a review of Lovebite: Mythography and the Semiotics of Culture by John Moore, Aporia Press, distributed by Counter Productions, P.O. Box 556, London SE5 0RL UK, 44 pages.
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Love Bite Bites off More than it Can Chew
by Debye Highmountain
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
Support Grows for City District System
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
The Rev. Charles Williams is a conservative, Negro, Republican Baptist. Robert Tindal is the executive director of the tradition-bound Civil Rights Organization to The Establishment—the NAACP. The Rev. Albert Cleage is a militant black power advocate and chairman of the …
The Politics of Carnival
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
FE Note: In the random manner carnivals can get out of hand, so, too, does this article appear in our pages. A staff member sent it to us months ago, and we found it tucked away in our on-line files. …
Protesters Fibrillate Bush
by Rob Broccoli
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
It rarely happens that the king comes in contact with rabble, but he did here in Michigan on May 4, the 21st anniversary of the state murders at Kent State Univ.
GIs Resist the War
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 94, December 11-24, 1969
GIs Resist the WarFort Dix FT. DIX, N.J.—The trials of the Ft. Dix 38 accused of a variety of charges stemming from a stockade rebellion last June are continuing.
Shorts
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
A.F. Kooks The Air Force admitted in a recent hearing that at least three men with dangerous psychiatric problems had been assigned to guard a super-secret nuclear weapons installation at Hamilton Air Force Base, 25 miles south of San Francisco. …
Pigs get blank check
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968
Inhaling deeply on his political hookah, Detroit mayor Jerry Cavanagh, leading contender for the August “Uptight Honkie of the Month” award, attempted to justify his approval of the controversial “stop and frisk” ordinance which moments earlier he had signed into …
Is syndicalism outdated?
by Paul Buhle
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
a review of Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present Edited by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini. Chicago, Haymarket Books, 2011, 417pp, $19
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
Harrises Freed Bill and Emily Harris, the Symbionese Liberation Army members who pleaded guilty to kidnapping newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst in 1974 and were imprisoned in 1978, will be paroled in June. Their attorney, Stuart Hanlon, said Bill Harris will …
Excerpts from a Rebellion
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
The following are excerpts from stories published in the Fifth Estate immediately following the July 1967 events. Reading them a half century later, one is saddened and angered by the fact that the causes of the Rebellion—police brutality, racial discrimination, …
Far-out Shorts
by Otto Site
Fifth Estate # 127, March 18-31, 1971
Remember Bob Denver? He played on TV for years as Dobie Gillis’ best friend Maynard G. Krebs. Maynard always wore a sweatshirt, had a goatee and sideburns, and freaked out whenever anyone mentioned work. Well, on February 8, Bob Denver …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
Dear Dr. Schoenfeld, Regarding your column warning about literal blow jobs. A few years ago, one of the psychiatric journals carried a paper on an unusual accidental death of a woman following coital foreplay. Her lover had an impulse to …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
It couldn’t happen in Detroit! That was the proud proclamation of our city’s leaders all summer long until that fateful morning of July 23. Detroit had supposedly been the nation’s leader among big cities in making civil rights progress.
Mothers of Invention
by Paula Stone
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
With his Groucho eyes, Punch nose and Howdy Doody body, Frank Zappa is a replete image for his particular brand of satire. The medium for his message is the presentation of The Mothers of Invention, who recently appeared at the …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 58, July 18-31, 1968
An interesting entry to the TV “talk show” circuit locally is “Haney’s People,” at 11:15 p.m., on Channel 7 (WXYZ-TV).
GI coffee house bust set up
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
WRIGHTSTOWN, N.J. (LNS)—This town is a commercial appendage to Fort Dix. Wrightstown is shopping centers, gas stations, greaseburger palaces and bars.
The Coat Puller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
You know that it would be untrue / You know that I would be a liar / If I was to say to you / “Girl, we can’t get much higher”—/ Come on baby light my fire / Come on …
Fifth Estate on the Web
by Quincy B. Thorn
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
Longtime contributor Penelope Rosemont has given the Fifth Estate a great many articles and graphics, all of them insightful and inciting to revolt (See her Fall 2013, “The Poisonous Cobra of Surrealism” essay). Her achievements go beyond writing and graphic …
The Coat Puller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968
Editor’s note: Brother Sinclair’s Coatpuller column is re-printed here exactly as it appeared in this paper one year ago. It was written at the height of the July Rebellion and contains one of the best impressionistic sketches of that week.
