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But it is important that we register the gains of the 1979 revolution against the Shah: *The monarchy acostec and a republic established. *The right to vote, speak and to demonstrate is tirely different to under the Shah. *The secret police SAVAK was disbanded and there iwere _purges of the army and the state hierarchy. *Wages were doubled and the workweek trom to 40 hours. * SAVAK managers were the factories workers committees (shoras) were established. *The banks tionalised along with the insurance companies, establishing Iranian trol over their own oil. *Oil to South Africa cut off, links with Israe] broken recognition given to the PLO.
How else, if we don't register the massive gains from the overthrow of the Shah, can we understanc ucomeu sederste Is its power based on exploitation of the Islamic fanaticism of the Iranian masses (somelming wnlcr the bourgeois press plays up)?
For me the bourgeois character of the state and government and the reactionary Caracte Islamic clericism is not in dova but wes certe us his identify toe gamas ses who identify the gain:
Khomeini leadership It is not religion Khomeini his but the political won by that leadership struggle against Gi2lf and This explains its ability to establish the confused anc CHARLIE VAN GELDEREN (15 October) says Khomeini is revolutionary and has been so since it came to was enthat reduced and anvel and deceptive ideology of the na- Islamic Republic.
We always understood that Khomeini's would be unable to satisfy the masses' material and national which is why ruptures and differences deepen divide the clergy.
The crackdown, starfar Yeth, tespecilly attee left, especially August 1979 the tempt to deal with the continued combativity of the Iranian workers peasants, who are mobilis. ed and confident.
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still continue as do peasant mobilisations for land. Attacking such a movement head on 1 would be suicidal. effective like the army is but this is divided and unsure although its prestige is the Witn Ils o the Iraq/Iran war.
that It is also on this quesVasC prestige invasion while not directly Ine engineered by imperialism is most certainly in its interests in destablising the revolution. US perialism would overthrow the regime and counterreplace it with a new right ving government The presen1 and terror is fundamental. ly backed bv right and we should more explicitly LaCHes. DUL are we backing the meinı revolution? We have never given support to it.
But ignoring the more reactionary role of leads rades to see the overall threat 'medieval Islam'. the dosieuoR Iran/Iraq war.
Similarly, the policies of the Khomeini government and failing to register the revolution leads misunderstanding of the goyernment maintains its social base -ing religion as the central element Revolutionary socialists are not for the overthrow as•ilauouk of the current and zova mcal ov ani-oalin Bakhtiar, the Mujahedin, or by other ali y aligned with imperialism. should, after was an at- says, be for the mobilisation oi the workers pes anvenmenta powergovernmental and through their organisations committees To begin with we must support the defeat of the imperialist-backed invasion and destablisation of Iran. instrument training and mobilising the needed, masses under the shoras and peasant committees is vital.
Armed and organised workers and peasants will •oe mO prevent right-wing backed tervention in Iran and prevent real revolution.
PATRICK, BRENT
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capitalist Sorted by Chilean group force Charle this class Socialist Challenge. oufle GREG McMASTER powel EDMONTON, CANADA own Iraqi Arming, Many incounteryour recent centrespread on Chile (17 Sept) and the column by Jerry Hughes of the Chile Solidarity Hughes' article focussed on the new problems facing the solidarity movement against repression under the Reagan administration in the USA, but also gave a 'National Trade Union Coordinating Committee' (CNS).
We all must join in protest against the repression faced by this grouping after its petition was presented to Pinochet. But Hughes' claim that they represent 'approaching one million workers' cannot this Committee's mandate dates back to the union movement as it was before the coup, 8 years ago. Comof representatives assigned by olitical parties (the political oppositio ccording to Hughes), the CNS carri out actions like petitions to pressure the government to accept the latest version 'Social Pact' called for by the Democrats and Communist However, these officials are simply the class-struggle unions which are re-grouping now in Chile. Unions that are independent from the government and from the old political Textile Workers Union (PANAL), whose strike last year was the first to defy the junta's Some of their leaders used to be reform-oriented moderates themselves but they were forced to break from their experiences under the regime, trying to defend their Committees supporting these Chilear unionists are organising speaking tours of Canada and Europe this fall, sup: like Combate Fourth International), MAPU (CC) an the Socialist Party (CNR), and by unions like the Quebec Federation of Labour.
I hope that we can read more about struggle union tendency in