IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

The Priest and

Socialist Challenge No. 72, 16 November 1978 · p. 4 of the scan · 420 words

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Interview with Khomeini VIEWERS of Sunday's Brian Walden.

triumphant to sit on the throne.

TROTSKY writes:

CUDOSInE have been foreseen. Gapon, a revolutionary priest, in perplexing manner placed by history at the head of the working masses for several days, lent the events the stamp of his personality, his conceptions, hisrank.

This form may mislead many an observer substance of the events. The treated to an incredible series of forecasts from former bookmakers' consultant and failed Labour politician Walden admitted the Shah's future was rather bleak. He went on to forecast an government which follows the Shah will be unable to agree, the army will step in, the Shah's son will return Walden explained that the Iranian masses were too religious to go communist and too influenced by the religious leaders of the Iranian opposition.

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The hero Canon has no the revolutionary the Petersburg Seater workers, he only unloosed it.

of TOURU nousanas thinking workers and tens of thousands of others in a state of political agitation. He formed a plan which united all these Hallal - for the period of one The masses went to speak to the Czar. They were faced by COSSaCks guards.

Gapon's plan had not prepared the workers for that. What was crater They seized arms wherever could they built barricades...They fought, alle though apparently they went to beg for mercy. This shows that they went not to beg but to The proletariat of Petersburg entire manifested a degree of political aleriness and revolutionary energy far exceeding the limits of the plan laid out by the casual Gapon's plan contained maneenen so evo monar romanticism. On 9 January the plan colapsed Yet the revolutionary proleromance; it is a living reality. So is the proletariat of other cities An enormous wave is rolling over Russia It has not yet quieted down One shock, and the proletarian will begin to erupt torrents of revolutionary lava.

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