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.
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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.
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. …
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, …
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 …