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Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
WSU Library Workers Organize
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
Wayne State University is a working class college in a working class town. It is located in Detroit, a city which has long since taken the United Auto Workers bureaucracy into its ruling class and blunted union militancy by cooptation.
Roger the Grape to Lead Boycott Day
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
State Senator Roger Craig, along with Hijinio Rangel, a striking worker from Delano, California, will kick off the International Grape Boycott Day activities in Detroit on May 10th.
The Conspiracy
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
“A conspiracy is like a circle.” –Detroit Recorder’s Court Judge Thomas Poindexter CHICAGO, April 9–In a fourth-floor banquet hall, high atop the downtown “Y,” overlooking the stately Conrad-Hilton Hotel; a conspiracy meets. Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Dave Dellinger, Rennie Davis …
MC5 kick out Elektra
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
The MC5 have always had the policy of kicking out all of the jams so it should come as no surprise that the Ann Arbor based group has severed their contract with Elektra Records. “At this point we’re totally unsatisfied …
League of Revolutionary Black Workers
by Fifth Estate Collective, John Watson
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
[Part 2 of the interview appeared in FE #79, May 15-28, 1969.] Editors’ Note: John Watson, editor of the Wayne State University South End, has been involved in Detroit revolutionary politics for a number of years. Former editor of the …
Repression Escalates on Panthers
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
NEW YORK—As part of a nationwide conspiracy to smash the Black Panther Party, 21 New York Panther members were arrested on charges of conspiracy April 2 in a 5 a.m. roundup.
Nervous Brass Hit Anti-War GIs
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
FT. JACKSON, S.C.—Military hearings began April 22 at this Southern Army base into the cases of eight anti-war GIs being harassed by the post brass.
Anti-War Activists Sue Metro Airport
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
In response to the arrest of two antiwar GIs and the steady harassment of military organizers, the Detroit Resistance and the Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam have launched a law suit against the Board of County Road …