A PRESS conference which took place in Tehran on 22 January heard the proposals of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (formerly Sattar League) for ending United domination country and for the immediate constituent assembly.
Reporters from virtually all foreign media were given copies of the constitution that the proposes for adoption by such a constituent assembly.
Entitled 'A Bill of Rights for the Workers and Toilers of Iran', the draft maps out how struggle for democratic rights, against imperialism and against the repressive apparatus should be waged.
capstone of programme for the constituent assembly is a workers' DESAILS of a government of property-owning class.
The press conference by Professor Zeyott Obrohimi of Tehran University. Other speakers Babak Zahraie, editor of the weekly Payam Daneshjoo, poet Reza Baraheni, Javad Sadeeg, Parvin Najafi and Nemat Jazayeri, former executive secretary US-based Committee for Artistic Intellectual Freedom in Iran.
Speakers stressed the need for building a mass socialist party. Such a process will entail the revolutionary Marxists Iran, including the Trotskyists publishing Che Bayad Kard, a paper produced in Iran.
* Details the conference and the Bill Rights can be found in the latest issue of Intercontinental Press/ Inprecor, 30p plus postage from PO Box 50, London N1 2XP.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE PUBLICMEETING The struggle forsocialism in fran Speaker: Steve Potter 8pm, 16 February, Conway Hall, Red Lion Sqare London WC1 (Holborn tube)
€ ‹Eritrea film FOR THOSE who are horrified at what is going on in Eritrea and for anyone else there will be a showing of the film Sawrana, shot in Eritrea, at the Scala, Tottenham Street, London WI, on Sunday 25 February at 1.30pm.
There will be a discussion afterwards. Invitations have been sent to the Soviet and Cuban embassies, as well as to sympathetic journalists, such as John Pilger.
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