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FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 301, February 26, 1980
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that you give …
Caution: Capitalism May Be Hazardous to Your Health
by George Metefsky
Fifth Estate # 98, February 4-18, 1970
Part I These are the last days of the Weimar Republic. In Berkeley, police ‘opened fire with buckshot on unarmed people by the Peoples’ Park, wounding over a hundred and killing one, James Rector. Across the country—in Madison, in Ann …
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Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
Welcome to the Winter 1999 issue of the Fifth Estate, #352. This edition follows our Summer issue by about six months. Maybe, like Anarchy has in its recently published issue, we should stop any pretense of quarterly publication, and openly …
In Critical and Suffocating Times
by T.P.T.G. (The Children of The Gallery)
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
As a publication appearing only three times a year, it’s difficult to report on the outrages of capital and the empire in a timely fashion. Usually, we cover only issues not available elsewhere. However, the Greek events of this Spring …
Watching the Dogs Salivate
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
“I know one or 2 who have this year, for the first time, read a president’s message, but they do not see that this implies a fall in themselves rather than a rise in the president. Blessed are the young …
Gettin Schooled
by Tomas
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
I’m sitting with my developmental writing class towards the beginning of the semester. There are two white students, eighteen students of color, six international students. It’s the exact opposite in my critical thinking class. But we aren’t talking race yet; …
What do we learn in school that couldn’t be learned elsewhere?
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
Why do we send our kids to school? We’ve been told that it is in elementary school that the bases of learning to read, write, and do math are acquired, although anyone who spends any time with children can clearly …
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How White Supremacy Progresses
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
Frank Joyce, was the Fifth Estate News Editor 50 years ago, and rejoins us with reflections on the 1967 events. “I calmed the tremor in my gut. I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous …
Spain: The continuing revolution
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
For the first time since I got here, people are openly and seriously comparing this to the pre-Civil War situation in 1936. –Basque Diplomat, October 1975
Zapping the Pyramid
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
The design shows a pyramid surmounted by an eye being blasted by a bolt of lightning. Bannered beneath the collapsing pyramid is the motto, “NON SERVIAM.”
Spanish Revolution Resource Page
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
Home > Archive > Learn more about the Spanish Revolution of 1936 and the important role of the anarchists…. Articles published in Fifth Estate related to the Spanish Revolution (in date order) Notes on the Death of Franco (Part I) …
Assaults on the Nuclear State
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
Fermi II Over the weekend of Sept. 30-Oct. 2, activists from around the country descended on the town of Monroe, Michigan to protest the restart of Detroit Edison’s crippled nuclear reactor, Fermi II.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
BOOKSTORE HOURS: Monday and Tuesday-1pm to 5pm—Wednesday 7pm to 10pm. LOCATION: 4403 Second (on the corner of Second & Canfield), Detroit, Michigan 48201
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
From Coimbra, Portugal comes Pravda, put out by Fenda Editions. Pravda, with its obviously tongue-in-cheek title, describes itself as “a magazine of evil arts” and has just published its third issue. Although it refuses categorization, it could be described as …
The Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004
In the hills of Tennessee, about an hour east of Nashville, on the outskirts of Dismal (population zero), there exists a barn. It’s an ordinary old barn from all outward appearances—except for a few anti war banners and the buzzing, …
Hong Kong
by Norman Nawrocki
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
Hong Kong, a steamy, enchanting, green pearl of an island with an amazingly efficient public transit system is also the ultimate temple to last gasp, fast buck, crass consumerism. Mega-towering, teetering, multi-national corporate headquarters ablaze with over-sized neon logos that …
The U.N. & the Debt
by Mitchel Cohen
Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992
Last December, Lawrence Summers the chief economist for the World Bank issued a surprisingly forthright memorandum to other senior World Bank staff in which he called for the distribution of toxic wastes and pollution away from the big industrialized nations …
Organization
by Joe Jacobs
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
The author of the following article, Joe Jacobs, was an English comrade and one-time member of London Solidarity (one of the two organizations mentioned in the discussion) who, we learned, died shortly after sending us this manuscript. Though we’ve devoted …