Reprinted with permission of The Guardian, independent radical weekly, NYC Of necessity, much of the black and white radical movements have been involved in a cultural revolution. For blacks it has led to an affirmation of blackness, an affirmation of …
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Punks in Cuba Radical anarchist and anti-militarist groups linked to the semi-taboo punk youth culture exist in Cuba. Members of one such group, Movimiento Pacifista Solidaridad y Paz (Solidarity & Peace Pacifist Movement), were sentenced to prison after a protest …
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4 The Future is Now! Jesús Sepúlveda 7 Sabotage & the Flows of Capital Jeff Shantz 10 Transgender Struggle in Prison Anonymous
PRENSA LATINA—When asked “why did you come to Cuba” one black youth from Detroit answered earnestly: “To meet the beautiful Cuban people and help them with their harvest.” His friend, also from Detroit said: “To mix with the people and …
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It seems improbable that a conference was held in Havana last May to examine the life and ideas of the Russian Bolshevik, Leon Trotsky. One would think the Cuban Stalinist bureaucracy would be averse to allowing a gathering sympathetic to …
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The following article is a first person account of the author’s involvement in the FBI’s program of using students to spy on students. Although occurring at Purdue University, the author feels that such activities are far from rare, and that …
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COVER: “St. Mary of the Machines”–Stephen Goodfellow BACK: Joey Salamon 3 AnarchoShorts & Other tales from the planet 3 Letters 4 Fifth Estate celebrates 50th year 5 The Rojava Revolution Andrew Flood
Everyone who wants to tune in to the music of our culture should be at the Fifth Estate Benefit to be held Sept. 1 at the Grande Ballroom from 6-11 pm. Featured will be the MC5, Stooges, and the Gold …
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Welcome to our Summer edition with its theme of Belief/Disbelief/Unbelief.
To avoid any confusion over the usage of terms, let us give a brief definition of the way in which Capital or capitalism is used in articles in the Fifth Estate
Let us give a brief definition of the way in which Capital or capitalism is used in articles in the Fifth Estate: Capital is based on wage-labor, the production and exchange of commodities, with an agency above the working class …
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Let me say right off that the subject of Cuba is extremely polarizing. This makes it difficult to have a discussion without the people involved, from the political left or right, simply going deaf and repeating familiar good-vs-evil litanies. After …
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Since the 1960s, Ernesto (Che) Guevara has been celebrated in leftist circles, and even among some anarchists, as the model of a revolutionary. A wide variety of musical and theater productions, political posters, T-shirts, bumperstickers, as well as advertisements for …
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The Detroit News has once again exposed the latest Communist conspiracy nesting in the Motor City. This time the villains are the Radical Education Project and the Revolutionary Printing Co-op, which print and distribute movement literature. The story was revealed …
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A few days before recording artist Richard Farina died in a motorcycle accident last May, Random House released his first novel, “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me.” The book, a story of the escapades of one …
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In America’s big cities in the 1960s, white police forces patrolled black ghettos like an occupying army. Detroit took the lead in integrating its cops, and now also has the highest percentage of female officers in any big U.S. city. …
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“All over the world, people are laughing at America because they’re so stupid. They don’t know what time it is. This is a late hour for America. America is on her way out.” (Robert Williams at a Detroit press conference …
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“Few books today are forgivable. Black on the canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper, are perhaps feasible.” — R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience
HONDURAS: turmoil unleashed, one student demonstrator killed COSTA RICA: 2,000 students demonstrated PANAMA: National Guard on duty COLOMBIA: 20,000-man special security force tried to control student strikes and heavy street fighting ECUADOR: ten striking students killed by police…Rocky’s car nearly …
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