finally greeted their figurehead.
But the Iranian revolution is not over left.
thinks, and continue revolutionary party needs to be buil in Iran.
•WE WILL set up a committee discuss constituting assembly. The people already spoken on their desire to have an Islamic government. But if on the juridical level a referendum IS necessary, won't stand in the way of it...
will put forward candidate for the presidency of the republic. He will have to be elected by the people. Once he is elected we will support him.' AFTER years of dictatorship the demand for the election of a constituent assembly is popular with the Iranian people.
For the masses this means at last deciding what direction the country should take; it means abolishing the institutions of the Pahlavi monarchy; and it means greater freedom an improvement in living standards.
This is why the constituent assembly is one of the basic demands of the Iranian Trotskyists.
But for such an election to be really democratic there must be the right of free expression and organisation irrespective religious belief or political position.
Khomeini is opposed to these ideas. In his opinion "subversive groups should not legalised.
will put Islamic conditions to which candidates must submit. In this way we want to stop small groups standing the Ш12SS democracy Shah's protracted departure, the Iranian masses have political confrontation between Khomeini and the On this page we look at what Khomeini really to discuss people."
For Khomeini communism is a great danger threatening Iran, WHICH must be an vigorously. The have regular attacks followers students at Tehran University CVOIVe once an government' was installed.
For the Iranian Trotskyists the constituent assembly have a series of tasks. t wil have to dismantle monarchical institutions, stroy imperialist domination, emancipate the re-establish the right self-determination of oppressed nations, and allow the liberation of women. capitalist will be able to carry out such reforms since that involve the systematic mobilisation of the working masses and and the abolition of the class privileges on which bourgeois power rests.
'WHAT WE are interested in is our independence, freedom and the establishment of an Islamic republic. means the overthrow of the of Shah and the extermination of the royalist regime.' IT IS by remaining intransibe gent on the question of the republic - m contrast to unc National Front and moderate the religious leaders indeed its sort of fought increasingly by religious left-wing "Islamic will monarchy symbolised oppression and the slogan of the Islamic republic" de- has been taken up because it signified change peasantry, and the change was proposed only the condemned the Shah's dealings: Shi'ism and its 'radical" leaders. government But what Khomeini proposes runs the danger would matching up to the massive expectations which have been placca mil Although certain religious leaders have gone as far as to talk about exploitation of man by man', the Islamic republic which they propose does not give them the means to exploitation.
It does not intend to break SURES the DECSCHIE economic system. Its aim is to increase the role of religion in running the state. This will not much beyond Libya. 'In an Islamic government there is absolutely no room for that MASS movement has shown that Iranian working class is driving force of the revolution.
Communism. exploitation. The and ideologically largely points of (П1T271 forcE which fighting for a capitalist forward of moderate reforms the population.
of their "ending the the working succeeded eliminate this that the driving force movement capitalist peasants and intellectuals.
Gadaffi's and peasants'
during the mass struggle Islam and communism are economically through different view. (Ayatollah The Iranian Trotskyists are workers' and 'IN peasants' republic. The Iranian class has already are proved its inability to even the most tions TOT the advisers.' benefit of the vast majority of On the other hand, because weight, the ist working masses, and above all class, have year in changing more than the Shah's the regime had done in 25 years.
snown Company. is the Iranian working class, allied to the poor The leadership of the country falls to them. Only a workers Israel government supported by the organised power of the oppressed and exploited, is capable of meeting the needs of the Iranian people has the socialist reorganisation of society and the principle Iran will adhere to any military bloc. We the favourable non-alignment, but technical ques will be entrusted to THE struggle against imperialdomination the moment occupies an important place in the Iranian revolution The oil strikers have demanded expulsion of foreig advisers and a real nationali National Oil Khomeini has taken certain progressive positions on these questions: breaking off rela South Africa and and supporting the Palestinian fighters. But when it comes to the crunch, things are left to the 'advisers' The capitalist regime in Iran Trotskyist forces in Iran. They been shaped by the imperialist powers (primarily Britain and the United States)
Its economy largely depends on the capital of multinationals. Its petrol exports are dependent on the good will of capitalist trusts which distribute it. Its army is directed by US military advisers and officers trained in the United States In this context a break with imperialism means more than just declarations of national independence and of the end of foreign exploitation.
It means a series of economic and political decisions which break with the market economy and the national' bourgeoisie, since that is how imperialism has achieved its domination This would be one of the tasks of workers' and peasants' government to compen sation the assets of the big foreign firms and to allow the working masses to regain COHO SOVCE their natural Both Colin Sparks and Terry
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crucial struggles may have hardly begun. And one of the vital questions of the coming months will be the