James Peake, director of Du Bois Clubs (DBC) national publications, who lives in San Francisco, stated on March 11 that he knew of 2000 new memberships since the terrorist attacks. Of these, 700 are in the San Francisco Bay area. …
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Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987
Where are the Bulgarians now that we need them department: Get ready Detroit! As the archbishop and the mayor slap each other on the back for bringing the pope himself into town in September, local entrepreneurs are geared up to …
Palestinian Refugees
by Ali Moossavi
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
Of all the issues raised by Israel’s fifty year anniversary, none holds more pain and longing, nor embodies the Palestinian experience more, than that of the refugees.
A Word on Civilization & Collapse
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
Civilizations have come and gone over the past 6,000 years or so. Now, there’s just one—-various cultures, but a single, global civilization.
Charges Dropped in ‘Policeman’s Field Day’
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
On September 16 charges of Inciting to Riot against Moses Wedlow and James Roberts were dismissed in Recorder’s Court by visiting Judge John Seiler. The charges grew out of the August 9-12 “Policeman’s Field Days” on Kercheval on Detroit’s East …
From the Other Side of the Tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 89, October 2-15, 1969
Reprinted with permission of The Guardian, independent radical weekly, NYC Brother Fred Ahmed Evans was scheduled to die in the electric chair of the Ohio State Prison on Sept. 23, but was granted a temporary reprieve at the last moment. …
The Further Adventures of Tom Sincavitch
by Marc Kadish
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
Editors’ Note: Marc Kadish is Mid-West organizer for the National Lawyer’s Guild and is active in Detroit with the National Organizing Committee (NOC).
Some Winded, Wild Beast
by Lynne Clive (Marilynn Rashid)
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
a review of Some Winded, Wild Beast, by Christina Pacosz. Black & Red (Detroit, 1985), 97 pages, $2.50.
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
Apparently Detroit’s two daily papers didn’t believe our interview in the last issue with the person who bombed the CIA office in Ann Arbor.
Poor People in D.C.
by Chris Singer
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It is almost like any other American city.
Vietnam Report
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 7, April 1966
Reprint from Vietnam Report Vol. 1, No. 1, the official newsletter of the Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam (DCEWV), April 1966
Shorts
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
A.F. Kooks The Air Force admitted in a recent hearing that at least three men with dangerous psychiatric problems had been assigned to guard a super-secret nuclear weapons installation at Hamilton Air Force Base, 25 miles south of San Francisco. …
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
by Timothy Leary PhD
Fifth Estate # 9, June, 1966
First installment of a regular column syndicated by EVO [East Village Other] for L.A. Free Press, Berkeley Barb, Fifth Estate, & The Paper
The Syrian Quagmire
by Leila Al Shami
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
If 2011 looked like the moment when people could unite, both within and across countries, to topple decades-old dictatorships with the demand for freedom and social justice, today looks like the moment of counter-revolutionary success. After eight years of increasingly …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983
The FE Book Service is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, both of which are located at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit MI 48201 — telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours we are open vary considerably, so it’s …
Thee Column
by Larry Kaplan
Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970
Writing serious, meaningful information that helps people is important, but after a while it bores me (and maybe you too) shitless. In response to this shitty boredom, it’s time for a collection of useless information, meaningless facts and general dung.
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 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 …
Remember this
by Robert Dudnick
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
(Guardian/UPS) One of the teeth-gritting things about living in Scum City is the opportunity to be insulted by the New York Times. That is why so many more “ordinary” people read the New York Daily News. It insults you on …
More Reasons to Visit New Orleans
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
This issue of FE was finished on the first anniversary of Katrina. A year later, our friends in New Orleans still need our help. At the beginning of June, our comrade, regular contributor, friend, and Louisiana native John Clark wrote: …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
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.
