Dr. HIPocrisy

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Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976

Dear Dr. Hypocrisy, My boyfriend just got over a “dose” of Trotskyism. He says he is “safe” to begin relations again, but I’m worried. What do you think?

Two Face Prison For Jailbreak Plot

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Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976

Three persons prosecuted for their participation in the raid last March 13 on the Piedras Negras jail in Mexico were acquitted October 1 of most of the charges against them although two still face jail terms. Mike Hill, Billy Blackwell …

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No Matter Who you Vote for…

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Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976

The presidential election farce is over and Nobody won! Although we were hoping for an absolute majority, those unwilling to humiliate themselves by participating in their own enslavement by voting for who will rule us still chalked up an impressive …

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Autonomy for robotic killers?

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Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016

On the frontiers of what has been termed “moral autonomy,” a long-range anti-ship missile is being developed for the U.S. military by Lockheed Martin Corp. which can pick its own target and destroy it independent of human minders. A team …

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Arrests Follow Rally At Atomic Plant Site

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Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976

Opposition to the construction of potentially dangerous nuclear power plants escalated August 22 in Seabrook, New Hampshire as 176 people were arrested for conducting an “occupation” of a nuclear power plant construction site.

There’s More to Gangs than Just Gangs

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Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976

Gang fever, like the Bird’s pitching, seems to have been just a-passing summer phenomenon. Both served their purpose for the Motor City and then disappeared. Of course, youth crime has not disappeared—just its exploitation by the media and city hall …

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On the Correct Handling of Nuclear Fallout upon the People

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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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Capitalism to Build Vietnamese “Socialism”

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Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976

The “socialist” government of unified Vietnam, after telling the Vietnamese people for the past twenty years that they must expel the imperialist nations of France and the United States, is proposing to invite private corporations of those same countries, along …

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The Guardian vs. Language

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Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976

While the main contribution of Marxism-Leninism remains its establishment of state capitalism in areas of the world where private capital could not develop, its project has also debased language to a point suggested in George Orwell’s 1984—where words are distorted …

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Mexican Jail Strike Fails

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Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976

A group of American prisoners serving time in Mexican jails attempted to call attention to their demands for an end to torture and for action by the U.S. government by staging a nation-wide hunger strike throughout the Mexican prison system …

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