Now that the Hua Kuo-feng faction of the Chinese Communist party is firmly in control of the People’s Republic any number of Maoist concepts have been slated for the waste basket of history.
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Political Prisoners in China
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
Last March in Canton, China, an unnamed Peking official replied to questions by the New York-Times, on the subject of political prisoners in China, by stating, “A few intellectuals deprived of free speech is only a minor question. In the …
China is Near
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969
A new and exciting group of directors has appeared in the Italian cinema over the past four or five years. Its two most promising members are Marco Bellocchio and Bernardo Bertolucci.
Struggles Against Capitalist Rule in Modern China
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
a review of China On Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance edited by Hao Ren; English edition edited by Zhongjin Li and Eli Friedman. Haymarket Books, 2016 Striking to Survive: Workers Resistance to Factory Relocations in China by Fan Shigang, translated …
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Power Struggle in China
by R.F.
Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976
When Chou En-lai, the first and only Prime Minister of the Peoples Republic of China, died in the beginning of this year, a struggle between the so-called “moderate,” pro-managerial and “radical left,” pro-Maoist factions within the Party burst into the …
Burning Man Comes to China
by Pierre Garine
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
Burning Man began with a wooden effigy and a single match on a beach in San Francisco in the late 1980s. When the police came and closed down the beach burning of the Man it was John Law and Michael …
Sex in China
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977
The five cartoon panels printed on this page are taken from “Red Guard Romance” (written and drawn by Jay Kinney) and appeared in Young Lust No. 5. Most of us read the comic and thought it funny, if not somewhat …
Worker Revolts, Political Strife Belie China’s Peaceful Image
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Since the struggle for power within the Chinese bureaucracy sharpened following the death of Mao Tse-tung in September, events have begun swirling at an ever faster rate. Coming on the heels of the political turmoil in the capital city, the …
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Peace Leader Says Clash with China Near
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
NEW YORK—Rev. James Bevel, national director of the Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam, assailed President Johnson for turning a deaf ear to the growing anti-war sentiment in the United States.
Class Struggle in China
by C.D. Ward
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
Excerpted from “Class Struggle in ‘Red’ China” by C.D. Ward, in World Revolution In China and similarly throughout the world, the trade unions are a part of the state machine; their function is to integrate the working class into the …
China: Financing the Celestial Empire
by E. Mett, Y. Bumczik
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
China is in fashion. Enthusiasm for China can be found amongst liberals, technocrats and members of the World Bank. In the popular view “the people are brave and the culture squeaky clean.” Maoists and proto-Maoists proclaim China as a genuine …
China: The Mysterious Journey of the Democracy Movement
by Gabriel Dumont
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
“Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.” — Michael Bakunin
Pictures of Chairman Mao
by Pun Plamondon
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
George Wallace stood up and said all the magic words, “Dope Fiend, Outlaw, Pervert, Cuba, Masses, Red, Mao, Free, Fidel, Workers, Black, White!” These are magic words in America. These arc the words that make white America go to its …
Front page text
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970
One afternoon a thousand years ago a Chinese administrator named Cao Bien was sitting by the River Lo in Vietnam. He had been sent by the Emperor of China to conquer Vietnam and make it part of China. As he …
On the Correct Handling of Nuclear Fallout upon the People
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
U.S. Getting Radiation From China A-Blast WASHINGTON — (AP) — Light radiation from a Chinese atomic test is sprinkling parts of the eastern United States, leading health officials in one state to warn residents to wash garden vegetables carefully before …
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Mao Aids Chile Dogs
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 271, April, 1976
At a time when the Pinochet dictatorship’s murderous repression of political opponents has isolated it internationally to the point that the blood-soaked regime is even a public embarrassment to the White House, help has arrived from the Maoist bureaucracy in …
Criticism/Self-Criticism
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
George Orwell’s 1984, in which he potently describes a totalitarian society of the future, has been used by both capitalists and communists in describing each other’s society. The saddest thing of all is that they’re both right.
Would You Let this Man Stand in the Way of Your Bottom Line?
by International Friends of Wei Jingsheng
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
Not if you want to succeed in business today. In the modern international marketplace, competition is tough. If the corporations which have brought us the standard of living we have recently come to enjoy are to continue doing so against …
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At the Movies
by Stark Raving
Fifth Estate # Daily Barbarian Number 1
THE DAILY BARBARIAN supplement FIFTH ESTATE, #298, June 19, 1979