LIBERATION NEWS SERVICE—When two North Korean MIG fighters attacked a U.S. spy plane and shot it down on April 15, self-righteous protests immediately came puttering out of Washington. // Share this on…
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D.C. Inhoguration
by Allen Young
Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LNS)—A river of young Americans flowed up into downtown Washington from 14th St. and Pennsylvania Avenue, away from the Death Parade marking Richard Nixon’s Inauguration January 20. // Share this on…
Cuba: Ten Years Old
by Allen Young
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
LIBERATION News Service (Editor’s note: On New Year’s Day in 1959, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and their victorious guerrilla army strode into Havana. The day before, Fulgencio Batista, the ruthless dictator who had been the prime object of the political …
Narks Ready
by Allen Young
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
WASHINGTON (LNS)—The Justice Department is getting ready for a crackdown on the “illegal sale and use of drugs,” according to an announcement by Attorney General Ramsey Clark. // Share this on…
SDS Takes New Turn
by Allen Young
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
with additional notes by Fifth Estate staff CHICAGO (LNS)—SDS expelled the Progressive Labor Party (PL) and its political allies from the ranks of the organization June 21. // Share this on…
Left Reacts to Czechs
by Allen Young
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
LONDON, England—Liberation News Service—Europe’s left, new and old, has been brutally unanimous in its criticism of the Soviet military intervention in Czechoslovakia. // Share this on…