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 …
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, 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 …
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 …
a review of Peter & Emma’s Bookcafe (operetta) by Lenny Kwok, 2021
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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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 …
a review of Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper. Harvard University Press 2021
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
A Second (& More Honest) Mao Tsetung Memorial Meeting Read More »
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 …
“You are not welcome in New Zealand, Mr. Rovics.” Read More »
Quite a Drag Howdy, Folks! (That’s the only non-sexist salutation I can think of.)
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 …
A Man For All Seasons may not be a play for all seasons, but it certainly is a godsend in this particularly impoverished one. A good deal has been written elsewhere about this commendable but somewhat less than considerable play.
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 …
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, …