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 …
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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 …
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, …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …