that the LCI has been waging has been won. 2. The LCI's assumption that there Is a need to water down politics make them acceptable is indefensible on both political and pragmatic grounds. 3. The LCI's reluctance to even engage in the political argument about political status - at a time when the hunger strikers are dyolitical cowardice. height of 4. Political status is not an isolated 'extremist' mand in the way that the LCI is treating it (nor is it just a civil rights issue).
Dall oi the socialist attitude that the labour must develop on Ireland. To see political status in! isolation distorts an. understanding of the fact that it is an imperialist war which is going on in the north of Ireland We are worried that our local experience is being repeated in wards and General Management Committees throughout the country with the result that the Labour Party leadership will not be forc. ed to adopt a demand which is vital not only in its urgency but also in its immediate relevance to the republican movement JENNY MORRIS London PS Were now irving :: put an amendmen: :0 0u own Conference motion. calling for political status. astonishment on read ing the article on Iran in socialist Challenge of 25 June. (Islamic reaction threatens gains of The very headline is totally misleading and confirms my opinion that SC has completely TATICO understand the nature of events in Iran since the overthrow of the Shah.
Islamic reaction began almost immediately after the initial revolutionary impulse which toppled the Pahlevi lynasty. Steadily and consistently the most reactionary tenets of Shi-ite Islamism was imposed on the masses summary executions; Genin penalties for prostitutes and nomosextas Tine vell for women; the chopp ing OTT fingers of thieves the almost endless have asked before and repeat: are the gains which are now being threatened? Khomeini and the Islamic Revolutionary Party represented the count.
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Sallle blooded support to Bani-Sadr viously gave to Kho meini the point of defending him in the war against Iraq instead of the correct Leninist that the main enemy capitalist country is our Khomeini (or Bani-Sadr) then us That is the the dustbin of history.
Incidentally, the artistrangely silent about the Iran/Iraq war.
NOV that aven SC recognises the reac of the Khomeini regime do we still support him against the equally repulsive CHARLIE VAN GELDEREN, London for the strikers