Nixon's the One

Richard Milhous Nixon, the man nobody would buy a used car from in 1960, and now President of the richest, most powerful and most Imperialist nation in the world is on a European tour and has decided to spend two days in Dublin to tell oul Dev about the middle east situation, according to the official news releases.

Those who feel that Dev is hardly likely, at present, to be having too many sleepless night about Hussein, the P.L.F. and Al Fatah, or the death of Nasser, are right. Our man in Dublin tells us that the aged president spends all his time arranging the televising and news coverage of his own state funeral -Anyway, Nixon's here to reassure the Irish voters back home that he ‘for theould sod'. Before anyone is rash enough to feel grateful for his ‘visit we should consider a few things about tricky dicky. Nixonis supposedly a Quaker - noted for their pacifism - yet he is the man responsible for the genocide going on in Vietnam; he is the man who referred to all students as "bums'’

two days before his national guard (the equivalent of the B men) murdered four young "bums" (two of them girls) at Kent State University this year; he is the man responsible for the attempts by the pigs to wipe out the black panthers - over fifty shot so far this year; he is the man who boasts about "AmerikKKan justice” while a black man Bobby Seale is tried, gagged, bound and strapped to a chair, in court and then sentenced to four years for ‘Contempt of court". Nixon is the man who choose as his vice president the bumbling moronic Greek Fascist Spiro Agnew, the cor -ruptest mayor in the U.S. before he became vice president (and friend of the colonels in Greece). Nixon is the man who as a budding young lawyer made his working for the infamous Senator McCarthy, who, in the 50's led the red scare witchhunt. Nixon is the one who as a director in numerous firms is making a packet out of the Vietnam war while hundreds of innocent Asian peasants get napalmed, Nixon is the one responsible now Uruguay, Dominica and a host of other small nations.

Anyone who wonders how this thing became President of the US of A should read 'The Selling of the President' by Joe McGinniss (Penguin 6/-d.), Unionist Right.

class conscious _ ers to farmers to architects and ately.

ject to exploitation by British and of the fly-by-night variety - like British Troops on the streets It forced the P.D. to recognise that as well as being an economic so’a military power. It demonstrated the nature of British econhow they operate together in the interests of the ruling class and against the objective interests of the working class. This brought the border into sharp focus and the desirability of a united Ireland -not of the Green Tory Gombeen variety, but a socialist Workers Republic.

Since that conference last October, the P.D. has set about working out the implications of these decisions.

The Free Citizen has been established as the only left-wing weekly in Ireland, bringing our activities, analyses and point of view to thousands of readers. A theoretical journal - the Northern Star - appears quarterly and deals at length with both current events and historical data, viewed from a left-wing perspective.

FREE CITIZEN 2nd OCTOBER 1970

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