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How Sex Got Bad
by Rod Dubey
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
a review of Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire by Eric Berkowitz. Counterpoint Press, Berkeley, Calif., 2012
Anarchy in the Midwest
by Rob Blurton
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
When 17th century Europeans arrived in the Great Lakes region, they discovered Native Americans living in what today we would call an anarchist society. These Lake natives had horizontal social relationships governed by kin obligations and employed consensus decision-making.
Three Books on Israel
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983
a review of Israel’s Global Role: Weapons for Repression. Israel Shakak. Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Inc., Belmont MA, 61 pp., 1982, $2.95.
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 19, December 1-15, 1966
Progress Report: The first reorganizational meeting of the Artists’ Workshop Society took place as scheduled on November 22, with encouraging results. That is to say, enough people expressed working interest in continuing the work of the Society that the Artists’ …
Crash in, tune in, take over
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 58, July 18-31, 1968
NEW YORK, N.Y. June 25 (NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)—A group of about 40 hippie types, bearded, beaded and foul-mouthed, invaded the studio of WNDT-TV, Channel 13, last night and, within sight and sound of thousands of viewers, tried to take …
25 Years of Giant Puppets, Mass Action & Public Spectacle
by David Solnit
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
“Puppet theater…[is] an anarchic art, subversive and untamable by nature, an art which is easier researched in police records than in theater chronicles.” –Peter Schuman, founder of Bread and Puppet, the great grandparents of political giant puppetry in North America
Sex, Drugs and other Cheap Hypes
by Bob Stark
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
Hello “The problem with San Francisco groups is, I was expecting wonders and miracles and what I heard was a bunch of white blues bands that didn’t sound as funky as my little band in high school.” —Frank Zappa
Briefs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 54, May 16-31, 1968
Indict Cops A Federal indictment was returned May 3 charging three suspended Detroit cops and a private guard with violating the civil rights of ten persons during last summer’s uprising.
Underground Incorporated
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 10 (Liberation News Service) — Two editors of LNS were busted on narcotics charges yesterday in the culmination of a series of arrests of Area radicals on petty charges during the worst days of the urban insurrection …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 6, March 20-April 1, 1966
Liberal Detroiters were recently mildly surprised and, perhaps, even a little bit shocked, by a recent picket line thrown by the West Central Organization (WCO) before a union hall where a victory” fund-raising dinner was being held for recently re-elected …
Has Bush Doomed Christianity?
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
Perhaps the only positive result of the reign of the murderous moron in the White House as chieftain of the American empire is to what depths he has sunk the popular perception of Christianity.
Murder on Seal Island
by Larry Talbot
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
Introductory Note: Is it the war of the Malvinas or the fight for the Falklands? It all depends upon which imperialist gang you support, the doddering Great Britain or the budding young Argentina. But what if you support neither of …
Anarchists gather everywhere
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
This Spring saw many anarchist gatherings and book fairs. For the second consecutive year, Fifth Estate had a table at the mother of all anarchist book fairs organized by the Bound Together collective in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. In …
U.S. Concentration Camps Illustrated
by David Lester
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe, script and story; Tamiko Nimura, story; art, Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki. Chin Music Press Inc, 2021
Letters to the Editor
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 20, December 15-31, 1966
To the Editor: I have unfortunately been one of the many observers of that bloated piece of miscarried construction the UNIROYAL TIRE on I-94. [See “Get That Tire!” FE #19, December 1-15, 1966.] It would be best to have …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
Fifth Estate Books is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit, in the same space as the Fifth Estate Newspaper. Hours vary, so please call before coming by. HOW TO ORDER BY MAIL 1) List …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
The FE Bookstore is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit. We share space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and may be reached at the same phone number: (313) 831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our …
Teaching Migration, Detention, Camp
by Reg Johanson
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
In The Figure of the Migrant, Thomas Nail asserts that “the twenty-first century will be the century of the migrant,” and the first years of the new century give ample evidence of this. From September to December 2015, events seemed …
Anarchist reading list from the Fifth Estate staff
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
Paul J. Comeau The Dispossessed Author: Ursula, K. LeGuin The best fictional account of an anarchist society in practice, from the perspective of a brilliant scientist from that society who leaves it to try and bridge the cultural gap between …
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Safe in Heaven
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 92, November 13-26, 1969
I. That old city-planner, Death, caught up with Jack Kerouac this October. Reportedly, it was an ugly death; drunk and despairing, his guts literally busting and bleeding inside the heavy lonely flesh. Kerouac had ruined his great good looks years …
Accommodating Industrialism
by Saral Sarkar
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
The success of the ecological movement in the First World is of vital importance to the movement in the Third. The industrialized societies have always provided the dominant global development model, and unless the paradigm of industrialism is rejected in …
Works go Blimp and Gothic, Ltd.
