Eldridge Cleaver has a rap about how immigration screwed up the unity of the American working class. How the English immigrants came and kicked the Indians off the land and then had to import black people to do the work, …
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
by Margery Himel
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
My image of the few women mentioned in history texts in school is completely one-dimensional. There’s Betsy Ross, smiling at George Washington as she sews stars onto the flag…and Dolly Madison, the super-hostess, who saved the President’s portraits from the …
Ammunition Books Catalogue
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 268, January, 1976
This is by no means a complete catalog of all the books that we have. We hope to have an extensive catolog finished in the near future. To get a copy;; send a large self-addressed, stamped envelope to Ammunition Books.
Expose ’67
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
The Fifth Estate has obtained a copy of a letter, one paragraph of which states: “As far as I am concerned, the local police in every community must be prepared to draw fast and not let the bleeding hearts again …
Let Us Now Praise Idle Men (and Women)
by Suzanne Freeman
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
It’s time to celebrate the Late-sleepers and merry drinkers, the loafers & slackers & slow-pokes. The ones on permanent vacation, unhurried and unworried, the rose-smellers & growing-grass watchers, what harm did they ever do? How about a cheer for siesta …
New Theatre
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Two wild Detroit theatre groups combined to open a cozy little theatre on the Southwest side on January 8 and 9. Somebody Else presented their raving, anarchistic “Double Coupon Day Afternoon,” plus other electrifying shorties, and the Acme Theatrical Agency …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 318, Fall, 1984
The FE Bookservice may be reached at the same address as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, P.O. Box 02548, Detroit, MI 48202 USA — telephone (313) 831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our hours vary so please call before dropping in.
Anarchists & Sex Work
by Aaron Lakoff
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
Responses welcome; see Questions & Guidelines in this issue. Which is most consistent with anarchist ideals? Supporting sex workers as an act of solidarity or calls to stop men from consuming women’s bodies?
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 279, December, 1976
JUST PUBLISHED! Letters of Insurgents by Sophia Nachalo & Yarostan Vochek Black & Red 831 pp., $4.50 (add 35 cents postage After 20 years, two participants in an Eastern European insurrection recreate through a series of letters their often contradictory …
The Last FE as Capitalist Enterprise
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
The newspaper you are now holding is the last issue of the Fifth Estate–the last issue of a failing capitalist enterprise, the last issue to appear in coin-boxes, and the last issue produced as a commodity dependent on advertising revenue …
Capitalism to Build Vietnamese “Socialism”
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 277, October 1976
The “socialist” government of unified Vietnam, after telling the Vietnamese people for the past twenty years that they must expel the imperialist nations of France and the United States, is proposing to invite private corporations of those same countries, along …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 293-294, August 21, 1978
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper (?) [sic] and can be found at 4403 Second Ave, (telephone (313) 831-6800. Our hours vary quite a bit, so it’s always best to give us a telephone call before coming …
The Emergence of a UAW Local
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 275, August, 1976
A review of The Emergence of a UAW Local, 1936-1939: A study in class and culture by Peter Friedlander
France
by Joel Parker
Fifth Estate # 69, December 26, 1968-January 8, 1969
PARIS (LNS)—At first glance the only visible change resulting from the May revolution in France are some repaved streets and felled trees.
Vietnam: Where the Political is Still Personal
by Jim Feast
Fifth Estate # 385, Fall, 2011
a review of In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary, by Ngo Van; Eds. Ken Knabb and Helene Fleury; Trans. Helene Fleury, Hillary Horrocks, Ken Knabb, and Naomi Sager; AK Press; 2010; $19.95
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
The CNT in Modern Spain
by Carlos Semprún Maura
Fifth Estate # 295, November 3, 1978
Note: The following article was translated from the readers’ soapbox page of the June 1, 1978 issue of Solidaridad Obrera (C/. Princesa, 56, entlo, 1a, Barcelona, Spain), organ of the C.N.T. of Catalonia.
Italy: the refusal of all constraints
by Isaac Cronin
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
This text was taken from a leaflet by Isaac Cronin (Box 14221, San Francisco, Ca. 94114). Thanks to No Limits (Box 2605, Madison, WI 53701) for the information. It appeared in their June/July issue.
No Ten Million for Cuba
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
HAVANA (LNS) In two speeches May 19 and 20, Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced that the projected mark of ten million tons of sugar would not be reached this year.
Women: Marx’s Forgotten Proletariat
by David Adams
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
While Marx developed some important tools for building a critique of capitalism from the perspective of the worker, he did not devote much thought to capital’s exploitation of women.