of the Labour Party and the trade unions offer solutions that are in "tal of the workerbut at the capitalisi ciss.
Arcane halienge believes that the iwo vital lasks contronting revolutionary socialist are:
• To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in opposition lahour movement. These should grouping together militants hold. ing a midt range or pontical iras.
• To begin lo light for the creation unified organisation which can, through application united front lattes, begin to he seen as ar alternative thousands Horkers engaged in sruggles.
such an organisation should he baser on the understanding that:
The struggle for seeks 10 unite the fight of workers alüinst the with that of other oppresied layers ot society. - women. black people.
struggling liheration. This socialism can only heachiered hs creating new organs of power and defeating with all nectssary means the power of the capitalist state.
Our incialism will
than what exists in Britain today. full rights for political parties and currents that do not take up arms against the socialistsate. İ he Stalinist models of socialism' In the i ok Eastern Europe hare discredited vecialism in theeses of milions of norhers throughout the He are opposed to them and will lichting dor socialist democracs.
ji heinterestiot workers and capitalists are irreconcilable ron a world scale. N'apitalism has not onis created market. created world politics. Thus we fight lor working class unit!
Scaft. This unit! will in the long run he decisive in detestine the imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships sustain lalan America. and Asia.
In Britain it implies demanding British tronps from Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their run future.
The Communis parties in Europe are in crisis.
the prosperseon wings hase ans mraninolol emeribren of the capitalist state.
opponents printworkers, formidable list.
been fighting and Then the Kurds won.
people in the north of Iran, of from them by self-government. socialism bosses their he all and those both they Africa Neither are AYATOLLAH Ruhollah Khomeini promised his include oppressed nationalities, oil workers, socialists, journalists and and lawyers. It is Most formidable of all are the Kurdish people. Now with the whole population armed, they have against national chauvinism decades. It is not the first time they have been attacked by the Khomeini-Bazargan goverament. Earlier this year Phantom jets and helicopters were sent to the city of Sanandaj to back up troops fighting the Kurds' struggle for self-determination.
They were quickly followed by the Turkoman who demanded that they be allowed to take the land which had been Shah. Then in oil-producing south the Arabic-speaking people demanded that they be accorded some elements of The failure of the goverument to quell thes uprisings by force led to attacks on the left who supported them. Forty militants of the Fedayeen guerilla group, which played such a prominent role in the overthrow of the Shah, were imprisoned. In another celebrated case, & member of the Slamic guerilla group, the Mujahedeen, was framed up. In the south 15 militants of the Iranian. Socialist Workers Party (HKS) were imprisoned in the town Arab. people. for priority to opinions differed on the core of the new state. piecing back together the the Despite measures, Khomeini still support promises next those of Ahwaz for supporting the just demands of thi The elimination of the functionaries of the Shah regime is now taking second place to these attacks. The reason for these changed priorities became apparent with the fraudulent elections to the body of constitutional experts who will yet the already firmly ensconced laws of the Islamic republic. Both Khomeini and his prime minister Mehdi Bazargan are sworn to defend capitalism in Iran. Their first reconstruct shattered apparatus which safeguards private property. But how to do this. Khomeini wanted to integrate his substantial popular base as Bazargan favoured after cosmetic 'purges'. Now both are agreed on the necessity of crushing opposition to their pro-capitalist plans.
spirited opposition to these sorts of enjoys mass popular evidenced by the demonstrations last weekend in support of the Palestinian struggle This support, welded together by anti-imperialis of a society free from Western decadence, has arrested the process of discontent with the regime's social policies.
But this discontent with unemployment and soaring prices is slowly mounting, and Khomeini's credibility is beginning to run out. Amongst the Arab people who used to hang Khomeini's portrait their own leaders the disenchantment is themselves part of a oppressed nationalities in Iran.
"the Fourth people demanding the comparison forces who overthrew the Shah a civil war, not a return to reaction.
to demand *An end to minorities.
*Free the socialists in prison.
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unionists, total, and they consider united front with other Internationalists HKS continue to sell their paper to tens of thousands of constituent assembly and a winters eid peasants immediate elections to government to replace the autocrats of the mosque.
This is the vital difference with the regime of the Shah. Both Khomeini and the Shah fight to defend capitalism tooth and nail. Both are enemies of the working class and oppressed. But the point is not between personalities. The difference lies in the struggle. What is going on today in Iran is a sharp differentiation among the the beginning of The best way we in this country can help to make sure that the result of that war is favourable to the international working class and oppressed is repression of the nations.
"For a workers' and peasants' government in - demand an end to repression against the national minorities; free all socialists in jail. Saturday 25 August, 12-1pm, Iranian Embassy, 16 Princes Gate, London SW7.
LA WOMAN'S RISHI TO CHOOSE LAUNCHING meeting for Birmingham Campaign: Against Corrie will take place on Thursday 30 August in Digbeth Civic Hall, Lecture Room 3 Speakers will include the National Campaign and a local pro-choice trade unionist.
A day of street action is planned in the area for 8 September.
THE MILE End Day Care Abortion Clinic is a valuable asset for women in But there are fears that the local Area Health Authority will think it': expendable when it has to chop £2 million off health spending in the area especially if Corrie's anti-abortion Bill gets through Parliament and the 'demand' for abortion declines.