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Call for anti-G8 Action
by No! G8 Japan
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
In July, 2008 heads of the states that monopolize two-thirds of Earth’s wealth will gather at Toya Lake in Hokaido, Japan. Although the so-called “Group of Eight” (G8) does not have any legitimate right for deciding planetary affairs, they have …
The Anarchist Utopian Imagination
by Margaret Killjoy
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
“There’s a kind of desire that, whenever it arises, is censored scientifically, morally, politically. The ruling reality tries to stamp it out. This desire is the dream of a second reality.” — P.M., bolo’bolo
The Big Picture about the Bad News
by A. R.
Fifth Estate # 268, January, 1976
Under the dull security and passive spectacle characterizing the total routine of everyday life in modern society lies the unmistakable framework of a withered and decayed social structure evading the grave in frantic pursuit of an eternal market of subservient: …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 41, November 1-15, 1967
Let’s have a few more words about Mel Ravitz (then, I hope to close this subject for a while).
Stop the Execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
If a death warrant for Mumia is signed, demonstrate the next day, 6 p.m. at local federal buildings & city halls.
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure THURSDAY, MAY 28 ROMAN POLANSKI’S “Fearless Vampire Killers” with Sharon Tate in color, and f.w. Murnau’s “Nosferatu,” loosely based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Two bloody chiller killers. There is a $1 donation to go to …
“We Will Wield Power”
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
Struggle, Chairman Mao teaches us, moves in stages. The West Central Organization (WCO) after a long series of internal problems previously reported in the Fifth Estate has moved to a new stage.
Community Politics
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 9, June, 1966
The Committee for Independent Political Action (CIPA) on the West Side of New York City was formed at the end of the summer of 1965, on the basis of a draft statement prepared by two editors of Studies on the …
Workers Aid & the Betrayals of the Left
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 356, Spring, 2002
The failure of dissidents in the West to come to terms with the Yugoslav debacle & the subsequent slaughters weighs like a nightmare on the mind & spirit of anyone trying to sort through the complex realities of the present …
Singing about Revolution & One Big Union
by Julie Herrada
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
reviewed in this article The Big Red Songbook, Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, Salvatore Salerno, editors; 2007; 538 pp.; $24; Charles H. Kerr Co., 1740 West Greenleaf, Chicago, IL 60626. Available from The Barn (see page 55).
Report from Korea
by Ben Johnson
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
The cars, cabs, trucks, and buses of Seoul constitute the worst traffic I’ve ever seen. I didn’t dare jay-walk during the entire week I was there. Students know how to stop traffic though: just use, or threaten to use, Molotovs.
H. Leivick, Anarchism & Yiddish Theatre
by Jim Feast
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
There is a staple of the Yiddish theater written in 1921 entitled, The Golem (sort of a Jewish Frankenstein). It still remains quite popular in translation including a 2002 Off-Broadway run. I saw it performed in 1984 at a free …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
If the once highly-touted, but now quite tarnished “War Against Poverty” has done nothing else, it has provided a new battleground for political bickering-among the poor themselves and among the middle-class citizens who think they’re trying to help the poor.
Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters 50 Years On
by Mike Peters
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
Fifty years ago, July 1964, a 1939 school bus furnished with bunk beds, basic kitchen facilities, and wired-up audio equipment, sets out from Palo Alto, California to journey across America. It is painted in bright psychedelic colors with the destination …
Marius Mason update
by Marius Mason Support Group
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
Marius Mason has begun hormone treatment for medical gender transition in a Fort Worth, Texas federal prison after a long awaited decision by officials to allow it.
The Wobblies Are Back!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Last year, Starbucks’ “baristas” in New York continued to organize for the first union shop in an outpost of the notorious coffee chain. In January, criminal charges were dismissed against an IWW Starbucks organizer stemming from a march at the …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 319, Winter, 1985
The FE Bookservice may be reached at the same address as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, P.O. Box 02548, Detroit MI 48202 USA; telephone (313) 831-6800.
Who Killed John Leroy?
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
Ronald Powell crouched inside the car. So did the other four men.
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 302, June 1, 1980
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit-telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that you give …
Where is Home?
