IMGpapers 1976–79

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

Iran-be concrete!

Socialist Challenge No. 79, 18 January 1979 · p. 14 of the scan · 322 words

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page 14 of the scan

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MIDDLESBROUGH Socialist Chalnoe sales. saturday uncntime nei le lottery stand al cleveland Contr HISO avanable wrom wewstare Litorpe nodd WITC SCOTLAND For information about the paper or its arrangement (221 7481). Wide CDINBURGH Socialist •hone George at 031-346 0466 ty group details YOUR introduction to Dave Bailey's article Iran: A Classical Revolution' states, correctly 'Situations like these always demand considerable precision from revolutionaries in the way they pose the question of power'. Yet in a whole page article any 'precision' - at least in 1978 Dave Bailey claims Iran is in a revolutionary situation one bit of evidence or analysis, after the first two trivial paragraphs, to show that this is the case. In fact Iran is hardly mentioned.

Instead we have the tired repetition of timeless formulae which could have been written at any time in the fifty or more years since the events to which Whatever happened to Lenin's Fora concrete situation' as the only useful guide to action? What about a specific analysis of the class forces involved: the nature of the resurgence of oppositional Islamic political forces, the state of the workers movement, the instituICUUCSL.

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