Schlagwort: Pahlavi
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Militant: Iran – Power Rests with the Armed Workers
[Editorial, Militant, No 444, 23 February 1979, p 2] Marxism explains that state power rests on ‚armed bodies of men‘. The correctness of this is shown by the development of the revolution in Iran. The remaining thin threads of the Shah’s power in Iran rested on his army commanders and the rest of the officer…
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Jim Chrystie: Iran: Workers Battle for the Streets
[Militant, No. 441, 2 February 1979, p. 1] Barricades on the streets of Tehran. Troops deserting, tearing off their uniforms and handing over their weapons to the youth. Workers taking over Tehran’s main hospital and posting an armed guard around it. This was Iran this week as a revolutionary explosion moved against the Bakhtiar government…
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Jim Chrystie: Shah’s Exit – the Beginning of Revolution
[Militant, No. 439, 19 January 1979, p 16] The Shah’s flight into exile does not mark the end of the Iranian revolution – it is just the beginning. The most graphic illustration of the mood in Iran has been the fraternisation of the people with the army. In gestures reminiscent of 1974 in Portugal, soldiers…
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Militant: ‚Communist‘ leaders join in support for Shah
[Militant, 8 December 1978, p 11] The best industrial workers have challenged the heavily armed dictatorship in mass political strikes demanding the release of political prisoners, exiles to be allowed to return and other democratic rights. It is upon their poverty that the tiny ruling class has built personal fortunes in their barbaric society. Behind…
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David Todd: The End of the Shah?
[Militant, No 431, 10 November 1978, p 11] About 20,000 oil workers are bringing the almighty despotic Shah to his knees. The workers have crippled the world’s second biggest exporter of crude oil by a stroke in which political demands for democratic rights have come to the fore. They have cut the average daily production…
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Brent Kennedy: The End of the Shah?
[Militant, No 431, 10 November 1978, p 1 + 16] Pushed to the brink of collapse by the unprecedented wave of strikes throughout Iran, the Shah has made a desperate attempt to cling to power through military rule. Above all, it has been the powerful effects of the working class taking united action in demand…
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Tim Lewis: Shah’s dictatorship rocked by protest wave
[The Militant, No 415, 17 July 1978, p. 10-11] Iran’s repressive dictatorship under the Shah has been rocked during the last six months by the biggest wave of strikes, demonstrations and riots for years. The apparently solid rule of the world’s richest man, backed up by the most sophisticated weaponry, has been incapable of preventing…
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lqbal: Mass Upheaval Rocks Shah
[The Militant, No 423, 15 September 1978, p. 1 + 16] As hundreds of thousands of Iranians flock into the streets demanding the overthrow of the Shah, his policy of concession and coercion is failing to stem the biggest wave of opposition to his regime since his dictatorship came to power in 1953. Martial law…