arrange. Besides, any such assembly several conceivable options. Should it give Iran a constitutional monarchy, a republic, a bourgeois democracy, a soviet republic? We must know what we intend to fight It is good to outline the tasks which have to be solved in Iran nanona Guesson. wolcus ODores sion, the land question, the expropriation of industry. But who is going to solve these tasks? Indeed, who is arrange the COHSUEUCHL assembly? We must give an answer here as well.
In the heat of the uprising, while the insurgent masses and mutinous soldiers are liberating Tehran from the Shah and his agents, the clerics will seck to give une power wnica une masses win to the liberal bourgeoisie. weuswar ine movement alains!
this e must call on the insurgents to create a soviet, a council of deputies from among the armed people, that is a workers and farmers government. That should be the power. bourgeoisie get into the saddle, then they will solve nothing and only return the country to monarchy or fascism at a later date.
I AGREE with Celia October) that Women's Voice cannot both be 'independent' and organisation of the Socialist Workers Party', and that it should be up to all supporters of Women's Voice to decide its role and relationship to the SWP. But I don't think this gives the whole picture.
In particular, I think we can learn something from the debate on the Anti Nazi League, even though there is no direct parallel between the two first launched, much of the far left (including Socialist Challenge initially) similarly icnaca to concentrate If the on its lack of democratic structures and domination bv the sw? rather than realising the real campaigning potential it embodied I think two aspects of Women's need acknowledged. First, it produces a monthly journal circulation is completely deserved. It is one of the liveliest campaigning journals the left has yet produced in this country, and one women's movement would be a lot poorer without.
This relates to the second point.
Through Women's Voice is attempting - with a certain amount of success — to deal win a very real solution has hitherto escaped the women superator movemere now to forge a link with the daily concerns workplace and in the home.
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