“In a rebellion, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end” (Alexis de Tocqueville)… In the north of England there’s been an outbreak of bow-and-arrow “sniping”…
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Crisis in Iran—none for me, thanks
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 300, December 4, 1979
Iran: the Ayatollah captures the revolution The confrontation between Iran and the United States over the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran Nov. 4 and taking of 63 hostages (later reduced to 50) by Islamic student militants has brought …
Wars of Liberation
by Sidney Lens
Fifth Estate # 8, May, 1966
Reprinted from Liberation Magazine. Secretary of State Dean Rusk doesn’t seem to appreciate the monumental irony of his own position. On the one hand he insists fervidly on the right of small nations like South Vietnam to independence”: on the …
Turn on the Light and Say Goodnight
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
“A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food each year.” — Dixy Lee Ray, former head of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), now governor of Washington “You can’t have a riskless …
Who Can Stop the Apocalypse?
by Rudolf Bahro
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
Earth Day supplement page 5 A Note on Rudolf Bahro In 1977, East German dissident Rudolph Bahro was arrested and accused of publishing “state secrets” in a book entitled The Alternative in Eastern Europe, in which he used a Marxist …
Turn on the Light and Say Goodnight
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
Reprinted from FE #283, June 1977.
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 311, Winter, 1983
The FE BOOKSERVICE 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 to …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
Back In Stock! Bolo Bolo, Anarchy Comix & other FE Favorites SOCIETY AGAINST THE STATE by Pierre Clastres
Pushing on What’s Falling
by Bryan Tucker
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
Before the global pandemic and waves of insurrection, gaps in the empire’s dominion were already widening. The culture wars were escalating, tensions between older and younger generations mounting, the health care system showing its serious inadequacies, psychiatric problems becoming ubiquitous, …
What’s On
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 6, March 20-April 1, 1966
SUNDAY FILMS: The Bank, The Tramp, A Woman and Police, with Charlie Chaplin (1915). Henry Ford Museum Theater. 2 and 4 p.m Adm. chg. 3/20 MUSIC AND READING: The Detroit Contemporary 4 and reading by David Sinclair. Artists’ Workshop. 7 …
Women’s work is never done
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
In this column we’d like to share with you some of the work and ideas of women in Detroit. There are many more things to be done, like starting your own rap group, theater group, women’s newspaper, child care center, …
Eat Your President for Breakfast
by The Mormyrids
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
The long and tiresome electoral campaign of President Posterior revealed to home audiences (we can hardly call the unmobilized American masses anything else) the dyspeptic underbelly of the liberal-democratic fantasy.
Warfare 1970
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
“a very great revolutionary force latent in the American people” —Peking Radio, May 9 President Nixon’s announcement of the invasion of Cambodia effectively implemented the old SDS slogan “Bring the War Home!” Millions of people joined the revolutionary struggle, striking …
Vancouver Five Charged With Litton Bombing
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983
Every crime in Oklahoma was added to his name. —Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd by Woodie Guthrie
Bits of the World in Pieces
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
Although Robert Chechlacz and Tomasz Lupanow remain jailed as Polish political prisoners, international support for them has grown (See FE Summer 1985). Though only trying to disarm him, the two were convicted of killing a militiaman just after the crackdown …
Calendar of Resistance
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
June 28-July 5 – Earth First! Round River Rendezvous Annual gathering of the Earth First! Movement. Contact: www.maineef.org, maineEF@yahoo.com, 1-800-MY-YAHOO mailbox # 922-487-3887, 224 West Side Drive, Verona Island, ME 04416
The Woodstock Nation
by Joyce
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
WHITE LAKE, N.Y. (Good Times/UPS) —The Woodstock Festival was a huge nonviolent explosion of people and music. The New York Times called it a nightmare but it was more of a fantastic dream. True, there were low scenes—three accidental deaths, …
Why be so Attached to your Penis?
