad Marvin presents four revolutionary films: “Huey,” “Listen, Whitey,” “End of a Revolution,” and “Huelga.” Showing at 11 p.m. at the 5th …

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DCEWV Convention

by anon.

Fifth Estate # 1, November 19-December 2, 1965

Today the Vietnamese people are fighting for the right to choose their own society. Their demands are human; food, a decent place to live and work, political and private self determination, and a life of dignity and self respect. They …

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China Supports US on Taiwan

by anon.

Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977

Now that the Hua Kuo-feng faction of the Chinese Communist party is firmly in control of the People’s Republic any number of Maoist concepts have been slated for the waste basket of history.

The Revolutionaries of Columbia

by Ralph J. Gleason

Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969

LIBERATION News Service — Columbia Records is owned by CBS. It owns the Yankees and God knows what else. Its offices are at 51 West 52 Street in New York in a new skyscraper whose walls are already peeling and …

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Other Scenes

by John Wilcock

Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969

NEW YORK: City officials have turned down, sight unseen, a plan to turn NYC’s individual subway stations into fascinating communities, more or less reflective of the areas in which they exist.

Black Mask Answers Leary

by Black Mask, Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967

The column, “You are a god, live like one” by Timothy Leary that appeared in the last issue of the FIFTH ESTATE [FE #25, March 1-15, 1967] was originally published in our sister underground paper, the EAST VILLAGE OTHER (EVO). …

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Detroit Book Trip Holiday

by Richard Centing

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

Detroit is not a great city for bookstores like the large publishing centers of New York and Chicago. but there are interesting stores here with a wide variety of material. As the ads say, find their names in the Yellow …

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Even More Minneapolis Anarchy

by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), Various Authors

Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988

FE Note: This is a response to “More Minneapolis Anarchy,” the letters beginning on page 15 of this issue.

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