I AM partially heartened by Sauce of oransa InsIde NALdU withın the NaOO Action Group (25 Sept):
would be more firmly ed if attitude was duplicated in other umons. lil lata L0. UC monest. your antuce to Rank and File groups Otner unions is typified by arianism and utter confusion The history speaks for itself. In Dow te leaders Nt e civ servants unions (CPSA/SCPS)
hat is initiated a split - and lucil sal valk allu accuscu k a r grouos or sectamarismn ralle o mount joint electoral candidates! This is surely an am Your ariel by tn NAG clearly SilOWS that some members or tne Internauonal Marxist Group are aware the bankruptcy tism and of 'blocking appalling Stalinists and only slightly less abDall? class laboratonst Labourle Kino yer win the Nus ang rade sill dinere to serie to sterile o nel bio vin ad refuse reunite respective RöF - I1 SOC o dl oser aVror LO •O SO There is no way excuses can be offered on the lines principle •OTRANS&On renau. constant - and that principle is the united front.
The only possibility that immediately strikes that the IMG is • wracked internal lonalısm stavic principle can be adhered to curtaaes. alcase and sort yourselves out with regard to the R&F. Either be in or out, but at least main.
principlea stance And try to be a little mor CUrsIstCHL — In unc civi ser• vice Or exami e Medder Tape nop arouna like a cat on hot bricks have you i iside ] R&F so that you can help us build genuine ligniback that Lontr oln se asr (on Labour Is In Dower Broad Left will do) Think about it and join the R&F groups! ~ NEVL DHSS BY WHAT dialectical process did Brian Grogan TEANO the revolutionary socialists must take sides in the Iranian/Iraq conflict? (25 Sept). There is not even a whisper of a Marxist analysis of the nature of the regimes of the two countries.
He writes that the aim of the Iraqi attack is to roll 'back the gains of the Irarevolution.' Have Khomeini and his very successfully outside help?
Of course we hold no brief for the murderous Baathist regime in Baghdad. But if threat as Hussein conclusion that tional not Ayatollah mullahs done this themselves without Hussein has slaughtered communists and Kurds, Khomeini has not been backward in persecuting Iran's naminorities. Hundreds, thousands of Baluchis, janis, and Arabs have fallen victim to Great Iranian chauvinism and obscurantism.
True, in Iraq Hussein has not yet forced women back behind the chador; nor is there any evidence of adulterers being stoned or thieves having their hands chopped off. But | am sure that Brian would not claim these as 'gains of the Iranian revolution.' On the surface at least Iraq's war .aims appear to be only the return of ter-