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Birchers Active in Detroit
by Tao Chu Kwang
Fifth Estate # 22, January 15-30, 1967
When most Detroiters think of the organized right-wing in this city they immediately conjure up images of Don Lobsinger and his lunatic organization, Breakthrough, throwing Soviet flags at speakers, disrupting concerts because groups from the Soviet Union are playing there, …
The Coatpuller
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
Lots of good music coming up for the summer, June 8th, the new Spike Drivers will present a huge three-ring circus type show at Community Arts Auditorium, WSU, featuring the MC-5, the Passing Clouds, the Magic Veil Light Company, classical …
Clinton Greater Danger to Peace
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
It’s hard not to be distracted by the right wing Shit Show presently playing in the White House with its daily exposures of corruption, racism, xenophobia, and discrimination.
End Game in the Levant
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
Before anything can be said or written about what has happened in Palestine and Israel since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack, recognition must be given to the enormity of the crimes Israel’s merciless army has committed against the Palestinian …
Decentralization Bill a Sham
by J.R. Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970
Decentralization of the Detroit Public School System has emerged as a major issue confronting this city. Within this conflict there exists a strong potential for radical change. Recognizing this, many activist groups have joined in the struggle for effective decentralization.
Readers respond (I)
by Peter Lippman
Fifth Estate # 357, Summer 2002
Editors’ note: In the following pages, we feature two essays by readers. The first is Peter Lippman’s “While Yugoslavia Burned the Left Looked the Other Way,” a response to Bob Myers’ “Ethnic Cleansing in the Former Yugoslavia” (published in FE …
Left Reacts to Czechs
by Allen Young
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
LONDON, England—Liberation News Service—Europe’s left, new and old, has been brutally unanimous in its criticism of the Soviet military intervention in Czechoslovakia.
People’s Park in Detroit
by C. McCall
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
The spirit of liberation has swept across this freedom stoned land from Berkeley to our sister city, Ann Arbor, and now into Detroit.
A Note on Current Film Criticism
by Shirley Hamburg
Fifth Estate # 21, January 1-15, 1967
The chief spokesman for the “independent or underground film-makers” in this country is Jonas Mekas.
Good-bye to the Draft?
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
The Selective Service Repeal Act of 2021 was introduced in Congress on April 14 with bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate. If this becomes law, registering for the hated draft will no longer be required. The draft …
An Anarchist in Palestine
by Taylor Weech
Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013
Growing up in the post-9/11 U.S., I’ve experienced the psychological discord of this culture and witnessed the expansion of its violent global footprint. This June, I traveled to Israel for two weeks with Interfaith Peace-Builders hoping to broaden my understanding …
Warren-Forest Bulldozed?
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 77, April 17-30, 1969
The bulldozers are coming again to the Warren Forest area.
Holding Up Progress
by Dan Fischer
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
“Stop the madness and expand Tweed. Two neighborhoods can’t hold up economic progress,” pronounced a local newspaper columnist, directing his ire at residents on the edge of New Haven and East Haven, Connecticut.
Trots and Nukes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
Reprinted from FE #284, July 1977. Apparently there is honor among thieves and the anti-nuclear power struggle has exposed the totally reactionary tendencies of several marxist groups as they line up behind the governments of totalitarian regimes and mouth the …
Getting Beyond Grape Leaves
by Gina Aranki
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
a review of Food for our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists, Edited by Joanna Kadi, South End Press, Boston, 1994, $16.00
Schools of the Americas
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
In The Underground History of American Education, the renegade educator John Taylor Gatto traces the genealogy of compulsory public-school education in the US back to the system of pedagogy created in the nineteenth-century northern European state of Prussia. Prussia is …
Spike-Drivers Do Benefit For 5th Estate
by Richard Cruse
Fifth Estate # 22, January 15-30, 1967
Detroit’s own SPIKE-DRIVERS, having just finished a mind-blowing engagement at the Living End Lounge, are now preparing for their first concert appearance in a benefit for the FIFTH ESTATE.
‘What Have You Got?’
by Art Johnston
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
Nineteenth century capitalism generated the “true believer” in laissez-faire, and gave rise to a large body of oppressed workers; the condition of which was a contradiction of the justifying principles of capitalism—the “natural rights” of Man.
Hot Town—Pigs in the Street
by Bob Kundus
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
It’s over. Nobody really came out ahead. Washtenaw Sheriff Douglas Harvey became Pig of the Year and liberal Ann Arbor Mayor Robert Harris and U-M President Robben Fleming both lost many points with their respective constituencies. Sixty-nine people were busted …