“A lot of us have been smokin’ reefers and layin’ broads in the bushes at Belle Isle for the last twenty years…and nobody ever called that a Love-In.” —anonymous Greaser and Frat Rocker and Mod Lower-middle class versus upper-middle-class America.
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Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure WED. JULY 23 HELP KEEP SONNY’S DADDY OUT OF JAIL. Legal Self Defense Benefit at the Grande Ballroom. MC5, Stooges, and Tate Blues Band. All proceeds to go to the John Sinclair Defense Fund 7 …
HUAC
by Bill Blum
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
Special to Liberation News Service How does one describe a House Un-American Activities Committee hearing? From a legal viewpoint? Confrontation of opposing forces? Show biz? From any point of view, the hearings held in Washington October 1, 3, and 4, …
More Minneapolis Anarchy
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
Our coverage of the 1987 Anarchist Gathering held in Minneapolis, June 18-22 [FE #326, Summer, 1987] engendered rather scant response given its criticism of “dyed-in-the-wool” anarchism, paganism as a “problematic current,” and the low level of “education(al) and historical discussion” …
Movie Review
by Joe Nolan
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
a review of No Gods; No Masters: A History of Anarchism (2017) (Originally: Ni dieu, ni maitre. Une histoire de l’anarchisme) Writer/Director: Tancrede Ramonet. 156 min. Color/B&W (French, German with English subtitles) Available from Icarus Films icarusfilms.com/if-nogods
Blood Lake
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
a review of Blood Lake: A Filomena Buscarsela Mystery by Kenneth Wishnia. PM Press edition 2014; Spanish translation 2018. Originally published HB 2002
Unclassified
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
The Fifth Estate 1107 W. Warren Detroit, Mich. 48201 831-6800 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. …
The Coatpuller
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
Lots of good music coming up for the summer, June 8th, the new Spike Drivers will present a huge three-ring circus type show at Community Arts Auditorium, WSU, featuring the MC-5, the Passing Clouds, the Magic Veil Light Company, classical …
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968
THURS. AUG. 15 THE AMERICAN DRAMA FESTIVAL continues at Greenfield Village. Under-the Gaslight will be presented in the Henry Ford Museum Theatre. 8:30pm.
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 28, April 15-30, 1967
The Detroit Love-In, to be held on Belle Isle April 30th, will be the first large-scale manifestation of the New Spirit of Detroit, and everyone who feels that spirit and believes in it, and everyone who doubts it or would …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
CHANGES: Hundreds of empty cans were dumped on the doorstep of Continental Can company in San Francisco by a group calling itself the Canyon League of Re-Cyclists. If the company makes money out of creating garbage it should do something …
New Groups and Non-Groups
by Mike Kerman
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
There is a lot happening in pop music and it is ridiculous to predict trends. One noticeable occurrence is the breaking up of groups and the need for individual artists to “go it alone.”
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 …
The Jazz Scene in America
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
A few weeks ago the New Yorker’s man in jazz, Whitney Balliett, went out to the Coast to catch the Monterey Festival. While he was there he spoke with some of the “workers’ aristocracy” of jazz, the white musicians who …
‘Ear ye!
by Bob Stark
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
The on again-off again break up of the Red, White and Blues Band is On-again-off again. After the original guitarist-harpist quit, he was replaced by two people, a singer-harpist and a lead player who never really worked out.
Ann Arbor Film Judges Discuss Festival
by Andrew Lugg, Gerard Malanga, Henri Chapier, Joe Fineman
Fifth Estate # 27, April 1-15, 1967
Editors’ note: The following interview by FIFTH ESTATE film editor Joe Fineman took place at the recent Ann Arbor Film Festival. Participants in the interview were film judges Henri Chapier, critic for COMBAT magazine; Gerard Malanga, superstar; and Andrew Lugg, …
Carlos Cortez
by Franklin Rosemont
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Poet, revolutionary, artist–an inspiration to three generations of radicals in the struggle for a better world–Carlos Cortez died in his sleep at his home in Chicago on January 18, after an illness that had long confined him to a wheelchair; …
Free Readers Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 292, June 19, 1978
Though we do not accept commercial advertising, this Unclassified ad space is free for our readers’ use. We do not accept ads over the telephone, so please send your ads in writing to our office at: 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, …
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 …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
Fifth Estate Letters Policy We welcome letters commenting on our articles or other topics, but can’t print every one we receive. Each, however, is read and considered for publication.
