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HIPpocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
QUESTION: I think my girlfriend and I have been screwing too much. The reason I believe this is lately I’ve been almost continuously tired.
New Paper Hits Collegian
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 25, March 1-15, 1967
The DAILY COLLEGIAN (the school newspaper), was the subject of attack at the Wayne University campus this past month. The Wayne Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Students For a Democratic Society, Young Socialist Alliance, National Student Association, Young …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 289, January 24, 1978
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 …
About this issue
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 327, Fall, 1987
This special issue of the Fifth Estate is a collaboration between the Detroit staff and our friend and comrade, Freddie Baer in San Francisco. The essay on deep ecology was written and edited here, but with invaluable suggestions and criticisms …
Fifth Estate Censored by Prison Authorities
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
Incarcerated subscribers to this magazine are being subjected to increasing censorship from prison authorities.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
Ammunition Books, 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201—Telephone No. (313) 831-8600 Bookstore hours vary, but we are generally open on Monday and Thursday afternoons and at scattered other times. Please call before coming down to be sure we are here.
Contact Fifth Estate
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Contact Fifth Estate Subscriptions, Submissions, Distribution, Donations, Remittances, Letters Fifth Estate P.O. Box 201016 Ferndale, MI 48220 email: fe-AT-fifthestate-DOT-org Address change Please visit our online form. Broken links, problems with this site email: web–AT–fifthestate–DOT–org
Bibliographic Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 320, Spring, 1985
Some bibliographic notes on articles in this issue
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
Although we got a lot of positive response to our last issue (as well as our fair share of abuse), no one noted a major error in our Hungary poster which attributes the date of the events to being “13 …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
The prolific III Publishing group, PO Box 1581, Guala CA 95445, recently released two new books. Saab Lofton’s A.D. is set in 2410 where society is organized according to libertarian principles, but a menace from the past threatens the future. …
Save Detroit’s Permanent Autonomous Zone (PAZ)
by The Trumbull Theater Collective
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
The Trumbull Theater Collective brings together a diverse group of people for the radical project of creating an authentic egalitarian community. We offer low-cost, self-governed, cooperatively-owned, non-profit, communal housing for community activists, students & young families in two, deteriorating, 100-year-old …
“To Embrace the World Rather than Conquer It”
by Dogbane Campion (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
a review of Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings, by Joanna Macy, John Seed, et al, illustrations by Dailan Pugh, New Society Publishers, 122 pages, paper, $8.95
The Idea of Detroit
by Jim Gustafson
Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976
Detroit just sits there like the head of a large dog on a serving platter. It lurks in the middle of a continent, or passes itself off as a civilization dangling at the end of a rope. The lumpiness of …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
This issue is in your hands for two reasons: 1) your generous and numerous response to our plea for financial assistance and 2) the feeling of support we got from the accompanying letters you sent in. Our problem was really …
Examining Zerzan
by Bob Brubaker, E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), Fifth Estate Collective, John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Much of primitivist theorist John Zerzan’s early work appeared in the Fifth Estate. His Cassandra-like predictions of imminent collapse of modern society began in 1976 with his FE article, “The Decline and Fall of Everything” [FE # 268, January, 1976]—a …
Trots and Nukes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
Reprinted from FE #284, July 1977. Apparently there is honor among thieves and the anti-nuclear power struggle has exposed the totally reactionary tendencies of several marxist groups as they line up behind the governments of totalitarian regimes and mouth the …
The Zen Already in Anarchism
by Spencer Sunshine
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
The combination of anarchism with spiritual or religious beliefs is almost always controversial, even in the pages of Fifth Estate. Opposition to church, state, and capital is the holy trinity of the “classical” anarchist tradition, and the movement’s anti-clericism was …
Revolution and Other Writings
by David Tighe
Fifth Estate # 384, Spring, 2011
a review of Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader by Gustav Landauer, edited and translated by Gabriel Kuhn, PM Press, 2010.
On a MOVE In Maine
by Robcat
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
“MOVE’s work is to stop industry from poisoning the air, the water, the soil. And, to put an end to the enslavement of life—people, animals, any form of Life.” —MOVE Statement
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
WARNING: Word is out that some tripsters are using the anesthetic cyclopropane (Trimethylene) for their highs. I hope this message reaches you in time.
