Who Pays for Religion?

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Fifth Estate # 266, September, 1975

The costs of religion should be born by those who practice it! Whether you go to church or whether you stay away from it, if you believe in god and religion or if you don’t, you are the one who …

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Revolution & Counter-Revolution in Portugal

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Fifth Estate # 266, September, 1975

Trying to make sense of the situation in Portugal with facts gleaned from reading the daily newspapers and watching the nightly news has become an increasingly impossible task.

Make Big Bucks

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Fifth Estate # 266, September, 1975

Collect unemployment and earn up to $97 a week for 39 weeks, $67 a week for another 26 weeks!

How to Cheat Ma Bell

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Fifth Estate # 266, September, 1975

Reprinted here are the instructions as they originally appeared in the FE for both the use of bogus credit card numbers (for free long-distance calls) and the subversion of computer-card billing (for reduced telephone bills). Also included is a description …

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A short history of schools

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Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013

The word school comes from the Latin word schola meaning “free time consecrated to learning,” an institution idealized by the philosophers and ideologues and perceived as being a socially valued category, in opposition to the sphere of manual or productive …

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What do we learn in school that couldn’t be learned elsewhere?

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Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013

Why do we send our kids to school? We’ve been told that it is in elementary school that the bases of learning to read, write, and do math are acquired, although anyone who spends any time with children can clearly …

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