The Fifth Estate office receives a large number of anarchist and environmental newspapers and ‘zines from the U.S. and the rest of the world. After we look at them, they rarely get much farther than a growing pile under a …
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The Nirvana Blues
by Coquilles St. Jacques (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
a review of The Nirvana Blues by John Nichols. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981, 527 pp., $14.95 hardcover.
This is not the Fifth Estate…
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013
Nor, is it the CBC-TV news program. Nor, the band which produced the 1960s hit, “Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead.”
Tales from the planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
Freedom Press Attacked by Fascists As we were going to press, Albert Meltzer, active in British anarchism for five decades, visited Detroit and told us of a devastating arson attack on Freedom Press in addition to the ones reported below. …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
QUESTION: An old lover of mine was fond of a certain trick taught to her by an old lover of hers—which involved the placement of an ice cube in her vagina and then copulation. Certainly an exciting experience, but I …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
Welcome to the long time coming Summer edition of the Fifth Estate. It is our first since the Winter 1995 issue which was published Dec. 31, 1994. Subscribers (and particularly libraries) frequently think they have missed issues when six months …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
QUESTION: I am a serviceman in Vietnam and my wife thinks I am having sexual relations here. Not so. But after arriving I noticed some pimple-like protrusions in my pubic area. I went to my sick bay where the corpsmen …
Dave Dixon, Night Tripper
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 69, December 26, 1968-January 8, 1969
Which local all night disc jockey wards off the most obscene phone calls, brings down the most listeners who get sick on STP, and plays stud to all the lonely night people who listen to his show with one hand …
FBI Disruptions of Detroit New Left Exposed
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
After sifting through even a small portion of the recently released FBI Cointelpro documents detailing the government’s activity in attempting to disrupt the Left in the Detroit area during the ’60s and early ’70s, one is alternately struck with tedium …
Rudolph Bahro on Industrial Civilization
by Tomas MacSheoin
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
a review of Socialism and Survival, Rudolf Bahro, Heretic Books, London, 1983
View from the Top
by Thorstein Smith
Fifth Estate # 89, October 2-15, 1969
The Establishment press has been full of three things lately: encounter groups, pollution-ecology-environmental control (which has got to be the most cooptable issue since sideburns) and wasteful spending by the Defense Department.
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 77, April 17-30, 1969
QUESTION: Where can I get myself CASTRATED? I’m tired of sex, I hate sex, I don’t want to be controlled by women any longer! I hate the two-facedness, double-think, hypocrisy. I can’t stand living in the Sexual Contradiction any longer: …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
QUESTION: Marijuana is often heavily weighted down with sugar, as I’m sure many smokers know. The obvious purpose seems to be to give as little grass as possible for the weight of the kilo or lid.
We Will Not Be Broken
by Margaret Killjoy
Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013
We packed the courtroom to overflowing, some of our number forced to wait nervously in the hall outside. Jerry Koch, a New York City anarchist and legal activist, stood calmly and silently as his lawyer went through the motions of …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
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: …
Coming of Age in Birmingham
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 5, March 6-20, 1966
Shoppers in Downtown Birmingham found themselves window shopping for open occupancy on Saturday, February 26.
Free Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
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 …
All Isms are Wasms
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
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 …
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 …