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
According to David Brower, the ecology elder “archdruid,” the Clinton administration has done more harm to the environment than either preceding right-wing Republican presidents. For instance, Clinton’s signature on the infamous salvage rider bill allows extensive clear cutting in America’s …
Events
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
Victoria’s 2nd Annual Anarchist Bookfair September 7, 8, 9, at the Victoria Coolaid Society, 749 Pandora St., Victoria, BC
Russian Women
by Claudia
Fifth Estate # 349, Summer 1997
Behind the male facade of business and politics Russia is a country run by women. Their labor keeps the population from starving. Yet post-1991 economic changes have led some women to reason that if they have to be beasts of …
Detroit’s ‘Shameless Old Lady’
by Henry Malone, Ralph Fresojevich
Fifth Estate # 27, April 1-15, 1967
The Eastern Market is one of those places you must love. She is quite an old woman by now, and part of her (the Gratiot Central Market) was recently gutted by flames: But you love her, for she is very …
Mutual Aid
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
a review of Fight for a New Normal? Anarchism and mutual aid in the Covid-19 pandemic crisis Ed. Jim Donaghey, Foreword by Ruth Kinna; Afterward by Rhiannon Firth. Freedom Press, 2024
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
HOPE FOR DOPE — High Times magazine reports that the recent Paraquat scare is just that and “not to believe the government.” Paraquat paranoia developed a few months ago when it surfaced that the U.S. had financed the spraying of …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
The FE BOOK SERVICE is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate newspaper, both of which are located at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit MI 48201—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours we are open vary considerably, so it’s always best …
Challenging the Nation State in Syria
by Leila Al Shami
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
Syria’s current borders were drawn up by imperial map makers a hundred years ago in the midst of World War I as part of a secret accord between France and Britain to divide the Mideast spoils of the Turkish Ottoman …
Punk Rock
by A. Punk
Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977
Thinking about punk rock gives one the strange sensation of witnessing a phenomenon and trying to make intellectual sense of it rather than being immersed in it. That of course ages you immediately. No matter what your “sympathies” are toward …
Inside Sounds
by Marshall Rubinoff
Fifth Estate # 28, April 15-30, 1967
The Fugs at Wayne, April 6, were super everything. Jumping, humping, singing, dancing, running, making love on stage in front of, and for everyone at the same time. They led the audience in a chorus of RIVER OF SHIT, sang …
Anarchists Scapegoated for Quebec Riot
by Michael William
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
June 24, Quebec’s national holiday, St. Jean Baptist day, is usually an uneasy combination of healthy fun and not so healthy flag Waving. This year’s celebrations in Quebec City, the seat of the provincial parliament, turned hotter than usual.
Surrealist Manifesto
by David Tighe
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
a review of Surrealism and the Anarchist Imagination by Ron Sakolsky. Eberhardt Press, 2023
Inciting A Riot
by Alvin Harrison, Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 14, September 15, 1966
On August 9-12 a fantasy now known as the “East Side Riot” was staged by the Detroit Police with the assistance of the prosecutor’s office, city government and the press. The major villain of the drama was Alvin Harrison, Director …
Carter’s Phony War Crisis
by Fifth Estate Collective, Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 301, February 26, 1980
“I don’t want to startle you, but they mean to kill us all.” —e.e. cummings War—the word on everyone’s lips—the deadly end of the capitalist cycle of prosperity and economic collapse, appears close at hand as the major world empires …
Jim and Jean
by Paula Stone
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
Be kind to other people—this is what Jim and Jean are essentially about. They were in town last week and during a 3 a.m. interview with WABX I had a chance to know them a little better.
Judith Malina (1926-2015)
by Lorraine Perlman
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
Conversations with Judith Malina rarely ended without her advocating “the beautiful nonviolent anarchist revolution.” Strategy to realize it always followed. Her efforts to achieve this ideal resulted in her arrest for civil disobedience in twelve different countries.
Rogue Statism
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
“The man without a country is a free man. ‘Country’ is a tenfold chain forged around our necks and feet by our forefathers, a prison and a pit.” –Herman Bang, Denied a Homeland (1906)
Underground Press Has Tribal Meeting
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
San Francisco (UPS) The Underground Press Syndicate, of which the Fifth Estate is a member, was founded more than a year ago in order to facilitate the communication of information which the Establishment press ignores, suppresses, or never dreamed of.
Free Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
Though we do not accept commercial advertising, this Unclassified ad space is free for our readers’ use. We do not accept ads over the telephone, so please send your ads in writing to our office at: 4403 Second Ave., Detroit …
Draft Tests
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 9, June, 1966
The Selective Service Classification Exams given in May and June have been the center of much peace activity in Michigan. The Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam has distributed leaflets at the six testing stations in Detroit and …