Fifth Estate Issue #295, November 3, 1978 WEB CONTENTS “Never before has there been so much talk about civilization and culture as today–today, when it is life itself which is disappearing, and there is a strange parallel between the general …
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Give This Man A Second Chance
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 293-294, August 21, 1978
In November of 1970, Benjamin Mendoza y Amor attempted to assassinate Pope Paul VI at Manila’s International Airport. Unfortunately, Mendoza made one mistake—-he was caught. Give this man a second chance!
Free Readers’ Ads
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 293-294, August 21, 1978
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Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 293-294, August 21, 1978
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper (?) [sic] and can be found at 4403 Second Ave, (telephone (313) 831-6800. Our hours vary quite a bit, so it’s always best to give us a telephone call before coming …
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Rules & Regulations…Who needs them?
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 293-294, August 21, 1978
Nov. 7, 1976 On Sunday, November 7, 3,000 people had descended on the Piazza Vetra, Milan, taking the police, who were prepared for a routine operation, completely by surprise. Bursting into four cinemas, they soon mounted a demonstration some 4,000 …
Revolution & Counter-revolution in Italy
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 293-294, August 21, 1978
The following two articles, “The Return of the Social Revolution, Or, Well Dug, Old Mole!” and “Economic Crisis & Revolution. Or, a Propos of Capital and its Contradictions,” were written by a comrade from Milan who took part in revolutionary …
Pope Perishes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 293-294, August 21, 1978
Like a full moon, like the blazing collapse of a bank in an earthquake, like the comedic sinking of an imperial barge, the death of a pope, and the giddy and liberatory revelation that we are now—if only momentarily—living during …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 293-294, August 21, 1978
Well this issue of the FE is a little late in coming out because three-quarters of the staff is off taking a much awaited summer break. This is the last FE you’ll see until September (this issue is a double …
About this Issue
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 293-294, August 21, 1978
The question of what constitutes revolutionary activity is raised again on these pages in two articles; 1) an in-depth analysis of the Italian situation and 2) a review of a book on anarchism in the U.S. Claudio Albertani explodes the …