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The X-Files
by Jason Rodgers
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
The X-Files, the science fiction television series that aired from 1993 to 2002, featured fictional FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully concerned with unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena and aliens. Its popularity was such that it made many young …
For Ft. Hood 3, Prison Conditions Improve
by Marlene Tyre
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
The shocking prison treatment of the Fort Hood Three, the three GIs who refused to go to Vietnam, has improved slightly as a result of the publicity of their situation and a flood of letters to government and Army authorities. …
Supporting Political Prisoners
by Nick Medvecky
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
a review of Government Repression, Prisoner Support. Sacramento Prisoner Support, 2012, 157pp., P & L Printing, Denver CO $10, order through pandlprinting.com
Contents of print edition
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
Fifth Estate, #393, Spring 2015, Vol. 50, No. 1
Manuscript Style Sheet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Writers' Guidelines
Manuscript Style Sheet Manuscripts should be submitted in 12pt Times New Roman, 1.5-spaced between lines, flush left. We prefer them in Microsoft Word, but will accept and consider all formats including typescript and handwritten. No indentation; the InDesign desktop publishing …
Writing on Fire
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
Studying in Paris during the intense final year (1961 through 1962) of the Algerian war for independence, I became hooked on Algeria and the potentials of revolutionary politics. In 1965 through 1966, I pursued on-site doctoral research on Algeria’s most …
Ideology as Material Force
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
“When you’re taking on a bulldozer, you don’t worry about the flies buzzing around your head.” —Dave Foreman, editor, Earth First!, Yule 1987 edition Words have consequences and, knowing their power, Dave Foreman uses them skillfully and manipulatively.
LINK with GIs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
Marches, demonstrations, and other anti-war actions are a credit to the Peace Movement, but have not had enough impact on the men in uniform. This is the view of a group of Vietnam veterans opposed to the war who have …
Desert Storm
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991
“Oil is industrial capitalism’s ‘crack.’” —anti-war placard
Underground Incorporated
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968
New York, July 23 (LNS)—Former Supreme Court Justice and UN lackey Arthur Goldberg will defend Rev. William Sloane Coffin in the upcoming appeal of his two-year draft conspiracy conviction. Radio Station WBAI said that Goldberg left them with the impression …
Haymarket Centennial
by Dogbane Campion (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
About 12 of us from Detroit made the trek to Chicago this May Day to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Haymarket riot and subsequent state murder by execution of five anarchists.
Down in the Mines
by Dave Riddle
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
Eldridge Cleaver has a rap about how immigration screwed up the unity of the American working class. How the English immigrants came and kicked the Indians off the land and then had to import black people to do the work, …
Calendar of Resistance
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
June 28-July 5 – Earth First! Round River Rendezvous Annual gathering of the Earth First! Movement. Contact: www.maineef.org, maineEF@yahoo.com, 1-800-MY-YAHOO mailbox # 922-487-3887, 224 West Side Drive, Verona Island, ME 04416
A Long Overdue Thank You Letter
by Oshee Eagleheart
Fifth Estate # 382, Spring, 2010
Dear Ursula, I’ve been intending to write to you for ages, to thank you for the innumerable ways that your words have inspired, informed, supported, and challenged me over the past thirty-six years. Now that you’re turning eighty, I think …
Hell No, They Won’t Go
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
On October 16, young men in Detroit and in cities across the United States will have turned in their draft cards to federal officials.
Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
We rarely receive enough readers’ ads to warrant grouping them in a column, but we are always glad to assist our readers in communicating with one another. The Charles H. Kerr Company, the world’s oldest nonsectarian publisher of socialist and …
Resistance Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
To add an event, please email johnjef@bledsoe.net Sept 20-26—Idapalooza Fruit Jam—A Queer Music Festival in the hills of Tennessee! www.planetida.com or planetida@planetida.com for info.
