Ukrainian and Russian Repression

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Fifth Estate # 397, Winter, 2017

Over the past year, ruling elites in Russia and Ukraine—often in collaboration with fascist gangs—intensified active repression of those who dare to express dissident points of view on a wide range of topics, from workers’ demands for back pay, to …

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Water Activists Face Repression

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Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004

During the past few months, Michigan activists fighting the global economy’s developing market for water extraction have fought a multi-national corporation, the legal system, and the state’s liberal governor.

Anarchists Blamed for Anti-EU Letter Bombs

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Fifth Estate # 364, Spring, 2004

Through late December and early January, explosive devices were mailed to the president of the European Commission, the governor of the European Central Bank, two members of the European Parliament, the directors of the European Union’s police and judicial cooperation …

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Warning to the Pope

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Fifth Estate # 299, October 22, 1979

You, M. Pope, are a scoundrel and a cur. The more “personable,” the more popular and accessible you become, the more you inspire our absolute loathing for all that you represent: the self-alienation of the human subject and the invasion …

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Chrysler Sabotage

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Fifth Estate # 299, October 22, 1979

It’s a rare case when someone can go home from the job and say they’ve done a constructive day’s work, and an even rarer case when 4,000 people from the same place can say it at the same time.

Terrorists’ Revenge

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Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977

While waiting at a traffic light in the city of Karlsruhe, West Germany, Chief Prosecutor Siegfried Buback was assassinated just as the light turned green.

China Supports US on Taiwan

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Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977

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.

Poland: 1970-71

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Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977

a review of Poland: 1970-71; Capitalism and Class Struggle, Informations Correspondence Ourvrieres (ICO), 117 pages; illustrated, Black & Red, Detroit, 1977.

The Last SLA Statement

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Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977

The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) undertook a series of urban guerrilla actions in 1973 and 1974 that made world-wide headlines. The assassination of a reactionary school official, the kidnapping of a wealthy heiress and a bank appropriation set off a …

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Worker Revolts, Political Strife Belie China’s Peaceful Image

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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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