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
Acknowledging the existence only of individuals and families, Margaret Thatcher declared, “There’s no such thing as society.”
A Brief Story of The Clash, Radio & the Fifth Estate
by Bill Blank
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
a review of Stealing All Transmissions: The Secret History of The Clash by Randal Doane, Foreword by Barry “The Baker” Auguste, 2014, PM Press, 192 pp. $15.95 pmpress.org
Unclassified
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
AD RATES: 50 cents per line. Call 962-9334 with your message or stop by 937 Plum St.
Bishop Emrich Refuses Black Demands
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
The Black Economic Development Council has moved against the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan demanding that it give $200,000 for use in the black community. This is part of BEDC program that white churches pay reparations to the black community for …
Another cosmic hoax Perpetrated upon us by Colonialism
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
a review of The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills. Cornell University Press 1993
Rebellion in Nowhere
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
I Rioting by 250 Black youths, says a UPI dispatch dated March 23, 1969, brought 200 police from 10 communities to the 20,000-student campus at Northern Illinois University at DeKalb.
Detroit Fan Fair
by Richard Dey
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
The second Detroit Triple Fan Fair of fantasy literature, films, and comic art convenes the weekend of June 17 and 18 at the Park Shelton Hotel, Woodward at East Kirby. The convention attracts not only Camp followers, but of Fandom, …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
Dearest Friends, I am a dumb old GI and I hate this MF Army. I want to subscribe to your underground paper. It’s not a very pleasant thing being here where I really don’t want to be.
The Anarchist Alternative in Cuba
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
A former community center that hosted a youth rock scene is now being occupied by activists, seemingly ignored by the authorities. A few blocks away, urban farms are bright patches of green in the landscape, producing vegetables and fruits for …
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
in cooperation with Detroit Adventure
The Green Berets Play War in Detroit
by Wilmot
Fifth Estate # 15, October 1-15, 1966
Sept. 11th the Green Berets came to town. They got together for a little show at the foot of Woodward, about two dozen of them in the bright sunshine. Maybe 150 Detroiters turned out to see the military elite, vaunted …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
New York’s Film Festival proved once again how utterly impossible it is to satisfy a mixed media audience with the subjective selections of any group of film tasters. Some critics thought there was too much Godard, or too many “foreign” …
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 92, November 13-26, 1969
(in cooperation with Detroit Adventure) THURS. NOV. 13 OPEN CITY free Medical clinic will cure any hippy disease you’ve picked up lately, or any other medical problem. Clinic-hours 6:30-8:30 p.m. at 4726 Third.-Come an hour early to sign in. DETROIT …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
Years ago the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was just about the only medium via which lazy, white liberals could salve their consciences when they happened to think about those poor, underprivileged Negroes down south. But the …
“On This Cube Will I Build My Church”
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 21, January 1-15, 1967
EDITOR’S NOTE; Timothy Leary, high priest of consciousness expansion, spoke in East Lansing Nov. 17th. His talk was covered in our last issue by Michael Kindman, editor of THE PAPER, a sister Underground Press Syndicate publication [see Kill, Leary, Kill, …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
To John Sinclair: Hey John, I’ve been digging your doings way back since 1965. I have always respected and, I might add, shared, your point of view on this whole pig establishment.
Border lines and Border Regions
by Dennis Fox
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
As I wandered through Albania a few months ago, as unlikely a place as any during a six-month journey around the planet, a friend emailed a link to “Anarchist Traveling vs. Tourism.” * The comments mostly reminded me that I’m …
Better Living Through Lying
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
As a result of Valler’s eagerness to switch rather than fight, John Sinclair, Pun Plamondon and Jack Forrest have been indicted on Federal bombing conspiracy charges.
Marxism, Anarchism and the Roots of the New Totalitarianism
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 306, July, 1981
“Subjection of nature’s forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground—what earlier century had even a …
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Poems for Our 20th Anniversary
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986
Poetry has been a part of the Fifth Estate since its origins, so it is with great pleasure that we print these sent to us by The Alternative Press on the occasion of our 20th anniversary. The Alternative Press, Grindstone …