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tion military by consumption.
the solidarity anything derations: both the Shi'ite faith Kurdish minority formal territorial This pattern is duplicated elsewhere. Iran has Baluchi, Afghani and Arab minorities and it shares its Kurdish minority with Iraq as well as DISCRETION proved the better part of valour last week when the Queen finally called off her visit to the Shah of Iran.
of the considerations uppermost in her have been whether the Shah would be there to receive her.
The Queen's decision is part by the major imperialist powers from their previous total support for the Shah's This has proved necessary as the masses have demonstrated their complete opposito government, or civilian, under the Shah.
The dominant concern in imperialist circles is the internal stability of the country seriously threatening the ability of the Iranian to continue as cop in the Gulf and Middle East generally.
The other irritantis the continuing disruption of the world's oil supplies provoked the oilfield workers' embargo on oi for externa The only sure way to counter Bma noete imperialists is by building the the broadest and most vigorous action in the imperialist heartlands.
Only in West Germany has such mass action occurred on like scale. In the USA, solidarity Demonstration SOLIDARITY WITH THE STRUGGLE IN IRAN Saturday 3 February, 1.00pm, Trafalgar Square Supported by National Union of Students Organised t Stop the Queen's Visit Ad-hoc Committe actions have been confined to vanguard actions by Iranian student groups.
In Britain, despite a growin ginter In Britain, despite a growing interest by workers in the ports arus industry, and vocal but ineffective protests by the left of the Labour Party, mass action on the streets has not so far mobilised any more than a couple of thousand marchers on the streets, largely drawn from the iranian student movement.
At least part of this can be attributed to the lack of unity in action on the British left. A major opportunity to overcome this problem has arisen with the forming the ad-hoc committee originally aimed at stopping the Queen's visit.
Formed by the Communist Party, International Marxist Group, Workers Party, and Workers Action, the committee has the support of the Committee Against Repression in Iran [CARI) and the alliance of Iranian student groups in the Iran Solidarity Campaign.
The committee has decided to go ahead with its 3 Februar demonstration, which h gaine endorsement the National Union of Students at conference in December.
On that day we must mak sure that Carter and Callaghan are warned: Imperialist hands off Iran!
Iran!
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small in relation to the scale of events in Iran. DEMONSTRATIONS in solidarity with the struggle in Iran have been a feature of nearly every weekend in Britain. Yet the numbers involved are still pathetically At least part of this problem is attributable to the lack of unity on the far left in coordinating solidarity activity for Iran. The largest demonstrations so far have been called by the Iran Solidarity Campaign and the Committee Against Repression in Iran.
We publish below a debate on the way forward in building a united solidarity campaign — a campaign which as part of an international movement can be a massive boost to the struggles of the Iranian masses. this position. workers in the arms industry, won national unions and the Labour Party conference to fact that the Committee Against Repression Ine leadin force in these activities and has promoted this view of how solidarity movement should be built. This work has been built over a period of years.
Over these years a number of Iranian student groups have campaign should be organised is reflected in its structure in which named participation is confined to Iranian student organisations - organisations of a particular political view.
these circumstances we think we are entitled to conclude that the ISC, while representing political forces the Iranian student movement, cannot be regarded as fighting to build a genuine We suggest that the SWP