Engagement With Media Pundits and Political Representatives
Dix has done dozens of TV, radio and print interviews and engaged in debate and dialogue with media pundits and a variety of radical figures, around the country and also in significant international events. Dix appeared on CNN’s now defunct Crossfire, where he debated Pat Buchanan and Joseph Rauh.
In 1983, Dix debated Elombe Brath, of the Patrice Lumumba Coalition, over the role of the Soviet Union in Africa at "The Soviet Union: Socialist or Social-Imperialist?", an international conference in New York debating the role of the Soviet Union. Dix argued that the Soviet Union had become a "social-imperialist" oppressor in Africa, and that its aid and assistance in Africa had to be understood in the context of the struggle for power and influence between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Dix joined with other representatives of Maoist parties and organizations from around the world to denounce the Chinese government’s attack on protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989. At this press conference in London, Dix described the current rulers of China as “…typical of the very capitalist roaders Mao Tse-tung fought against all his life.
Dix continues to speak on campuses and doing radio and TV appearances.
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