Schlagwort: army
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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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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…