Briefs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970
Ontario May Abolish Pot Laws OTTAWA, Ont. (LNS)—Canadian Health Minister John Munro has indicated that the Canadian government is considering action within months to liberalize, and possibly abolish, laws which ban possession and use of marijuana. Munro told a Canadian …
Free readers’ ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 289, January 24, 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 …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
LIVING MY LIFE by Emma Goldman The turbulent autobiography of a woman at the—center of the century’s major events. Although her life intersected with the famous figures of the era, it is the day-to-day struggles for anarchy which make this …
Pirate Radio Manifesto
by Uninvited Guests Radio Cooperative
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
In these lackluster months of 1976 in which “our revolutionary heritage” is paraded like a hairless, three-legged dog from the past down main street, the people of America are content to follow mere fads and hobbies in place of the …
Grand Jury Resister Jerry Koch Freed!
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
On January 28, a guard woke anarchist grand jury resister Jerry Koch in his cell and told him to get ready for court. They handed him some thin prison sweats and cotton slippers, then kicked him out in downtown New …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper(?) [question mark in original] and can be found at 4403 Second Ave, (telephone (313) 831-6800. Our hours vary quite a bit, so it’s always best to give us a telephone call …
Anarchy at the Left Forum!
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
The 2007 Left Forum was held March 9-11 in New York City’s historic Cooper Union, featuring 92 workshops, two plenaries, a film festival, two plays, and attended by 1,500 people. It is the largest annual North American gathering of left …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
The FE Bookstore is located at 4632 Second Ave., just south of W. Forest, in Detroit. We share space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper and may be reached at the same phone number: (313)831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our hours …
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.
Comment from the Fifth Estate
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
Related: see Letters in this issue. The discussion regarding Black Rose Books, Ltd. (BRB) and concerning what constitutes a libertarian project has taken two distressing and, in our opinion, unproductive directions. The first is the absolute indignation on the part …
Free Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
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 …
YIP meets in NYC
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970
The virtual vacuum that has been left in the wake of SDS’s floundering may be filled by the New Youth International Party. With repression growing and the need for a national organization crucial, YIP looks promising as a junction for …
Ecotopia: From nowhere and back
by Clayton Sheridan
Fifth Estate # 289, January 24, 1978
a review of Ecotopia, Ernest Callenbach, Bantam Books, $1.95
The Rojava Revolution is a Women’s Story
by Paul Buhle
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS by Janet Biehl, PM Press, 2021
The Punk Rock Candy Mountain
by Zack Furness
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
a review of Evasion. by CrimethInc ex-workers collective DIY Guide II by CrimethInc ex-workers collective Hunter/Gatherer. Journal of folklore and folkwar. CrimethInc ex-workers collective Editorial note: In the last issue, I began to express my solidarity with the far-flung posse …
Snitch Gets a Reduced Term
by John F. Royal
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
The Never Alone national tour hit 30 cities in April, speaking to hundreds about long-term anarchist prisoner support. It focused on the cases of Eric McDavid and Marie Mason, using multimedia presentations and included strategizing about how to effectively encourage …
The Coat Puller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
The news this time seems to be that many people are getting busted for grass in a lot of funny ways and don’t know what to do about it when it happens. I have gone through three marijuana arrests and …
High officials face White Panthers
by J. Oint
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
“What the fuck are we going to do about those crazy White Panthers?” “I don’t know, man….I’m too wasted to even think about it.”
Revolution in the Syrian Desert
by Çîrok Ecnebî
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
Rojava is still in my eyes. A fountain in the middle of desert. By desert, I mean authoritarian regimes, imperialist and colonialist forces, and Islamist warmongers. But it seems now that while at a societal level, Rojava is flourishing with …
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986
Although opposition to draft registration has dropped from prominence in the daily media, an active anti-conscription movement remains committed to opposing one necessary component of the Reagan war drive. Hundreds of thousands of young men remain in violation of the …
Marie Mason Update
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
Marie Mason, a long-time Fifth Estate contributor, sentenced in February to almost 22-years in prison following a guilty plea for two acts of property destruction on behalf of the environment, is now an inmate at the Waseca federal prison, 75 …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
Both of the best selling issues of this newspaper, our 1970 Special Women’s Issue, which had to be reprinted three times to meet the demand for it, and our recent Queer Anarchy edition met with high acclaim for their coverage …