The following is reprinted from a section of “Mass Strikes in Capitalist Poland,” which appeared in the August/September, 1980 issue of World Revolution magazine available from BM Box 869, London WC1V 6XX, Great Britain. It is authored by C D …
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May Day
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 345, Winter, 1995
Beltane is the high festival of Spring. Its origins are ancient Celt. In the old times, people celebrated the end of Winter and the turning of the Wheel to the greening of the land with dancing, feasting and lovemaking. They …
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….
Stone Pig Offed in Chicago
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 90, October 16-29, 1969
CHICAGO, Oct. 7 (LNS)—A day before the SDS national action was scheduled to begin here, headlines all over the city announced that the “historic” Haymarket Square Police Monument had been blown sky high. The eight foot high bronze statue of …
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 …
What is Capital
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 266, September, 1975
To avoid any confusion over the usage of terms, let us give a brief definition of the way in which Capital or capitalism is used in articles in the Fifth Estate
Women Unite and Fight
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
Four Michigan women have filed a suit in U.S. District Court charging that the Automatic Retailers of America, Great Lakes Steel Division, discriminate against women by stabilizing them into job categories; in other words, freezing them into dead-end jobs. They …
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 …
Class War World-Wide
by MHB
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives, Robert Ovetz, Editor. Pluto Press 2020
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 …
Socialists Prepare Campaign
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
NEW YORK—The national Committee of the Socialist Workers party has announced here that it has nominated Fred Halstead and Paul Boutelle as the party’s candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States in the 1968 elections.
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.”
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 …
The Rojava Revolution is a Women’s Story
by Paul Buhle
Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022
a review of Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS by Janet Biehl, PM Press, 2021
Chavez Supports Philippine Dictatorship
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977
Cesar Chavez, president of the United Farm Workers union, and perennial darling of the liberal-Catholic-Stalinist milieu, has recently been making his followers uncomfortable by behaving like a George Meany-style labor hack. At the end of July, Chavez, touring the Philippines …
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 …
An Open Letter from Ken Cockrel
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 287, October 28, 1977
I want to thank the Fifth Estate for permitting me to purchase this ad in order to put forth a position they oppose. It’s not that I don’t agree with them that politics is the process of rulers and ruled …
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 …
Eyewitness report on Delano strike
by Anne Draper
Fifth Estate # 1, November 19-December 2, 1965
Delano is a five hour drive from Berkeley, but the farm workers who live and work in the grapes are five light-years away from the Great Society.
Anti-War Conference
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 126, March 4-17, 1971
On March 27 a conference—learn-in sponsored by the May Day Coalition will be held to educate people concerning the war in Indochina and its effects on the United States. The conference will also give people a more complete idea of …