Free the Hunan iconoclasts

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Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993

WHO ARE THEY: Yu Zhijian, age 27, formerly a teacher at the Tantou Wan Primary School in Dahu Township, Liuyang County, Hunan Province. Yu Dongyue, former fine-arts director of the Liuyang News. Lu Decheng, 28, previously an employee of the …

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The Empire Strikes Back at Itself

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Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993

Media hoopla commemorating the Quincentennial of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to the New World, however sanitized, should have convinced anyone paying attention that the Spanish conquest was a disaster for both Native Americans and Africans.

When someone invites you to vote, JUST SAY NO!

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Fifth Estate # 340, Autumn 1992

They’re hee-ere! Yes, folks, it’s the quadrennial electoral charade where power-seeking charlatans attempt to craft tricky speeches and programs designed to convince people to abandon common sense and reason and elect them to political office.

Anarchist Resister Charged in Italy

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Fifth Estate # 313, Summer, 1983

Resistance to the draft is happening around the world. The Fifth Estate recently received information from the editors of “A” Rivista Anarchica about Mauro Zanoni, a 20-year-old anarchist who was arrested February 13, 1983 in the “Pavia” di Pesaro, Italy …

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Beggars Banquet

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Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968

a review of “Beggars Banquet” The Rolling Stones (London)

Arrests Made in Bombings

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Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968

Detroit police arrested 11 neighborhood street brothers and sisters over Nov. 10th and 11th and charged them with “conspiracy to place explosives with intent to cause damage,” a bullshit rap that carries a 25-year maximum prison sentence.

Mafia controls Pigs

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Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968

Reprinted from Detroit Scope “Detroit is controlled 100% by the Mafia,” says a man close to Mafia kingpins. Many Detroit police officers admit there is a great deal of truth in that statement because of the extent to which the …

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The Lessons of Vietnam

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Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991

Although the phrase, “The first casualty in war is truth,” has been aptly realized in the media coverage of the Persian Gulf war, the truth is often the last casualty as well. In the case of America’s military adventure in …

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Why the U.S. Destroyed Iraq

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Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991

At 6:46 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on January 16, 1991, George Bush, Commander-in-Chief of the Empire’s armed forces, announced in Washington DC, “The liberation of Kuwait has begun.” And, at that moment half a world away in Iraq, the most …

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Modified Mercalli Seismic Intensity Scale

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Fifth Estate # 311, Winter, 1983

1. Not felt except by a very few under especially favorable circumstances. Marginal and long-period effects.