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. // Share this on…
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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 Zhong ]in Li and Eli Friedman. Haymarket Books, 2016 Striking to Survive: Workers Resistance to Factory Relocations in China by Fan Shigang, …
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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 …
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: 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 // Share this on…
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. // Share this on…
China Supports US on Taiwan
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
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. // Share this on…
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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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 …
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 …