Poetry
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
MY CUNT POEM by Lisa Last My cunt is a battleground of life and death pain and pleasure it opens up to swallow whole beings then spits them out on command My cunt is a battleground of senators and stockbrokers …
Teach-In: Fights & Speeches
by Edward Rom
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
Monday, Nov. 7, the Wayne Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged a Teach-In as part of the November Mobilization for Peace, Jobs, and Freedom at Wayne University’s Community Arts Auditorium. Breakthrough, a militant right-wing group, provided a slight …
Ford Turns One Hundred
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
This year the Ford motor company celebrates its 100th anniversary. To proponents and critics alike, Ford is the perfect illustration of the corporate world-view. Henry Ford’s rationalization of the assembly-line process was a great advance for industrial technology, and the …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968
One of the most noticeable things about the primary election this month was the unusually low turnout especially for a Presidential year. The excitement of a forthcoming national election contest generally creates among the electorate a greater interest in the …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 22, January 15-30, 1967
A “dark-horse,” William Cahalan, has been named new Wayne County Prosecutor to replace the evasive Sam Olsen, who captured a Recorder’s Court post last fall, and hopes are up that there will be a more liberal spirit in law enforcement.
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977
With this issue of the Fifth Estate, the paper begins its thirteenth year of continuous publications with the first edition appearing November 19, 1965. Since that date 288 issues have been published, hundreds of people have come and gone from …
Armed Farces Day
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
MONTEREY, Calif. (LNS) — In over a dozen actions at military bases across the country on May 16, thousands of anti-war soldiers and civilians marched and rallied against the traditional celebration of Armed Forces Day.
The Alchemy of Luddism
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
for Diane di Prima St. John’s Eve (Midsummer) 2006 1. It’s the idea of code that’s cool not the actual bother of decipherment: the utopia of not having been in a state of anticipation or regret. The Dowager Empress took …
The Coat-Puller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 8, May, 1966
There seem to have been a lot of very hip things going on in Detroit lately, though from my (disad-)vantage point I can only read about them or hear of them on the radio. I heard very beautiful things about …
Technik
by Dirk Leach
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
Dirk Leach began working on an assembly line at a Mercedes-Benz factory in 1977 to finance his studies at a German university. His work, and his reflections on the nature of modern technology intersected with his reading of existentialist texts …
Thousands Said ‘No’ to Gulf War
by Mitchel Cohen
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
Before the bombing of Iraq started, the paper of record—The Star (yes, that’s right, the supermarket tabloid)—reported that Sylvester Stallone had turned down an invitation from Marine Commandant Alfred Gray, Jr. to entertain the troops in the Gulf.
Brass Boiling over Fort Wayne Exposé
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
The brass at Fort Wayne have taken their revenge for Spec. 4 Jerry Brown’s criticism of induction center medical examinations. Brown was given 36 hours to leave the post after an article appeared in the last issue of this paper …
In Defense of Self-Defense
by Paul Walker (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
THWACK! My fighting stick landed exactly where I aimed it—diagonally across the face of a fascist who was trying to rip down a banner a friend and I were holding, to which the stick was attached.
Get Down
by Ken Cockrell
Fifth Estate # 94, December 11-24, 1969
Part of American Revolutionary Media / Detroit insert Ken Cockrell is a Black revolutionary, “so-called attorney,” and a member of the central staff of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit. His rap was taped, transcribed and edited by …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 41, November 1-15, 1967
Editors; Please tell Mike Bloomfield (“Honkies Can’t Dig Soul Music,” FE #39, October 1-15, 1967) that he can take his idea about us Honkies (I’m from Grosse Pointe) and stick it up his ass. Just because we buy the …
Let’s Eat!
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
Ford Surgery Fails Inside sources have reported that Betty Ford, formerly of state furniture capital Grand Rapids, Michigan, has fallen into a deep depression since her celebrated plastic surgery at a laetrile clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. Unknown to most people, …
Mutiny at the Outposts of Empire
by Rob Blurton
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
The original full-length article is online in the Fifth Estate archive; see Issue 346, Summer 1995. As America’s involvement in Vietnam deepened in 1965, political and social turbulence at home reached proportions unimaginable at the beginning. Within two years, the …
Archive
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Fifth Estate Archive Back issues Resource pages Fifth Estate Live interview archive (May 2020 – May 2021) Fifth Estate Live, a weekly hour-long livestreamed broadcast hosted by singer/songwriter and Fifth Estate contributor David Rovics and produced by Fifth Estate editorial …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
Dear Beautiful People, As I was sitting in Grant Park in Chicago August 28 what to my tear-gassed eyes should appear but a beautiful young girl with a free copy of the Fifth Estate. She handed me a copy with …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991
We never could figure out which faction was responsible for the auto-destruction of New York City’s Sabotage Bookstore (the pamphlets published by either side casting blame are definitely not recommended reading), but we had the same sensation one does when …
Motor City Sister in Vietnam, Part 2
by Linda Evans
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
Editors’ Note: Linda Evans, from Motor City SDS, was one of 7 Movement people who went to North Vietnam last month to bring back three captured American military men. Along with her were Rennie Davis of the National Mobilization Committee; …