WABX DJs Larry Miller and Dave Dixon both emphatically deny the report of last issue that they came to blows over station policy. “The real miracle of the station is how well we work together,” Miller said. Sorry fellas, we …
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How We Really Shut down the WTO
by Starhawk
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
It’s been two weeks now since the morning when I awoke before dawn to join the blockade that shut down the opening meeting of the WTO.
Why is Marie Mason in the Fed’s Harshest Prison?
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
Supporters of imprisoned environmental activist Marie Mason, are fearful that the repressive conditions she currently experiences could worsen when a construction project inside of her unit in a Texas high security prison is completed.
More on Red Squad
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 268, January, 1976
Recent revelations in the class-action lawsuit against the Detroit Police Political Intelligence Squad have shown political surveillance and harassment to be even more widespread than originally suspected.
Recycling & Liberal Reform
by Bert Wirkes-Butuar (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
Earth Day supplement page 3 It was perhaps an inappropriate time to ask a question since at that very moment two climbers from Greenpeace were struggling to unfurl a banner describing the pollution which would be emitted from Detroit’s giant …
Violence, Guns
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968
I A few days ago a friend of mine asked me to amortize my obligations to RFK’s assassination by rendering a stirring Stars and Stripes article titled something like—Ban the Guns (it occurs to me that we haven’t even Banned …
Pig Media Joins Police
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970
NEW YORK (LNS) — On January 26, two men identifying themselves as “being from the government” dropped a subpoena off at CBS.
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983
The chaos of a hundred packing boxes has finally been cleared away, lost correspondence found and misplaced book orders filled, and our new office space is beginning to take on the feeling of home. It’s quite a change since the …
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, …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 88, September 18-October 1, 1969
Abbie Hoffman explains the reason for the grass shortage in his new book, The Woodstock World (about to be published by Random House). Federal narcs armed with hundreds of thousands of dollars went to Mexico, says Abbie, and outbid the …
Paradise Gardening
by Joe Hollis
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
We want to save the world, and we want to save ourselves. It’s the same thing. The problems confronting us are enormous and at every level: personal, social, planetary. I will spare you a list. My aim is to suggest …
Conversations with Allen Ginsberg
by Allen Ginsberg, Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Two interviews with the poet on life, death, sex, poetry, Kerouac, and meditation—the first from 1991, published here for the first time; the second from the October 1969 issue of Fifth Estate.
Esperanto & Anarchism
by Xavi Alcalde
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
“Paroli Esperanton estis iam esenca parto de anarkiismo.” (There was a time when speaking Esperanto was an essential part of being an anarchist.)
Mega-Cities
by Bellamy Fitzpatrick
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
“…the city is not fitting human habitat. Architecturally, in form and function, they resemble nothing so much as endless aisles of battery hen cages.” —Dion Workman, Thinking Like A Forest: Towards an Agricultural Counter-Revolution
Techno Madness
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
We live in a technological life-world, more so by the hour. Our ecology is now all too largely technology, which has been irreversible, directional, and cumulative. The process that now characterizes civilization is a generalized technicization. Its success is measurable …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976
Once again we have to extend gratitude to our subscribers for their generous contributions to insure this paper’s continued existence. Every time we thought the flow of letters containing checks or cash had ceased, we would receive yet another with …
Architecture and Anarchism
by Fissiparous Michalski
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of Architecture and Anarchism: Building Without Authority by Paul Dobraszczyk. Paul Holberton Publishing 2021
Recycling & Liberal Reform
by Bert Wirkes-Butuar (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 333-A, Earth Day Special, 1990
It was perhaps an inappropriate time to ask a question since at that very moment two climbers from Greenpeace were struggling to unfurl a banner describing the pollution which would be emitted from Detroit’s giant trash incinerator. Their problems were …
The High Priest of LSD
by Karen Knorp
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
highThere is virtually no aspect of life in America today that is not concerned in one way or another with the drug scene. Hippies and politicians, students, parents, teachers. police and revolutionaries all contribute their harsh or thoughtful or inconsistent …
Back to the Stone Age?
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
a review of “The Politics of Ethnopoetics” in The Old Ways, Six Essays, Gary Snyder, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 40077 “(Reckoning roughly from the earliest cave paintings)”, 96 pp.
