Rock and Roll Dope

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Fifth Estate # 56, June 19-July 1, 1968

A strange polarization (or maybe it’s a natural one) seems to be happening with rock and roll fans right now, with white teenage audiences turning toward either total freek scenes or greasy reactionary hostility when confronted with the revolutionary guerrilla …

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Stokely: “We got to get some guns”

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Fifth Estate # 56, June 19-July 1, 1968

To the delight of the Black populace of Detroit, Stokely Carmichael, on a mission to raise funds for the incarcerated Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, the convicted H. Rap Brown and other up-tight black freedom fighters, came to town June …

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Freak Your Nark

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Fifth Estate # 56, June 19-July 1, 1968

The author of the following helpful hints is an attorney employed by the federal government of the United States of America in Washington, D.C. Obviously, he prefers to remain underground in our interest and his own. —eds

Mace

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Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968

It’s no secret that police departments around the country are arming themselves to the hilt in anticipation. They intend to get ready for anything and everything.

The Revolt of the Animals

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Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977

The Revolt of the Animals * An October issue of Earth News reported that a cow in the mid west United States came down with a bad case of the farts after continually eating vegetation that was gas producing. Disgusted …

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J20 Defendants

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Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018

Federal prosecutors announced in January the dismissal of charges against 129 J20 defendants for actions against the Trump inauguration in Washington DC on January 20, 2017.

An Open Letter from Ken Cockrel

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Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977

I want to thank the Fifth Estate for permitting me to purchase this ad in order to put forth a position they oppose. It’s not that I don’t agree with them that politics is the process of  rulers and ruled …

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Nukes and Civil Liberties

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Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977

This article originally appeared in the People & Energy Newsletter (1757 S. St., N.W, Washington, D.C.) and was based on research by Bruce Edwards.

New Soviet Law Stands Marxism on its Head

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Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977

Although everyone except the most self-deluded realizes that the Soviet Union is a totalitarian police state, its rulers still feel the need to wrap their bureaucratic authority in formal legalisms. Under the direction of Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev, …

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Crunch at the I-Hotel

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Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977

Staff Note: For nine years, the tenants of San Francisco’s International Hotel have been battling to save their residence from the attempts by the Four Seas Investment Corporation, a Hong Kong based firm, to turn the area into a multi-story …

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