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Against Equality: Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars!
by Karma R. Chavez, Ryan Conrad, Yasmin Nair
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
One of the most iconic images to emerge from WWII was shot by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, on August 14, 1945. In it, an anonymous sailor has swept a nurse into his arms, bent her back, and is kissing her fervently. …
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The Rock Imperialists
by Mark Kramer
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
Editors’ Note: As of this writing the Woodstock Rock Festival may not happen. It seems the town council of Wallkill, N.Y. (the site of the festival) voted unanimously not to allow the festival to be held in their town. This …
Cuba: Dawning of American Imperialism
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 269, February, 1976
1976, being America’s 200th anniversary–with all the commercial pomp and whitewashed historical hoopla that’s riding along with it–would be the ideal year to miss entirely and go abroad.
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 …
Granny Goose & Hanoi
by Art Kunkin
Fifth Estate # 6, March 20-April 1, 1966
(reprinted from the LA Free Press) Somewhere in Los Angeles this week, a small group of men and women are preparing the tenth in a series of weekly radio programs of news and critical commentary on America’s foreign policy which …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977
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 …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
Dear Friends: Learned recently that funds for the arts have been cut drastically in Detroit or Michigan, and that a “state representative” Wierzbicki defended the policy by saying that music, art, and dance have nothing to do with people’s lives. …
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 …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201 Telephone No. (313) 831-8600 Bookstore hours vary, but we are generally open on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and at scattered other times. Please call before coming down to be sure we are here.
Fascism is not an Information problem
by Jack Bratich
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
When U.S. President Joe Biden called MAGA Republicans “like semi-fascism” in late August, then gave a speech in Philadelphia a few days later on a set decked out in martial aesthetics (including actual Marines), he embodied a contemporary troubling paradox.
A Challenge to the Prison Movement
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
FE Note: The following article was sent to us anonymously several months ago and has generated an enormous amount of discussion among us by its charges that prisoners who are “thugs, murderers, pimps, rapists, conmen of every sort” have been …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words.) Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
JFK: Cold Warrior
by Jack Straw
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
“I shall never be able to forget where I was standing on that dramatic day when President John Fitzgerald Kennedy nearly killed me. It was during the nuclear confrontation that arose out of his war on Cuba.” —Christopher Hitchens in …
On Terrorism and Authoritarianism
by Muswell Hillbillie
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
“He who humbles himself wills to be exalted.” —Nietzsche I would like to present some thoughts and comments on terrorist organizations and activities in general and on the SLA and “The Last SLA Statement” in this context. My main intention …
The Jazz Scene
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 19, December 1-15, 1966
When Cecil Taylor spoke at a panel discussion at the University of Pittsburgh prior to his concert there, it apparently came as a shock to his collegiate audience that he and his fellow musicians no longer wish to undergo the …
Vietnam: The Dirty War Told by the Men Who Fought and Opposed It
by Nick Medvecky
Fifth Estate # 351, Summer 1998
a review of Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Richard Stacewicz, Twayne Publishers, 1997, New York, 471 pp.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Filled with debates and discussions, challenges and responses, clarification and indignation, a lively letters section is a crucial component in an anarchist journal. At times in our past, a huge portion of any given edition would be filled with long …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 88, September 18-October 1, 1969
Dear Fifth Estate, I’m still alive and well in the U.S. Navy. Much has happened since the MP hassled with Ray Greer last Jan. 4th at Metro airport. If you’ll remember I was on a TV news spot last Feb. …
Convention Crashes!
by MaxZine Weinstein
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
NEW YORK, NY — August 31 (Dissociated Press) The campaign to re-appoint George Bush President is in full swing as a heat wave continued with Central Park recording its third consecutive 95 degree-plus day.