On the Correct Handling of Nuclear Fallout upon the People

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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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Capitalism to Build Vietnamese “Socialism”

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Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976

The “socialist” government of unified Vietnam, after telling the Vietnamese people for the past twenty years that they must expel the imperialist nations of France and the United States, is proposing to invite private corporations of those same countries, along …

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The Guardian vs. Language

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Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976

While the main contribution of Marxism-Leninism remains its establishment of state capitalism in areas of the world where private capital could not develop, its project has also debased language to a point suggested in George Orwell’s 1984—where words are distorted …

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Mexican Jail Strike Fails

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Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976

A group of American prisoners serving time in Mexican jails attempted to call attention to their demands for an end to torture and for action by the U.S. government by staging a nation-wide hunger strike throughout the Mexican prison system …

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Luddism Begins at Home

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Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004

Tragedy of the Sixties: If you turn on and tune in—such heavily technophilic metaphors!—you can’t really hope to drop out of the technocracy. Too bad turn off, tune out, and secede isn’t nearly so snappy a slogan.

The Social Peace is Over

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Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004

Over a thousand angry protesters marched on Montreal’s posh St. James Hotel, April 14, causing havoc and disrupting the tea-time of the idle rich. The protest was part of a province-wide day of action marking the one-year anniversary of the …

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The Elections

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Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016

The anarchist avoidance of the electoral process began over a hundred years ago as a bulwark against the seduction of reformism, social democracy, and the like, when the possibility of revolution seemed imaginable. The new world, which anarchists carried in …

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Adamant refusal will not go unnoticed

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Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004

I’ve been giving the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) to my 3rd graders this week. I could be fired, possibly arrested, for telling you this, but do you want to know what’s on the test? Here’s one of the …

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The Army of the 12 Monkeys

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Fifth Estate # Tearing Down The Prisons

< Return to first section of article FE staff note: The Fifth Estate received the article below from an anonymous source. Only the first section appears in our print edition. We declined to print the second part, describing a prison …

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Tearing Down The Prisons

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Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016

Fifth Estate note: The following text was sent to us anonymously via email. It contained a section following what is here describing an intense prison rebellion at an unnamed institution and without a date of its occurrence.

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