FOR BRIAN GROGAN a revolution is a revoluinto the realm of rulership Revolution — my emphasis. CVG).
By no stretch of the imagination can it be shown that the Iranian Islamic Revolution, the leadership of the Ayatollah Khomeini and the mullahs fulfill this definition nor that it moving in that direction. Just the opposite, in fact.
the same page of Socialist Challenge April Conte Brian's article, there is a report of ine congescarior of KARGAR, the 'legal' He WoodC! of the HKE and the increasing harassment of HKE members, despite that organisation's devoted loyalty to the Islamic Revolution.
Brian heads his article 'Iran's victory renters Further on of imperialism This has hardly been reflected in the capitalist press — it made front of The Times and the Guar dian exactly once. Nor did it make an impression on that infallible barometer change Shares were barely affected by the Iranian victory.
Of course, imperialism would not want to see a VIcTOry for Shi-ite Islamic forces. But, to my the Observer of 4 April summed it up rather realistically than more Comrade Grogan. local States (Saudi Arabia Bahrein, pre remotes ur region, comfort from the sight of these two rivals enfeebling each other' (my emphasis). This reflects also the view of imperialism.
victory for either tion is a revolution. For Trotsky, however the history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses over their own destiny. '(Preface to The History of the Russian Saddam Hussein or Khomeint will bring benefits the workers and peasants and the op pressed nationalities in either country. Victory will only strengthen hand of whichever of the reactionay regimes come.
on top The Islamic the proletarian but step revolution backward in history, toward medievalism.
Marx wrote long ago. 'But we say to the workers and the petty bourgeoisie It IS better suffer modern bourgeois society, which industry creates the madation eas the foundation of a tha will liberate you all, than to revert to a bygone form o) society, which, on the prelesl of saving classes, thrusts the entire nation back into medieval barbarism'. (as quoted in Lowy's Combined and Uneven Development p/3 footnote).
That was written when the international workers' movement was still in its infancy. Today, in the age
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