ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Liberation News Service) A dynamite bomb blasted open the Institute of Science and Technology Building on the University of Michigan campus on Oct. 15. It was the latest in a series of 13 bombings to hit the …
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News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
Detroit’s Black & Red has just released The Story of Tatiana (see description [in Fifth Estate Books] to the right) by Jacques Baynac. A list of titles, including Fredy Perlman’s works, are available upon request from us or, write B&R …
Hot Town—Pigs in the Street
by Bob Kundus
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
It’s over. Nobody really came out ahead. Washtenaw Sheriff Douglas Harvey became Pig of the Year and liberal Ann Arbor Mayor Robert Harris and U-M President Robben Fleming both lost many points with their respective constituencies. Sixty-nine people were busted …
Masthead, Notices
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tommye Wiese Pat Klees DISTRIBUTION Eric Watkins ADVERTISING Gunnar Lewis ART DIRECTOR Ed Bania CALENDAR Naomi STAFF Cindy Lee Marlene Tyre Michael Tyre Marilyn Werbe The FIFTH ESTATE is published …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 298, June 19, 1979
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 …
Red-Brown Politics
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
Fascists are seeking to exploit and co-opt anti-war forces in the US, and build support for war criminals like Assad and Putin. Anarchists have a responsibility to reject such overtures and offer solidarity to those resisting in Syria.
Revolution in the Syrian Desert
by Çîrok Ecnebî
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
Rojava is still in my eyes. A fountain in the middle of desert. By desert, I mean authoritarian regimes, imperialist and colonialist forces, and Islamist warmongers. But it seems now that while at a societal level, Rojava is flourishing with …
Promises, Promises
by Nick Mamatas
Fifth Estate # 408, Winter, 2021
A review of Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself by Florian Huber. Little Brown/Hachette 2019 “Follow Your Leader!” reads the joyous anti-Nazi sticker portraying Adolph Hitler blowing his brains out with a pistol. And in 1945, as the Soviet Army rolled …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 292, June 19, 1978
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and can be found at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 48201 (telephone-313-831-6800). Our hours vary, but we are generally open on Monday and Thursday afternoons (from 1pm to 5pm) and at …
Underground Asia
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper. Harvard University Press 2021
Ann Landers
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 269, February, 1976
Dear Ann Landers: Please tell me how certain people can appear to be perfectly OK when they are clearly insane?
A Schedule of Seattles Coming to Your Neighborhood
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
April 9-17 Washington D.C. Days of Action for Global Economic Justice. Shut Down the IMF and World Bank, April 16. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are meeting to expand their power over Third World nations’ economies. …
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NYC March Biggest Ever
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 29, May 1-15, 1967
On Saturday, April 15 between 400,000 and 500,000 people marched in New York City and in a single voice demanded the end to mass murder in Vietnam.
White Panthers Meet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
ANN ARBOR, Dec. 5—White Panther Minister of Information John Sinclair announced today that the newly-formed revolutionary organization has named its first Central Committee. In their first formal meeting the Committee discussed matters of immediate importance to the White Panthers and …
Brief reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
Free Free Now a review of Let’s Get Free: a zine about Jeff “Free” Luers: Earth Defender, Anarchist, and Political Prisoner 11×17, 28 pages. Order for $5 (postage paid) from Break the Chains (checks made out to “Howl For …
Life in the County
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
Editors’ Note: The author of this article is currently doing time in a federal prison in West Virginia on a conviction of possession of two grams of marijuana. Prior to his transfer, he spent close to a month in Wayne …
A Debate on Tactics
by Ana Coluthon, Mike Gunderloy, T.S.
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
FE Note: About 100 anarchists joined an Oct. 17th demonstration at the Pentagon to protest U.S. intervention in El Salvador which has resulted in 65,000 deaths to date. The action entitled “Blockade the Pentagon,” resulted in 200 protesters being arrested …
The Mythology of Israel
by ronni kt
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Israel, The U.S. in Miniature Much of the population of Israel, no different from people in the United States, denies its past as an invader/settler nation, is oblivious to the suffering which creates its plentitude, revels in self-generated myths …
Anarchists in Boston Protest DNC
by Sterren
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Famously liberal Boston turned totalitarian at the end of July, complete with: newly installed surveillance cameras, random baggage searches and i.d. checks on public transportation, thousands of out-of-town police (including military police) in full riot gear, circling helicopters, F-14 overflights, …
Hippies Confront New Left
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 33, July 1-15, 1967
On June 16, 1962 a group of students stimulated by the burgeoning protest movement of black young people in the south, met at Port Huron, Michigan.
Anarchism in Eastern Europe
by Bob McGlynn
Fifth Estate # 329, Summer, 1988
FE Note: The following letter comes to us from Bob McGlynn of On Gogol Boulevard, a bulletin of Soviet and Eastern Bloc opposition to the official regimes OGB is available from 151 1st Ave., No. 62, NY NY 10003 and …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
Let me predict this: Jerry Cavanagh is definitely on the way out! It may not come as a result of the current recall movement, but it will happen soon.
