Now that the Hua Kuo-feng faction of the Chinese Communist party is firmly in control of the People’s Republic any number of Maoist concepts have been slated for the waste basket of history.
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Political Prisoners in China
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
Last March in Canton, China, an unnamed Peking official replied to questions by the New York-Times, on the subject of political prisoners in China, by stating, “A few intellectuals deprived of free speech is only a minor question. In the …
China is Near
by Dennis Raymond
Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969
A new and exciting group of directors has appeared in the Italian cinema over the past four or five years. Its two most promising members are Marco Bellocchio and Bernardo Bertolucci.
Struggles Against Capitalist Rule in Modern China
by Rui Preti
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
a review of China On Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance edited by Hao Ren; English edition edited by Zhongjin Li and Eli Friedman. Haymarket Books, 2016 Striking to Survive: Workers Resistance to Factory Relocations in China by Fan Shigang, translated …
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Power Struggle in China
by R.F.
Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976
When Chou En-lai, the first and only Prime Minister of the Peoples Republic of China, died in the beginning of this year, a struggle between the so-called “moderate,” pro-managerial and “radical left,” pro-Maoist factions within the Party burst into the …
Sex in China
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 288, December 1977
The five cartoon panels printed on this page are taken from “Red Guard Romance” (written and drawn by Jay Kinney) and appeared in Young Lust No. 5. Most of us read the comic and thought it funny, if not somewhat …
Burning Man Comes to China
by Pierre Garine
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
Burning Man began with a wooden effigy and a single match on a beach in San Francisco in the late 1980s. When the police came and closed down the beach burning of the Man it was John Law and Michael …
Worker Revolts, Political Strife Belie China’s Peaceful Image
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Since the struggle for power within the Chinese bureaucracy sharpened following the death of Mao Tse-tung in September, events have begun swirling at an ever faster rate. Coming on the heels of the political turmoil in the capital city, the …
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Class Struggle in China
by C.D. Ward
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
Excerpted from “Class Struggle in ‘Red’ China” by C.D. Ward, in World Revolution In China and similarly throughout the world, the trade unions are a part of the state machine; their function is to integrate the working class into the …
Peace Leader Says Clash with China Near
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
NEW YORK—Rev. James Bevel, national director of the Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam, assailed President Johnson for turning a deaf ear to the growing anti-war sentiment in the United States.
China: Financing the Celestial Empire
by E. Mett, Y. Bumczik
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
China is in fashion. Enthusiasm for China can be found amongst liberals, technocrats and members of the World Bank. In the popular view “the people are brave and the culture squeaky clean.” Maoists and proto-Maoists proclaim China as a genuine …
China: The Mysterious Journey of the Democracy Movement
by Gabriel Dumont
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
“Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.” — Michael Bakunin
Pictures of Chairman Mao
by Pun Plamondon
Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968
George Wallace stood up and said all the magic words, “Dope Fiend, Outlaw, Pervert, Cuba, Masses, Red, Mao, Free, Fidel, Workers, Black, White!” These are magic words in America. These arc the words that make white America go to its …
Front page text
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 95, December 26, 1969-January 7, 1970
One afternoon a thousand years ago a Chinese administrator named Cao Bien was sitting by the River Lo in Vietnam. He had been sent by the Emperor of China to conquer Vietnam and make it part of China. As he …
On the Correct Handling of Nuclear Fallout upon the People
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
U.S. Getting Radiation From China A-Blast WASHINGTON — (AP) — Light radiation from a Chinese atomic test is sprinkling parts of the eastern United States, leading health officials in one state to warn residents to wash garden vegetables carefully before …
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Mao Aids Chile Dogs
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 271, April, 1976
At a time when the Pinochet dictatorship’s murderous repression of political opponents has isolated it internationally to the point that the blood-soaked regime is even a public embarrassment to the White House, help has arrived from the Maoist bureaucracy in …
Criticism/Self-Criticism
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
George Orwell’s 1984, in which he potently describes a totalitarian society of the future, has been used by both capitalists and communists in describing each other’s society. The saddest thing of all is that they’re both right.
