FE Author: anon.

If the publishing of a sympathetic account of a union struggle seems inconsistent with our perspective, which views unions as auxiliary organs of Capital, let us clarify the matter. As people who have spent our adult lives as wage workers …

Strike & Sabotage at Wash. Post Read More »

(page 1 of The South End insert)

For the first time since I got here, people are openly and seriously comparing this to the pre-Civil War situation in 1936. –Basque Diplomat, October 1975

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters Presents Find Jimmy Hoffa’s Body Contest

The costs of religion should be born by those who practice it! Whether you go to church or whether you stay away from it, if you believe in god and religion or if you don’t, you are the one who …

Who Pays for Religion? Read More »

Trying to make sense of the situation in Portugal with facts gleaned from reading the daily newspapers and watching the nightly news has become an increasingly impossible task.

Collect unemployment and earn up to $97 a week for 39 weeks, $67 a week for another 26 weeks!

Reprinted here are the instructions as they originally appeared in the FE for both the use of bogus credit card numbers (for free long-distance calls) and the subversion of computer-card billing (for reduced telephone bills). Also included is a description …

How to Cheat Ma Bell Read More »

The word school comes from the Latin word schola meaning “free time consecrated to learning,” an institution idealized by the philosophers and ideologues and perceived as being a socially valued category, in opposition to the sphere of manual or productive …

A short history of schools Read More »

Why do we send our kids to school? We’ve been told that it is in elementary school that the bases of learning to read, write, and do math are acquired, although anyone who spends any time with children can clearly …

What do we learn in school that couldn’t be learned elsewhere? Read More »