Film review

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Fifth Estate # 81, June 12-25, 1969

When you see “Goodbye, Columbus,” you think how amazing-that this crew of film makers could take such familiar material and make it so fresh.

Miss Student Body

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Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969

Author’s note: I tried to write a journalistic reportorial article about the “Miss Student Body” rape held on the WSU campus in honor of Fraternity Week, where mutilated people voted on the headless pictures of women in bikinis guided by …

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Vodka in the USSR

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Fifth Estate # 305, March 18, 1981

Note: The following is an excerpt from an article, “The Regime and the Working Class in the USSR,” by Viktor Zaslaysky which appeared in Telos No. 42, Winter 1979-80. Telos, “a quarterly journal of radical thought,” is available at Box …

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A Challenge to the Prison Movement

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Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981

FE Note: The following article was sent to us anonymously several months ago and has generated an enormous amount of discussion among us by its charges that prisoners who are “thugs, murderers, pimps, rapists, conmen of every sort” have been …

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Dope study-junk!

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Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968

Reprinted from the San Francisco Express-Times San Francisco—The American Medical Association’s report on the dangers of marijuana poses the issue in the lingo of narcotics police, not in scientific or humanitarian language, according to Dr. Joel Fort.

Mixed Mead-Ear

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Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968

In this fortnight past of sparse record releases we were given new albums by the Doors, Ten Years After, Buffalo Springfield, Pink Floyd and Jeff Beck, along with Phil Ochs’ tape from California and Paul Butterfield’s latest massacre.

Jr. Cops and Anti-Nukers

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Fifth Estate # 298, June 19, 1979

The article which follows was originally produced as a leaflet and distributed at the Monroe anti-nuke demonstration on June 2nd, 1979. The Monroe demo was itself even more frustrating than the Midland gathering, and has solidified for many of us …

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Save the Seals—Skin the Rich

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Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979

On March 19, 1979, several of us reached into the dustbin of history to resurrect the old Eat the Rich Gang and the Workers Revenge Group. The occasion was a Greenpeace anti-sealing demonstration in downtown Detroit that, as it turned …

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Nukes and Civil Liberties

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Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979

Reprinted from FE #285, August 1977. The spectre of a nuclear police state has frequently been raised by atomic energy critics as one of the threats posed by the evolution of a nuclear energy based economy. Those critics have theorized …

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Report from W. Germany

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Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979

The following was sent to us by a friend of the Fifth Estate living in West Germany and lays out the political implications of the “Nuclear State,” and gives a report on several mass anti-nuclear actions.

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