Mass struggles rock the Shah dictatorship

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Socialist Press Monthly Fund 31, Dartmouth Park Hill London NW5 IHK were injured and again mass arrests took place in similar confrontations.

But these clashes were only the most violent PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report Callaghan major urban centre in the shape of demonstrations and riots.

Reactionary Muslim leaders appear to be riding in triumph on the crest of this turbulence.

Conflict with Islam

The Shah's project of transforming Iran into a major capitalist power, has thrown him into conflict with the power of Islammost sharply over the proposal to divide up religious property.

With their authority and influence constantly being undermined by the spread of urbanisation and industrialisation, the religious leaders have turnèd to the mobilisation of the masses as the only road to The transformation of feudal society into a capitalist society is inevitably a violent process of social As traditional communities are disrupted and disbanded, the proletariat is born in conditions of agony.

Small traders, peasants and artisans, all cry out in anguish at the new miseries which have been heaped upon them, while the wage-labourers strike out in blind anger to shatter the intolerable chains which fetter them.

Gigantic army

To assert his tyranny upon such anarchy, the Shah " has forged a monstrous apparatus of repression-a standing army of installed inside factories, are all features of this regime.

This brutal dictatorship has been nurtured and sustained. by US imperialism, yet. Its most fawning sponsors have been found amongst the ranks of the British Labour Party.

From left and right alike MPs have made the pilgrimage to lick the bloodstained boots of the Shah.

The Shah's officials claim that the current upsurge has been provoked by 'Islamic Marxists' Far from seeking to establish socialism, the religious leaders have called for an 'Islamic government'.

They neither initiated nor organised the mass movement, but rather sanctioned its development and The Shah now seek to exploit and direct this force to defend their own narrow self-interest.

But if the Shah does not attempt to head off the growing pressure by making concessions to the clerical faction, it will be only a matter of time before the weight of the mass opposition comes into conflict with its would-be leaders.

Solidarity

British workers must fight for active solidarity with the Iranian masses in their struggle against dictatorship:

Black all arms supplies to the Shah's dictatorship!

For the exposure and expulsion of all Savak agents from Britain.

Force the British government to cut all economic links with the Shah!

Down with the Shah's dictatorship!