The Fifth Estate supports the struggle of the anarchists and anti-authoritarians of Hong Kong for a world in which social solidarity and individual freedom can create community. We join them in opposing the brutal dictatorship of the Chinese government and …
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Hong Kong’s Black Book Fair
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 400, Spring, 2018
Hong Kong’s Black Book Fair took place November 17-19, 2017 in the lecture theatre of the Visual Arts Centre, close to the Admiralty area where the Umbrella Movement was ignited by a police attack on demonstrators three years earlier.
Hong Kong
by Norman Nawrocki
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
Hong Kong, a steamy, enchanting, green pearl of an island with an amazingly efficient public transit system is also the ultimate temple to last gasp, fast buck, crass consumerism. Mega-towering, teetering, multi-national corporate headquarters ablaze with over-sized neon logos that …
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 …
An anarchist operetta set in Taiwan
by Norman Nawrocki
Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022
a review of Peter & Emma’s Bookcafe (operetta) by Lenny Kwok, 2021
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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Contents of print edition
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
Fifth Estate #381, Summer-Fall 2009, Vol. 44, No. 2 2 LETTERS 4 MARIE MASON INTERVIEW 5 RNC FRAME-UP UPDATE 6 THE SHIT HITS THE FAN by Ron Sakolsky 8 KILLER APE THEORY DISPROVED by Tim MacGowan 10 THE FUTURE OF …
Underground Asia
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper. Harvard University Press 2021
Rebellions Rock the World
by Paul Walker (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
In the latter half of 2019, the streets of Hong Kong, Santiago, Barcelona, Baghdad, London, Paris, and Beirut were flooded with huge demonstrations demanding reforms or the removal of politicians.
75, March 20-April 2, 1969
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # Archive
Fifth Estate Issue #75, March 20-April 2, 1969 WEB CONTENTS Photo caption: Detroit Police Commissioner Johannes Spreen congratulates former District Inspector Anthony Bertoni on having done a ‘top-notch job’ in clearing demonstrators from Cobo Hall last October. See page 5 …
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.
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976
JUST PUBLISHED! Letters of Insurgents by Sophia Nachalo & Yarostan Vochek Black & Red 831 pp., $4.50 (add 35 cents postage After 20 years, two participants in an Eastern European insurrection recreate through a series of letters their often contradictory …
A Second (& More Honest) Mao Tsetung Memorial Meeting
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
Hold high the banner of Mao Tsetung’s immoral contributions and the achievements and lessons of the Cultural Revolution! COMRADES! Fellow Marxist-Leninists of the Revolutionary Proletarian Vanguard! Let us be open and honest, using the revolutionary method of criticism-self-criticism to sum …
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“You are not welcome in New Zealand, Mr. Rovics.”
by David Rovics
Fifth Estate # 390, Fall, 2013
It was mid-August, and after singing at various events, mainly ones commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima, I was supposed to be switching planes, en route from Fukuoka to Christchurch, New Zealand, via Tokyo and Auckland. When I got paged over …
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Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
Quite a Drag Howdy, Folks! (That’s the only non-sexist salutation I can think of.)
View from the Top
by Thorstein Smith
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
Early this year, George Meany’s AFL—CIO pulled out of the International Confederation of “Free” Trade Unions because ICFTU, originally set up as an anti-Communist rival to a pro-Soviet World Federation of Trade Unions in 1949, is getting closer to dealing …
This Is BioMorph
by Gary Ives
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
Welcome to BioMorph. I’m Herb Fanley. You’ve read the brochures and watched our holograms I see. Please have a seat and I’ll be happy to answer your questions.” “Would you care for coffee? Good. We can relax a little before …
Fight to Win
by Rory Elliot
Fifth Estate # 408, Winter, 2021
A review of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade. Verso 2020 With Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), the trans activist and law professor Dean Spade challenges the reader, …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
Mutual Aid To The Fifth Estate: I have been delegated by the Anarchist Fund Raising Picnic held Sept. 11 at Santa Teresa Park, San Jose, California, to disburse the following funds to support the anarchist propaganda projects in the English …