THE last bastions of Pahlavi monarchy fell with the Bakhtiar government, generals and the American imperialist advisers.
This historic victory has freedom and throwing off the yoke of imperialism, autocracy and backwardness.
Today is clear artillery, tanks and machine guns cannot break the will of the people.
Today it is clear that to win freedom we had to overthrow the army and government the Pahlavi court and capitalist parasites.
The workers and all the toilers, the real producers in society, displayed a tremendous solidarity throughout the country in their brave and h-toric struggle.
A new power is arising — the power of workers and toilers in city and countryside, the power of tens of THOTIS oppressed and downtrodden.
It is this power that can free our country of all the vestiges of dictatorship, poverty and backwardness and rebuild society on a new basis.
CERe fight to establish a democratic regime, which has been the central fight in this century, has never been so close to being won.
The Socialist Workers Party, which has been founded on the basis of a fusion of Trotskyist forces adhering to the Fourth hails this victory.
FRONT PAGE of Che Bayad Kard No Copies available for 15p plus påp from Socialist Challenge (iran). of the Socialist Workers Party, the new united Iranian The comrades are pleased at the success of their paper Che Bayad Kard (What is to be Done?). In the days between Khomeini's return and the insurrection it was the only paper accurately to predict the role the army would play. This has won it a growing audience.
Europe and North America, a group originating in Iran, and the Iranian supporters of the Organising Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth Here we reprint the SWP's statement on the events the obstaclesfreedom and progress, reprethe sented by the monarchy, have been shattered.
The next step for all the workers and toilers can be summarised in one sentence: forward to the convocation of a constituent assembly. that The present victory was won by the oppressed of Iran and it is the result of the stubborn and self-sacrificing struggle of tens of millions.
The future government that Our Comrade KAVOOS Hemmatianpoor, a 20-year-old Trotskyist, shot dead in the assault Eshrat Abad army barracks, the second largest in Tehran, on Sunday 11 February. He died gun in hand.
Kavoos was English University of Tehran. summer he joined the group of which produces the paper Che Bayad Kard (What is to be Done?] and which is in the process of fusion with other Trotskyist organisations.
We salute his memory.
can free Iran from the evils of imperialist domination of autocraly historical backwardness must also be decided by the people themselves.
Only the masses themselves, through discussions leading to decisions, can offer a solution to the crisis forced upon our society by imperialism and absolutism.
The immediate convocation of fully constituent assembly, in which all critical forces can participate, is the only way that the will of the people can find true expression.
Thus assembly represents the sovereign people will not be responsible to any authority but the themselves and will recognise no power of others It should be based on direct, equal and Literates and illiterates should have voting rights. The high are school youth who displayed so much daring and self-sacrifice should vote. immediate The soldiers, those sons of the workers and peasants, who have solidarised revolution, right to vote. All the women and men of this land should be able to participate in elections to a constituent assembly.
The mass struggle organisations which shattered the rule of the autocracy should oversee the elections.
No from above can bring freedom On to Iran and no such ment can detend the gains of the revolution against the imperialpowers and forces. a student of This is relying on made the present possible - the power of the HUH masses — and by expanding an deepening the mass struggles, such as the protection of factories by the workers, expansion armed reservations neighbourhoods and the neg of secret files of SAVAK CHICS. the opening books of the imperialist firms the by the workers, the exposure of and the crimes of the Pahlavi terror over the last 25 years, bringing those responsible to the justice of the workers and Tolers.
The constituent assembly, real the expression of the people's will, will defend and support all these struggles democratic decide the big and the small representative questions and from that of nationalising imperialist mines, companies and ending the national oppression of Azerbaijan, Kurdistan and Baluchistan, to winning equal that rights for women, to guaranteeWing freedom of expression and assembly, to workers' control people of the factories.
only immediate convocation of a constituent assembly that the people can be sovereign.
The central question facing the constituent assembly will be have deciding on the government. The Workers Party proposes the establishment of a the should have the struggie or une sion to La capitalist government.
INO capitalist will government appointed encourage governreactionary possible only by the power which victory ocupation and workers' Kurdistan, and peasants' republic, that is a government that supports the workers and toilers of city and countryside. cannot be The problems facing Iranian society from political repres backwardness and poverty, cannot be resolved by government nationalise industry, the seizure and distribution of land to the peasantry or the liberation of Azerbaijan and neSs.
Baluchistan from the yoke of national oppression.
The train of the revolution stopped halfway, pushed back again. Government by internal or external exploiters should be ended.
With the establishment of a workers' and peasants' republic the historical demands of political and economic inde- LIOT pendence will become a reality For and the chains of backwardand political repression will be broken and the door opened to an era of freedom and abundance.
The masses achieved the present gigantic victory by their own power and only by relying OBOU own torce guarantee the final victory of Long live the Iranian revolu the convocation of the
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