You can’t turn on the news these days without hearing about unemployment. The national unemployment rate hovers at about 8.3 percent, although experts agree that the number of people outof-work far exceeds that figure.
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Financial Advice for the Working Class: Unemployment
by John Hardin
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
Haymarket Square Riot (response)
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 274, July 1976
Response to: A Bicentennial moment: Haymarket Square Riot by Bob Nirkind, Fifth Estate #272, May, 1976, Vol. 11, No. 8, page 10
New Soviet Law Stands Marxism on its Head
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 285, August, 1977
Although everyone except the most self-deluded realizes that the Soviet Union is a totalitarian police state, its rulers still feel the need to wrap their bureaucratic authority in formal legalisms. Under the direction of Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev, …
Anatomy of a Strike
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
A green pickup truck with living space for ten or twelve if you squeeze together. Rain-soaked, faded picket signs barely readable: RECOGNIZE OUR UNION, WSU USES STUDENTS FOR CHEAP LABOR, WSU IS ANTI-LABOR.
Fighting Racism & the Bosses
by Robert Ovetz
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly by Peter Cole. PM Press, 2021
Poland at the Crossroad
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
With the endorsement of the Polish Communist Party’s Politburo, on November 10, of a plan that would include the Solidarity union in a new coalition government, it appears that the seemingly endless period of crisis and confrontation in Poland will …
Violent-illegal Party forms
by Mr. Venom
Fifth Estate # 268, January, 1976
Chants of “Shave my teeth!” and “Blood! Guts! Terror!” were the theme of a militantly irresponsible demonstration called by the recently founded Violent-Illegal Party (V.I.P.) on December 12 at Wayne State University.
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 393, Spring 2015
Send letters to fe – at – fifthestate – dot – org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220 All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten; letters may be edited for length Want to write a letter about our …
DRUM Beat Shakes UAW
by Donna Shoemaker
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
A group of militant black workers have begun to organize at a Detroit auto plant and have thrown both the union and the company into a near panic. It is called the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) and is located …
Zines as Means for Change
by Len Bracken
Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025
a review of War of Dreams: A Field Guide to DIY Psy-Ops by Jason Rodgers. PM Press, 2024
Sovereignty & the State
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 366, Fall, 2004
Meet the New Boss When US occupation authorities pretended to return sovereignty to Iraq, they erected a pliable government of quisling-proxies. To cover up the devastating failure of the invasion, they created a mirage of Iraqi independence.
Battle of the Bullhorn
by Bill Blear
Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991
On Malcolm X Day, February 21, in Detroit, members of two rival leftist sects slugged it out for control of a microphone following an anti-war march organized as part of nationwide protests against the Gulf war.
Strikers Seek Aid
by Ron Caplan
Fifth Estate # 7, April 1966
The word huelga means strike, and it’s fast becoming a word in the American language as the strike that began in the grape fields surrounding Delano slowly radiates out across the country. But to those in the strike area, those …
Readers respond (II)
by Naomi Klein
Fifth Estate # 357, Summer 2002
“We do not want others, more or less of the right, center or left, to decide for us. We want to participate directly in the decisions which concern us, to control those who govern us, without regard to their political …
N.S.A. Maps ‘Poor Peoples Program’
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 6, March 20-April 1, 1966
The National Student Association’s Poor People’s Corporation Personnel Program is recruiting sales representatives to work in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, and managerial aides to work In cooperatives in Mississippi. Sales representatives will be Working in programs designed to …
Will CP Rule Italy?
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 273, June 1976
“A spectre is haunting Europe—the Spectre of Communism.” — from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Frederick Engels One hundred and eighteen years later Communism is again haunting the combined heads of the world bourgeoisie, but in a way …
Freedom is Money
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 93, November 27-December 10, 1969
“To be free you have to have bread to do free things. The more bread you got, the freer you become.” —Mike Quatro (Hippie band booking agent, explaining how he equates making money off “the movement”) Detroit News, Nov. 16, …
Bits of the World in Briefs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 290, March 2, 1978
CHINA The Chinese people have a new hero, according to the Peking Peoples Daily. He is Teng Hsiang-erh, a Shantung province coal miner who is being hailed as a model worker. To earn the distinction, Teng did the following: refused …
Anti-Electoralism and William Morris
by Wayne Price
Fifth Estate # 358, Fall, 2002
It is generally a waste of time to argue with individuals about their voting or not voting. Among tens of thousands, one vote either way makes no difference (even when it gets counted).
The Mail Strike
by Karl Fischer
Fifth Estate # 102, April 2-15, 1970
The postal workers’ strike exploded like a time-bomb across the nation. Beginning in New York City, and spreading quickly through every major city in the country.