The Legacy of Omar Aziz
by Leila Al Shami
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
“A revolution is an exceptional event that will alter the history of societies, while changing humanity itself. It is a rupture in time and space, where humans live between two periods: the period of power and the period of revolution. …
This is Jail
by AKD868
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
Last spring, I became a prisoner in a rural California county jail for 90 days having been sentenced for a non-political offense.
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
XINGFU COLA HITS THE SPOT—The first television commercial in Chinese broadcasting history has been shown by a Shanghai station, Japanese monitors of Chinese broadcasts reported March 12. It showed a well known Chinese basketball star and several of his teammates …
Goodbye to All That
by Robin Morgan
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
from The Rat/UPS — Let’s run it on down. White males are most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today. Yet who is controlling the supposed revolution to change all that? White males (yes, …
Poor People Lose Out in West Central Elections
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
Detroit is a killer city. It is a city in which radicals and reformers of various political stripes have found it nearly impossible to survive.
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 310, Fall 1982
FE Moves It might seem self-indulgent, in the face of mounting worldwide horror, to call what has occurred around the FE the past several months a “crisis,” but a more precise word fails to come to mind. In August we …
Larry Miller Leaves Detroit
by Larry Miller
Fifth Estate # 15, October 1-15, 1966
Well, attentive readers, I must say there is nothing like an occasional attack to sharpen up one’s reflexes… Having had several lately, I shall at this point contribute several counter-attacks… To our friendly neighbor “Virile American”…(see letters, last issue) I …
Murray Appeal Still Pending
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
As of this writing the fate of Marie and Noel Murray, the two Irish anarchists who have been sentenced to hang for their alleged murder of a Dublin cop, remains uncertain.
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
Charta 79: The Sami People & Human Rights is an English edition of a collection of essays by and concerning the indigenous peoples of northern Scandinavia. The Sarni of Semiland, which is comprised of the northernmost sections of Sweden, Norway, …
Ron Sakolsky’s Swift Winds
by Andy Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
A review of: Swift Winds, Ron Sakolsky, artwork by Anais LaRue, Eberhardt Press, 2009, 128 pp., $8
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 356, Spring, 2002
Contacting Us For submission of articles and art, contact Sunfrog, PO Box 6, Liberty TN 37095. For new subscriptions, renewals, donation, or other business matters, please continue to use our old address at Fifth Estate, 4632 Second Ave., Detroit …
Fifth Estate celebrates 50th year with exhibits & festivities
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
RELATED: FE MUSEUM OPENING VIDEO View on Vimeo September 19, MOCAD 3-5pm, The Fifth Estate’s 50 Years of Radical Journalism, Commentary & Critique: A Panel & Conversation 5-7pm, FE staff reunion 8:30-10:00pm at HopCat (Canfield at Woodward), dance/party/concert celebration featuring …
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Benjamin Péret and the Ecological Imagination
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Those who believe in a staunch ecological stance that subverts the dominant patterns of objectification, degradation, subordination, and commodification should take time to understand the revolutionary force of poetry.
Mexican Oil Spill Disaster
by Primitivo Solis (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 299, October 22, 1979
The gruesome tailspin of industrialism continues unabated in every sphere. Industrial society is at a malignant stage of decline with events like the Ixtoc 1 oil disaster providing all the more evidence of its impending collapse.
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
October marks the 16th anniversary of the Fifth Estate and a little over five years since we’ve been publishing this paper as an explicitly libertarian project (see the Oct. 1979 FE for a brief history), and we are pleased to …
Green Scare Update
by Henry Read
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
Chalking Sidewalks = Terrorism
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
An anarchist group and bookstore, Impossible Books (Suite 202, 3435 N. Sheffield Chicago, IL 60657) has been formed by a group of friends in the Chicago area. Although their resources are limited and funds low, they have initiated a newsletter …
How to Get Your History On
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
The 40 year history of Fifth Estate is not the easiest thing to access for research purposes. The best source is the massive Underground Press Collection, a 500+ reel microfilm archive of periodicals from 1963 to 1985. Almost 100 libraries, …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
Detroit’s Black & Red has just released The Story of Tatiana (see description [in Fifth Estate Books] to the right) by Jacques Baynac. A list of titles, including Fredy Perlman’s works, are available upon request from us or, write B&R …
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
1994 saw a new wave of activism in support of imprisoned American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier including the following events: Leonard Peltier Freedom Weekend in Washington D.C. in June, a summer cross-country Walk for Justice, a twelve day “People’s …