Struggle, Chairman Mao teaches us, moves in stages. The West Central Organization (WCO) after a long series of internal problems previously reported in the Fifth Estate has moved to a new stage.
FE Author: Frank H. Joyce
How White Supremacy Progresses
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 398, Summer, 2017
Frank Joyce, was the Fifth Estate News Editor 50 years ago, and rejoins us with reflections on the 1967 events. “I calmed the tremor in my gut. I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous …
Cops Riot at Belle Isle
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
“When you have $50 billion invested in defense what you need most isn’t allies but an enemy.” — Nelson Algren said in Ramparts, May, 1967. When you have policemen on horses and Tactical Mobile Units with little baseball bats and …
Free Press Confirms Fifth Estate Stories on Leroy Killing
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
On Sunday, September 3, the Detroit Free Press ran a five page feature entitled, “The 43 Who Died.” It was an in depth investigation into each riot connected death carried out by three competent Free Press staff reporters.
Uptight Honkies Meet
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
There are only two paths open to a country whose internal and external empires are in the state of decay prevailing in the United States. That of the left or fascism.
People’s Tribunal Condemns Cops
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967
The worst thing one could say about the Algiers Motel Tribunal is that it was Recorder’s Court upside down. If the tribunal was biased and weighted against the four white defendants, Detroit Patrolman Robert Paille and Ronald August, National Guardsman …
New Evidence in Leroy Killing
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 37, September 1-15, 1967
Editor’s note: Investigation of the murder of John Leroy reported in the last issue of the Fifth Estate is continuing. (See “Who Killed John Leroy?” FE #36, August 15-31, 1967.) News editor Frank H. Joyce has talked with two of …
Who Killed John Leroy?
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
Ronald Powell crouched inside the car. So did the other four men.
A New Detroit?
by Benjamin Hababee, Frank H. Joyce, Fred Baker
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
Curious. The same people who built the old Detroit, which the people burned down because apparently they didn’t like it much, have been selected to build the new Detroit.
Detroit Tries to Support Viet War
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 33, July 1-15, 1967
The gentlemen of Grand Circus Park were not impressed. But then there wasn’t much to be impressed by. Less than 500 people marched down Woodward Avenue in the great Flag Day parade on June 14. The March was called by …