degree on the views of Khomeini nimse t For the ruling class, the hostage question goes hand in hand with the problem of now to consonate us no• on power ane rebuild the institutions of a bourgeois state. The obstacle which blocks their path are me centine anu-mper ast teenes or deeply antagons Pahlavi regime and its crimes. and to the role of the United State's government in the plunder of their country has become poine lo wa tae manteousness or mne hostage-taking in the Hilalls Av compromise on a cue woke be seen as a betrayal of the revolution itself. The effect of these sentiments has beer lo de me nares outre cerov aud wit their room for manoeuvre in dealing with the hostages. Instead, they have been forccu lo orcicuu lilal luc hustare-lakille llas been the most decisive blow struck in the struggle against imperialism and that the should be the return of the shah or (following his death) of the shah's property.
However. the factions following the hardest line on the American captives have up to the present time been able to boost iner own all-mochaust cregenuals ana to establish their own those of the more 'wet' factions.
Yet not a single suggestion as to how to take forward the struggle against imperialism has come from any ruling block. Nor is it likely to do so Hostage taking has become a cover for not doing anything. Collapse The most important struggles being waged in Iran today are around solving the provens el dento b social and economic crisis deepens every lay with inflation running at around per cent a year and unemoroyment Dast lne 3.5 million mark and still rising. shah's grandiose but lopsided indusralisahon projecis, nas alien wel the conservative estimates of the governSocialist Challenge 14 August eyes of many Irarevolut on an actuat technical factors measures taken by position against limit exports resource.
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