FROM FALLS ROAD to Soweto, the news that Tehran had been seized in a of the propaganda struggling World War.
tremendously way through anti-Shah of workers on 23 December:
'The radius internationally.
throughout the dominated nations.' ditional broad layers insurrection.
In the same resolution, on the state THE SEIZURE of hostages by Islamic students and the occupation of the US Embassy received mass support from the Iranian people. It also unleashed mightiest. imperialist campaigns against people since the Second The demand for the Shah's extradition was popular Numerous marches over the past months have wound their Tehran the rates or tre Embassy. Gatherings of unemployed, women, students and youth have given voice to the anti-imperialist sentiment that was the product of the movement. The ramifications of the Iranian struggle were clearly expressed in a resolution passed by the islamic Workers Shoras (factory councils) and read on a demonstration supported by tens of thousands of revolution spreading Revolutionary methods, economic, political, social and military planning must be the guiding principles for struggles Islamic and in This political consciousness is not conthe leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini. It is a product of the radicalisation of in Iran since the February And it extends well beyond the specific demand for the Shah's extradition.
demands are made "for the development of basic industry and production of raw materials and resolved by confiscation farmers and agricultural workers' Iran requires some examination. Powerful undermining SUCI the question of rallying call has constitution were who participated in the earlier that their political suppressed by and the all of course these retained their force.
Downing classes led government. When Islamic Guards against the Kurds, rise in economic struggles spare parts'. The land question should be of the property of feudalists and big landlords, "to be divided up in accordance with a plan that meets the needs of Thus the view that the Embassy occupation constitutes a diversion of the masses from the more crucial class battles to be fought within Any hope Khomeini might have had of developing struggles by anti-imperialism clearly been The numbers who voted in the referendum on the markedly lower than those • referendum on 'Monarchy or Islamic Republic" last March.
But it is in the arena of the national question that the revolutionary process is being carried forward most powerfully. From the earliest days of the Bazargan government, the Kurds asserted would religious dictator. The overthrow of the Pahlavi regime unleashed a social Kurds which went fat beyond questions of democratic rights, although Clashes between the peasantry and the landto lane seizure. anda redistribution of property through village and area councils. The whole question of capitalist land relations was raised, forcing the leadership of the Kurdish Democratic Party into taking a clear oppositional stance to the new centra •Khomeini launched his he acted