On Sunday, July 17, at around 1:30 am, two masked men carrying machine guns broke into the house in Comiso, Sicily functioning as the coordinating center for the groups against the U.S. cruise missile base. Once inside they lined all …
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Vietnam/Lebanon
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
With the Vietnam analogy on everyone’s lips, first for El Salvador and Nicaragua, and now for Lebanon, the signs of similarities arise ever more frequently. One such indication is shown here in the accompanying two photos. The first is from …
Trial Begins for Vancouver 5
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
The Vancouver Five are activists from British Columbia who are currently facing 17 counts of sabotage and conspiracy. Besides being charged with destroying an environmentally damaging hydroelectric generator and firebombing a porn shop, they also are accused of a massive …
Repression Continues in Toronto
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
On June 13th the Toronto Metropolitan Police raided a home of several people active in producing the Bulldozer prison support paper and in supporting the Vancouver Five. Ostensibly seeking links to the Litton bombing, a series of charges were brought …
Radio Libertaire Back on Air After Police Raid
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
Shouts of joy greeted the sounds of Radio Libertaire’s return to the airwaves Sept. 3 after having been shut down by a police raid six days previously. At 5:45 am on Sunday morning, Aug. 28, the Paris premises of the …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
The birthdays seem to be coming around faster and faster. This November marks the 18th anniversary of the Fifth Estate’s appearance as an “underground” paper in 1965. Several of us were recently looking at some back issues and smiling at …
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
The Fifth Estate is a co-operative project, published by a group of friends who are in general, but not necessarily complete agreement with the articles herein. Each segment of the paper represents the collective effort of writing, typesetting, lay-out and …
They’re at War!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 314, Fall 1983
They’re at war! They appear nightly on television with their lying speeches trying to defend the growing slaughter. The body bags come home by the hundreds filled with the shattered remains of young men who swallowed the patriotic justifications for …
314, Fall 1983
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The man in the “Fuck the Draft” poster
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
In 1968, Kiyoshi Kuromiya designed this poster and sent orders by mail. He was arrested by the FBI and charged with sending indecent material through the Post Office. Later that year, after beating the charges, Kuromiya defied the authorities by …