people for unlawtuiness, cruey ano corrupton.
Economist said that the American Walden (a former stage be placed on the throne will not be long before Pahlavi joins them.
The Russian revolutionaries executed the Czar.
many other choices as well.
Assembly.
in struggle.
Moscow and Peking is also apprehensive.
shan repracco wan a vacuum.
INSANITE future will appear on the horizon administration take the institutions of the masses.
monarchy. engaged in the struggle.
are part of it.
excellent work up till now.
solidarity campaign in this country.
ine proposed mass fall of the Shah will make it even more vitai.
Redgraves vs. 'The Observer Revolutionary Party, they were penalised.
Just picture the The Times!
was used with great effect by The Observer lawyer.
an ass but politically vindictive.
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Socialist Challenge 16 November 1978 Page 2 THE SHAH is on his last legs. In his speech announcing the military government he apologised to the Iranian The speech was drafted by the renran. This small, significant, detail shows the Shah's precarious position.
Last Sunday's Weekend World prosramme also assumed that the Shah would not last long. Its presenter, THEN WINE Labour MP), speculated as to whether the Shah's son could at a later This suggests that 'unofficial' Foreign Office buffs are accepting the inevitable. The bulk of the Shah's family has already repaired to the Swiss resort of St Moritz. It This would be a pity for he is a criminal. He should be tried by a popularly constituted tribunal and sentenced. Chinese made the last Emperor a gardener. There are Yet not a single British newspaper (nor for that matter The Economist) has called for free elections on the basis of universal adult franchise to elect a Constituent What will happen after the Shah falls is, in the best sense of the word, unpredictable. And unpredicatability frightens everyone except revolutionaries and the masses The capitalist politician in Washington, London, Paris and Bonn is nervous. The bureaucratic boss in The Soviet Ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Dobrynin, told the US Secretary of State that they had no desire to see the What will follow the fall of the Shah is political ruling class and international backers. For Iranian working people a new The most favourable development would be for organs of popular power to emerge and an alternative workers over Tehran. only development that could impel the masses in such a direction would be a split in the army between the ranks and junior officers on the one hand and the colonels and generals on the other. For a dual power to be established would require armed detachments to defend and develop The central demand today is for the overthrow of the unites all segments or me masse But the demand for immediate elections, convocation of a Constituent Assembly, freedom to form political parties and trade umions are a vital part or our armour These cannot be counterposed to the mass struggle. They For us in Britain there is an urgent need for solidarity. The Committee Against Repression in Iran has done It now needs to develop further. broaden its base and prepare to launch a mas:
demonstration in December should be seen as the beginning of such a movement. The THE DECISION of the judge in the recent action brought by Vanessa Redgrave et al against The Observer is. hy any standards. an outrage. Because those bringing the action were left-wing and belonged to the Workers opposite. Right-wing Tories, supporters-of Smith, etc., bringing a case for defamation against a newspaper. Can anyone seriously believe that if the jury decided that the paper got its facts wrong the