are going to iran express our solidarity with our sisters fighting for liberation. We will come back to Britain to tell the women's whole labour movement about their struggle.' This was the message that Farideh, a member of the newly iran Women's Solidarity Group, brought to a delegate conference on Iran last weekend, called by Committee Against Repression in Iran.
The conference later voted to set up a new organisation Campaign for Solidarity with Iran.
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movement to a conference on Women in Iran on Saturday 12 May in London.
After hearing representatives their of the Liverpool Port Shop Stewards Committee on the experience of building international solidarity campaigns in the British labour movement, the conference discuss action.
Top priority for delegates was support for the women's delegation. They also decided the - ПЕ the an 30р. on the need lor delegation from movement. This would be the focal point of movement conference on Iran.
Discussion arose about the anticines or taking sondaris into the labour movement. All agreed that the campaign had to get the truth out on Iran to counter the lies in the Western press.
But a successful resolution moved by the Socialist Workers Women's delegation will express solidarity with Iranian women's struggle a similar the • labour labour organisations volved.
Steve solidarity active support struggles. Party tended to be pessimistic degree which labour and student movement Turkomans could inArcher from International Marxist Group disagreed, pointing out the fact that there were many in the labour movement who both applauded the overthrow of the Shah and were willing to give to current tracts peasants' distribute stie.
ceasefire But reports The say that Turkomilitias have already confronted and disarmed three lorryloads of soldiers.
Like other oppressed nation alities in the Iranian state the are demanding autonomy from the central government. In this North eastern region, up Soviet border, the national and agrarian questions are closely bound together.
Under the 1963 land reform' the Royal Family seized large of the Turkoman fertile land to among its high-ranking servants and hangersMuch of the land was subsequently resold and farmed by absentee landlords.
The Turkomans have not renounced their claim to the land and the central government has refused to upset landiord interests by agreeing to the peasants' demands.
The government's plan to send the Ayatollah Taleghani to Gonbad to sort out the rebels is therefore hopelessly optimiTaleghani has found himself cast, probably reluctantly, in the role of the government's troubleshooter in the nationalities, was he who formulated the Wants, proposals in the Kurdish capital of Sanandaj a fortnight ago. These included a limited autonomy and greater use of the Kurdish language.
SIGNIFICANCE OF KURDISH STRUGGLE INIRAN Speakers: From Kurdistan and H. Hamza Socialist Workers Party Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London NW1. Monday, 9 April, 6.30pm.