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Cardiff Colchester Crewe Darlington Hemel Hempstead £110 £90 Leeds LeICeste Liverpool TOUT AL NUmOS 3203L Middlesbrough A/C Number Newcastle 71016000 NORWICH Nottingham London N1. Portsmouth Preston Frequency Reading Sheffield the same struggle ... Only the proletarians cal destroy nationality, only the awakening proletariat can bring about fraternalisation between the different nations (Engels, *The Festival of Nations in London').
In this analysis the culminating great slogan of the Communist Vaniesto. •Workers of All Countries Unite, was being prepared.
However for Marx and Engels - and inis Is a characteristic which is displayed throughout volume — no analysis remained abstract and without a concrete conclusion. Each analysis led towards a slogan or demand which expressed it, and to practical steps which embodied it. In relation to this analysis of the international solidarity of the working class, and even though the theory of the party was not at all fully developed, Marx's conclusions led inexorably to the necessity of international political organisation of the working class.
INTERNATIONAL Marx and Engels were already clear that the formation of a political organisation must be based not on the nation but on international organisation or the proletarian vanguard. The Communist League, the first organisation which Marx and Engels helped to establish, was (like every other political organisa tion in which they participated) built simultaneousl as a national and an international organisation.
But Marx and Engels not only first clearly formulated the theory of the party in the period covered by him the al bean to lay down the tactics of
appearance coincides with the growth of the Iranian in the Iranian Consulate in Geneva in June 1976.
Iran: the Shah's Empire of Repression, Against Repression in Fight for Democratic [CRTUI], are all essential tools for socialists.
with Iran: the Shah's Empire of Repression. This pamphlet is particularly good, because it destroys systematically the whole myth promoted by the media on Iran. The pamphlet has a foreword by who together with William Wilson under the surveillance of SAVAK.
The pamphlet relates how the Shah's father rose from being a Divate in une army to sezine une throne in 1925. But he supported une NaZAs. so mne allied troops forced him to abdicate.
Uncer me new one minster. Mossadegh, political organisations and free trade unions. previous v illegal, were allowed to develop. In 1951, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now BP) was nationalised.
Imperialism retaliated by organising an international boycott of Iranian oil, and when that failed, the CIA organised a coup in 1953 to overthrow Mossadegh and put the present Shah on the throne. The coup cost the CIA $19 million.
KILLED To remain in power the Shah bulll an immense repressive appa ratus with the help of MOSSAD the CIA. According to Newsweek, SAVAK emplovs between 30.000 and 60,000 people full time and one out of eight adults are thought to be occasional informers SAVAK.
The regime's propaganda made a lot of noise about a white (bloodless) revolution. In fact the 'revolution' was far from 'white'. A few months after the Shah had proclaimed 'revolution' line yas massive demonstrations occurred in capital, Teheran. They were attacked and over 4,000 people were killed.
Half the peasants did not get any land out of the agrarian reform, whilst those landlords who did lose some land were given enormous compensador Over three quarters of the popuTHREE PAMPHLETS on Iran have been published recently. Their and with the disclosure of the activities of SAVAK [Iranian Secret Police] resulting from the occupation of its headquarters Iran (CARI), Iran, national [November 1976], and Workers of Iran: Repression and Trade campaign for the Restoration of Trade Union Rights in Iran The Iranian regime is no more democratic than that of Chile, yet there is a generally accepted myth that Iran has a benevolent monarchy which is leading Iran into being the 'Japan' of the Middle East. As a first step towards fighting this myth, Red Weekly will be reviewing all three pamphlets, starting this week lation remain illiterate. Although school is compulsory, per percent never go to school.
Outside Teheran there is one doctor for 10,000 inhabitants. In the handful of state hospitals, seriously ill patients have to sleep on the floor of corridors for weeks before they can receive medical attention.
STRIKES On average workers are paid between 10p and 13p an hour. with the income per head for more than half their families working out at less than 63p per week. And the cost of living in the towns in Iran is no lower than in Britain... foodstuffs are especially expensive because of constant shortages.
As for the regime's 'industrialisation programme, it consists of importing whole techmical and skilea labour to go with them, regardless of the needs or une country and tne absence or the necessary infra-structure.