Would You Let this Man Stand in the Way of Your Bottom Line?
by International Friends of Wei Jingsheng
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
Not if you want to succeed in business today. In the modern international marketplace, competition is tough. If the corporations which have brought us the standard of living we have recently come to enjoy are to continue doing so against …
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At the Movies
by Stark Raving
Fifth Estate # Daily Barbarian Number 1
THE DAILY BARBARIAN supplement FIFTH ESTATE, #298, June 19, 1979
What is Capital
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 266, September, 1975
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
Maoists Become Shrubs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
Just as in George Orwell’s 1984, “opponents of the working class” in China not only disappear physically, never to be heard from again, but also historically. A case in point are the two photographs printed here which demonstrate one of …
Graphics Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 319, Winter, 1985
The graphics/collages on pages 9-13 are taken from “Manual for Revolutionary Leaders” by M. Velli, and appear in the book in full color. It is available through our book service and is listed on page 18. Each construction contains a …
Free the Hunan iconoclasts
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
WHO ARE THEY: Yu Zhijian, age 27, formerly a teacher at the Tantou Wan Primary School in Dahu Township, Liuyang County, Hunan Province. Yu Dongyue, former fine-arts director of the Liuyang News. Lu Decheng, 28, previously an employee of the …
World Sports Roundup
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
This issue’s sports roundup shows radical changes in fortune for many players.
Madness and Nuclear Drama on TV
by Norman Bates
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
Within the space of one week in March, two films dealing with different aspects of nuclear madness appeared on Network television. In “The China Syndrome,” a film which had been released right at the time of the Three Mile Island …
From the other side of the tracks
by Julius Lester
Fifth Estate # 88, September 18-October 1, 1969
There now exists a segment of the movement which officially considers itself Marxist-Leninist. Unfortunately it regards Marxism-Leninism more as a temple in which one must worship than a tool to be used creatively.
A Spectre Haunts the World
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 290, March 2, 1978
CAUTION! There are terrorists among us. THEY infest this planet from Washington to New York, from Nuremburg to Moscow, from Peking to Santiago. THEY detain millions of hostages every day and give them the ultimatum—become a slave to the state …
Coke adds life to every party…
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
The Coca Cola Bottling Co. extends its hand in congratulations to the People’s Republic of China on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of its Revolution and on its ambitious plans to become a modern technological society by the year …
Occupy the Future
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
They’ve wrecked the earth, destroyed her treasures, and inflicted misery on the many, all so they can golf or set up their lawn chairs on some clear cut forest. It’s over whether we do anything or not, but if we …
Bits of the World in Brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 292, June 19, 1978
Peoples (sic) Republic (sic) of China Despite the change of bureaucracy in China and attempts by the new rulers to make peace with the workers by offering them meager wage increases, it seems that political and social unrest continues. According …
LBJ Signs Anti-pot Treaty
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967
The movement to re-legalize marijuana was dealt a severe blow several weeks ago according to an article in the Village Voice of June 22, 1967. On May 25 President Johnson, a reputed speed freak, signed a treaty known as the …
Rise and Fall
by Fran Shor
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
A defining historical feature of the decline of specific empires in the world capitalist system has been the conflict surrounding the emergence of a successor. The United States and Germany engaged in a protracted struggle in the first half of …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 271, April, 1976
Us Normals To The Fifth Estate: We had a dim premonition the shallow-minded comedians would one day use what they thought to be DADA as a way of deadening men’s minds.
Class War World-Wide
by MHB
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives, Robert Ovetz, Editor. Pluto Press 2020
The “Left” on Sex
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 270, March, 1976
The following are quotations from a variety of “leftist” politicians and organizations:
Beyond Parody
by Ann Landers
Fifth Estate # 333, Winter, 1990
Dear Ann Landers: Right now I am so mad I could spit tacks. My husband and I are seniors. We love to watch the soaps. We have come to know the characters so well that they are like members of …
Shorts
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 299, October 22, 1979
Sweet Music-Muzak—that background music featured in supermarkets, office buildings and factories is invading the People’s Republic of China. The Western regional director of the-Muzak Corporation, Bert Mitchell, has told Pacific News Service that a Muzak salesman has just returned from …
Eat It!
by Judie Davis
Fifth Estate # 77, April 17-30, 1969
Why I like Chinese food: I guess I really became crazy about Chinese food when I was living in New York and working as a waitress. I always ate Chinese on my day off because I was tired of roast …
Robert Williams
by J.R. Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 94, December 11-24, 1969
The Detroit black community is moving again. They are mobilizing in support of Robert F. Williams and against the racist judicial machinery that is attempting to extradite him to North Carolina.