Thirteen years ago the Hungarian people, led by the Budapest working class, launched an attack on the ruling police state. In the process, the despotism of the state was briefly eliminated and councils of workers emerged, signaling a dramatic break …
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Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Sticks & Stones Dear Fifth Estate, In response to E.B. Maple (“On Organization: Two Reviews of The Camatte/Collu Pamphlet,” FE #279, December 1976), I can only say that calling me a “Leninist” does not make it so. // Share this …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 272, May 1976
Hungary ’56 by Andy Anderson Black & Red-Solidarity 138 pp., $1.25 Revolt In Socialist Yugoslavia by Fredy Perlman Black & Red 23 pp., $.25 // Share this on…
Off the Pigs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
Editors’ Note: The so-called “riot manual” described on the opposite page [FE #84, July 24-August 6, 1969] should be seen for what it is—a battle plan for the subjugation of the black community, demonstrators, and anyone who challenges the way …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
FEer Kidnapped? [In response to Rich Take Non-Aspirin Over FE Ad, #274, July 1976] Dear Sirs (sic): We have kidnapped your staff member, E.B. Maple. If you do not deliver $300,000 in one dollar bills or the Chairman of the …
League Sues Crysler
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969
“We are bringing our legitimate grievances to the legal establishment of the white man’s government to give the racist monopoly capitalist system the opportunity to begin to redeem itself for the crimes which have been perpetuated against Black workers and …
Wanna Nice Job?
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 272, May 1976
At Blue Bird Food Products, a union plant on Chicago’s South side, thirty-five television cameras mounted on moveable tracks keep constant surveillance on 450 workers on the factory floor. In the monitoring room, an “expert” in time-study keeps detailed charts …
The Cucumber Quotient
by Arnold Washover
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
A few years ago on my last job I kept waking up in the morning with big bubbles in my head, eat a bowl of corn chips and go to work, checking out the storm sewers for leaks and patching …
France ’68: A Society Explodes
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 338, Winter, 1992
a review of Worker-Student Action Committees: France ’68, R. Gregoire & F. Perlman, Black & Red, PO Box 02374, Detroit MI 48202, 1969 (reprinted 1991). Available from B & R or FE Books, $3 plus postage. // Share this on…
“Down With Your Levis”
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 37, September 1-15, 1967
Atlanta—On Saturday, August 12, a crowd of 175 supporters and newsmen gathered at Atlanta’s Piedmont Park to watch 25 Atlanta students and workers take off and burn their Levi pants. // Share this on…
Unions and Reformism
by Judith Allen
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
Reprinted from Internationalism No. 3 Unionism corresponded to a particular historical period of workers ‘ struggles. Its form was determined by its reformist content. Unions regrouped only a minority of the working class, just enough to be able to put …
Letters to the Fifth Estate
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976
Solitary for T-Shirt Greetings Comrades: I thought I’d forward some news about authority inside prison…. // Share this on…
Anarchism & The Critique of Technology
by Bob Brubaker
Fifth Estate # 320, Spring, 1985
Much of contemporary anarchist thought is completely reconciled with industrial society and technological social organization. This common anarchist viewpoint is summed up by Daniel Guerin thusly: “[Anarchism] rests upon large-scale modern industry, up-to-date techniques, the modern proletariat, and internationalism on …
Chrysler Sabotage
by anon.
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. // …
Poland: Triumphs and Defeats
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
On September 1, Lech Walesa, the worker who negotiated the end of the recent Polish strike wave, climbed two flights of wooden stairs to the temporary offices of the new Independent Trade Union which he heads. Walesa carried a two-foot …
Challenging the Nation State in Syria
by Leila Al Shami
Fifth Estate # 396, Summer, 2016
Syria’s current borders were drawn up by imperial map makers a hundred years ago in the midst of World War I as part of a secret accord between France and Britain to divide the Mideast spoils of the Turkish Ottoman …
On Poland and Power
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), Rudy Perkins
Fifth Estate # 310, Fall 1982
Thanks again for running my article on Poland, and for E.B. Maple’s reply. (See FE #309, June 19, 1982, “The Collapse in Poland”) Maple seems a little over-anxious for a dispute on the questions raised, in some cases going out …
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 …
Self-management and the Spanish Revolution
by Pointblank
Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976
On the morning of July 18, 1936 General Francisco Franco began the fascist rebellion against the Spanish Republican liberal bourgeois regime in Madrid. This move was immediately met by armed resistance of the urban proletariat who, after defeating the fascists …
Roger the Grape to Lead Boycott Day
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
State Senator Roger Craig, along with Hijinio Rangel, a striking worker from Delano, California, will kick off the International Grape Boycott Day activities in Detroit on May 10th. // Share this on…