Schlagwort: Iranian Revolution
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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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Peter Taaffe: The Church and the Mosque – is there a Religious Revival?
(Militant No. 448, 23 March 1979 p. 11 [I think we would today not use the term ‚Islamic church‘]) The first of three articlesBy Peter Taaffe A vast crowd of three million people turned out to greet Ayatollah Khomeini when he returned to Iran. One and a half million people welcomed the Pope when he…
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Militant: Iranian Fiasco
[Editorial, Militant no. 501, p. 2] The abortive attempt to rescue the 50 American hostages from the embassy in Tehran was a desperate measure on the part of Carter. The President himself had earlier said that any such attempt would almost certainly lead to the death of the hostages. Yet clearly, the pressure of public…