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Seveso Update

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977

A year-ago this month (July 10, 1976 to be exact), an explosion at the Icmesa chemical plant in Seveso, Italy garnered worldwide attention as the release of 4.4 pounds of deadly tetrachlorodibenzodioxin, or TCDD, contaminated the town and forced the …

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Italian Chemical Disaster

by R.F.

Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976

Since the July 10th explosion at an Italian Chemical plant outside of the northern Italian city of Seveso, information has come to light to indicate that Michigan could be the setting for a similar disaster.

Capitalism’s Industrial Plagues

by Bob Nirkind

Fifth Estate # 276, September 1976

This article is the first in a two-part series on the effects that the indiscriminate handling and usage of radioactive waste materials and dangerous chemicals are having, and will have in the future, on human beings and their environment. Part …

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Space Not The Place

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986

“With the aid of the high-powered rocket modern man is indeed conquering space. But in the very act of making this achievement possible, the megamachine is carrying further its conquest of man…At the bottom of this whole effort lies a …

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Resistance to the Plan is Heavy

by Charles Willis

Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986

In March of this year a small article appeared in the Detroit Free Press announcing the last public hearing before the City of Detroit was to begin building the world’s largest trash-to-energy waste-incinerator plant. For those of us who live …

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Whales

by Bob Nirkind

Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977

The point is that man is literally undoing the work of organic evolution. By creating vast urban agglomerations of concrete, metal and glass, by overriding and undermining the complex, often subtly organized ecosystems that constitute local differences in the natural …

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Nuclear Nightmares

by Daily Barbarian

Fifth Estate # Daily Barbarian Number 1

THE DAILY BARBARIAN supplement FIFTH ESTATE, #298, June 19, 1979

We All Live in Bhopal

by David Watson

Fifth Estate # 319, Winter, 1985

[Web archive note: The original print edition of this article did not list an author. The article was reprinted in David Watson’s Against the Megamachine (Autonomedia, 1998).]

Nuclear Plants: Potential Disasters

by Bob Nirkind

Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979

Reprinted from FE #278, November 1976.

Nuclear Plants: Potential Disasters

by Bob Nirkind

Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976

This article is the third in an originally-planned two-part series on the perils of radioactive waste materials and highly toxic chemicals. Part One of the series (Capitalism’s Industrial Plagues, # 276, September 1976) dealt with the devastating results of nuclear …

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Biotech: The Next Wave

by Tomas MacSheoin

Fifth Estate # 320, Spring, 1985

Related: see the introductory essay “In the Image of Capital: the rise of biotechnology,” FE #320, Spring, 1985 We are entering the newest phase in the technologization of the world. As microelectronics continues to encroach everywhere, capital is preparing the …

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Fifth Estate Archive Back issues Resource pages Fifth Estate Live interview archive (May 2020 – May 2021) Fifth Estate Live, a weekly hour-long livestreamed broadcast hosted by singer/songwriter and Fifth Estate contributor David Rovics and produced by Fifth Estate editorial …

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