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Neil Williamson Friend, comrade and revolutionaryfrom his friends shows that despite the anti-capitalist aspirations of the masses, the Khomeini regime serves the interests of the capitalist class IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE OVERTHROW OF THE SHAH in the insurrection of February 1979 the workers.
Iran won a right to organise and made social gains sucn as tney nao never nao pefore. task of the Iranian capitalist class in this new situaBUI JUBAGJO DUE SUIBD 8S0U1 ABM8 0X81 01 S8M U01 Iranian working class and peasantry asserting their own independent class goals.
meini ECUIIS. It alone prbuiid toe steverely damaged capialis sate severely apparatus.
This policy of the KhoTICII доволени however ran into ICaE ESOOPOSTOl This started inevitably the Obpressed tionalities who make up 60 per cent of the population of Iran.
The problems the Wete WEN going to en counter were immediately SROWIE by maSve boycott of the March 1979 the *Islamic Republic" which took place Kurdistan because of the refusal to ve any pledge on the rights of oppressed nationalities.
NESHIS DE WOMCI WCEC taken away. and in June 1979 thrce Blenders of Workers Council of the Petroleum Industry, which had backbone of struggle against the Shah, were arrested. In the next wecks members of the lett-wing Fedayeen movement were execureo, and tne suroisa Democratic Party banned.
TTOM TUTY SORWETOS massive military offensive against Kurdisn arcas the country was started. Calls Thesc repressive actions of the however Deean IUICC mass opposition and undercut its political support. The offensive in Kurdistan was defeated. A mass acmonstranon, wilh an estimated 200,000 parlcipating, BLOS 1 place mn Tehran against the banning of the opposition journal Ayandagan Most significantly the Constitutional Referendum called at the end of 1979 resuited in an abstention rate of up to 50 percent and lar higher in many areas. The regime LOSLE рониса prestige and with this its rebuild the -DIVEI capitalist state apparatus.
As a response to this situation the Khomeini regime seized the Us embassy in Tehran in late This move was greeted Overwncinag спthusiasm in Iran which was the whoie ooiect of the exercise. The Iranian people had suffered aHIOSI unimaginable crimes the Shah's regime which had been organised directly in with the United States. To seize the 'nest of spies" in Tehran, to dety for a year peasants and oppressed nationalities The crucial role in this, inevitably fell to the Khopossessed the political capitalist tne Do government, greeted not in Iran but among the oppressec of the world as a great triumph.
But while the workers and peasants saW seizure of the embassy as simply part of a consistent against imperialism the regime did it different After an initial period in which a certain *relaxation' took place, because of the upsurge around embassy seizure, the regime again stepped up the repression. The war against the Kurdish people was intensified systematic actions started to break up the independent working class organisations The Shora (council) movement IRCC. particular atrack The Polytechnic COOrOHa TOl in Tehran, which was a regroupment of up to 200 Shora's in Tehran and which possessed a central newspaper Shora was broken up through a combination of repression anc the creation of an alternative government dominated •Workers House' The WONKCR leaders of the strike at Pars electric in Tehran were exsystematically began tacking the independent organisations of the working class.
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Repressive war waged against Kurds needed a total mobilisaноп or tne peopie of lrat invasion. Instead for a vear the regime claimed political credit for waging the war tinued to intensify its internal repression A major part of the army was still used to coninue the repressive wa gainst the Kurds and no measures against the press fight were started nt sprong started spring 1981. Svsremanic torture on a wide scale was reintroduced in the OPLOIIS Only after it felt it had crushed the possibility of any independent working SUBSCRIBE!
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workers and peasants of Iran still have major gains achieved through the revolution compared to the Shah's regime but on the contrary come into increasing con flict with it Particular actions may be engaged in with the Ira nian government against But the strategic way forward for the working class in Iran, including the fight against lies not in alliance with the Khomeini resHnC oUT 1 their overthrowing it.
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