The north Syrian town of Kobani has been under siege since mid-September by forces of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, popularly known as ISIS. Early in the siege, world leaders spoke as if they expected it to fall.
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Discordia Americana
by Jack Bratich
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
Daily life has a new rhythm: routine disruptions. DPacing an accelerated news cycle and affective bursts from smart phone notifications, our subjective autonomous systems are increasingly synced up with crisis-state and techno security tempos.
Pro-War Group Tries to Smear Lafferty, Fifth Estate in 17th District
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
James Lafferty’s campaign for the Congress from the 17th District on Detroit’s far West side took on a new dimension with the appearance in the district of a leaflet branding Lafferty a “traitor” and calling the FIFTH ESTATE an “anti-Christian, …
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Huey Convicted in Oakland
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
The Black Panthers have begun a campaign for the immediate admission to bail of their Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton, who was convicted Sept. 8th of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death, Oct. 28th of last year, of an …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
Thanks to those of you who so promptly answered your subscription renewal letters we sent out after the last issue. Thanks, also, for sending along your comments on the paper; it’s always good to get your feelings about our effort, …
News and Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 310, Fall 1982
North American anarchist/libertarian news and publications Issue No. 14 of Open Road is now out. This issue was made possible thanks to the generous response to the OR’s financial appeal. They welcome additional support, of course. The OR now costs …
An Anti-statist Outlook
by Unruhlee
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 …
Post-Revolution Technology
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
All “modern” technology on the planet today is massive and centralized and demands, by its very nature, centralized political control—authoritarianism is built into those very instruments supposedly designed to free us from the drudgeries of life.
The Further Adventures of Tom Sincavitch
by Marc Kadish
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
Editors’ Note: Marc Kadish is Mid-West organizer for the National Lawyer’s Guild and is active in Detroit with the National Organizing Committee (NOC).
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 24, February 15-28, 1967
FILM FILM Famous Early Movie Series. Bringing Up Baby, with Cary Grant & Katherine Hepburn (1938). Henry Ford Museum Theatre. 2 & 4 p.m. Adm. 2/19 FILM Famous Films of Famous Directors III. Dreyer’s Day of Wrath, at Rackham …
The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919
by Eric Thomas Chester
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
On May Day 1919, in the immediate aftermath of World War I, a general strike began that shut down all economic activity in Winnipeg, Canada. The general strikes that took place in Glasgow, Scotland in January 1919, in Seattle in …
Anything Can Happen—Or Not
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
“Sous les paves, la plage!” [Under the paving stones, the beach!] —Revolutionary slogan; Paris 1968 1968 was an “Anything Can Happen” kind of year.
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 54, May 16-31, 1968
Thurs., May 16 FILM. Serengeti Shall Not Die. Cranbrook Inst. of Science Aud. 8:15 p.m. Adm. chg.
All Gods, All Masters
by Will Weikart
Fifth Estate # 374, Winter 2007
Almost all contemporary radical thought is marked by dialectics.
Bhopal and the Prospects for Anarchy
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 320, Spring, 1985
Dear Fifth Estate, I thought that the article on Bhopal in your Winter 1985 issue [FE #319, Winter, 1985] was quite good and, since nothing on the event appeared in Strike!, I’m glad that you too are “filling some …
Me Nobody Knows
by Sandy Feldheim
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
a review of The Me Nobody Knows: Children’s Voices from the Ghetto edited by Stephen M. Joseph. Avon Books, 1969, paperback, 95 cents.
300,000 at Pro-choice Demo—Plus Us
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
On Sunday, November 12, approximately 300,000 pro-choice demonstrators, participating in a “Mobilization for Women’s Lives,” filled the lawn beside the reflecting pool facing the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.
The Original Affluent Society
by Marshall Sahlins
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
FE Note: The following is an edited version of the first chapter of Marshall Sahlins classic and groundbreaking work, Stone Age Economics (Aldine, 1972), entitled “The Original Affluent Society.”
