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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…

  • Militant: Shah – Millstone Around Neck of Iranian Capitalism

    [Editorial, The Militant No 435, 8 December 1978, p. 2] The new wave of strikes and huge demonstrations now sweeping Iran once again may prove to be the knock-out blow to an already punch-drunk Shah. The slavish support given to this ruthless autocrat by Foreign Secretary David Owen, under the blinkered advice of the Tory…

  • lqbal: Massenunruhen erschüttern den Schah

    [eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in The Militant, Nr. 423, 15. September 1978, S. 1 + 16] Während Hunderttausende Iraner*innen auf die Straßen strömen und den Sturz des Schahs fordern, schafft es seine Politik von Zugeständnissen und Zwang nicht, die größte Welle der Opposition gegen sein Regime seit seiner Machtübernahme im Jahr 1953 einzudämmen. In…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Ted Grant: Die iranische Revolution

    [eigene ältere Übersetzung, Militant, 9. und 16. Februar 1979] Letzte Woche gingen in einer der größten Demonstrationen in der menschlichen Geschichte mehr als drei Millionen Iraner*innen auf die Straßen Teherans, um die Rückkehr des religiösen Führers Ajatollah Khomeini zu begrüßen. In der vorigen Woche hatte es Barrikaden und Kämpfe von Arbeiter*innen mit der Armee gegeben.…

  • Andrea Enisuoh: Why does education fail black youth?

    [Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 33] Recent research on the achievements of ethnic minority pupils, by David Gillborn and Caroline Gipps. HMSO, 1996, £9-95. Reviewed by Andrea Enisuoh. The Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) have released their review: Recent Research into the Achievements of Ethnic Minority Pupils. Spanning a period of major…

  • Clare Wilkins: New attacks on abortion

    [Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 30-31] Abortion: Between Freedom and Necessity, by Janet Hadley. Virago, 1990. Reviewed by Clare Wilkins Anti-abortion MPs are planning another attack on the provisions of the 1967 Abortion Act and the present 24-week time limit on abortion. This follows a summer of intense media interest in aspects of…

  • Naomi Byron: Burundi Killing Fields

    [Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 10] The killing continues in Burundi. After three years of ‘low-level’ civil war in which around 150,000 have died, the country is slipping towards full-scale genocide. The latest cycle of violence began with the massacre of 350 Tutsis on 20 July at Bugendena, by Hutu militias. Less than…