Introduction by Sunfrog As one of the more outspoken non-atheists in the FE collective, it’s fitting that one of my early memories of the project was an argument about religion. I was hanging out in the office under the auspices …
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FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
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 …
P.A.Z.
by Hakim Bey
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
FE Note: In the following article, Hakim Bey moves beyond his idea of the Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ)—those moments when normally domesticated space is liberated for a limited time for festive and subversive “moments of happiness.” He discusses what happens …
Vancouver Five
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 317, Summer 1984
VANCOUVER BC—A tomato thrown at the Judge sentencing her to life in prison clearly articulated Ann Hansen’s contempt for the “Justice System” that is sending her and four other members of the Canadian guerrilla group Direct Action—the Vancouver Five—to lengthy …
The FE at 50
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
This edition of the Fifth Estate marks the 50th anniversary of its publishing, with much of the celebrations occurring in a manner we never anticipated. There are exhibitions at two prestigious Detroit museums, a jammed packed dance/ concert with hundreds …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 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 # 280, February 1977
The Fifth Estate Benefit Party held Jan. 14 turned out to be one of the most enjoyable to date, with folks guzzling down six kegs of beer and dancing their asses off to the Shadowfax band. Special thanks are due …
A future that still has a past to resolve
by Tyrone Williams
Fifth Estate # 414, Fall 2023
a review of Present Continuous by David Grundy. Pamenar, 2022
Books
by Scott London
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
a review of Man’s Rise to Civilization As Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State by Peter Farb, E.P. Dutton, 332 pp. 1968, $8.95.
Fascist Youth Gangs Plague West Coast
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986
In the last few years there has been a rapid increase of right-wing white gangs in Southern California’s white, middle-class suburbs. Known as “white-boy gangs,” they are not as territorial as the traditional cultural gangs in black or Mexican urban …
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.
Goldman Papers Seized
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
The following is excerpted from a longer critique of the Emma Goldman Papers Project and its director, Candace Falk. For a copy of the complete article, write: c/o the Last Blast, Box 410151, San Francisco, CA 94141. [Authorship in the …
Adventures with the Audubon Expedition Institute
by Tina Fields
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Students and teachers live, sleep, eat, and travel together. A hand-made bumper sticker hangs on the ceiling of one bus, “If the students lead, the faculty will follow.” Audubon Expedition Institute (AEI) is a radical and accredited college program where …
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Rebellion in Nowhere
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
I Rioting by 250 Black youths, says a UPI dispatch dated March 23, 1969, brought 200 police from 10 communities to the 20,000-student campus at Northern Illinois University at DeKalb.
Carl Harp found Dead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
“If they didn’t physically slash him and tie the cord around his neck, the years of sensory deprivation, beatings, setups, transfers, hole time, mind and law games, and the psycho-torture which this place is famous for had the same effect. …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
From Coimbra, Portugal comes Pravda, put out by Fenda Editions. Pravda, with its obviously tongue-in-cheek title, describes itself as “a magazine of evil arts” and has just published its third issue. Although it refuses categorization, it could be described as …
About this issue
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
When we set out to produce an issue on and of literature, we had wide eyes and wild ideas. Ideas like Thoreau suggested, “In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness.” …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
What a pathetic creature Horseshit Humphreak is; how could anybody with any intelligence take him seriously? Other Scenes wrote (in March 1966): “If vice-stooge HH had the guts to express his own opinions he could be the next president, which—with …
Leftism, nihilism, and the anarchy I seek
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Read and considered, perused and recommended, liked and disliked, discussed and commented on in the following section: Green Anarchy (current issue available from FE books for $4 or free with any book order, while supplies last) Issues #16 and 17, …
Census Resisters Snub Government
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 302, June 1, 1980
The 1980 census has come and gone without much ado. On the face of it, it appears as though most Americans dutifully mailed back their forms and provided the government with its constitutionally mandated information needed to apportion each state’s …
Northwest Anarchist Inquisition Update
by Goldie Silence
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
Until late February, three courageous anarchist grand jury resisters, Matt Duran, Katherine “KteeO” Olejnik, and Maddie Pfeiffer, were held in solitary confinement in a federal detention center in Seattle. [See Winter 2013 Fifth Estate.]