No Borders
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
“In any form of duality, the one we have judged as inferior is the one that rules us.” –Rodolfo Scarfalloto Of all the intoxicating notions of insurrection, “without borders” is one of the most enduring. The toppling of walls, the …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 288, December 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 1pm to 5pm) and at …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
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 …
Bits of the world in brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 319, Winter, 1985
The Innu Indians of Labrador, Canada, like all native peoples caught in the tentacles of civilization, are constantly threatened with imminent annihilation. Since 1980, West Germany has been using this flat barren land, a territory about the size of Nevada …
Civilization as Dis-ease
by William Manson
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
“The friendly and flowing savage, who is he? Is he waiting for civilization, or is he past it and mastering it?” — Walt Whitman Early in 1905, Leo Tolstoy wrote to a close friend in England: “Yesterday and today I …
4th World War Against Native Peoples
by Mary Wildwood
Fifth Estate # 339, Spring, 1992
a review of In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations. Jerry Mander. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco. 1991. $25.00. 446 pp.
Tales From The Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
Silvia Baraldini, an Italian national, imprisoned in the U.S. for nearly 17 years for a series of armored car holdups in support of the Black Liberation Army (BLA), an urban guerrilla group, was released in August 1999.
The My Lai Massacre
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976
This article is the second in a series of counter-Bicentennial pieces dealing with the more sordid and less-acknowledged incidents in America’s 200-year-old history.
News Shorts
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970
FUZZY PIG BOSTON—Fuzzy the pig is going to be alright. Fuzzy is, fittingly, the mascot of the National Patrolman’s Association, and underwent a weekend operation for an intestinal disorder at the Angell Memorial Animal Hospital last week. Richard MacEachner, …
Emma Goldman: A Love for Revolution
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
a review of Emma Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets by Kathy E. Ferguson. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Maryland, 2011, 362 pp, $35.
The Wobblies
by Jeff Ditz
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
a review of The Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World, Edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman, Verso, New York, 256pp., $25
Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
According to David Brower, the ecology elder “archdruid,” the Clinton administration has done more harm to the environment than either preceding right-wing Republican presidents. For instance, Clinton’s signature on the infamous salvage rider bill allows extensive clear cutting in America’s …
Critique of FE
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
cited in this article: The Decline of (Anti-)Western Civilization: A Critique of Fifth Estate, by Dan Todd, 27 pages, $1.00 from New Rage, PO Box 11492, Eugene OR 97440
News and Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
After years of wasted time and copy space, the Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (SRAF) has decided to exclude anarcho-anti-semite Joffre Stewart from the pages of its free-wheeling Bulletin (P.O. Box 21071, Washington DC 20009). Since the pages of the Bulletin …
On Gogol Boulevard
by Neither East Nor West/NYC
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
About This Section On Gogol Boulevard is produced for the Fifth Estate by New York City/Neither East Nor West, which links alternative oppositions in the East and West, and prints news and documents unavailable in the corporate or left media. …
Anti-Nuclear Movement in Europe
by Bob Brubaker
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
The massive and still-growing anti-nuclear movement in Europe has become a serious threat to the avatars of destruction who, through the auspices of NATO, are attempting to turn Europe into a nuclear battlefield by deploying Pershing II and cruise missiles …
How Slick-City-Boy-Karly Got the Country-Folk Killed
by Joseph Winogrond
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
Nature played a big part in the 1960s Revolution, more than just flower-power and communes. Many of us left the city for natural living, for our physical and mental well-being. We sought freedom from a mercantile world of wage-slavery. We …
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Paul Goodman’s Last Testament
by Paul J. Comeau
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
A review of New Reformation: Notes of a Neolithic Conservative by Paul Goodman, PM Press, 194 pages, trade paperback, $20.00
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 22, January 15-30, 1967
MUSIC CONCERT. Spikedrivers, Upper DeRoy Aud., Wayne Campus, 8:00, adm. benefit for 5th Estate, 1/20 CONCERT. Scandinavian Symphony, Scottish Rite Cathedral, Masonic Temple, 8:20 adm. 1/21 JAZZ CONCERT: THE ANDREW HILL QUARTET, Saturday, January 21, 8:00 p.m., University of …
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
Note about cover of print edition: This follows Vol. 21 No. 2 Wisconsin draft resister Gillam Kerley, 26, was sentenced May 29 to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine. This is the harshest sentence received by any convicted …
RFK or LBJ?
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 20, December 15-31, 1966
The Vietnam War has exacerbated what is clearly every generation’s occupational hazard: the desperate dissatisfaction with the ruling clique’s policies by people who lack the power, and often the age, to do anything about it. The frustration has been further …
The Strait
by Lorraine Perlman
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
a review of The Strait: An Unfinished Novel by Fredy Perlman. Black & Red, Detroit