existence muntary hierarchy', large numbers have Its weakness is that it is a cavilaiisi, win a serial and may Chauvinist regime To give as reasons for the defence of Iran the fact that comittees have actually WUl TSCH simply palneuc, pracucany country could defended on I those : lines matter, the For that standard of livwould disagree with the paper's analysis of the most repressive the Docialist chanense the _correct lo describe baathist petty-bourgeois has) progressively moved what is the Iranian regime but regime at an earlier stage of evolution? (If SC las sullie perhaps you the record GEORGE Kerevan is right when he asserts that socialism will depend upon 'the ability of the American working class to disarm the mad people in the Pentagon' (Letters, Oct.). It is a pity that the rest of his article departs analysis. Nuclear weapons are not neutral but part of an anti-working class war drive ting at tne USSR and the We should, I believe, the Soviet Union disarmament talks (but not of the SALT type which increased the build up). However, this cannot be a precondition of our support - we have a duty to defend all gains made by the working however awful the regimes that emerge.
them who have hunch of removed as quickly as possible. But they • wallt lo lake TION Ane inev cone be ol tremendous importance : STA and push (to extend) the action... B RXTH often estimated the importance of the united front It has suggested that is building the fightback. Tented confuse the rank and file A united front policy will aiso acular issues Labour and Communist Laborats. hits Labour Par- Thus by cas da Cult 0 scl VITOR Labour Party. Nichols horror of 'blocking' would seem to rule out tnis approach.
5. Providing can united front with the as an organisation that confights for militant None of this consists of splitting blockNicholls reveals mue woe starde problems that Tace ions in the unions contoucons. bicast:
KEN JONES, London trap as the SUBTICO On rights.
class Stalinists militarism poin- workers Third support entering into class, political question.
A US commando: aid for the Third cannot fall into the same George confusing defence against imperialism with democratic l'we surely do not support the KGB and censorship which the claim is necessary to counter CIA subversion'.)
Ideally, a perfectly democratic would organise mass defence based on mass intersolidarity action working class. But the reality now calls for socialists to come to grips with an imperialist war drive in which we cannot be neutral.
Our primary aim must therefore be to disarm our own imperialists, and not to equate Washington with Moscow thus avoiding the central RAY SIROTKIN, Lambeth IMG
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