Bonnie & Clyde Shot Down
by Thomas Haroldson
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
It is usually unwise and often physically dangerous to laugh at another man’s religion. When a person believes fervently in something, no matter how absurd the object of his faith appears, there is no safe way to tell him that …
Mime Troupe Set To Roll in Fifth Estate Benefit
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
The San Francisco Mime Troupe is readying their actors and props to zap the minds of motor city residents for the second year. The group, as part of its international tour, will bring its current production, “L’ AMANT MILITAIRE”, to …
Radical Calendar for 2005
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
See page 100 for the Fifth Estate “Revolution Everywhere” schedule.
Tennescene
by john johnson
Fifth Estate # 359, Winter, 2002-2003
Long time readers of the Fifth Estate will remember the section called “Detroit Seen” which brought news from the radical scene in Detroit. We hope to continue “scene” reports in the new incarnation of the Fifth Estate.
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
ANARCHY OR CHAOS by George Woodcock Written as World War II raged around him, Woodcock’s brief history of anarchism is filled with youthful enthusiasm. Lysander Spooner, 124 pp. $9.50 THE REVOLUTION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, by Raoul Vaneigem First published in …
Anti Toxic Prison Conference Plans Abolition Strategies & Rocks Carswell
by Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
From June 2 to 5, the second annual Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons (FTP) hosted its 2017 National Convergence in Denton, Texas, gathering over 200 activists and revolutionaries from across the country to explore the intersections of the environmental movement …
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More Phantasmagoria…
by Fulton Lewis III, Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 15, October 1-15, 1966
Leftovers from the Right-wing Film Phantasmagoria [see FE #14, September 15, 1966] came in the form of letters to and from Fulton Lewis, III. Peter Werbe, News Editor of the Fifth Estate and Executive Board Member of the DCEWV, wrote …
Cheerleaders for the Plague
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 331, Spring 1989
In his letter, “Miss” Ann Thropy [this issue, FE #331, Spring, 1989] writes that it was his article celebrating AIDS that generated the criticisms of Earth First! and deep ecology. Even though his claim drastically simplifies the reasons for our …
State Jails Anarchist Webmaster
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
In early August 2003, African-American anarchist revolutionary Sherman Austin was sentenced to one year in jail, a $2000 fine, and three years probation. His crime? Being a black man who published a website with links to bomb-making information.
Technology Debate Continues
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 305, March 18, 1981
FE—A Safe Niche? To the Fifth Estate: Over the past couple of years that I have been reading your paper, I have been alternately intrigued, provoked, or irritated by some of the things you folks have written. And that’s as …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970
Brother: I have a rather peculiar problem. When my girlfriend was younger, she had a rather bad dream concerning her breasts. The gist of the dream was that her breasts were kissed, sucked, etc., by a man who she thought …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 127, March 18-31, 1971
Two days after the appearance of the Fifth Estate’s special women’s issue it was completely sold out, necessitating the printing of another 5,000 for a total press run of 19,000. The reprint is without the regular calendar, classifieds and is …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
QUESTION: I am a very early riser, strictly a morning man and my mate is a late sleeper. Therein lies my dilemma.
Recruitment
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
Prosecution of some fifty-five known resisters of draft registration was to begin in June. However, in an effort to avoid student protests and demonstrations, the government has decided to postpone prosecution until later in the summer. Also, according to an …
Running on Emptiness
by John Brinker
Fifth Estate # 361, Summer 2003
a review of Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization, By John Zerzan, Feral House, Los Angeles, 2002, 214 pp., $12
Can a computer virus create anarchy?
by Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
“You could say that cyberpunk is intrinsically anarchistic. It’s endlessly anti-authoritarian, and it can be employed like a weapon, like a computer virus, injecting new information by means of the existing mechanisms. The pop image of anarchism has always been …
Limitations of Leftism
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
The article from which this excerpt is taken, “Stopping the Industrial Hydra: Revolution Against the Megamachine,” appeared in our Winter 1990 issue. It provides analyses of the Exxon Valdez oil spill of March 1989 from the standpoint of a global …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
Ammunition Books 4403 Second Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48201, Tele. No. (313) 831-6800 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 …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
Eco-Defense, A Field Guide to Monkey Wrenching, edited by Earth First! founder Dave Foreman and Bill Haywood, is once again available.