burth International in Iran? It is obviously not we are capable today hundreds of thousands of people against the regime on the streets. It is because of our ideas and some of our political initiatives since the fall of the Shah.
•We can say with pride that it was our women comrades who took the initiative for the first demonstration oppressive laws those women. Fom the very first day we were able to project our politics publicly we defended the rights of the national minorities. It is this, our political ideas and our ability to communicate these through our press to tens and tens thousands obscurantists.
of mobiising our leaflets in the streets socially directed against arrested. of upset the "To give you the most recent examples.
During the recent fake elections to the 'Experts Council we were not even allowed to distribute La number or cities outside Tehran. In Isfahan our party headquarters were attacked by thugs. One of our comrades who was selling newspapers was abducted from and tortured. This torture publicised a few days later in the national press.
'The arrests which took place in Ahwaz in Khuzestan were related directly to our defence of the nationalities. The local headquarters of the SWP was attacked and nine comrades were Seven comrades were sent Tehran in order to defend those nine. they were distributing leaflets in the streets they were arrested and put in jail. Two of us, the Workers Socialist League, and others. The Communist Party issued a statement calling for the British labour movement to raise its voice against repression: "It should call for the release of the 14 arrested members of the Socialist Workers Party, the lifting of the ban on the democratic newspapers, the return of premises to the democratic parties, an end to the persecution of the Kurdish Democratic Party, and an end to the repression.' An ad-hoc committee to defend democratic rights in Iran has been established and will be organising meetings featuring Kurdish and HKS speakers in the coming weeks.
PICKET THEIRANIAN EMBASSY THIS WEEKEND. Saturday 1 September, 12-1pm, Iranian Embassy, 16 Princes Gate, London For chased underground ae the SAlt who sacrificed so much in the struggle against the Shah - people i met who had spent eight, nine years of their lives in jail being tortured by SAVAK are LOY having to go underground again.
1here is no in which people who have been arrested committees of Khomeini have got even the most minimal legal rights. The idea that Islamic law has got proper
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Telegrams and letters protesting the arrests have come from a wide range of socialist groups, including the International Marxist Group, the Socialist Workers Party, the International Communist League,