reviewed in this article Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb, by Mike Davis, 2007, Verso, 228 pp., $22.95
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Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 290, March 2, 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 …
Unrest at Mackenzie
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 71, January 23-February 5, 1969
Mackenzie High School, located on Wyoming and Chicago, has been the scene of picketing, walkouts and militant assemblies since the beginning of the fall semester in September. The cause of the conflict, as in many Detroit inner-city schools, has been …
Poetry for Peltier
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
For 22 years the doors of justice have been closed to Leonard Peltier. Now, the door may be opening a crack. A few months ago AIM activist Dennis Banks announced that Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Chairman of the Senate Select …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
The FE BOOK SERVICE is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate newspaper, both of which are located at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit MI 48201—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours we are open vary considerably, so it’s always best …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
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 1 pm to 5 pm) …
News Continued
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
BAHAMA HONK The government of the Bahamas has recently instituted a so-called courtesy campaign aimed at making the natives more respectful to the American and European tourists who frequent the islands. The program is, in effect, one of the most …
Fifth Estate Goes to College
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
Reprinted from The Daily Collegian, Thursday, October 27, 1966, Vartan Knpelian, Editor-in-Chief. Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan KOLDYS & SHANNON Against New Tabloid It is always interesting to observe the machinations of the New Left. Therefore, it would seem to …
Red In More Ways Than One
by Franklin Rosemont
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
Throughout U.S. history, the lives and struggles of Native Americans have been disregarded and disdained by the white, middle-class, christian, capitalist, Nature-despising national Establishment. Sadly, the disregarders and disdainers also included the great majority of socialists, communists, anarchists, trade-unionists and …
Tales from the Planet
by john johnson, Tequila Mockingbird
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
Starbucks Social Response Scale-Back Initiative In August, Starbucks stores in San Francisco had “for lease” signs and letters saying, the stores were closing pasted on the windows and doors. In all 17 Starbucks were hit with the official-looking signs, mostly …
Robert Anton Wilson
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
For all we knew, Robert Anton Wilson and I were related. On an intuitive basis–i.e., after several rounds of Jameson’s and Guinness–we decided we were cousins. Subsequently we came to believe ourselves connected to the Wilsons who play so murky …
The Vietnam Legacy of War Tax Resistance
by Erica Weiland
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
An enduring image of Vietnam War resistance is men burning their draft cards. And, draft resistance played a big role in raising the profile of war tax resistance. Vietnam era draft resisters like Randy Kehler and Ed Hedemann followed up …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
We have finally firmed up plans for the Fifth Estate 20th Anniversary celebration. It will be held at Alvin’s, 5756 Cass Ave., Detroit, on Dec. 7. Hopefully, the event will bring together many of those who have worked on the …
Spare the Rod…?
by Ben Habeebe, Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 21, January 1-15, 1967
“It is a general policy to expect that teachers will maintain discipline by means other than the use of corporal punishment.” —Detroit Public Schools TEACHERS’ BULLETIN “The Detroit Board of Education policy limited the use of corporal punishment is in …
Anarchic Justice at the End of History
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
It has been said that self-preservation is the first law of nature, and that the basis of justice lies in protecting ourselves from one another. This is a perennial lie of the system of domination.
The Revolution Will be Powered by Shakti Energy
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
I traveled to Dharamsala, India in 2005 to set up a one-month summer study program, in collaboration with the Louisiana Himalaya Association, and have taken groups of students there periodically since then. During last summer’s trip, we visited renowned ecofeminist …
Even More Minneapolis Anarchy
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
FE Note: This is a response to “More Minneapolis Anarchy,” the letters beginning on page 15 of this issue.
A history of a little Detroit printing co-op
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
a review of The Politics of the Joy of Printing: The Detroit Printing Co-op by Danielle Aubert. Artbook/D.A.P.
