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EDITORIAL

the Socialist world community, its ideals and example of material and cultural progress is the ascendant influence in the lives of the majority of the world's peoples. In his book, Here I Stand, published in 1958 Robeson wrote "My deep conviction is that for all mankind a socialist society represents an advance to a higher stage of life- that it is a form of society which is economically, socially, culturally, and ethically superior to a system based upon production for private profit."

Robeson, the man and historical figure, was not only Black, gifted and militant, a fact admirably expressed by the venerable Black educator Mary McLeod Bethune when she called him "the tallest tree in our forest." More than this, Paul Robeson was one of a mere handful of prominent public personalities who deeply understood and fully identified with the revolutionary changes taking place in the world. It is a source of much happiness for us that Paul Robeson has lived to see the day that his perspective of 1958 is increasingly becoming an important part of the scientific social thought of the Freedom Movement in these troubled times. 

We proudly and affectionately salute him as the greatest living American.

THE MOVEMENT WILL NOT BOW TO PRESIDENTIAL DICTATORSHIP

There is now abundant evidence for all to see that the Nixon Administration is scuttling the very philosophy that was fought for during the Depression years and crystallized during President Roosevelt's New Deal. This philosophy of government essentially expressed the premise that the government should not stand by and let millions of people be victimized by the crisis functions of the capitalist system. Therefore, it was a philosophy of government that rejected the dog-eat-dog, "survival of the fittest" ethics of the monopolists. The Nixon Administration and its current policies are returning the country to the pre-New Deal period of the 1920's. This policy is being concealed with the kind of rampant demagogy reminiscent of the Nazis in Germany with its claims to be "returning power to the people." It requires no great insight to recognize that power

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