"act Now to Build the Freedom Army"

The scan: The Week v5 no1.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Tesseract OCR) from a scan of a stencilled typescript and has not been corrected. Expect misread words; titles in particular are often garbled where the issue printed no contents list. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: capitals heading; heuristic; title from the OCR of the heading.

Editorial note: the Council of African Organisations is anxious that this information be as widely circulated as possible, AN APPEAL FROM NEW YORK We have received an appeal from the Progressive Labor Party to publicise their efforts to organise an international campaign to protest against the arrest of one of their leaders, Bill Epton, They ask "we urgently request that you_send us at once statements of support for Bill Epton = care of Challenge, 152, Nassau Ste, New York, New York 10038, In a statement about the arrest of Bill Epton on a charge of "criminal anarchy", Adam Pierce, spokesman for the Students for a Democratic Society, said: "William Epton is not responsible for the riots that occurred in Harlem, and he, William Epton is a scape goat for the officials of New York City. The actual blame for riot lies at the doors of the Exploiters and leeches who feed and live and even prosper off the poor of Harlemeeee" It is to be hoped that readers will respond to this appeal. It is clear that Bill Epton is being framed and charged with "criminal anarchy" for what, in this country would amount to ordinary political propaganda activity.