To the Editor: Just finished reading a friend’s copy of THE FIFTH ESTATE. Enjoyed very much Mr. Ovshinsky’s article about Dr. Hoffer and LSD [FE #13, August 30, 1966]. It was refreshing to read an article that dealt with …
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Letters to the Editor
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966
To the Editor: Please send one year’s subscription of this thing you call “The Fifth Estate’ to me. It gets pretty cold out here in the wintertime and I gotta have something to burn in my fireplace. Ever tried to …
Letters to the Editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
To the Editor: “Where were the police and how could such a thing happen” were the questions asked by a stunned audience at the Art Institute on Friday, Oct. 21. They had come for an evening of beautiful music, superbly …
Letters to My Children
by Stan Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
First Letter: ‘In The House of the Hanged, One Does Not Speak of the Hemp.’ Today there’s a great deal of preaching to young people. One can hear the tongue clicking of sophisticated adults worrying about what is happening to …
Letters to my Grandfather
by Stan Ovshinsky III
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
Dear Great-grandfather [sic], I am writing to you because I feel that you have an honest desire to understand. You lived in a time of much confusion and you felt the need to seek new solutions to many problems. You …
Letters to the Editor
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 21, January 1-15, 1967
Open Letter to Frank Kofsky: Your article called “The Jazz Scene in America” [FE #18, November 15-30, 1966] was three columns of misinformation. For your information, of which you need much, there has not been a succession of saxophone …
Letters to the Editor
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 23, February 1-15, 1967
To the Editor: I want to compliment you on the very fine article which you co-authored in the January 1 through 15, 1967, issue of the Fifth Estate [“Spare the Rod…?” FE #21, January 1-15, 1967]. I think that it …
Letters to the Editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 24, February 15-28, 1967
To the Editor: The recent bust of the Artists’ Workshop and surrounding area is indeed a tragedy. [See Narco Agents Raid Artists’ Workshop, [FE #23, February 1-15, 1967.] It’s a sign of the times too, for we are presently living …
Letters to the Editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
To the Editor: I thank Mr. Kofsky for calling me a major critical figure [“The Jazz Scene,” FE #24, February 15-28, 1967]. I have the feeling that he has rarely read my Voice column because I have often written …
Letters to the Editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 27, April 1-15, 1967
Dear Friends: Sol Plafkin is way off-center in his remarks about Congressman John Conyers, Jr. and the Powell case [FE #26, March 15-31, 1967]. He forgets that Mr. Conyers was against stripping Powell of his seniority, even to breaking with …
Letters to the Editors
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 28, April 15-30, 1967
To the Editor: After reading an article in the FIFTH ESTATE entitled “Detroit’s Shameless Old Lady, the Eastern Market” [FE #27, April 1-15, 1967], I was a bit pissed off at all the lies. I was very interested in the …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
We can tell when it’s been a long time between issues when we start getting letters from subscribers asking if they’ve missed an issue or it we’ve stopped publishing. This issue is the third we’ve published this year, which doesn’t …
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 …
Walla Prisoners Revolt
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 298, June 19, 1979
On May 9, 1973, three prisoners of Washington State Penitentiary, Carl Harp, Shane Green and Clyde Washburn seized the Classification and Parole Building with ten hostages, and held it nonviolently for 12 hours. During that time they were in constant …
Eric King: Free at Last
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
Following nearly ten years of incarceration and numerous attempts by the State to frame, break and murder him, anarchist prisoner Eric King was released in late December 2023.
How green is Green Anarchy?
by Ellen Carryout
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Both the Spring & Summer 2002 editions of Green Anarchy were read and studied for this review. GA is available for $2.00 contact P.O. Box 11331, Eugene, OR 97440.
Bob Brubaker
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
It was with shock and sadness that we learned of the sudden death of our friend and collaborator Bob Brubaker, of a severe asthma attack at his home in Numazu, Japan. Bob died in the night of April 23-24. Memorials …
Writings of Diane DiPrima
by Diane DiPrima
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
archangel of fire enwraps now melts glaciers turf unexposed angelic aeons trembles naked under a vengeful sun
Back page
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 56, June 19-July 1, 1968
Letters of Thanks from Gen. Westmoreland to “Breakthrough” 22 November 1965 Mr. Donald J. Lobsinger, Chairman Breakthrough P.O. Box 3061 Detroit, Michigan 48231 Dear Mr. Lobsinger: Your letter and the accompanying signatures of over 6,000 citizens of the Detroit area …
Howling Wilderness and the Promised Land
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
In mid-August, a three year-old lawsuit charging that environmentalist groups were religious extremists comparable to some of the more violent, intolerant ultra-orthodox Islamic sects collapsed when the attorney failed to meet a re-filing deadline with the U.S. Supreme Court.