We here at Fifth Estate feel that a few words of remembrance are necessary to mark the passing of “Smiling General” Suharto. Beginning in 1967, this brutal terrorist’s “New Order” military regime was as vicious as the similarly well-funded US …
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Shopping List for My Newborn Girl
by Jessamine O'Connor
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
Botox Vajazzles Spray-tan Collagen Foundation Blusher, Shadow Liner; Stick-on lashes Anti-perspirant; Perfume Body spray, Deodorant; Facelift Tummy tuck, Magic knickers; Padded bra, Corset Silicone implants; Waxed legs Shaved armpits Plucked eyebrows A Brazilian; Detox, Diet Diet, Diet; Teeth whitening Anal …
Bits of the world in brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
The following letter, at the top of which appeared the heading “Direct Action,” recently arrived at the FE office. Its view of the ecological crisis and the essential sameness of the capitalist West and the communist East is one with …
German Students Revolt in the Streets
by Hatti Heimann, Irwin Limsky
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
Liberation News Service — The thousands of left-wing German students clashing with police on the streets of Berlin, Frankfort, Hanover, Munich and other German cities rallied for reasons beyond the original motivation of the shooting of Rudi Dutsche.
Digger Digs In
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
Digger O’Dell, world famous stunt man, will be buried in Detroit October 26th, at 1 pm at 13505 Grand River east of Schaefer. Mr. O’Dell will be buried alive.
Bommi Baumann Nabbed
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 306, July, 1981
The following report on the arrest and deportation of Bommi Baumann comes to us from the Islington Gutter Press by way of Black Flag newspaper.
Anarchist Accidentally Asked to Lecture at Army Base
by Palmer Eldritch
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
I teach world history classes at a small, third-tier state college. After the start of the US drive-by massacres of Afghanistan in the late fall of 2001, I completely changed the content of my history courses in order to emphasize …
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Voodoo in Detroit
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969
I Voodoo is a colloquial corruption of Vodo, the name of an African godhead, the Holy Serpent. The practice of Voodoo has been, until recent years, the most consistently revolutionary and anti-establishment force among poor blacks in the United …
A Red Country (poem)
by Ngu Thi Yen
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
My country’s red, long so I was told Victories, a star glows Flag crimson, glorious so Vanguard leads, the people follow. . Red in sight, we have traded lives Beat armies, lay siege to empires. Red in mind, we …
Are these our children?
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
“We might as well leave, Fred.” Not many of us are fortunate enuf to have parents like the above.
Racist Slayings Hit South End
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976
Billowing smoke pours from the stacks that surround the huge water tower on the edge of the Rouge River. A too-familiar blue and white emblem proclaims the domination of the area by Ford Motor Company’s massive Rouge Plant complex, once …
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
EDITOR Harvey Ovshinsky MANAGING EDITOR Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West ART Dave Carlin TRAVEL EDITOR Sheil Salasnek MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR John Sinclair CALENDAR Rhona Whipple ADVERTISING Leon Brenner FILM EDITORS: Joe Fineman, Shirley Hamburg NEWS EDITOR, Frank Joyce …
On Gogol Boulevard
by Neither East Nor West/NYC
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
About this Section On Gogol Boulevard is produced for the Fifth Estate by New York City/Neither East Nor West, which links alternative oppositions in the East and West, and prints news and documents unavailable in the corporate or left media. …
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970
Fifth Estate “To Serve the People” FIFTH ESTATE #96, January 8-21, 1970, Vol. 4 No. 18, page 2 EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West MANAGING EDITOR Bill Rowe DISTRIBUTION Keep On Truckin’ Co-op ADVERTISING Steve Dunn STAFF Jane …
Northern Student Movement
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 1, November 19-December 2, 1965
In announcing the creation of an organization called the “Friends of N.S.M.,” a group of Detroit area citizens have recently stated: “We propose to form a nucleus of a movement of whites and Negroes which is in communication with the …
World War 3 Illustrated
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
a review of World War 3 Illustrated Assorted Authors & Artists AK Press akpress.org ww3.nyc
Women in Black found ‘guilty’ in district court
by Shane Perlowin
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
Asheville, North Carolina, August 6. Ten Asheville women from Women in Black (WIB) found themselves in court on Aug. 6 faced with charges of trespassing. WIB is an international peace network that was started in Israel in 1988 by women …
Common Ground Exhibit
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
On Sunday, May 18, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., the Detroit Artists’ Market, 1452 Randolph will open an exhibit entitled “The Common Ground” which will include new work by 22 artists of the Common Ground of the Arts.
Infoshop, Gallery, & Mail Order
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 360, Spring, 2003
BOOKSTORE IN A BARN (615) 536-5999 an hour east of Nashville; call, write, or email for directions FifthEstate@pumpkinhollow.net Read more WORDS Dr. Ben Reitman, Sister of the Road: the Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha (2002) $15.00 Dark Star Beneath the Paving …
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
FIFTH ESTATE #74, March 5-19, 1969, Vol. 3 No. 22, page 2 Fifth Estate A Newspaper of Detroit EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Harvey Ovshinsky Tommye Wiese Peter Werbe Cathy West PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre DISTRIBUTION Bruce Montrose MUSIC EDITOR John …