THIS statement by four British revolutionary organisations was read out to last Saturday's Iranian solidarity demonstraTHE organisations of British revolutionary left which have signed this statement are here today SHOW solidarity the movement in Iran.
The working people of Iran have, through their heroic and determined action, overthrown the bloody tyranny Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and opened the way for a socialist But the struggle is by no means over. The imperialist powers which long supported the Shah's dictatorship been struck an important blow, but they are already desperately manoeuvring to retain reassert their influence.
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workers and student movements here to thwart their plans. we will be bullding a campaign which says, particularly to our own government shamerul the 'Imperialist hands off Iran!' In Iran, mass agreement of the imperialists, the Bakhtiar government and the generals on whose bayonets it rests are using all their might of preserve ENTE repression and created by the Shah. People are still dying in the streets at the hands of the army.
The first task movement in Iran is to prevent have BOSKRUSIT maintaining the Pahlavi regime and the by repression and manoeuvre. Revolutionaries in Iran must and fight for the widest possible democracy the organise and assemble freely, the the right to free uncensored press, the right to strike and form trade unions, full equality for women, right to self determination for national minorities, disbanding repressive apparatus and the free election of a constituent assembly.
None of these freedoms can be fought for or guaranteed unless they rest working class. It was the mass oil worker brought the Shah to his knees. Only the continued mobilisaton of the ranian workers' movement can win democratic rights.
But the Iranian masses have Lon- more to gain parliamentary democracy. It is The working class has shown its power in Iran and that power can put an end to capitalist exploitation and replace it with the rule workers themselves.
The factory and popular committees thrown up by the struggle of the last few months could be the embryonic forms of workers power in Iran. It of every revolutionary in Iran to extend and deepen the organisation of these committees.
In the absence of an alternative leadership the masses have rallied around Khomeini. The demands of the workers and the oppressed go far beyond what Islamic Republic can provide.
In order that their efforts are not fruitless it is vital that a revolutionary party is built which unites the workers and the oppressed and leads them forward to a socialist revolution which will provide the only real basis for a complete liberation exploitation and oppression.
The mass upsurge in Iran has already brought much joy to socialists in other countries by sending imperialism's favourite emperor scurrying into exile But imagination is captured evel mOre by the future of the movement. By the possibility it has of carrying on to rid Iran of all exploiters. Of replacing the tyranny of the Shah with a workers state.
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