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Delano to Sacramento
by Anne P. Draper
Fifth Estate # 8, May, 1966
Mrs. Draper, active trade unionist and secretary of California Citizens for Farm Labor, spent several days on the Delano-Sacramento pilgrimage march of the grape strikers.
Special offers
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate #
This page is replaced by Special Offers in the FE Store. Domestic U.S. Orders Only Subscribe to the Fifth Estate Black & Red books Our friends at Black & Red have made several of their titles available to FE readers …
Drug Tests
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
The recent clamor by employers for mandatory drug testing of workers threatens to add yet another humiliating dimension to wage labor. Both private and governmental concerns have expressed strong support for the idea, and it was recently given a boost …
Serve Your Country: Don’t Go to Vietnam
by War Resisters League
Fifth Estate # 39, October 1-15, 1967
If your government is waging a criminal war do you serve the country best by cooperating? Who served Germany best under Hitler? Those who obeyed orders and helped kill the Jews? Or the handful of Germans who chose prison and …
Radical Filmmakers in Detroit
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
On the night of July 3 the staccato of machine-gun fire rang out across the Jeffries Housing Project bordering on the Lodge Freeway. The sound was accompanied by the appearance of flickering letters on the wall of one of the …
Worker Kills Boss
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 289, January 24, 1978
The western Massachusetts area was rocked on Monday, October 10, with the news that a 31 year-old drill press operator at the Springfield American Bosch airplane and truck parts plant had returned from lunch with a .22 caliber rifle and …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 307, November 19, 1981
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, both of which are located at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit MI 48201—telephone (313) 831-6800. The hours we are open vary considerably, so it’s always best to …
The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919
by Eric Thomas Chester
Fifth Estate # 404, Summer, 2019
On May Day 1919, in the immediate aftermath of World War I, a general strike began that shut down all economic activity in Winnipeg, Canada. The general strikes that took place in Glasgow, Scotland in January 1919, in Seattle in …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 281, March, 1977
CIA Supports FE Dear Fifth Estate: I refuse to renew my subscription to your radical rag for the simple reason I have some absurdist evidence you’ve been running a bogus journalistic revolution in the Motor City. That’s right! I talked …
Good vibes ride again
by Bob Fleck
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
Hot diggity! Free food and good vibes on a Wednesday evening at Royal Oak’s Memorial Park, courtesy of potluck and the Yipfugs.
Wobblies & Work
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 370, Fall 2005
This special section, announcing itself with the above headline, contains more of a critical and theoretical tension than may be immediately obvious at first reading. Imbedded in it is the difference between the clarion call proposed by Marxists to the …
Anti-War Presidential Candidate In City
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967
Socialist Workers party presidential nominee Fred Halstead was in Detroit Friday, October 6 to kick off his campaign at a rally sponsored by the S.W.P. campaign committee.
Mass Insurrection Centennial
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 284, July, 1977
On July 16, 1877, railroad workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia, walked off their jobs in response to a 10% wage cut instituted by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Wage cuts had become common practice on the railroads, in fact throughout …
The Sun
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 273, June 1976
The power groupies at the Sun have recently changed their focus. After running out of tin horn politicians to do interviews with, the Ann Arbor transplant has taken to promoting the police—something even the Detroit News and Free Press have …
Larry Portis
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 385, Fall, 2011
Larry:Portis grew up in a working-class family in Seattle, Washington and Billings, Montana. His father was a sheet metal worker and city fireman. His mother was an occasional secretary. At the age of 18 he married and quickly had two …
Poland: 1970-71
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 282, April-May, 1977
a review of Poland: 1970-71; Capitalism and Class Struggle, Informations Correspondence Ourvrieres (ICO), 117 pages; illustrated, Black & Red, Detroit, 1977.
Vietnam Summer
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
There is, even though you may not have noticed it lately, still a war going on in Vietnam.
Trots and Nukes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 297, April 18, 1979
Reprinted from FE #284, July 1977. Apparently there is honor among thieves and the anti-nuclear power struggle has exposed the totally reactionary tendencies of several marxist groups as they line up behind the governments of totalitarian regimes and mouth the …
Cleaver Picked at P&F Convention
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
ANN ARBOR—The Peace and Freedom Party nominated Eldridge Cleaver as its Presidential candidate August 18th at the Party’s national convention.