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< Return to first section of article FE staff note: The Fifth Estate received the article below from an anonymous source. Only the first section appears in our print edition. We declined to print the second part, describing a prison …

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Fifth Estate note: The following text was sent to us anonymously via email. It contained a section following what is here describing an intense prison rebellion at an unnamed institution and without a date of its occurrence.

After being dropped by the media as no longer newsworthy, and being submerged in a myriad of bureaucratic committees on the State Legislature—a process so utterly boring that we have failed to follow its developments (you’ll forgive us, won’t you?)—the …

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April 15 marked the 40th anniversary of the opening, in Des Plaines, Illinois of the first McDonald’s Hamburger Corporation restaurant. Helen Steel and Dave Morris, defendants in the United Kingdom McDonald’s libel trial, flew to the U.S. to join an …

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On June 12, Pennsylvania Gov. Thomas Ridge signed a death warrant for Mumia Abu-Jamal—meaning that unless a judicial stay is granted, he’ll be executed in the state’s electric chair at 10 p.m. on Aug. 17.

“The whole of Poland is on strike today.” — A worker from the city of Ursus, Poland, June, 1976 On July 20, six Polish workers from Ursus (a suburb of Warsaw) and seven from the city of Random were sentenced …

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Billowing smoke pours from the stacks that surround the huge water tower on the edge of the Rouge River. A too-familiar blue and white emblem proclaims the domination of the area by Ford Motor Company’s massive Rouge Plant complex, once …

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The results of the Italian parliamentary elections held June 20 and 21 toppled the predictions of political forecasters (including us; see FE last issue, June 1976) that the Italian Communist Party (PCI) would emerge as the greatest vote getter. As …

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“Chicago has become quite a military center. Owing to the fact that it is also a great center for labor organizations, and, in order to have a strong force of regular troops. Within easy call in case of labor troubles, …

Armories: Not for Boat Shows Read More »

I want to throw up because we’re supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America. —David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration I think of Wojnarowicz’s disgust as I sit across from …

Marius Mason continues transgender struggle in prison Read More »