01-359 8180/9. 01-359 8371. reconstruct its state apparatus. sovereign constituent assembly.
Aiready the mass movement is colliding attempts to reconstruct the state. insurrection from the start — Shah's army.
masses at every level: into workers, degree of organisation revolutionaries within it -relevant.
Distribution/ Advertising The next step in Iran RARELY has there been such a crushing victory of the masses over a bourgeois army. To a far greater extent than February 1917 in Russia, the Iranian ruling class is disarmed. Its aim now must be to Attempts to do this will centre on the figure of Khomeini, using him to buy time to recompose the capitalist state. To do this Khomeini will have to rely largely on the leftovers of the old regime. Already he is trying to leave the command structures of the army intact and simply weed out the most recalcitrant elements.
But this operation will take time, which is why Khomeini will be anxious to postpone elections to a constituent assembly and substitute a referendum to ratify the accomplished fact of the overthrow of the monarchy. Instead of this Iranian revolutionaries demand immediate proclamation of the republic and elections to a with Khomeini's Khomeini was against the which most people are aware of -and is now moving fo disarm those very forces who overthrew the The masses are moving in the opposite direction. It is becoming increasingly apparent that only the organisation and arming of the masses can guarantee a sovereign constituent assembly.
The decisive question at the moment is the organisation of the soldiers and peasants committees; into political parties; into trade unions and peasant organisations; and into workers and peasants militias. Before such organisations are developed abstract slogans for a Soviet Republic mean little — what is soviet power without soviets? Likewise the and of course the strength will determine how quickly the demands for a workers' and peasants' government will become The immediate question is the convocation of a constituent assembly, for that cuts right across Khomeini's plans. But only the independent arming and organisation of the masses can guarantee THE Chinese Vietnam was not unexpected The Chinese Xiaoping had made no secret of the fact that China intended to "punish' Vietnam for its part in the overthrow of the Pol Pot regime in Kampuchea.
Last Saturday Deng kept his word. Chinese troops crossed the northern Vietnam It is unlikely that the Chinese will stay long in Vietnam, but the invasion will have serious repercussions on relations in the non-capitalist did China Vietnam Ted immediate a se supposed 'indignation' of the Chinese 'at the atrocities perpetrated by the Vietnamese aggressors, The Chinese claiming that their invasion is a response to Vietnamese 'border provocations" outright lie The Deng American Vietnamese had to learn some necessary lessons. words, une chinese woops were on a punitive expedition.
Such expeditions have normally been. imperialist fronted with recalcitrant colonies. the United States and Cuba, Japan and Korea are some obvious examples.
be subjected to this invasion according Because Vietnam had become a "Cuba in Asia. Its intervention in Kampuchea affront to the Chinese. Peking had "lost face' Pot was overthrown must have rankled in the Chinese capital. And so, in the best fashion of their new-found friends in the Vietnam. the exercise saw them totally isolated internationally. And in OLIC ironies, the chieftain of world OI history's imperialism, Carter, asked the Chinese troops from Vietnam!
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invade overthrow media the This ing to Phnom Penh. real reason had been It would have Xiaoping to better if journalists. The people themselves In other help.
launched by powers when conBritain and Afghanistan, excuse that Why had the Vietnamese to to Chinese logic?
was a major aggressive turn internally.
The speed with which Pol he French and easy solutions. they invaded The outrageous character of They are dealing incursion. cruellest and appealing withdraw their Sune Chinese intervention Union against the anyone. Czechoslovakia. Despite their wild rhetoric they were correct.
Today they stand hoisted on their own petard. There can be no hesitation at all in asking the Chinese to get out of Vietnam.
The Soviet Union has so far itself verbal threats. But its defence of the Vietnamese is somewhat cyniThe Chinese could easily argue that they are only putting into practice their version of "limited soverWeTt utilised to justify the invasion There is no equation between what happened in Kampuchea and the Chinese invasion. The of Pol Pot was undoubtedly a step forward for the masses of that country.
The regime over which he presided had become a blot on workers movement. There was a serious danger of imperialism returnbeen much the Kampuchean had been able to remove Pol Pot and his cohorts. In the event they could not do so withour Vietnamese The latter should now begin the task of withdrawing its troops trom Kampuchea But the Chinese invasion was designed as a sharp rap on the knuckles from big brother. The Vietnam was bullying China (a nation of 900 million people is a sick joke.
The fact of the matter is that China is in the middle of sharp factional struggle in the top reaches of the party. Deng's outwards designed to bolster his position might find, like American politicians before him, that tangling with the Vietnamese offers no The Vietnamese defeated the French and the United States.
quite capable of the Chinese But they should do so by mobilising their own people to Chinese workers and peasants to oppose this bureaucratic escapade. An by the Soviet would benefit NE THAN "Modernise our industry certainly, but we Chinese can adopt too many American ideas" in the eyes of the millions of workers throughout the world. We are opposed to them and will offer full support to all those fighting for socialist democraes 11/1 1.1 Our socialism will be infinitely more democratic than what esists in "socialism' in the USSR and Fastern Europe hase discredited socialim