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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.
Indian Summer
by Jim Campbell
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
On September 26; 1990 a 78-day siege of two Mohawk territories near Montreal, Quebec, ended when the last group of holdouts walked out of a rehabilitation centre where they had been surrounded by Canadian army troops since September 1st. Rather …
On Gogol Boulevard
by Neither East Nor West/NYC
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
About This Section On Gogol Boulevard is produced for the Fifth Estate by New York City/Neither East Nor West, which links alternative oppositions in the East and West, and prints news and documents unavailable in the corporate or left media. …
Burning Colonialism
by Jeff Shantz
Fifth Estate # 414, Fall 2023
2023 has officially been designated as the worst fire season on record in so-called Canada, with almost 20 million acres burned by summer’s end. While these wildfires deeply ravaged many communities, they have most severely impacted Indigenous communities, many of …
Foreign Anarchists as Boogyman
by Steve Izma
Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017
a review of Transnational Radicals: Italian Anarchists in Canada and the U.S., 1915-1940 by Travis Tomchuk. University of Manitoba Press, 2015, 260 pp.
Women’s Liberation
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
Joyce recently had a baby. She had tried to obtain birth control pills, but couldn’t because of rules which said she had to be married to get a prescription from Planned Parenthood. After discovering that she was pregnant, she attempted …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008
Send letters to fe – at – fifthestate – dot – org or Fifth Estate P.O.B. 201016, Ferndale MI 48220
“Workin’ on the Railroad”
by anonymous euonymous
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
SAN FRANCISCO — On September 5, 1987, an event occurred which may signal a breakthrough for the North American anti-war movement. Forty yards of railroad track and ties serving the Concord Naval Weapons Station (CNWS) in Port Chicago, were torn …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
Brothers and Sisters, I’ve really been digging the stuff that’s been going down in your (no THE it’s for everyone) paper, and I’d just like to mention a few radical things around. First, I’m surprised that, except for once on …
FBI War on the Black Panthers
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was formed in Oakland, California in 1966. Within two years it had dropped self-defense from its title and spread throughout the country, particularly in California and the northern ghettos. It also came under tremendous …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 281, March, 1977
THE RUSSIAN TRAGEDY Alexander Berkman The Russian Tragedy first appeared in 1922 as three separate pamphlets (The Russian Tragedy, The Russian Revolution and the Communist Party & The Kronstadt Rebellion), and is compiled here under one cover for the first …
News & Reviews
by Fifth Estate Collective, Primitivo Solis (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 319, Winter, 1985
We continue to receive a tremendous variety of publications for mention in this column, some of them anarchist and/ or syndicalist and libertarian communist, but many of them uncategorizable. It appears that an anarchic, autonomous underground press is flowering. Whereas …
From Adoration to Rebellion
by Huang Ho Group (Hong Kong)
Fifth Estate # 290, March 2, 1978
Introduction The article below is part of a series of discussions that took place in Hong Kong in the early part of 1977, in which the participants (all ex-Red Guard members) attempt to make clear their reaction to Mao Tse-Tung …
Circus in Town
by Dave Wheeler
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
The Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey Circus is coming to Detroit. Running a poor second in entertainment value is the election campaign for the mayor of Detroit.
Draft Foes Growing
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
When bullet-headed Selective Service Director Bernard D. Rostker looked sternly into the TV cameras last July and predicted that all but 2% of the nation’s 19- and 20-year-old men would comply with the scheduled draft registration his self-confidence was chilling. …
An Anarchist Cookbook That Actually Has Recipes!
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
a review of The Anarchist Cookbook Keith McHenry, with Chaz Bufe Introduction by Chris Hedges, 2015 See Sharp Press, 154 pp.
School’s Out For Good
by Ashlyn Mooney
Fifth Estate # 408, Winter, 2021
a review of People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child versus the State by Robb Johnson. PM Press 2020 Raising Free People by Akilah Richards. PM Press 2020 In the grammar of education, children are often passive objects. Children get educated; …
Bits of the world in brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 316, Spring, 1984
Big Mountain News announces the annual spring “Survival Gathering” April 19-22 to be held at Big Mountain Dine (Navajo) Nation. Native peoples and their supporters are invited to participate in the gathering which has been planned to commemorate and honor …
Polyamory and Power
by Andrew William Smith
Fifth Estate # 389, Summer, 2013
It’s not news that much of modernity is all messed up about sex. Contemporary culture fluctuates between moralistic repression and hypersexual expression. Prudes use religion to promote abstinence for unmarried heterosexuals and celibacy for LGBT folks, and the more extreme …
1984 Still Knocking at Our Door
by Sean Alan Cleary
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
a review of 1984: The Graphic Novel: George Orwell, Adapted & illustrated by Fido Nesti. HMH 2021
Anthropologists & the People They Study
by William D. Buckingham
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review ofThe New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity by Marshall Sahlins. Princeton University Press, 2022 The late anthropologist Marshall Sahlins (1930-2021) is best known for his claim, first published in 1968, that people …
Toronto: Pops
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
You jump into Toronto all of a sudden after driving four hours through the Ontario countryside.
