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Cover photo: Pierre Garine: Bridge across the Yalu River to N. Korea

The Anarcho-Crossword puzzle is on this page. ANNOTATIONS Voltairine: Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912); prolific anarchist-feminist writer and lecturer who advocated freethinking and “anarchism without adjectives.”

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Staff and contributors for this issue

What with all the straight media from TV-2 to the Ann Arbor Sun declaring us dead, we thought it was about time to bring out some proof to the contrary. On the other hand, maybe we shouldn’t be so cocky …

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Nor, is it the CBC-TV news program. Nor, the band which produced the 1960s hit, “Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead.”

The Fifth Estate has always proudly displayed the FBI’s description of this publication as “supporting revolution everywhere,” but the world has greatly changed since the U.S. secret police prowled around our offices and kept tabs on staff members in the …

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Detroit-born and raised, and self-described anarchist, Philip Levine was named the U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress in August. The post, whose task entails raising “the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of …

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Larry:Portis grew up in a working-class family in Seattle, Washington and Billings, Montana. His father was a sheet metal worker and city fireman. His mother was an occasional secretary. At the age of 18 he married and quickly had two …

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