Editor’s Note: Ed Sanders, founder and lead singer of the fuck-rock group The Fugs, is a legendary figure on the avant-garde poetry-peace-dope-fucking in the streets scene in the Lower East Side of New York City. A native of Kansas, Sanders …
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Back on the streets, Fifth Estate writer reflects on prison experience
by Kelly Pflug-Back
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
I was released from state custody in February after serving seven and a half months in the Vanier Center for Women, a provincial jail in southern Ontario, for charges stemming from the G20 summit protests in Toronto during the summer …
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A Wild and Radical Life Cut Short by Fascists
by Kathy E. Ferguson
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams (with the original text of “Lesbian Love”) by Jonathan Ned Katz. Chicago Review Press 2021
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
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Unclassified Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
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Everybody but Bush
by Don LaCoss, Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith), Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Don LaCoss The election is already over and we have lost. The name of the president for the next four years won’t be announced until November 3, but I know right now that the guy who won is a white …
New Computer System Used Against Poor
by Colleen Jensen, Sonny Tufts (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976
In House appropriations Bill 4445 for fiscal year 1975-1976, the State Legislature has instructed the Department of Social Services (DSS), the Department of Labor (through the MESC) and the Department of the Treasury to “develop a plan for the exchange …
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Fifth Estate Archive Back issues Resource pages Fifth Estate Live interview archive (May 2020 – May 2021) Fifth Estate Live, a weekly hour-long livestreamed broadcast hosted by singer/songwriter and Fifth Estate contributor David Rovics and produced by Fifth Estate editorial …
Comments on Revolutionary Violence
by Muswell Hillbillie, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977
Muswell Hillbillie Responds: Hi FE Folks, After reading the two letters (FE #287, October 28, 1977) responding to my article in the August FE (#285, August, 1977), I have decided to abandon the use of the term “terrorism,” because I …
Fredy Perlman
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Fredy Perlman was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia on August 20, 1934. He emigrated with his parents to Cochabamba, Bolivia in 1938 just ahead of the Nazi takeover. The Perlman family came to the United States in 1945 and lived variously …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
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Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
BI ANY OTHER NAME: BISEXUAL PEOPLE SPEAK OUT edited by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu Rejected by both Gay and Straight worlds, bisexuals have been a community in exile. With this rich and varied collection, however, bisexual women and men …
Marx, Thoreau, and Us
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 367, Winter 2004-2005
From July 1845 to September 1847, Thoreau lived at Walden Pond outside of Concord in a small cabin he built largely from scrap. Uninformed cynics typically criticize him either for staying close to town instead of seeking authentic wilderness—or for …
Old Perspectives on Race at WSU
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
On October 19 to 21, Wayne State University will sponsor a conference titled “New Perspectives on Race and the City.” Featured speakers include G. Mennen Williams, Jerome P. Cavanagh, Hubert Locke, Roger Wilkins of the U.S. Justice Department, Community Relations …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 86, August 21-September 3, 1969
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An American POW In America
by Al McKee
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
US Marine Corp brig. Corpus Christi, Texas, 1964. “ON THE WALL! GET ON THE WALL, PRIDNER!” I had just been marched inside the sally port by two armed MP’s. The heavy barred gate slammed shut. My partner, Duke, was right …
100 Years Later, Government Repression Has Not Stopped the IWW
by Eric Thomas Chester
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
A hundred years ago, in September 1918, more than a hundred leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) were convicted of conspiracy to obstruct World War I. The trial marked a critical turning point for the union and …
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Notes toward a history of the Fifth Estate
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
“Only movement can know movement.” –Herakleitos Someday, if anything is left of any of this, and this epoch’s fascination with historical records and documentation endures, I imagine some historian, grad student, or amateur archivist will write a text detailing, accurately …
Recent Poetry
by Dogbane Campion (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 317, Summer 1984
We were pleased to see number 1 of Seditious Delicious (PO Box 6981, New York NY 10150), an openly anti-authoritarian (antiauthor-itarian, too?) poetry magazine. As in all poetry journals, be they little self-published magazines or fancy, established publications, you can …
Like a Thief in the Night
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 380, Spring 2009
a review of Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark, edited by Paul Bogard. University of Nevada Press, 2008