Black Workers Present Demands
by Joe Check
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
The week of Oct. 5 through 12, the Ad Hoc Construction Coalition presented demands to 8 agencies that 50% of all workers in construction and construction-related projects in the Detroit area be black.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
THE FIFTH ESTATE 923 PLUM STREET, DETROIT, MICH. 48201. 962-9336 UNCLASSIFIED costs 50 cents per line per week. Figure 5 words per line. (A word is a word, including 1 and 2 letter words. A phone number is a word. …
Bookstore in a Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 361, Summer 2003
an hour east of Nashville (615) 536-5999 FifthEstate@pumpkinhollow.net To order, send check, money order, or well-concealed cash to: Fifth Estate Books PO Box 6 Liberty, TN 37095 Please add $2 shipping/handling for first item ($1 for the 2nd, $.50 …
Resistance Readies Stop Draft Week
by Hal Waldman
Fifth Estate # 39, October 1-15, 1967
A massive national denouncement of the continuing war in Vietnam and the Selective Service System is being readied for the week of Oct. 16-22, and by all indications it should well be the largest demonstration of its type in American …
Mumia re-examines history of the Black Panther Party
by Doug Graves, John Brinker
Fifth Estate # 367, Winter 2004-2005
a review of We Want Freedom: A life in the Black Panther Party by Mumia Abu-Jamal. South End Press: Cambridge, 2004
Shutdown
by Saint Just
Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013
I have had the unfortunate privilege of experiencing two urban shutdowns in the U.S. In 2009, while living in a quickly gentrifying neighborhood adjacent to the University of Pittsburgh as a graduate student, I experienced a preemptive shutdown of a …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
This newspaper, WSU’s South End, and the Inner City Voice are going to sponsor a revolutionary newspaper conference on April 11, 12, and 13. It will be held on the Wayne University campus. The need for such a conference rises …
Successful Detroit Benefit Concert for Marie Mason
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 386, Spring, 2012
Movement troubadour David Rovics performed a benefit concert in Detroit, October 27, for singer/songwriter/environmental activist, Marie Mason, the Green Scare prisoner serving the longest sentence for eco-sabotage.
Larry Miller
by Larry Miller
Fifth Estate # 14, September 15, 1966
There are some records around that are worth taking a look at…The Sunshine Superman album by Donovan is one of the best records of its kind ever done. On this record, we hear great writing, good tunes, excellent musicianship, and …
City Rock Scene Grows
by R & R Crusader
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
Through the efforts of many the Detroit music scene is growing in fantastic leaps and bounds. Not only are the local bands getting it extremely together—the MC-5, the Rationals, Scot Richard Case, Billy C. and the Sunshine, the Up, and …
Peace Freaks and Hippies
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 42, November 15-30, 1967
Happy hippies and costumed peace freaks assembled behind DeRoy Auditorium on Wayne University’s campus for the 2nd Annual Halloween March the night of Oct. 31. Led by John Schwartz, alias Jacob Odaryan, the march was to bring an absurdist dance …
On Gogol Boulevard
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
Numerous problems prevented a full version of our feature, On Gogol Boulevard, from appearing in this issue. Look for its return. In the meantime, important events continue to be played out in Ex-Eastern Bloc countries and the Third World. Contact …
Tales from the planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
The War on Drugs 1) at its silliest: The screens in the urinals placed to catch cigarette butts at the Detroit downtown YMCA are emblazoned with the slogan, “Say No To Drugs;”
Saturn and Scientism
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
There she is, looking vaguely pornographic on the glossy covers of the weekly magazines, the planet Saturn. What have we discovered? I don’t know, I haven’t read them, feeling squashed as I do to the Earth by the giddying inertia …
Stoke in London
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 39, October 1-15, 1967
London (UNS) By Mail — Stokely Carmichael participated in the International Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation in London at the Round House. During his stay here, he also spoke with Black people from Asia, Africa and the West Indies. …
Pictures of Chairman Mao
by Pun Plamondon
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
George Wallace stood up and said all the magic words, “Dope Fiend, Outlaw, Pervert, Cuba, Masses, Red, Mao, Free, Fidel, Workers, Black, White!” These are magic words in America. These arc the words that make white America go to its …
Civilization is Like a Jetliner
by T. Fulano (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
The night the Korean airliner crashed into the newspapers, I dreamed of a tornado. A tornado is a kind of spiral, which is the labyrinth and which is Death.
The Battle at Brockdorf
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Staff Note: The following is a first-hand account of the demonstration and events leading up to it. See also in this issue: West German Protest. BROCKDORF, Germany (LNS)—Up to now we have used only legal ways—filing lawsuits and so on—but …