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
YARGH! STOMP! GIGGLE…WOW! SLAM! KILK! SIGH…POOT! RRRRIP! THUD! SPOOOM! AHHHH. BONK! AAAGGHH! MUNCH! CHOFF! HEH, HEH, SPLUT! KLAT! ZZZZZZZZ, HAR, HAR, HEE, HAW, ZNIF! YUMPH! Gothic Blimp Works is unbelievably good poetry and such (SLAM!)…I mean things is comin’ to …
Wealth and Poverty: In the Shadow of an Exclusive Club
by Val Salvo (Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
Expensive new cars–Lincolns, Cadillacs, Mercedes, Jaguars–arrive at the entrance to the Detroit Athletic Club (DAC). Rich, white men dressed in $750 suits, $200 wing-tip shoes, custom tailored shirts, sporting $2,000 Rolex watches are greeted brightly but obsequiously by uniformed black …
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Revolution Begins at Home
by Lisiunia (Lisa) A. Romanienko
Fifth Estate # 386, Spring, 2012
There has been an unnecessarily divisive debate distinguishing what the late Murray Bookchin designated as lifestyle anarchy from that of traditional ideological anarchy.
Anarchist Spaces Open Across the Country
by Rob Los Ricos
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
Across the country, anarchists and other anti-authoritarians have opened spaces for meeting, discussing and creating the environments that previously existed only in our collective minds.
Refuge
by Yusuf Kataev
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
I look at the man sitting before me. He is a very polite man. He is in his mid-thirties. He is meticulously dressed in a plaid shirt and a pair of blue jeans. Lying on the table in front of …
Rightist Terror Grows
by Ed Rom
Fifth Estate # 42, November 15-30, 1967
Detroit’s right wing launched a terrorist attack on the offices of the Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam early in the morning on October 29.
Our Enemy the State
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
A quick glance at the evening news should be enough to convince even the most disengaged citizen that we live in “grim times.” This recognition, although accurate, is a cliché, since the same could be said about almost every era …
Free readers’ ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
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, …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
From Coimbra, Portugal comes Pravda, put out by Fenda Editions. Pravda, with its obviously tongue-in-cheek title, describes itself as “a magazine of evil arts” and has just published its third issue. Although it refuses categorization, it could be described as …
The Conspiracy
by Jane Capellaro
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
There is a growing movement in this country to end the exploitation and oppression of the people in our own country and the people of the world. As it grows, so do the attempts to squash that movement and its …
Post-war Postmortem
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
Although death and environmental destruction are continuing in Iraq and Kuwait, the Persian Gulf war is over in America. The remains can be seen in the dirt-streaked, plastic yellow ribbons sagging from trees and lampposts and at half-off sales for …
U.S.: War to War Salesman
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
Political speculation concerning rapidly changing political events in a journal such as this which appears so infrequently puts the writer at a distinct disadvantage, Even by the time this paper is published, a new crisis may have been created and …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 54, May 16-31, 1968
To the Editors: The Fifth Estate has always looked beautiful to me, from the very beginning, typos and all. But even more so lately. It’s always saying something provocative visually, too. There is such a wonderful vitality about it. And …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 12, August 15, 1966
It’s good to be back with you again. The Festival Sunday was one of the most beautiful things I have ever experienced, and I think a lot of the people there had the same experience as myself. There were SO …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
QUESTION: Dear Dr. Schoenfeld: “I am replying to a recent column of yours and to the girl that complained about her boyfriend’s balls. It seemed that during intercourse, his balls banged against her body and she didn’t care for this. …
Hey Kids!
by Dave Wheeler
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
Yas, free music. Free livin’. Free heads. Free Old Tarter Field for awhile at the WABX free Sunday afternoon concert.
Detroit Cops Respond to Poor: Crunch!
by Chris Singer
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
The King described the Poor People’s Campaign as being the last, great nonviolent movement. If tactical nonviolence met with failure in this movement, he felt, then nonviolence as a means to ends” was done for.
US Gunmen to Leave Somalia?
by R. Relievo (Rob Blurton)
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
The murderous legions of the Empire shave suffered a reversal, this time in Somalia, at a cost measured in blood. Yet for every dead or wounded U.S. soldier, hundreds more Somalis have suffered the same fate as a result of …