Chrysler Sabotage

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Fifth Estate # 299, October 22, 1979

It’s a rare case when someone can go home from the job and say they’ve done a constructive day’s work, and an even rarer case when 4,000 people from the same place can say it at the same time.

Terrorists’ Revenge

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Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977

While waiting at a traffic light in the city of Karlsruhe, West Germany, Chief Prosecutor Siegfried Buback was assassinated just as the light turned green.

China Supports US on Taiwan

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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.

Poland: 1970-71

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Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977

a review of Poland: 1970-71; Capitalism and Class Struggle, Informations Correspondence Ourvrieres (ICO), 117 pages; illustrated, Black & Red, Detroit, 1977.

The Last SLA Statement

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Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977

The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) undertook a series of urban guerrilla actions in 1973 and 1974 that made world-wide headlines. The assassination of a reactionary school official, the kidnapping of a wealthy heiress and a bank appropriation set off a …

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Worker Revolts, Political Strife Belie China’s Peaceful Image

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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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What a Difference a Day Makes

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Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977

Although Wernher Von Braun is still alive, though bed-ridden with a terminal case of cancer, we feel that this is the appropriate time to wish him a speedy death.

Today’s Television Programs

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Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976

MORNING 7:00 channel 2 Bozo the Clown Bozo and Mr. Houdini are joined by Lyndon La Rouche (aka Lyn Marcus) of the U.S. Labor Party for kiddie games and a masquerade. channel 4 Sesame Street The Fonz (Henry Winkler) shows …

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Indian Genocide

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Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976

Buried in a back section of an October issue of the Detroit Free Press: “Manaus, Brazil (AP) Mayurunas Indians on the remote western edge of the Brazilian Amazon jungle have begun killing newborn females in an attempt to wipe out …

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Pushing The Line

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Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976

NEW YORK—The 200 garment industry executives listened attentively as the seminar speaker, with evangelical fervor, told them how their industry can be brought “kicking and screaming into the 20th Century.”