of the in the politically "OI the lessons of ran and ism' multar y insisted that and through discussion will must ally banks, to armed forces.
government. through the CP 'retained law'.
future of generals crac The Socialist THE working class can smash even the most well trained and 1973.
prepared modern army. That is one of the many avoiding army.
This puts into place all the bloody propaganda of the Communist Parties and their insistence on the "peaceful road to socialIt is imposible to defeat the COLD they have declared. LOVCHHICHE The Communist Parties have revolutionary socialists have no practica actually explanation of how to destroy Instead, they have told us, we progressive generals and officers and at all costs avoid a clash with the And this advice has been put into practice. Chile is the most obvious example. The Chilean Communist Party supported putting generals in Allende's leader Luis Corvalan insisted in 1970 that the army their spirit of for the constitution and the cracks supported the crackdown on rank and file opposition in the armed forces - for instance against the sailors' mutiny of summer Everything was aimed at La conflict the The result was the military coup of September 1973.
Chile is only one example. In Indonesia in 1965 half a million people were killed by a military against Today there is the terror in the CP welcomed the 1976 coup. This is the record of the 'peaceful road"
Each time the Communist Parties have argued that there is atenave only romantic dreamers of the ultra left can imagine that the masses past have the capacity for defeating a modern army.
No other army in the world was as well equipped, as well trained and as well indoctrinated as that of the Shah. Today this army is in tatters.
The Iranian masses have show that if the mobilisations are great enough they make in even the most and well-trained machines. Into these cracks the people can move, to fraternise the with troops and begin to win sections over.
The organisation of the masses encourages the troops to resist. As the fighting starts the military forces crack up and defiance of the people reduced to the most hard core and elite units Against a mass mobilisation of millions, aided by even a few dissident troops, those units which will never be won over can be crushed.
This pattern of revolution - this is what is happening in Iran.
What is vital is that right from the start the working class is told that it needs to crush the violence of the enemy.
The millions who have come onto the streets of Iran in the their willingness to defy the military might of the Shah. Thousands have died, but many more have returned to the streets Such mass mobilisation and the arming of the people which accompanied lave proved decisive. A soldier who mutinies cannot afford choose a losing side; he would be shot without mercy. When the masses begin to light back and arm themselves that gives ranks the necessary encouragement Socialist Challenge 15 February 1979 page 5