Amnesty Ot of these reforms are extremeparual and contradicFor example, the alllicly ULI llleza. 1111migrants has been combinup of the immigration reguiauons, WIlCI will make it much harder for new immigrants to get into The nuclear energy arogramme has only been slowed down, abandoned altogether.
Aneln the civil liberties field, the zew gowerne ene has will be even harder :han right-wing preTecessor aralls democratic rights for soldiers.
Nonetheless, the posi» ve moves outlined above are general far t hat could have been ex. eited from a Gaullist or Uiscardian government.
Salvador In the sphere of foreign soncy, the government is marked by policy uH COCUOs wien are of the European Socialist parties.
On the one hand, relation to many, Third Socialist Challenge 24 September 1981 Page 14 CP leaders Marchais and Fiterman still support and sympathy among the workers. It is a! the beginning of its term of office, and scepticism and doubt have not yet become a willling away or support.
This backing government has also been secured by the participation of four ministers of rrench COMEESURSi Party - given posts at the cost of Communist Party's abandonment of virtually all criticisms of the Socialist Party. Needs But in the months to come the French workers will judge their government by the minor, if positive, reforms that have SO far been brought in, but by the way which it faces up to the basic problems of the economy and the needs of the workers.
By retreating on the 35-hour week and price controls, and by stepping back from any major nationalisation policy, the government has avoided any early clash with the ruca oosses Ultimately the choice will preciselv be •ether to administer French capitalusm's crisis at the expense of the workers, or to start to challenge the power and prerogatives private capital.
Un the oresell evidence it seems unlikely that Mitterrand's government adopt the latter they are deported to Iran.
by the Khomeini regime cluding those aged 12 or under.
'counter-revolutionary previously punishable by death.
will not be deported.
Four Iranian students recently on arrival at the that similar fate will await any deported.
rested by;
charges against the students dropped Solidaritv, BM Box 9270, London WC1 N3XX. CERTAIN death faces 54 Iranian students arrested after a peaceful occupation of the Iranian Consulate in London on 4 September if The students, supporters of the Mojahedin left wing guerillas in Iran, occupied as a peaceful protest against the killings being carried out These killings aimed at the Mojahedin, but involving all left wing organisations, reached a new peak last weekend when the regime endorsed execution for all those who took part in armed demonstrations against the regime inTehran radio on Sunday also announced that workers who went on strike were guilty of acts crime Bail for the 54 students has been opposed by British police with the result that some have spent over two weeks in jail. Home Secretary William Whitelaw has so far refused to confirm assurances apparently given to MPs who have intervened on behalf of the students that they deported from West Germany were apparently executed airport by 'Revolutionary Guards' and supporters of the 54 students fear Concerned people in the Labour movement can give their immediate support to the 54 ar* Sending an appeal to the Home Secretary that any threat of deportation be lifted and the * Circulating copies of a petition to this effect.
Petitions and more information from; Iran
a My mum has cancer... she hasn't got long to live' property they are all pleading not guilty.
ped.
what happened to her and her family. My mum was in hospital when Giovanni was arrested. She has TWELVE Asian youths in Bradford, members of the United Black Youth League, face life imprisonment.
Charged with conspiring to damage lives and The 11 July Action Committee is organising a campaign to defend them and get the charges dropIn their new bulletin 17 year old Anna Singh, sister of one of the arrested youths Giovanni tells (14), my younger brother, was with his nephew (aged 2) playalready LULOlI she's very ill. They have said she hasn't long to live. She is worried about Giovanni. She says, 'go to see him, don't come to see me.
Giovanni gets such
migraines, he can hardly speak sometimes. My Mum wrote her will before Giovanni was arrested and she's left him as our guardian.
Support committees to wit the freedom of the Bradford 12 hav been established in Huddersfield Nottingham and Leeds For further informa. non, contact.
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