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.
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Burning Colonialism
by Jeff Shantz
Fifth Estate # 414, Fall 2023
2023 has officially been designated as the worst fire season on record in so-called Canada, with almost 20 million acres burned by summer’s end. While these wildfires deeply ravaged many communities, they have most severely impacted Indigenous communities, many of …
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
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.”
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.
Strike!
by Alan Gotkin
Fifth Estate # 96, January 8-21, 1970
Three ramshackle, trash-can heated huts on York Avenue between Second and Third stand as mute testimony to a strike against the General Electric Corporation which has gone on in Detroit and across the nation since October 26th of last year.
Blacks Confront UAW
by J.R. Kennedy
Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, founded in Detroit, is a militant union movement. It is fighting against the giant automotive corporations and against the United Auto Workers. It is fighting for black liberation and self-determination. The League of Revolutionary …
In any language: NEVER WORK!
by Kim A. Broadie
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of Never Work: Essays Against the Sale of Life. Detritus Books, 2022
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.
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
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 …