and teach health care, but in reality to the landowner: dominant power in the countryside and to implant the state's ideas in the villages.
Iran's as The effect of this has been a severe impoverishment of the cultural life of the nationalities minority languages was banned, and very few were available inside the Persian the only The government, law and education, the Great non-Persians limited.
Colonisation of national minorities another way of maintaining Persian superiority. The is s one examples of this policy. Khuzestan -or Arabestan as it was then known -was almost entirely Arabs until the time of Reza Shah. It was also one of the least urbanised parts of Iran.
The development industry led to the creation of eight separate new towns.
unequivocally socialists.
Teaching the framework.
Only non-Persian publications which Iran.
language of Turkomenistan.
were extremely areas live has been province of the clearest and a planned populated by cities.
Cratic oil This went hand Their right to self-determination, even to the pomt of secession. must be defended by all But the and economic backwardness of many of the regions they inhabit cannot be within capitalist ail?
La thorough land reform gives land to those who • till it can solve the unemployment crisis in Kurdestan, Baluchistan and Only public ownership of the oil industries can ensure that fertilisers and fuel for machinery reach those who need them, and not merely those who can afford to pay for them. Only the abolition of the private ownership of the means of production under workers control employment and a higher standard of living to the destituțe, both Persiar and non-Persian, of the towns and The material needs and democdesires which led all the oppressed peoples of Iran to rise up so successfully against the Shah will only be realised by the socialist revolution.