Editors’ note: The following opinion was written by folksinger Phil Ochs and originally appeared in the LA Free Press. The article was written before President Johnson was in Los Angeles on June 23, when thousands greeted his holiness.
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News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Several new books of interest have recently come our way. We only have space to mention them in this issue, but hope to review them in the near future.
Elektra buys 5
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
In a lightning move, Elektra Records signed the MC5 and the Stooges to long-term recording contracts in New York September 26. The move was engineered by Elektra’s publicity director, Danny Fields, who flew out to hear the bands last weekend …
How Immigrants Changed Anarchism in America
by Ruhe
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
a review of Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish & Italian Anarchism in America by Kenyon Zimmer. University of Illinois Press, 2015, 300 pp. The campaign in the 1920s to save Sacco and Vanzetti from execution brought anarchists to national attention, …
All Wars are Lies!
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
War! Uh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! –Edwin Starr, “War” The Motown great Edwin Starr asked and answered this question in his 1970 song that became a best-selling record and the anthem of another in a series of …
Reviews
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Beat the Heat: How to Handle Encounters with Law Enforcement by Katya Komisaruk. Illustrated by Tim Maloney. AK Press, 2003
How political violence & resistance was represented in 1960s & 1970s arthouse & cult films
by Hank Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
A review of Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse 1960-1990, Editors: Andrew Nette and Samm Deighan. PM Press, 2024
Letters to the Editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
To the Editor: “Where were the police and how could such a thing happen” were the questions asked by a stunned audience at the Art Institute on Friday, Oct. 21. They had come for an evening of beautiful music, superbly …
Letters to the editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
We encourage your participation in this project with your comments on the publication & its perspectives. While we will read every letter, we will usually print the most enticing & engaging. E-mail letters or letters sent on disk are appreciated. …
Maybe the People Don’t Want to Live and Let Live
by André Naffis-Sahely
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
Sun-drunk I roll along the streets of Los Angeles while the radio rewrites the world as I know it: the Sahara,
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
On Sunday, July 17, at around 1:30 am, two masked men carrying machine guns broke into the house in Comiso, Sicily functioning as the coordinating center for the groups against the U.S. cruise missile base. Once inside they lined all …
Vietnam Summer
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
There is, even though you may not have noticed it lately, still a war going on in Vietnam.
City Cops Hit Hog Riders
by Fifth Estate staffer
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
Ah rode all night, and all day long, ‘Cause ah’m in love with you.” —old ballad They wouldn’t let us into the bar. It was 2:30 a.m. and we wanted to get one last six pack of beer. We climbed …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976
JUST PUBLISHED! Letters of Insurgents by Sophia Nachalo & Yarostan Vochek Black & Red 831 pp., $4.50 (add 35 cents postage After 20 years, two participants in an Eastern European insurrection recreate through a series of letters their often contradictory …
Terrorism & Media
by Norman Bates
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
“Is any given bombing…the work of leftist extremists, or of extreme right-wing provocation, or staged by centrists to bring every terrorist extreme into disrepute and to shore up its own failing power, or again, is it a police-inspired scenario in …
Bach on Rock
by Franklin Bach
Fifth Estate # 20, December 15-31, 1966
It was a Thursday night, December 8, at Wayne State’s Community Arts Auditorium. I was about to hear Lyman Woodward play for the first time…Mustachioed John Sinclair came out of the wings and quietly told us Lyman was going to …
Thee Column
by Larry Kaplan
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
A high school diploma. Whether it’s meaningful or not is your own trip, but I think you’ll have to agree that it’s often an essential ingredient in getting a job or going to college in this bizarre country we inhabit. …
Trans-Love Relocates In Warren-Forest
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 39, October 1-15, 1967
After two years on the corner of John Lodge and Warren Avenue the Artist’s Workshop (now known equally as Trans-Love Energies) has moved to the campus side of the expressway and will set up shop in a long-vacant former doctor’s …
Roger Calkins
by Art Johnston
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
Editors’ Note: Art Johnston is the former editor of the South End newspaper and disappeared into the West after his term of office ended last June. SAN FRANCISCO—Journalism as novel. History as novelty. History as fiction. Our lives as fiction. …
Call of Duterte
by Tom Sykes
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
“One hates to see Los Angeles go up in flames unless one’s got a camera running,” joked the British anarchist comedian Peter Cook after the 1992 LA riots. A variation on this idea applies to Western state-corporate media, which seldom …