To the sounds of Dylan’s “Love Means Zero—No Limit”, Tom and Kate were married Sunday, July 7. Tom Nixon, ex-chairman of the Draft Resistance Committee, and Kate Tomaino, of the Cambridge Book Stall on the Wayne Campus, chose St. Joseph’s …
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A Brief Story of The Clash, Radio & the Fifth Estate
by Bill Blank
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
a review of Stealing All Transmissions: The Secret History of The Clash by Randal Doane, Foreword by Barry “The Baker” Auguste, 2014, PM Press, 192 pp. $15.95 pmpress.org
Gay Meeting Causes Church Dispute
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
In a virtually unprecedented move, Reverend Robert Morrison, rector of St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church, has called for the resignation of Richard Emrich as diocesan Bishop of Michigan, calling him “unchristian, inhuman and irresponsible.”
Inside Sounds
by Marshall Rubinoff
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
The new album by COUNTRY JOE and the FISH on Vanguard is the greatest piece of music that was ever vaguely labeled under the title of rock ‘n roll.
‘Ear ye!
by Bob Stark
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
The idea of getting a lot of great musicians together to work as a back-up band for a featured artist on rock recordings is almost as old as rock itself.
Attica: Victory at the trials
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 271, April, 1976
NEW YORK (LNS)–A little more than three years after the first Attica indictments were handed down at a snow-covered courthouse a few miles from Attica State Prison in upstate New York, the Attica defendants and their supporters have won an …
The Ballad of Donna Lewis
by Robin Banks
Fifth Estate # Daily Barbarian Number 3
Fifth Estate Home > Issue 319, Winter, 1985 > On the night of November 1, 1982, one day after Halloween, Donna Lewis, Clarita Henry and Lawrence and Arnet McClung had their lives transformed from rags to riches when money bags …
APOC Rocks Detroit
by M. Mayuran Tiruchelvam
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
Descending on Detroit from all parts of the nation and the globe, nearly 150 people attended the Anarchist People of Color Conference from October 3 to 5. Anarchists and anti-authoritarians drove over 20 hours from Texas, flew in from Seattle …
Charges Dropped in ‘Policeman’s Field Day’
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
On September 16 charges of Inciting to Riot against Moses Wedlow and James Roberts were dismissed in Recorder’s Court by visiting Judge John Seiler. The charges grew out of the August 9-12 “Policeman’s Field Days” on Kercheval on Detroit’s East …
Woodstock ad
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
Woodstock Music & Art Fair presents An Aquarian Exposition in Wallkill, N.Y. 3 days of Peace & Music FRI., AUG., 15 Joan Baez Arlo Guthrie Tim Hardin Richie Havens Incredible String Band Ravi Shankar Sweetwater SAT., AUG., 16 Keef Hartley …
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004
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 second and subsequent one, etc… Thanks for your recent order! Most book …
The Wobblies
by Jeff Ditz
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
a review of The Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World, Edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman, Verso, New York, 256pp., $25
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
Books Bill Ayers Fugitive Days (2001) $10 James Bell The Last Wizards (2002) $5.00
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 28, April 15-30, 1967
The champion fighter for civil liberties in this town may turn out to be that famous right-winger Donald Lobsinger, chairman of Breakthrough. His sometimes puerile and offensive tactics may help fortify our always precarious constitutional rights.
Singing about Revolution & One Big Union
by Julie Herrada
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
reviewed in this article The Big Red Songbook, Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, Salvatore Salerno, editors; 2007; 538 pp.; $24; Charles H. Kerr Co., 1740 West Greenleaf, Chicago, IL 60626. Available from The Barn (see page 55).
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
If the once highly-touted, but now quite tarnished “War Against Poverty” has done nothing else, it has provided a new battleground for political bickering-among the poor themselves and among the middle-class citizens who think they’re trying to help the poor.
Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism
by Oliver Katz
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
a review of Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism, including Vaché’s War Letters & Other Writings, by Franklin Rosemont, illustrations by Jacques Vaché, 2008, Charles H. Kerr Publishing, 388 pp.
Unclassified
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
AD RATES: 50 cents per line. Call 962-9334 with your message or stop by 937 Plum St.
