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Tales from the Planet
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 334, Summer, 1990
While nonviolent action in China and Central Europe last year grabbed headlines around the globe, North American media seems to have all but forgotten the ongoing nonviolent direct action campaign for a nuclear-free future. Yet in 1989, nearly 5,500 arrests …
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 …
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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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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From Adoration to Rebellion
by Huang Ho Group (Hong Kong)
Fifth Estate # 290, March 2, 1978
Introduction The article below is part of a series of discussions that took place in Hong Kong in the early part of 1977, in which the participants (all ex-Red Guard members) attempt to make clear their reaction to Mao Tse-Tung …
How Deep is Deep Ecology?
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 327, Fall, 1987
Introduction For a number of years, the Fifth Estate has been writing about the crisis of Western civilization and its industrial/technological plague. At the same time we have been profoundly interested in primitivism and the cultures of earth-based peoples, realizing …
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 …
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 …
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
Crunch at the I-Hotel
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
Staff Note: For nine years, the tenants of San Francisco’s International Hotel have been battling to save their residence from the attempts by the Four Seas Investment Corporation, a Hong Kong based firm, to turn the area into a multi-story …
Bits of the world in brief
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
WELLINGTON, New Zealand—A Maori land-rights activist, driving a van with a traditional native people’s insult painted on its side, was arrested in February when he tried to join visiting Queen Elizabeth’s motorcade. The Queen was the repeated target during her …
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 …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
Ammunition Books 4403 Second Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48201, Tele. No. (313) 831-6800 Bookstore hours vary, but we are generally open on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and at scattered other times. Please call before coming down to be sure we are …
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.