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
Download MS Word .doc [29 kb] fe-389-13-Why-Penis “I haven’t seen anything like this before.” — Bernard Picton, Curator of Marine Invertebrates, National Museum of Northern Ireland Could the surreal imagination of even Karel Capek in his most bitingly satirical novel, …
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 329, Summer, 1988
It is two hundred years since the European invasion of Australia. The resistance that was begun then by Australian Aborigines continues today. While the presentation of a sanitized version of history takes place on the TV screens of the nation, …
Cop Gang vs. Street Gangs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
Gang fever is sweeping Detroit. Everywhere the gangs are the main topic of conversation—the Black Killers, the Errol Flynns, the Coney Oneys, the Chene Gang. The cops are puffed with importance—they’re the thin blue line between the hordes and the …
“New Politics” Hits LBJ
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
Organized political opposition to the Johnson Administration will be mapped in Chicago Labor Day weekend at a nationwide convention of grassroots activist organizations in the peace, civil rights and student movements. The convention, “New Politics—’68 and Beyond,” is expected to …
View from the Top
by Thorstein Smith
Fifth Estate # 92, November 13-26, 1969
A wave of strikes has been hitting Italy, France, and West Germany, in many cases over the opposition of official union leaderships. A recent strike in Italy was conceded by Fiat to have involved 1.3 million men and to have …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 9, June, 1966
The most important event of the last few weeks was a concert by the Joseph Jarman quartet from Chicago. This was Joseph’s second concert in Detroit. The first one, on March 18 in the Lower DeRoy Auditorium at WSU, was …
The Rock Imperialists
by Mark Kramer
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
Editors’ Note: As of this writing the Woodstock Rock Festival may not happen. It seems the town council of Wallkill, N.Y. (the site of the festival) voted unanimously not to allow the festival to be held in their town. This …
Forget about theories
by David Gribble
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Anarchist practice in education is emerging throughout the world, but it tends to describe itself as “democratic” to avoid the negative reaction which the word “anarchist” so often arouses. The name of the annual International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC) was …
Sounds
by Wilson Lindsey
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
Dirty Blues Band (Bluesway) This band’s blues roots were first formed years ago during the British blues invasion started by The Rolling Stones. During this embryonic stage, many teenagers had suspicions that the Stones were copying…yes, copying, but from whom?
Fight the empire, not its wars
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
As we go to press, the Empire is preparing for war against Iraq, and as you read this, the war may have already commenced. Or perhaps the saber rattling will continue until the mighty technological imperial blade falls as an …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
What with all the straight media from TV-2 to the Ann Arbor Sun declaring us dead, we thought it was about time to bring out some proof to the contrary. On the other hand, maybe we shouldn’t be so cocky …
From Saguaros to Sawgrass: Thirty Years of Ecological Resistance
by Earth First!
Fifth Estate # 384, Spring, 2011
The Earth First! Journal is celebrating its 30th anniversary of independent media with a 120+ page edition featuring contributions from a slew of radical environmentalists, surrealists, voices from indigenous resistance movements, the Greek insurrection, as well as artists and writers …
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The Israel Al Fatah is Fighting
by Nick Medvecky
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
JERUSALEM—The greatest thing that strikes you when you leave the Arab countries and enter Israel are the differences in the culture and the level of material wealth.
The Corporate University and the Future of Critical Learning
by Christopher J. Schneider
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
On February 6, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported on the unsuccessful attempt by University of Ottawa Professor Denis Rancourt to eliminate the need for a grading system in his courses by awarding all of his students an A+.
Repression and Resistance In W. Germany
by F. Briest
Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977
The Red Army Faction’s (RAF or Baader-Meinhof Group) initial phase of struggle (1968-72) was guided by the belief that it was possible to crack the imperialist “paper tiger” at any point through militaristic actions (the idea of creating “many Vietnams”). …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970
Who says the New York Times favors the status quo? After a recent story listing “narcotic addicts, drunks, panhandlers, homosexuals and drifters” a staff memo was circulated explaining: “Times have changed and ‘homosexuals’ is no longer universally considered a term …
Inside Sounds
by Marshall Rubinoff
Fifth Estate # 25, March 1-15, 1967
What has evolved from Rock, besides even better Rock, are magazines about the new music that are keeping up to the fast pace of their subject matter. CRAWDADDY magazine is fantastic. Best pop record reviews and news that I’ve ever …
Alt-Right Brain Drain
by Nick Oltmann
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
Has an unintended alliance of Silicon Valley censorship, alternative news rebuttals, mainstream journalistic scrutiny, and especially antifa street-fighters, discouraged what passes as the intellectual wing of the most reviled political movement of the last half-century?
Goodbye pig car, draft board….
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
Spitball of Buddha leaflet
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
LIVING MY LIFE by Emma Goldman The turbulent autobiography of a woman at the—center of the century’s major events. Although her life intersected with the famous figures of the era, it is the day-to-day struggles for anarchy which make this …
Free Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
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, …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 7, April 1966
Drums are rolling early and heavy in the Michigan Democratic Party’s forthcoming internal civil war with Detroit’s 37-year-old Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh pitted against just-retired Asst. Sec. of State for African Affairs and former governor, 55-year-old G. Mennen villiams.
Earth Diet, Earth Culture
by William H. Koethke
Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987
Fifth Estate Note: In “Earth Culture-Earth Diet” author William H. Koethke chronicles the life and culture of the inhabitants along New Mexico’s San Francisco River watershed over a millennium up to the present time. At the time he wrote the …