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for some two decades now example, JEWISI DUaTU vegudes community leaders have been origin to assillillalcu avall conne ceraous muas ano quite often, too, any identification This is not DUCESS socialists would wish to nail Russia was under siege by huberialist uerially. «a nor cal upon socialists to 'fight alongside Kerensky through their 'independen methods struggle and organisation Neither the Iranian nor Ine Hag. workers and peasants have anything to Leadership of Khomeini a russell Socialist Challenge mav have COnsistently argued that the Iranian masses have every in have the peop and the whole world', it has COnSISiCILLy wrong avoul unis ano nas not pro duced a single convincing argument in support of this case.
CHARLIE VAN GELDEREN, London Watch out, there's a red pencil about All the letters on this page have been couee...su. edse try to keep letters to 300 WOOS I FIND it really depressing reading the letters that have flooded Socialist Challenge over the past few defending week. azallist iran in a war against an imperialist-inspired invasionwe live in an era which revolutionary Marxists label as one or wars ana coll tions. •Ano vet. it imperial ism attacks a revolution or even a semi-colonial govern there are howls of 'Marxist protest against laking stues unless imperialism is openly its involveMany readers until ine sides WILD Perhaps they should recall incidents in the last imperialis years where volvement was obvious * No US marines landed to declared: overthrow Allenae; ll was all cone ov neans. we know hatched Washington, but the US has overInToWn duatemaid 1954 the invading column had no US troops in it ever whole thing. (Fortunately IOT revolution young doctor in the country drew the correct conclusions and spent the rest of his life fighting US imperialism Juevald alcu ocrore The ca domes l volvement in Arbenz's overCIA admit that they, in collusion with Exxon (then called Standard Dilall ul Hans overinrowing the Mossedegh They didn't say so at the has become the darling of US and British imperialism most Marxist Cults l europe called Tor lakme no sides. or worse said 'Vietnamese troops leave Cambodia' rourin interaonal!
The American and Japanese rotskvises nac no trouble immediately backhat the issue is cry alsor the Vietnamese Now John Pilger's than lines Marxists look pretty silly It is the the job of Marxists to expose imperialișm more obel mannel Iran nas, since tne over throw of the Shah, been locked in a struggle with imperialism. • It is sad that most of those who have written to socials cnallence call l set and, calling fence-sitting, have a posithat is the same as that of their ow should instead be Gemanding inade bree Is Chieftain tanks;
Trao through Saudi Arabia and that both powers release stolen Iranian assets Right Vietnam, itself victim o im, and North korea are coming to mran. aid. To be a fence-sitter today is not to be neutral; it aims and designs of S PAUL, W London Union must be put into a more balanced per petive protection that the Us working class would give to the ussk, and en courages the US people to give greater protection. LES HARTOP, Coventry What's Left Liberation Red Lion me, Birmingham-based socialist an
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