Following the withdrawal of British troops from the Gult. Irar has also sent 11,000 troops to fight the liberation forces in Oman.
In the last few years there have been an increasing number strikes and factory occupations.
But frequently the strikers are апаскеа Dy the army or armed police, workers get killed, SAVAK tries to arrest the leaders. has One example is that of the Jahan textile factory workers in Karaj, who decided to march to the Ministry of Labour in Teneran to demand the legal minimum wage. in army wack macnie-gunnec killing tenth of the work force.
SUPPORT There are an estimated 100,000 Dolluca brisoners. Most or them have never been tried. Nearly all suD ecica SAVAK, whose methods include electrical shock treatment to sexual opposition organs, broken bottles or electric batons being shoved up the anus or vagina, and slow burning on an electrinea bed. Iran nas the nignesi the Committee rate of political executions in the Amnesty inter- WORE I The pamphlet also describes the Dy close and the Shah. The pamphlet desCHIDeS nOW British working class lie in support workers of Iran explains how this can be done it is essential to mount a campaign which can make the student and workers movement aware of the situation in Iran, thereby leading to a situation in which SAVAK is expelled from Britain, in which workers black the export of arms to Iran, ernment is forced to break all trade and diplomatic links with the Shah's should also give concrete material aid to the progressive forces of the opposition both inside and outside Iran.
CARI is a first step towards such a campaign. Its sponsors include seven Labour MPs. and it also ha the active support of the Confederation of Iranian Students.
plants and the IRAN the Shah IMG, IS, the Gulf Committee, and several other organisations. Many StuchEs umons navc and and sub-committees of CARI are being formed in colleges and universities throughout the country. CARI invites Iranian and British forces to join The publication of this pamphlet is a major step in bailding the CanDALE! one Pro Drummond Sire, L den Drummond Street, NW1. Single copies are 30p (+ 10p postage and packing), 10 or more copies 20p each. The pamphlet is also available at Red Books Turner information about CAKI write to the address above.
ROBIN BLACK-DOUGLAS
links that -exisi une interests or une Zanu and eventually the Govreactionary regime.
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For near mono nic THE fered in Alonso Rios Mexican ... or so Luis Echeverria, Mexico's outgoing President, would nave A year ago hundreds of landless ment's revolutionary rhetoric seriously, occupied ron arming and in me nonnem sae or sonora The army threw them off again, severely wounding 20, coumness omers. our conevemas peasants. Dartino snor Detore relinquisning Nearly olice to nis nand-nicked cessor, was to expropriate nearly million acres of the very peasant ants and their A flicker of life from the ashes of the 1910 revolution? Or the left on WaIS face of the longest running 'social Hidalgo, contract or une com century. CINE COT TRE edThis May, [Institutional Revolutionary ParThe Echeverria presidency difSeveral importan Tes' DOCTS Trom is bredecesso [see Decline Bonapartism' Iran has the highest rate of political executions in the world. real quantity of the deposits and denouncing the much larger tig ures suggested in oil circles "fabrications of the CIA Unemployment BADIOSIVE proportions. Ine ane distrioutor problem is directly connected, ne occupation of the misty b WILl 40 million of some million cultivable areas are in the approximately landlords, with a rural population ot over su million andless deas and agricultural workers families. Thus in one year, in one state TerE were 7UC licensed' expronriations Idenoun. ced by Echeverria as 'CIA-inspirattempt to overcome the vulnerable isolation RED WEEKLY 16 December 1976 9 ECHEVERRIA of these spontaneous actions, the First Worker, Poo People's Opposition took place centra WAS the politica independence of the movement from the PR There have been independent led strikes [an electricians' strike in at vears an independent davance cuttine across ine tractional a0 stentionism of the Mexican left and dragging the CP off the coat tails into an electoral front OTTER oranisations amone them the Lice socialisa. a sympathising organisation of the independent workers will qualitatively BOYCHICER the LS's fusion with the Lica Communista Inter nacionalista, another sympathising organisation of the Fi largest on the Mexican left after the CP. The new ninemaster or ine mexican kev olution, President Jose Lopez Portillo, will undoubtedly take the same view and act accordingly
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