— have an interest in fighting the Iranian masses...
'You know, me your murderers. your Thieus and your Kys and your dictators the world over. working people of Iran. Who is being 'kicked around'?
things we need too?
Iranians. Nor by the Cubans, nor the Vietnamese.
the Vietnamese, by backs.
'We should join with the Iranians, Vietnamese, the black Africans and help them *kick around' world will be a better place for it.' CARTER's warmongering against Iran is being challenged within the heartland of imperialism by the American Trotskyists of the Socialist Workers Party. The SWP candidate for the 1980 presidential elections, former GI Andrew Pulley, had this to say at a campaign meeting in Detroit on 18 November:
'American working people have no interest — no interest whatever — in a war against the Iranian people. Only the oil companies and the rest of the bikionaires that run this country — and, of coutse, their loyal servant the Shah It's inscribed on the Statue of Liberty: Send me your downtrodden, your exploited, your oppressed. But the US government does not follow that principle. Just the opposite. That inscription should say:
Send me your Shahs. Send me your Somozas.
"The reason they won't extradite the Shah is because they know that if he is convicted of the grave crimes he committed, they also stand convicted before the world and before the American people. That's because the government of this country represents the Rockefellers and other imperialist rulers who benefited from the policies of the Shah. The Shah was their puppet!...
'A war with Iran would only benefit the Rockefellers, the tycoons. interests of the American working people are the same as the interests of the Just think about some of the things the Iranian people are fighing for. T nationalise the big industries. To win workers control ever these indescries a curb inflation, provide jobs for the unemplosed, give land to the pezsases Ensure the rights of oppressed national minorities. Aren't these the kind of "The rulers of this country want us to believe that "we" are being "kicked around" by the Iranian people. Well, I'm not being "kicked around" by the didn't lose any sugar mills in Cuba and I have nothing to lose if the people of Indochina establish their independence and deepen their revolution. sure the overwhelming majority of the American people are like me 'No, it's not us that are being "kicked around" by the Iranians, toe Cubans.
the black African masses, by the Nicaraguans.
Rockefeller and the DuPonts. And we should welcome their getting —as they see it — "kicked around" by people who are simply trying to get them off their the Cubans, the Nicaraguans, the break "Send Send me The tion of ' some more. The unify the i US troops shoald Kurdistan *That and favouring