Free Student #4 1965 May 2nd Movement Radical Underground Newspaper PLP SDS Rare

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Offered is the fourth issue of "Free Student" (no date, although Summer 1965) published by the May 2nd Movement out of New York City. A left-folded newspaper measuring 11-3/8" by 17-1/2" and containing 12 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, contents include: Free Student News (news items include SDS Convention; Free Student Front - Ohio State University; Free University of N.Y. - 'Announcing the Opening'; Heavy Sentences at Cal: Berkeley Students Refuse Probation); AFL-CIO Leadership: Front for U.S. Imperialism; Bruce Whitten, who received a general discharge from the Air Force on May 23, 1965, is interviewed, the interview reprinted from SPARK, the West Coast paper of the Progressive Labor Party; 13 GIs Refuse To Fight In Vietnam by Steve Cherkoss; The Commitment of the Intellectual by Paul A. Baran (reprinted from the 'Monthly Review'); Study Groups as an Ideological Weapon by Russell D. Stetler, Jr.; The White Island: U.S. Imperialism; International Student News. The May 2nd Movement [M2M] was the Progressive Labor Party's youth affiliate. Founded out of the demonstrations held on May 2, 1964 - the first major student demonstrations against the war in Vietnam - the May 2nd Movement was disbanded in February 1966, where, it is reported, many former M2M members joined the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in an effort to recruit SDS members into the Progressive Labor Party. Previously folded once; small, light age spots to upper edges. Rare.