No Draft!

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Fifth Estate # 301, February 26, 1980

As the terrifying prospect of war asserts itself in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. is preparing to mobilize what all nation states need to fight armed conflicts—human cannon fodder. With President Carter’s bellicose State of the Union speech, January 23, …

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Staff and contributors

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Fifth Estate # 301, February 26, 1980

Alan Franklin Ralph Franklin E.B. Maple Mr. Venom Primitivo Solis Marilyn Werbe Peter Werbe Richard Rollins Larry Talbert Michael Monster Bob Brubaker Stuart Christie Angela Di Sante The Fifth Estate Newspaper (ISSN-0015-0800) is published bimonthly at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit …

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Carter’s Phony War Crisis

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Fifth Estate # 301, February 26, 1980

“I don’t want to startle you, but they mean to kill us all.” —e.e. cummings War—the word on everyone’s lips—the deadly end of the capitalist cycle of prosperity and economic collapse, appears close at hand as the major world empires …

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301, February 26, 1980

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Fifth Estate Issue #301, February 26, 1980 WEB CONTENTS ALL FIFTH ESTATE ISSUES FIFTH ESTATE HOME

402, Winter 2019

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Fifth Estate # Archive

Fifth Estate Issue #402, Winter 2019 WEB CONTENTS ALL FIFTH ESTATE ISSUES FIFTH ESTATE HOME

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Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968

The angel that lives so well is brother to the king of hell. And like the shore of ravaged sea is beaten, caressed, endlessly. . Poisoned feathers of stainless-steel create the illusion if not the feel of paradise that always …

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Unclassifieds

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Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968

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: …

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Pigs get blank check

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Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968

Inhaling deeply on his political hookah, Detroit mayor Jerry Cavanagh, leading contender for the August “Uptight Honkie of the Month” award, attempted to justify his approval of the controversial “stop and frisk” ordinance which moments earlier he had signed into …

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Dope victims benefit

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Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968

Local folk singers David and Roselyn are the focal point of a campaign to raise $6,000 by August 15. David and Roselyn, who provided the music for Tom and Kate’s wedding and played at their reception (see last issue, FE …

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Underground Incorporated

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Fifth Estate # 59, August 1-14, 1968

New York, July 23 (LNS)—Former Supreme Court Justice and UN lackey Arthur Goldberg will defend Rev. William Sloane Coffin in the upcoming appeal of his two-year draft conspiracy conviction. Radio Station WBAI said that Goldberg left them with the impression …

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