Schlagwort: Shapour Bakhhtiar
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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…