The Disasters of Disaster Capitalism
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008
In an airport recently, I idly watched the 24-hour cable TV news that they pipe into the waiting lounges. A big report on the current financial market smashup noted that the US stock market had tumbled 40% in less than …
The Lovin’ Lidfull
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
Reprinted from The Berkeley Barb (Underground Press Syndicate).
The Woodstock Nation
by Joyce
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
WHITE LAKE, N.Y. (Good Times/UPS) —The Woodstock Festival was a huge nonviolent explosion of people and music. The New York Times called it a nightmare but it was more of a fantastic dream. True, there were low scenes—three accidental deaths, …
Hump Free in Detroit
by the Masked Marvel
Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968
Times used to be when everybody loved a liberal. They had something for everybody. Times have changed and Hubert Humphrey, America’s number two war criminal can tell you that.
Thee Column
by Larry Kaplan
Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970
With a Lot of Help From His Friends The object of this column will be twofold. We will act as a community action line where you don’t have to talk to a telephone answering machine and hope that your question …
Students Battle War Profiteers
by Allen Fisk
Fifth Estate # 41, November 1-15, 1967
Fourteen people were arrested and a number of assault charges are pending after two days of protest by Wayne University students, Oct. 24 and 25, at the site of a Defense and Government Procurement Conference set up to bring more …
I.W.W. Resource Page
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
I.W.W. Resource Page Home > Archive > Learn more about the Industrial Workers of the World Articles published in Fifth Estate related to the I.W.W. (in date order) Bombing won’t stop Redwood Summer by Luba Fifth Estate #334, Summer, 1990 …
Waiting for Godo
by Richard Goldstein
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
(UNDERGROUND PRESS SYNDICATE) The three-year-old kid, as the story goes, answered the door, took a cool look at the policeman standing there, raised his full blue eyes and declared: ‘Fuck off, cop.”
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure THURSDAY, MAY 28 ROMAN POLANSKI’S “Fearless Vampire Killers” with Sharon Tate in color, and f.w. Murnau’s “Nosferatu,” loosely based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Two bloody chiller killers. There is a $1 donation to go to …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 88, September 18-October 1, 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: …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
Years ago the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was just about the only medium via which lazy, white liberals could salve their consciences when they happened to think about those poor, underprivileged Negroes down south. But the …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 298, June 19, 1979
Jim & Sid Bon Jours Cinque Etate: Allors!—as France’s leading Anarchist & Public Enemy Number One, I wish to offer my congratulations on your fine paper. As a revenue generating device, may I suggest an idea for a t-shirt: on …
The Academy Award of Protest
by Jerry Rubin
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
This is the greatest honor of my life. It is with sincere humility that I accept this federal indictment. It is the fulfillment of childhood dreams, climaxing years of hard work and fun.
Busking behind the Barricades
by Bill Blank
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
a review of A Busker’s Adventure by David Rovics. Various e-book formats at davidrovics.com/
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
When you order books from the Barn, you support a collective and help keep the Fifth Estate physical space solvent. With your help, we’re trying to sustain an alternative to the commercialism of retail or web-based booksellers.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 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: …
Folk is Punk
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
a review of Starlight on the Rails: Songbook, U. Utah Phillips, 4 CDs, AK Press, 2005, $39 Memory Against Forgetting, Casey Neill, CD, AK Press, 2005, $15. Available from http://akpress.org
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).
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 268, January, 1976
Thanks to everyone (musicians, performers and party-goers) who made the Fifth Estate 10th anniversary party on December 6 one of the most entertaining and fun sets Detroit has seen in a long while. (See details and photos farther in.)
The Last SLA Statement
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) undertook a series of urban guerrilla actions in 1973 and 1974 that made world-wide headlines. The assassination of a reactionary school official, the kidnapping of a wealthy heiress and a bank appropriation set off a …
Don’t Mourn—Organize!
by Dan Brook
Fifth Estate # 357, Summer 2002
(from www.zmag.org) Note: As we go to press, the jury in the “Judi Bari vs. the FBI” case is still deliberating. During the rally discussed below, the lawyers for the defendants filed a motion to dismiss the case because the …
Free Speech for GIs
by Michael Smith
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
Editors’ Note: The author is an attorney with the Detroit Law firm of Lafferty, Reosti, and Jabara, who spent two months in Columbia, S.C. working on the legal defense of members of GIs United Against the War in Vietnam.