DETROIT (LNS)—Workers in the automobile industry—described by The New York Times as “among the cream of the nation’s industrial workers”—are feeling the squeeze of rising prices and falling real wages. Although pay raises have been won regularly from the big …
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Students Join Workers
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
RICHMOND, Calif. (LNS)—Workers and students here fought together Feb. 3 to repel scab attempts to break picket lines during a strike against Standard Oil Refinery. // Share this on…
WSU Black Workers Move
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers has moved onto the Wayne State University Campus. In a move to combat racism in employment and bad working conditions, members of the League have organized a group of thirty to forty black secretaries …
Unions vs. Workers
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 283, June, 1977
From the May 3 Wall Street Journal comes some interesting information about the United Mine Workers (UMW) union that bears heavily on future energy schemes, especially those dictated by our peanut president. Carter’s new energy policy calls for increased use …
Workers Join Students
by National Guardian
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
Reprinted from the Guardian. San Francisco—A major breakthrough in the San Francisco State College strike was achieved Feb. 7 when representatives of striking workers at the Standard Oil refinery in Richmond, across the Bay, joined with striking SF State students …
Workers of the world…Relax!
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
This was the centerfold of the May 1-7, 1975 (we were a weekly then!) Fifth Estate, as part of a special Mayday supplement. The drawing is by Gilbert Shelton, of “Fabulous, Furry, Freak Brothers” fame. // Share this on…
WSU Library Workers Organize
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
Wayne State University is a working class college in a working class town. It is located in Detroit, a city which has long since taken the United Auto Workers bureaucracy into its ruling class and blunted union militancy by cooptation. …
Black Workers’ Power
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 92, November 13-26, 1969
Another letter has been engraved on the tombstone of the dying United Auto Workers bureaucracy as 300 members of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers gathered outside Cobo Hall Sunday morning, Nov. 9, to protest the racist practices of the …
Black Workers Present Demands
by Joe Check
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
The week of Oct. 5 through 12, the Ad Hoc Construction Coalition presented demands to 8 agencies that 50% of all workers in construction and construction-related projects in the Detroit area be black. // Share this on…
Polish Workers Face Repression
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 278, November, 1976
In the last August 1976 Fifth Estate [#275, Polish Food Riots] we gave a sketchy report (all that was then available) of repression against striking workers centering in the Polish cities of Ursus and Radom. This major strike wave which …
Workers’ Inquiry
by Stevphen Shukaitis
Fifth Estate # 380, Spring 2009
The autonomist political theorist and strategist Mario Tronti in his classic book Operai e capital argued that weapons for working class revolt have always been taken from the bosses’ arsenal. // Share this on…
IWW Marine Transport Workers Local 8
by Peter Cole
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
Among the greatest obstacles to a working class revolution in the United States (and beyond) has been, and remains, white supremacy Far too many white people, past and present, have put their racial identity above their class interests. // Share …
League of Revolutionary Black Workers
by Fifth Estate Collective, John Watson
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
[Part 2 of the interview appeared in FE #79, May 15-28, 1969.] Editors’ Note: John Watson, editor of the Wayne State University South End, has been involved in Detroit revolutionary politics for a number of years. Former editor of the …
Ice Cream, Anarchy & Forgotten Workers
by D. Sands
Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019
In late August, a sizable crowd gathered in a downtown Detroit park well past its glory days to eat chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream…and learn about Sacco and Vanzetti. // Share this on…
League of Revolutionary Black Workers
by Fifth Estate Collective, John Watson
Fifth Estate # 79, May 15-28, 1969
This interview was conducted and transcribed by Dena Clamage. [Part 1 of the interview appeared in FE #78, May 1-14, 1969.] // Share this on…
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…
Workers Aid & the Betrayals of the Left
by David Watson
Fifth Estate # 356, Spring, 2002
The failure of dissidents in the West to come to terms with the Yugoslav debacle & the subsequent slaughters weighs like a nightmare on the mind & spirit of anyone trying to sort through the complex realities of the present …
Objections to Councilism
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 328, Spring, 1988
FE Note: This is a response to “More Minneapolis Anarchy,” the letters beginning on page 15 of this issue. // Share this on…
Is syndicalism outdated?
by Paul Buhle
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
a review of Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present Edited by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini. Chicago, Haymarket Books, 2011, 417pp, $19 // Share this on…
Army Crumbling in Portugal
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 267, November, 1975
The rule of Capital continues to erode in Portugal as the increased activity of rank-and-file soldiers, workers and peasants comes into increasing conflict with the Sixth Provisional military government. // Share this on…