Jazz Scene
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 20, December 15-31, 1966
Editor’s note: Frank Kofsky’s byline was inadvertently left off his piece, “End of Jazz Clubs?” in the last issue. Joseph Jarman, whose picture ran with the article, is a young altoist from Chicago. It always comes as a distinct pleasure …
Viet Committee Plans Nov. 5-8 Protests as Rocks Fly
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966
Letter to the 13th Precinct Everywhere
by David Gaynes
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
At first he just wanted us to pull our car over to the curb. Deciding to milk the scene for all it was worth, he changed his mind—”Just get out of the car right here—hands up! Put your mother-fuckin’ hands …
The DRUM Election
by Dick Parris
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
The struggle for political power within the United Auto Workers Union between the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the entrenched, conservative, white bureaucracy continued at the recent elections at Dodge local 3 of the Hamtramck Assembly Plant.
As The Shit Hits The Fan
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
The State is understood as pure and inviolable, as capable of purifying the most repulsive things–even money–through the touch of its divine hand. Money, therefore, is pure insofar as it belongs to the State; so are, by association, those experts …
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
In the hills of Tennessee, about an hour east of Nashville, on the outskirts of Dismal (population zero), there exists a barn. It’s an ordinary old barn from all outward appearances—except for a few anti war banners and the buzzing, …
I was corrupted by MAD (magazine)
by Bernard Marszalek
Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013
MAD, the wildly satirical humor magazine, was my primer for critical thinking in my early teens. This may seem an odd statement given the vacuous contents of the current magazine, but today’s MAD is a pale reflection of its initial …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
Dear friends, Just wanted to let you know how much I, and many of my friends who read the paper, dig the poems you’ve been printing lately, especially Diane DiPrima’s. I always say that a good anarchistic poem is …
Organization
by Joe Jacobs
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
The author of the following article, Joe Jacobs, was an English comrade and one-time member of London Solidarity (one of the two organizations mentioned in the discussion) who, we learned, died shortly after sending us this manuscript. Though we’ve devoted …
1916: A Fictional War before the War
by Robert Knox
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
a review of The Blast by Joseph Matthews. PM Press, 2022
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
Send letters to fe AT fifthestate DOT org or Fifth Estate, P.O. Box 201016, Ferndale, MI 48220. All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten. Letters may be edited for length. Naming people Rob Blurton’s article, “Anarchy in the Midwest,” [FE …
Two Faces of Fascism
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
Around Lower Manhattan, storefronts have been boarded up since the looting in June. The plywood has been covered with murals and graffiti art on the theme of Black Lives Matter. Throughout June, angry protests were a daily affair, as in …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970
To the Editors: Arthur Parumba’s review of Richard Brautigan’s three books [FE #94, December 11-24, 1969] was the best thing to appear in the Fifth Estate in ages. His Shell Station sounds like the greatest spot this side of Alice’s …
New Music: Donavan, The Cream
by Mixed Mead-Ear
Fifth Estate # 58, July 18-31, 1968
a review of The Cream, “Wheels of Fire” (ATCO) and Donovan, “In Concert” (Epic)
1968: Year of the heroic guerrilla media
by Harvey Wasserman
Fifth Estate # 58, July 18-31, 1968
Liberation News Service — You don’t have to be (or even read Marshall McLuhan to realize that without an iron grip on the media—and most importantly on television—the rulers of this country could hold power approximately one month. The average …
HUAC on the Make
by Thorne Dreyer
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (Liberation News Service)—The HUAC circus is coming to town once more. And the fireworks should fly in Washington.
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 71, January 23-February 5, 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: …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976
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 …
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure Thurs., May 14 FROM THE WAYNE CINEMA GUILD… Picnic on the Grass and Le Bonheur, both in color. Upper DeRoy Auditorium. 7:00 p.m. 75 cents. OPEN CITY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC. Come get cured of your …