Beyond Bookchin (excerpts)
by David Watson, Steve Welzer
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
Introduction by Steve Welzer The text which begins on the following page is excerpted from Beyond Bookchin: Preface for a Future Social Ecology, a new title co-published in fall 1996 by Black & Red, Detroit, and Autonomedia, Brooklyn. Its author …
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
The calendar is prepared by Fifth Estate calendar girls Karen Kovac and Naomi Epel with cooperation from Detroit Adventure. Copy deadline is the 6th and 22nd of each month and should be sent to the Fifth Estate Calendar, 1107 W. …
How Professor Arne Ness and I Conquered NATO
by Jens Bjorneboe
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
From Norway, My Norway (1968) Translated by Esther Greenleaf Murer
The Coat-Puller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 8, May, 1966
There seem to have been a lot of very hip things going on in Detroit lately, though from my (disad-)vantage point I can only read about them or hear of them on the radio. I heard very beautiful things about …
A Changing Vietnam
by Jonny Ball
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
Having lived and worked in Vietnam for a year now, I have only a slightly better understanding of the country than when I first arrived. This is a country of extremely complex paradoxes and antagonisms. I remain dumbfounded by the …
The State is the Real Threat
by Jeff Shantz
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
a review of Manufacturing the Threat, Dir: Amy Miller, 2023
Raging Against the Machine
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
a review of Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard by Peter Linebaugh. University of California Press, 2019
Sexual Anarchy
by Allan Antliff, Mark Antliff
Fifth Estate # 355, Fall-Winter, 2000
The Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris contains many tombs honoring artists and rebels, but the most striking of them all is the monument to the gay English playwright and anarchist Oscar Wilde. [1]
L’affaire Black Rose Books
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
To the Reader: In the last issue of the Fifth Estate [#283, June 1977], a letter appeared signed by a Joe Doaks criticizing Black Rose Books of Montreal. Doaks charged that a recent BRB publication, Durruti: The People Armed, by …
Dix Brass Plot Vengeance
by Bob Heilbroner
Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969
NEW YORK (LNS)—The Army is planning a heavy vengeance for the June 5 rebellion of over 150 GIs imprisoned in the Ft. Dix stockade. [See “Army Stockades Blow,” FE #84, July 24-August 6, 1969.]
The Mythology of Israel
by ronni kt
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
Israel, The U.S. in Miniature Much of the population of Israel, no different from people in the United States, denies its past as an invader/settler nation, is oblivious to the suffering which creates its plentitude, revels in self-generated myths …
Cops, Press, Politicians
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
2000 may be the decisive year in the legal and political battle for the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal. As the campaign to save the falsely imprisoned journalist and ex-Black Panther gathers momentum, the police, politicians and media are stepping up …
Living Our Lives
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
If anarchist politics, the politics of communal liberation, is to escape from its present historical impasse, it must become, above all, a practice of creating the free community, here and now.
Sam Dolgoff
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
a review of Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff by Anatole Dolgoff; Introduction by Andrew Cornell. AK Press, 2016, 391 pp., $22.
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Paul Jacob, the libertarian draft resister who went underground to escape prosecution, was convicted at a July 1 trial, sentenced and denied appeal bond. The penalty was six months imprisonment and 4-1/2 years of weekly community service.
Three Books on Israel
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983
a review of Israel’s Global Role: Weapons for Repression. Israel Shakak. Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Inc., Belmont MA, 61 pp., 1982, $2.95.
Portrait of a Snitch
by Margaret Killjoy
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
a review of Informant: A documentary directed and written by Jamie Meltzer. Information at informantdoc.com; also Netflix.
Voltairine de Cleyre
by Robert Helms, Voltairine De Cleyre
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
Introduction by Robert Helms As interest in the history of anarchism increases with each passing year, we stumble across more lost gold mines of sources. I recently discovered one in Philadelphia which connects Voltairine de Cleyre, the celebrated anarchist speaker, …
Green Anarchism and Oil Depletion
by Richard Heinberg
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
The march of human social organization is essentially the story of how people have found ways of harvesting ever more energy from their environments in order to sustain ever more humans. The story began with the harnessing of fire and …
News and Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
After looking at the latest jam-packed issue of Factsheet 5, PO Box 170099, SF, CA 94117, “the magazine of record” for zines, it doesn’t seem like anyone should worry about the state of autonomous publishing. Still, a number of stalwart …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
The FE Bookservice may be reached at the same address as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, P.O. Box 02548, Detroit MI 48202 USA, telephone (313) 831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our hours vary so please call before dropping in. HOW TO …
DVD review: The Net
by John Brinker
Fifth Estate # 375, Spring 2007
reviewed in this article The Net: The Unabomber, LSD, and the Internet by Lutz Dammbeck Other Cinema, San Francisco, 2003 www.othercinemadvd.com/net.html