Nixon's Vietnam speech U.S. "PEACE' FRAUD EXPOSED

NIXON'S nation-wide television speech Monday by United States imperialism against the international working class.

His immediate subject was the Vietnam war. After months of hesitation, the President came down firmly on the side of fighting it out to the bitter end.

Not only did Nixon refuse to set a deadline for the total withdrawal of US troops, he made it clear that there would be no more limited withdrawals after the current pullback cf 60,000 men has been completed on December 15.

Nixon warned that any further retreats would only Dappet Saigon regime, whịch lead to the collapse of the the Front the to tah the proved completely front National Liberation Front Desertion rates are as hiel as ever.

Nixon referred in bloodcurdling terms to the fate of the North Vietnamese landowners and pro-French government bureaucrats after the collapse of French Indo-China in 1954:

'For the South Vietnamese, our precipitate withdrawal would inevitably allow the communists to repeat the massacres which rollowed their take-over of the North 15 years ago' The loss of South Vietnam is, however, only the beginning of Nixon's worries. The real meat of his speech came later when he dwelt on the consequences of withdrawal from and defeat in Vietnam :

"This would spark violence wherever our commitments help maintain peace —in the Middle East, in Berlin, eventually even in western hemisphere' (Our emphasis.)

U.S. problems But in deciding to fight it ut, enormous problems, both volitical and economic, are reated inside the United itates itself.

The anti-war movement will grow, bringing in more and more youth and workers and thus changing the character of the campaign from pure middle-class protest to a serious challenge to US imperialism.

The infiationary strain on the dollar and the economy will grow, sharpening up still further the tension between the working class and the big Nixon knows this. But he has no choice.

Though the imperialists have their backs to the wall, they will night to the very end, with every. weapon they have at their disposal - political, economic and military.

The imperialists' debt to the social - democratic and Stalinist bureaucracies in this period of deepening crisis is truly considerable.

The Stalinist betrayal of the French General Strike of 1968, their repressive policies against the Czechoslovak working class since August 1968, and the Kremlin's brutal suppression of the anti-Stalinist opposition on the Soviet Union itself — all these acts assist imperialism as it comes under the blows of a reawakened working class.

In Britain, the Labourites carry out a similar policy.

They exert all their energies in attacking the working class to stave of the is and word capt talist system—all at the be.

hest of the international, and principally, US bankers.

Nixon's speech is the voice of international capital rallying all the forces of reaction against the working class.

It makes the building of the revolutionary party in Britain as part of the Fourth International all the more urgent. Big business demands crackdown on LEADERS of the Confederation of British Industry | demanded that the Labour leaders crack down on increases unrelated to productivity.

After a meeting with Mrs Barbara Castle on Monday, CBI president Sir Arthur Nor. man said his delegation had 'told her the CBI members' agreement to go along with prices and incomes would be conditione Policy what the government wa repared to say and do t make sure that prices and incomes continued to receive parity of treatment in any new policies and powers in ment control over diends:.

exchanges with Castle is ciearployers and Bear he ever growing movemen mongst low-paid workers.

They see the pay concesions offered to the dustmen niners and firemen as a serie: of surrenders.

• already the incomes s policy, to re-activate Part Two of the present Act and are calling for tougher measures.

ermaston paign for Survival', while others described last year's Aldermaston March as la disaster.

The Campaign, fundamentally a middle-class protest movement, has been brushec aside by the emergence of the working class into big struggles.

The CND leadership was never able to make any turn to the working class and accordingly now finds itself completely isolated from the new forces entering the class Tenants' court protest By our Industrial reporter THE FIRST four of the 3,700 East London rent rebels appeared on Monday at Bow County Court, backed by a demonstration of 500 tenants and workers.

The demonstrators, many of them housewives, stood outside the court all day while the four rebels' cases were heard. The Tory Greater London Council is seeking the enforcement of eviction notices against the tenants, who have been withholding rent increases imposed 13 months ago.

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