The Fall Offensive has now been launched on a scale more massive than anyone anticipated with the strikes, rallies, marches, and other activities that swept Detroit and the entire country on Oct. 15. These are however, only a prelude to …
FE Author: Dena Clamage
Fall Offensive
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 88, September 18-October 1, 1969
For the past year, everyone has been trying to play down the war in Vietnam. According to President Nixon, the war is almost over. Twenty-five thousand troops have been withdrawn, leaving only 475,000 American soldiers in the rice paddies and …
Art for the People
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969
The factories of Detroit are the guts of the city. They are a central, common reality in the lives of Detroit people, whether people are working a 10-hour day on the line or just watching from their office windows as …
The Anarchist Revolution
by Dena Clamage, Murray Bookchin
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
Murray Bookchin is the editor of Anarchos magazine, a periodically appearing journal of anarchist thought published in New York City. Copies of his magazine and other writings are available from Anarchos, P.O. Box 466, Peter Stuyvesant Station, N.Y., N.Y. 10009 …
WSU Black Workers Move
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 84, July 24-August 6, 1969
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers has moved onto the Wayne State University Campus. In a move to combat racism in employment and bad working conditions, members of the League have organized a group of thirty to forty black secretaries …
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 …
Jesus Called the Cops
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
“The National Black Economic Development Conference (NBEDC) will in no way yield to threats of prosecution for non-existent crimes or other intimidation. On the contrary, we will continue to press our demands which are known to be just by all, …
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.
Women in Cuba
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 53, May 1-15, 1968
Editor’s note: Dena is a Detroit movement activist who went to Cuba in February of this year. She was part of a group of 20 members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) who made the trip at the invitation …
Socialist Man
by Dena Clamage
Fifth Estate # 54, May 16-31, 1968
“To build communism, a new man must be created simultaneously with the material base.” — Che Guevara, Man and Socialism in Cuba. In the preceding articles, I have dealt with the quality of life in Cuba, the laying of the …