Fifth Estate EDITORIAL GROUP Peter Werbe Cathy West Tommye Wiese DISTRIBUTION Bruce Montrose Fred Frank BUSINESS & ADVERTISING Bill Rowe CITY EDITOR Chris Singer MUSIC EDITOR John Sinclair STAFF Dena Clamage Claudia Montrose Franie Nelson Dave Watson Marilyn Werbe The …
Buddhism holds that the universe and all creatures in it are intrinsically in a state of complete wisdom, love and compassion; acting in natural response and mutual interdependence. The personal realization of this from-the-beginning state cannot be had for and …
Quick call the police; The Negroes are barbecuing at the lake. Quick call the police; The Negroes are drumming too loud Quick call the cops The colored choir is singing too loud. Quick call the cops That pregnant Negro’s belly …
The Jefferson Airplane arrived in New York for what is probably the beginning of the San Francisco music “explosion-exploitation.” I still can’t believe I heard them on the radio advertising some thing besides music; but since that was the only …
The Fifth Estate’s benefit party on February 20th was a rousing success which saw the paper raise $400 over expenses and provided a party-down good time for about 450 revelers. Although the 5 kegs of beer went out faster than …
THE FIFTH ESTATE A NEWSPAPER OF DETROIT FIFTH ESTATE #80, May 29-June 11, 1969, Vol. 4 No. 2, page 2 EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West Tommye Wiese DISTRIBUTION Bruce Montrose Fred Frank BUSINESS & ADVERTISING Bill Rowe …
A little belatedly we have received The Alternative Press Annual, for 1983 and 1984 published by Temple Univ. Press, Broad & Oxford streets, Philadelphia PA 19122, both of which contain articles by Fifth Estate writers. The 1983 edition has E.B. …
Our courageous contemporaries in Eastern Europe had clear ideas about the urgency to do away with a malignant growth which usurped their self-powers and which claimed to be indispensable to social well-being. They were less clear about what, if anything, …
In 1973, a small network of Arab students living in Paris, London, and Vienna founded the Arab Surrealist Movement in Exile. At the group’s core was Abdul Kader el-Janabi, Farid Lariby, Mohammed Awadh, and Maroine Dib; they re-oriented surrealist elements …
National days of protest March 25-26 constituted the largest concerted world-wide action for peace in history. Demonstrations to protest the war in Vietnam took place in 30 countries, according to the National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam—initiator …
Los Angeles’ (De)Center is an autonomous, non-profit, collectively organized space providing access to anarchist ideas and culture, open daily 3-7pm. It offers hard to find anarchist and radical books, periodicals, zines, CDs and tapes and t-shirts. There are regular political …
a review of Socialism and Survival, Rudolf Bahro, Heretic Books, London, 1983
The following was received by the Fifth Estate as a “Declaration to the Libertarian Movement in the West.”
About This Section On Gogol Boulevard is produced for the Fifth Estate by New York City/Neither East Nor West, which links alternative oppositions in the East and West, and prints news and documents unavailable in the corporate or left media. …
“It’s getting better all the time. I admit it’s getting better.” —The Beatles Things are getting better at the Fifth Estate, although you’d never know it by looking at our office windows. Last week we lost them to a fire …
Fifth Estate A Newspaper of Detroit EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tommye Wiese NEWS EDITOR Alan Gotkin MUSIC EDITORS Tony Reay John Sinclair OFFICE MANAGER Debbie Quigg PHOTO EDITOR Mike Tyre ADVERTISING Gunnar Lewis CALENDAR …
Panel 1: Drawing of an angry man. Angry man: Work stinks! Response, off: Well, you’re not the only one. Panel 2: Two men in conversation Man 1: When we fuck up on the job and steal from our boss, we …
a review of Between Earth and Empire: From the Necrocene to the Beloved Community by John P. Clark. PM Press 2019 pmpress.org
NEW YORK (LNS)—In the more than six weeks following the kidnapping and execution of Hans-Martin Schleyer by guerrillas of the Red Army Faction (RAF), the West German Government took few visible steps to win the release of one of the …
EDITOR Harvey Ovshinsky MANAGING EDITOR Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West ART Dave Carlin, Gary Grimshaw TRAVEL EDITOR Sheil Salasnek MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR John Sinclair CALENDAR Rhona Whipple ADVERTISING Leon Brenner FILM EDITORS Joe Fineman, Shirley Hamburg NEWS EDITOR …
From the “Action Line” column, Detroit Free Press, Wednesday, November 23, 1966: I saw a bumper sticker on a car that read: “Stamp Out Reality.” Any idea where I could get one? —M.R., Ferndale. Fifth Estate Book Store on Plum …
Today (1973) a new imperialist war breaks out in the Middle East and the vicarious social-patriots who constitute today’s established “left” can hardly contain themselves in their eagerness to rush to the defence of one bourgeoisie against the other.