On Gogol Boulevard
by Neither East Nor West/NYC
Fifth Estate # 346, Summer, 1995
About This Section On Gogol Boulevard is produced for the Fifth Estate by New York City/Neither East Nor West, which links alternative oppositions in the East and West, and prints news and documents unavailable in the corporate or left media. …
Happy Birthday, Utopia!
by John Clark
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
This year marks five-hundred years since the appearance of English social philosopher, author, statesman, and Renaissance humanist Thomas More’s famous Utopia. We might also consider that it is just over five-hundred years since the definitive anti-utopia, Machiavelli’s The Prince was …
Deee-Troit
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
WABX DJs Larry Miller and Dave Dixon both emphatically deny the report of last issue that they came to blows over station policy. “The real miracle of the station is how well we work together,” Miller said. Sorry fellas, we …
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 …
Ethnic Cleansing in the Former Yugoslavia
by Bob Myers
Fifth Estate # 356, Spring, 2002
Releted: see “Workers Aid & the Betrayals of the Left: An Introduction” in this ussue. It’s very hard now, probably impossible, to capture the urgency of the spring, summer and autumn of 1992. In a few months, hundreds of …
Cuba: From State to Private Capitalism
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 383, Summer, 2010
HAVANA — We entered the elevator on the ground floor of Havana’s renowned FOCSA building in the city’s Vedado district and were quickly whisked, non-stop, to the 33rd floor. When the doors opened, tuxedoed waiters welcomed us to La Torre, …
Anarcho-Shorts
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
Anniversary of Judicial Murder of Anarchists 2017 marks 90 years since the judicial murders of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were tried and convicted for the crime of being anarchists and immigrants.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 373, Fall 2006
In the Spring 2006 edition of FE, Fred from San Francisco wrote, “Congrats on changing anarchist to anti-authoritarian on your front page description,” and we asked, “Do readers have any thoughts about the change?” This issue, more readers responded, and …
George Orwell & Alex Comfort’s World War II Debate
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
a review of The Duty to Stand Aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort by Eric Laursen. AK Press 2018
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 81, June 12-25, 1969
A commune calling itself the Kingdom of Endor tried to plan The Great Aspen Freak Festival in the little Colorado town for this July but carelessly announced that 100,000 hippies-could be expected—and that blew the whole thing.
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 317, Summer 1984
Escapes Clutches Dear Fifth Estate: As one about to escape the clutches of the US Army (an equal opportunity oppressor) I want to thank you for your paper and its role in keeping me sane/insane. Keep it up, even if …
Red-Brown Politics
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
Fascists are seeking to exploit and co-opt anti-war forces in the US, and build support for war criminals like Assad and Putin. Anarchists have a responsibility to reject such overtures and offer solidarity to those resisting in Syria.
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
The FE BOOKSERVICE is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, both of which are located at 4403 Second Avenue, Detroit MI 48201—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours we are open vary considerably, so it’s always best to …
Detroit Book Trip Holiday
by Richard Centing
Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968
Detroit is not a great city for bookstores like the large publishing centers of New York and Chicago. but there are interesting stores here with a wide variety of material. As the ads say, find their names in the Yellow …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 337, Late Summer, 1991
Hello, and welcome to another issue of the Fifth Estate, our Summer edition 1991, Vol. 26, No. 2, total number, 337. Fortunately, our basement office provided us with a cool respite from the blistering heat we’ve experienced in this part …
Pétroleuses, Witches & Fairy Tales
by Wren Awry
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
The Paris Commune The Paris Commune, which lasted from March 18 to May 28, 1871, was an experiment in self-governance that is still inspiring today. The Franco-Prussian war of 1870 saw the defeat of the French military by the more …
Throwing Marx Out with the Bathwater?
by Kevin O'Toole
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
a review of The Tyranny of Theory: A Contribution to the Anarchist Critique of Marxism by Ronald D. Tabor. Black Cat Press, 2013, 349 pages, $30.00