Stop Nixon!

STOP NIXON!

"The oppressed peoples and nations must not pin their hopes for liberation on the 'sensibleness' of imperialism and its lackies. They will only triumph by strengthening their unity and persevering in their struggle." Mao Tse-Tung

The North Vietnamese have done all that is humanly possible to bring peace to Indochina without abdicating their struggle for independence and freedom from imperialism. They must stand without equals in history as a people able to withstand the most barbarous and awesome genocidal assault, engineered by Nixon and his automaton military murderers who are literally wiping out the life source of the nation by bombing the dikes and flooding the land. The people in the Red River Delta are now planning for three alternatives: (1) Moving to the mountaintops to grow potatoes and roots; (2) moving to the mountainsides, which will become marshy after the flooding, to grow rice; or (3) staying in the delta and learning aquatic or hydroponic agriculture.

And what does the little lackie, Thieu, do in his Saigon perch while surrounded by such courageous and historically communal people? On one side he is the vehicle for the most racist and arrogant of White House policies: "Vietnamization" (which is a ruse anyway because the real South Vietnamese government is still controlled by the AID and the CIA backed up by thousands of troops who have "withdrawn" only a few miles away to Thailand and by the Pacific Navy and Air Force fleets.

On another side he pockets the profits of his corrupt regime for deposit in his accounts in Berne and Rome, readying for the day, which must soon come, when he will lose his US sponsorship. and be evicted by true Vietnamese patriots. On still another side, he wants to exterminate these patriots in a bloodbath before he leaves.

But what is happening back in Washington D.C. where Nixon is juggling Thieu's puppet strings? It is too easy to say simply that Nixon and his crew of killers have lost their senses when they use some lame military jargon to excuse as "accidental" the bombing of the French mission in Hanoi or the bombing of the American peace delegation visiting Hanoi to receive the three recently released POW's.

The "sensibilities" which we in this country must address are our own. We have lost our senses if we are convinced by manipulating control addicts that Nixon has already won another four years. The polls that predict his victory n the Nov. 7 election are no more authentic than the ticker-tape that was blown out of machines from rooftops along the route of a Nixon parade in Atlanta a few weeks ago.

As part of the people's struggle over the whole planet we must move in our uniquely American way to defeat Nixon on Nov. 7.

All Nixon's maneuvers to cover up the crimes of his CIA agit-prop Watergate squad must be for naught. The contradictions between his rhetoric and his policy must be exposed. And he must be hung with his own rotten rope.

America's policy of neo-colonialism in South Vietnam, the Phillipines and South Korea has come home to roost in Nixon's CIA network of heroin dealers and political saboteurs. Why else but for their own survival would they go to such lengths to trash a portion of the US government- the Democratic Party?

To not vote for McGovern because you feel he does not really have a chance of winning becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy of doom. McGovern can win; but only if people make it happen. We must consolidate our spirit first, realizing that the computerized power of the imperialist merely multiplies their stupidities thousands of times. Then we must practice our solidarity with the Indochinese people. Every registered voter should travel to the polls motivated by the most righteous purpose like the heroic Vietnamese travel the Ho Chi Minh trail -- with a weapon against the warmongers.

STOP NIXON! VOTE NOV. 7!

There's a saying that playing politics is like playing football: You got to be smart enough to win but dumb enough to think it's important. Sometimes we're tempted to agree with that analysis. But the fact is, none of us can afford to be quite that cynical.

Should you bother to vote on Nov. 7? And will it really matter who gets elected this year? Those are damn good questions. And we think the answers are YES.

Why vote? Voting is power. Politicians can be made to be afraid of voters. Sure, some candidates are going to hand out forks and knives and promise you dinner before election and then steal back the knives and stab you in the back after the election. The trick is not to turn your back- and to stay on top of theirs. For the first time ever in a national election, the politicians must deal with the youth vote. Add that to the power of blacks, women and other emerging voting blocs and surprise! We could be in control. Admittedly we aren't there yet. But this election gives us a chance to put a little cold fear where it will do the most good- in the cozy mansions of the Nixons and Agnews.

How much difference will it make this time? Not a lot, but some. No candidate is going to stop the money barons from pillaging the poor or the military machismos from plotting the end of the world. But some candidates might slow them down. It's worth a chance and a vote.

The SUN has been urging you to register to vote for several months now. A lot of you probably already know who the candidates are and who you 're going to vote for. We've been looking at the candidates, too, and have come to some conclusions.

We're disappointed that there are no candidates whom we consider the BEST possible, ones we support without reservation. But there are several who are BETTER than their opponents and who espouse generally progressive politics. And most are BETTER than those offered four years ago.

We are endorsing all HRP candidates, some Democrats and even a coupe Republicans. In the case of the Democrats and Republicans, we're supporting the individual candidates while condemning the basic regressive nature of their parties.

In the case of HRP, our reasons are more complicated. We refused to work for the HRP candidates this fall because they were nominated in an elitist, liberal convention orchestrated by a tiny faction of HRP "regulars. " We were so repulsed by the convention we felt we had to register a public protest. Our criticism, however, does not detract from the fact that the HRP candidates, in all cases, are BETTER than their Democratic and Republican opponents. Nor does it diminish the importance to building a left-radical third party movement, of which the HRP candidates are a crucial part. We expect to work within HRP in future elections, trying to make it more democratic and more people-oriented. In the meantime, we're asking you to elect HRP in 1972 so there can be an HRP in 1973.

Following are the SUN endorsements.

SUN Editorial Board