We here at Fifth Estate feel that a few words of remembrance are necessary to mark the passing of “Smiling General” Suharto. Beginning in 1967, this brutal terrorist’s “New Order” military regime was as vicious as the similarly well-funded US …
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The following letter, at the top of which appeared the heading “Direct Action,” recently arrived at the FE office. Its view of the ecological crisis and the essential sameness of the capitalist West and the communist East is one with …
Digger O’Dell, world famous stunt man, will be buried in Detroit October 26th, at 1 pm at 13505 Grand River east of Schaefer. Mr. O’Dell will be buried alive.
Liberation News Service — The thousands of left-wing German students clashing with police on the streets of Berlin, Frankfort, Hanover, Munich and other German cities rallied for reasons beyond the original motivation of the shooting of Rudi Dutsche.
The following report on the arrest and deportation of Bommi Baumann comes to us from the Islington Gutter Press by way of Black Flag newspaper.
I teach world history classes at a small, third-tier state college. After the start of the US drive-by massacres of Afghanistan in the late fall of 2001, I completely changed the content of my history courses in order to emphasize …
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I Voodoo is a colloquial corruption of Vodo, the name of an African godhead, the Holy Serpent. The practice of Voodoo has been, until recent years, the most consistently revolutionary and anti-establishment force among poor blacks in the United …
My country’s red, long so I was told Victories, a star glows Flag crimson, glorious so Vanguard leads, the people follow. . Red in sight, we have traded lives Beat armies, lay siege to empires. Red in mind, we …
“We might as well leave, Fred.” Not many of us are fortunate enuf to have parents like the above.
Billowing smoke pours from the stacks that surround the huge water tower on the edge of the Rouge River. A too-familiar blue and white emblem proclaims the domination of the area by Ford Motor Company’s massive Rouge Plant complex, once …
EDITOR Harvey Ovshinsky MANAGING EDITOR Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West ART Dave Carlin TRAVEL EDITOR Sheil Salasnek MUSIC & LITERARY EDITOR John Sinclair CALENDAR Rhona Whipple ADVERTISING Leon Brenner FILM EDITORS: Joe Fineman, Shirley Hamburg NEWS EDITOR, Frank Joyce …
About this Section On Gogol Boulevard is produced for the Fifth Estate by New York City/Neither East Nor West, which links alternative oppositions in the East and West, and prints news and documents unavailable in the corporate or left media. …
Fifth Estate “To Serve the People” FIFTH ESTATE #96, January 8-21, 1970, Vol. 4 No. 18, page 2 EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West MANAGING EDITOR Bill Rowe DISTRIBUTION Keep On Truckin’ Co-op ADVERTISING Steve Dunn STAFF Jane …
In announcing the creation of an organization called the “Friends of N.S.M.,” a group of Detroit area citizens have recently stated: “We propose to form a nucleus of a movement of whites and Negroes which is in communication with the …
a review of World War 3 Illustrated Assorted Authors & Artists AK Press akpress.org ww3.nyc
Asheville, North Carolina, August 6. Ten Asheville women from Women in Black (WIB) found themselves in court on Aug. 6 faced with charges of trespassing. WIB is an international peace network that was started in Israel in 1988 by women …
On Sunday, May 18, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., the Detroit Artists’ Market, 1452 Randolph will open an exhibit entitled “The Common Ground” which will include new work by 22 artists of the Common Ground of the Arts.