ZANU blood on British hands organisations, at the same time does so from a position of retaining its own organisational independence:
The aim between now and May is a dues-paying membership of 300 organised local Revolution branches and a successful fund-drive of £3,000 to put the organisation on its feet.
Donations be sent
Revolution, PO Box 50, London N1. (Cheques/POs made payable Revolution).
Englishthe only crossed that he was Tongogara the white then Tongogara to was known as an advocate military and electoral unity. speculation that Tongogara was killed ZANU members opposed to unity with ZAPU, of Patriotic was known as an advocate of military and electoral unity.
Political murders are not unknown within the liberation movement, and so the possibility to Front is bi elections on its own.
agreement.
power"
Patriotic Front by come even earlier Front.
be pulled out now.
THERE were two full pages on Iran in Socialist Challenge (6 December). But they completely missed out the women's struggle.
There will be no accurate analysis of the Iranian revolution and the ensuing events without analysing the economic and social position of women. The women's issues are the real issues, and the real political struggle today for at least half the population is on that front.
Under Islamic ideology it is possible to create a patriarchal, male chauvinist, sexist state in which women, whose position is centred in the family, would be totally subjugated to men, Such a state could function and continue by enslaving women at home in free domestic labour, child producing and rearing, childien, and also of the old, sick and handicapped in the usually large patriarchal family.
The new Iranian constitution has all the provisions for such a state, and the authorities have already started enforcing them. That is why it was so crucial to read behind the events of the US embassy occupation in Tehran when the referendur on the new constitution took place.
Although the genuine anti-imperialist feelings of the Iranian masses cannot be doubted, the main government with clearly reactionary internal policies (e.g. on nationa
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SANTA CLAUS! exchange and return of 'terrorist' suspects is an example of history repeating itself.
As the contradictions and tensions of the feudal mode of production deepened in Europe in the 16th century, it resulted in a growing oppression of the serfs. The peasantry farm. The feudal backlash from thé.... barons and landlords entailed collective agreements for the exchange and return of captured casalile The increased repression of members of the working class engaged in national and anti-imperialist struggles is just one feature of the growing contradictions of the capitalist mode of production and the heightening of the international class struggle.
N. LONG [Woolwich] Ultra-left?
... AND HE'S accurate record of the financial situation.
In the future battles against Thatcher the mass of workers will rally round their traditional organisations and leaderships. Hence initiatives like Hull News deep into the labour movement. When, as in 1974, the left leaders of today betray the mass struggles of tomorrow, a mass fighting opposition will be necessarv to remove them. The fleecing of non-competitive capitalist subordinated to this political task. down the middle on Hull News. The majority agreed with Tony Cliff's an 'adaptation to Bennism'. In reality this division flowed from the SWP's confused attitude to the united front.
adapted not to Bennism but to the elitist ideology of professional LEFT ME A PRESENT! the paper sprang a leak they' d havean | comment about blacks, an the importance of driving cross-union Moreover, Hull SWP were split view, expressed at the time, that it was possible in a 'comic'.
But Geoff and the minority, however, •— who viewed workers as being uninformed and wrong comment. today' Moreover the teachers and discussion leaders who will use this comic should have the nous to amplify the stupidity and ignorance of such a remark.
Yes, we do know about, have discussed, and have taken other action on institutionalised state racism, but we decided to start at the level of white adolescents who may been given an explanation of how the state does enforce racist laws and controls. We have written teachers' notes pointing out that the types of racism illustrated in the comic are only the immediately apparent types. Racism is ingrained in society — we hope the comic (which was never intended to be a major analytical treatise) will generate discussion of the question at a deeper level than is LEEDS WARF (V. Anderson, W. Collins, G. Lacey, J. Keogh)
YOUR article on the conference of AND HO-BLOODY-HI TO YOU TOO, MATE!! been in an infinitely stronger position . The policy of the Stalinists and other reformist riff-raff is inevitable, and they are not misguided socialists as some readers of Geoff Bell's article might be led to believe.
The point is that it is revolutionaries in Leyland and throughout the labour movement who have to offer a socialist alternative to the present mis-leaders like Robinson, not pin hopes on what might have been if only the reformists had not done what they did.
NIGEL BROWN (Dudley)
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