Reprinted from Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the 20th Century by Harry Braverman, Monthly Review, July-August 1974 edition; pages 55-58. // Share this on…
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Limitations of Leftism
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 395, Winter 2016 - 50th Anniversary
The article from which this excerpt is taken, “Stopping the Industrial Hydra: Revolution Against the Megamachine,” appeared in our Winter 1990 issue. It provides analyses of the Exxon Valdez oil spill of March 1989 from the standpoint of a global …
Other Scenes
by John Wilcock
Fifth Estate # 56, June 19-July 1, 1968
Millbrook, that renowned dropout shrine in upstate New York, is closed and padlocked, its tribe scattered, its guru Tim Leary now living in Berkeley. And the end of an era was marked last month with a “farewell” party for Uncle …
Col. North: War Criminal
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 326, Summer, 1987
U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, a hero? A patriot? Shit! This guy is a fascist and a war criminal! Less people than it appears are willing to stand up and salute this creep who bears great responsibility for the …
In Revolutionary Spain, Workers Made the Anarchist Vision Real
by David Porter
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
a review of Anarchism and Workers’ Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain by Frank Mintz. AK Press, 2013, 326pp., $19, akpress.org // Share this on…
Pushing The Line
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976
NEW YORK—The 200 garment industry executives listened attentively as the seminar speaker, with evangelical fervor, told them how their industry can be brought “kicking and screaming into the 20th Century.” // Share this on…
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
The Fifth Estate is a co-operative project, published by a group of friends who are in general, but not necessarily complete agreement with the articles herein. Each segment of the paper represents the collective effort of writing, typesetting, lay-out and …
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 335, Winter, 1990-91
FIFTH ESTATE #335, Winter, 1990-91, Vol. 25, No. 2 Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate is a co-operative project, published by a group of friends who are in general, but not necessarily complete agreement with the articles herein. Each segment of …
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
The Fifth Estate is a cooperative, nonprofit project, publishing since 1965. The people who produce it are a group of friends who do so neither to secure wages nor as an investment in the newspaper industry, but to encourage resistance …
Bringing it All Back Home
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
Editors’ Note: Larry Miller, known to his longtime listeners in the Detroit area as the man who invented “underground radio,” has returned to Detroit after two years as “Midnight Miller” on KMPX-FM in San Francisco and is presently partying on …
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
The Fifth Estate is a cooperative project, published by a group of friends who are in general but not necessarily complete agreement with the articles herein. Each segment of the paper represents the collective effort of writing, typesetting, lay-out and …
Infomodities
by Jason Rodgers
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
“News is the dialogue of fragmented power with itself. Notice how scientists, politicians or businessmen now complain that even they only learn about the events they manage from the news. // Share this on…
SDS Guerrillas Strike
by Scott Braley
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
Madison Avenue seems determined to co-opt and make a profit on everything, even revolution. // Share this on…
Paris May-June 1968
by SK
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
a review of Freedom in Solidarity: My Experiences in the May 1968 Uprising by Kadour Naimi; Translation and foreword by David Porter. AK Press, 2019 akpress.org // Share this on…
Worker Kills Boss
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 289, January 24, 1978
The western Massachusetts area was rocked on Monday, October 10, with the news that a 31 year-old drill press operator at the Springfield American Bosch airplane and truck parts plant had returned from lunch with a .22 caliber rifle and …
Masthead
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 348, Fall, 1996
The Fifth Estate is a cooperative, nonprofit project, publishing since 1965. The people who produce it are a group of friends who do so neither to secure wages nor as an investment in the newspaper industry, but to encourage resistance …
From Venezuela
by El Libertario (Venezuela)
Fifth Estate # 362, Fall, 2003
These excerpts come from the English section of the El Libertario website. El Libertario is a collective in Venezuela that has been active for eight years now. // Share this on…
Lording in the Corridor
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
Corridor Lording Ten years ago, the number of residents in the Cass Corridor, bounded by Adams, Cass, Penn Central RR, and the John Lodge X-Way, numbered well over two hundred thousand. Today that number has dwindled to under ninety thousand. …
Strike & Sabotage at Wash. Post
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
If the publishing of a sympathetic account of a union struggle seems inconsistent with our perspective, which views unions as auxiliary organs of Capital, let us clarify the matter. As people who have spent our adult lives as wage workers …
Trans-Love Evolves
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
The Trans-Love Energies operation in the Warren-Forest community has undergone a number of changes lately, according to spokesmen for the hippie cooperative, of which the Fifth Estate is a member group. // Share this on…