Alfredo Cospito’s Struggle

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Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023

Alfredo Cospito is a 55-year-old incarcerated Italian anarchist who has been on hunger strike since October 2022, protesting the brutality of his imprisonment. As we publish in March 2023, his condition is uncertain. His comrades fear he is near death.

Wanted by FBI

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Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970

If you have information concerning this person, please contact your local FBI office. Telephone numbers and addresses of all FBI offices listed on back.

Sheriff Harvey Exposed!

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Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970

Ken Kelley, editor of the Ann Arbor Argus, fresh from a semi-victory over the forces of injustice, has scored another journalistic coup.

Fifth Estate Archives: Preserving History

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Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023

Readers of the Fifth Estate know how much we value the history of opposition to oppression. Accounts of resistance have always filled numerous pages in the 413 issues we’ve published since 1965.

The Great Bathroom Incident

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Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970

Editors’ Note: The trial of the Conspiracy 7 continues in Chicago and has turned into even more of a circus as the defense attempts to present its case. They are blocked at every avenue by senile Judge Julius (Magoo) Hoffman, …

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Welcome to Detroit, Mr. Murphy

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Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970

“Patrick Murphy is no great shakes as Public Safety Director. He is a poor administrator; he is weak, and he has no rapport with his men.” —Richard Judd, former aide to Sen. Wayne Morse on D.C. Affairs Committee, U.S. Senate

Liberation Conference Against Repression

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Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970

Everybody has some idea of the kind of heavy political repression the power structure has been laying down, if only from the power-structure media itself.

Police Vamp on Bikers Clubhouse

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Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970

Nearly a dozen members of the Blue Flu smashed their way into a private party during a cowardly attack on the Highwaymen Motorcycle Club of Detroit.

Masthead

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Fifth Estate # 97, January 22-February 4, 1970

Fifth Estate “To Serve the People” EDITORIAL GROUP Alan Gotkin Peter Werbe Cathy West MANAGING EDITOR Bill Rowe DISTRIBUTION Keep On Truckin’ Co-op ADVERTISING Steve Dunn STAFF Jane Capellaro David Gaynes Jim Kennedy Rick London Nick Medvecky Bruce Montrose Claudia …

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97, January 22-February 4, 1970

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