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
QUESTION: Would you please explain what tachycardia is? I am undergoing treatment by an analyst for anxiety which is causing tachycardia in my heart. However, neither he nor my M.D. will explain tachycardia to me. I also wonder if getting …
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
Dear Dr. Schoenfeld: To be blunt, I’m scared. I was smoking some grass about 3 weeks ago and I started to feel dizzy. Next thing I remember is waking up on the floor and being told I’d been unconscious about …
Marie Mason Update
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
As BP continues to devastate the Gulf of Mexico for generations to come, militant eco-radicals like Marie Mason, who have dedicated their lives to halting exactly this kind of environmental destruction, helplessly watch from inside the dungeons of the State.
From Tolstoy to Pussy Riot
by Ania Aizman
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
In the fall of 2019, I taught a course at the University of Michigan: “Art and Anarchism: from Tolstoy to Pussy Riot.” The curriculum at the Ann Arbor, Michigan college concentrated on Russian anarchists, historic and contemporary, and was designed …
HipPocratese
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 92, November 13-26, 1969
QUESTION: I had enjoyed a close personal and sexual relationship with a girl to whom I was engaged. But then I began to vomit whenever I saw or thought of her. The frightening part of the story is that the …
Crazy Wisdom in an imaginary Fez
by Jason Rodgers
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
a review of Hakim Bey: Real and Unreal by Th. Metzger. Motgus-sanlux, 2023
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968
We are initiating this column as a means of communicating with the Fifth Estate readership. We hope to be able to give you periodic progress reports, answer your questions about the paper, and hopefully give you the feeling that there …
Earth First! Again
by Lone Wolf Circles
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
Fifth Estate note: The 12th annual Earth First! Round River Rendezvous (RRR) was held in Colorado’s San Juan National Forest, June 28-July 5, with a direct action against an Amoco Corp. facility immediately after it.
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 94, December 11-24, 1969
Dear Dr. Hip Pocrates, I seldom read your column, it usually actually makes me sick to my stomach to know there are such vulgar, uncivilized, people.
Adamant refusal will not go unnoticed
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
I’ve been giving the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) to my 3rd graders this week. I could be fired, possibly arrested, for telling you this, but do you want to know what’s on the test? Here’s one of the …
News Shorts
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
Argentine Ransom Buenos Aires, Argentina—Members of the Argentine National Liberation Front (ALF) bargained on March 25 over the exchange of two government-held political prisoners for their own political hostage, the Paraguayan Consul to Argentina. If the release was not made, …
Ginsberg: The trees are our allies
by Allen Ginsberg, David Gaynes
Fifth Estate # 91, October 30-November 12, 1969
Editors’ Note: this interview with poet Allen Ginsberg took place at 10 a.m. on October 15 while driving from Detroit’s inner city to Macomb College, where he was reading. Ginsberg was in the area doing a series of readings for …
Free Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 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 …
Wilson’s Green Alchemy & Magick Poetry
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
a review of Gothick Institutions by Peter Lamborn Wilson. Xexoxial Editions. Dreamtime Village, 2005. 76 pages, $10. http://www.xexoxial.org. Available from the Barn.
Napalm Photos Spark Vietnam Dialogue
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966
No matter what his choice of words, every newspaper editor is aware that he is bound to offend someone. The arrest and trial of Peter Zenger two hundred years ago and the bombing of the office of the WORKER in …
Dr. HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
Dear Dr. Schoenfeld, A couple of weeks ago my girlfriend and I got loaded and were making love. She told me that she wanted to show me something new that would be a real thrill to me. She said that …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
The U.S. Post Office, which god knows has enough to do just trying to keep the mail flowing, has taken it upon itself to prejudge the contents of private letters. I got a postcard the other day inviting me to …
Victory for the Gandalf Three
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
When we left the Gandalf Three [“Building A Movement,” FE #351, Summer 1998], Noel Molland, Steve Booth and Saxon Burchnall-Wood, editors of England’s Green Anarchist, they were imprisoned following a guilty verdict for conspiring to incite others to cause criminal …
Crash Goes the Alphabet
by Ian Blumberg-Enge
Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023
a review of Breaking the Alphabet by Sascha Engel. Ardent Press 2022