Kategorie: CWI and prehistory
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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…
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Dave Todd: Iran – Ripe for Socialist Revolution
[The Militant, No 427, 13 October 1978, p. 10-11] The recent demonstration of 250,000 in Jaleh Square, Teheran, in defiance of martial law, leading to the massacre of anything up to 3,000 people, is of the biggest a measure wave of opposition since the Shah was brought back to power in 1953 with the backing…
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Bob Labi: Iran: New stage in revolution
[Militant International Review, No. 17, Autumn 1979, p. 17-21] The rapid development of the Iranian revolution since the February 10/11 insurrection has demonstrated clearly that the Iranian masses saw the Shah’s overthrow as a green light for deepening their struggle for a better life. The past few months have shown how the tremendous pressure of…