'Socialist conspiracy to prop up Shah

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Callaghan, Owen and Mulley are not the only fraudulent "socialists" who are now backing up the murderous dictatorship of the Shah of Iran.

Chairman Hua Kuo Feng visited his friend the Shah a month ago to declare his support for Iran's pro-imperialist and anti-Soviet policies.

The recent wave of rebellion against the Shah was already under way during Iranian troops - supplied from Hua's visit.

Since then, several thousands of demonstrators have been shot down in cold blood.

Thousands of others have been arrested and tortured.

The press has been more thoroughly censored than ever, and the repression of all basic democratic rights has been intensified.

The "Communist" bureaucracy in Peking has kept a close watch on the problems of their tyrannical friend.

And hard on the heels of Carter and Callaghan last week they, too, sent some words of support.

After the Teneran massacre the New China news agency told its readers what had happened.

The Shah's army had, it seemed, valiantly put down "demonstrations supported by foreign financiers and planned abroad."

The 'crimes' of the demonstrators for the Chinese bureaucracy was that they:

"carried anti-constitutional banners, caused problems for the daily life of the people and created intolerable terror for every Iranian patriot."

The agency explained that martial law had been outside imposed because of the "dangers. to the individual and social rights of honest citizens."

The Soviet bureaucracy, which also has close economic ties with the Shah, decided that the best way to cope with the embarrassment was to say nothing.

No news Pravda did not carry any news of the events in Iran until September 19.

It then mentioned the riots, and attacked the imperialists for whom "Iran plays exclusively a strategic role as a supplier of raw materials.

But breathe a word of criticism of the Shah's repression.

The Western European CPs, however, did make an effort to hold an emergency debate in the European parliament.

Even this timid gesture was sabotaged by the Socialist and social-democratic parties.

Favoured The French SP claimed later that unlike the rest of the European Socialist Parties, it had favoured a debate.

But the fact remains that, in spite of an effort to cover their tracks by issuing a l statement against the Shah's "bloody dictatorship" , the French Socialists neither put down a motion for an emergency debate nor voted for that of the CPs.

Callaghan, Owen and Mulley, therefore, are far from being alone in "opposing repression" and "supporting human rights" with one face while aiding massacres, torture and repression with the other.

The world over, the treacherous bureaucrats that pose as leaders of the working class have revealed their true positions in relation to the Iranian butcher Shah.

DONG'S DIPLOMACY IN THE BUREAUCRATIC struggle between China and Vietnam, the Chinese bureaucracy do not have the monopoly of opportunism.

A few months after the Chinese Foreign Minister, Vietnamese premier Pham Van Dong has paid a visit to woo the reactionary military dictatorship in 'neighbouring Thailand.

In a press conference Pham Van Dong publicly assured his hosts that Vietnam had with23- = =.' by the pro-Chinese Tramana Communist Party Mass rallies to celebrate the fourth anniversary of Emperor Haile Selassie's overthrow were organised by the vicious Ethiopian military dictatorship last week.

Stalinists and left-talking bourgeois nationalists gathered by the military dictatorship.

There can be no way forward for the Ethiopian masses to defend and extend these advances without the creation of a new, genuinely revolutionary leadership to overthrow the Derg and repulse the attack of its Stalinist sponsors.

He may well be attempting to restore his position with the Soviet and Cuban bureaucracies and perhaps within his own party after the revelations about his secret meeting with Smith six weeks ago.

But Nkomo's protestations do not seem to have been enough to convince Castro and Moscow that he can maintain his credibility as a nationalist leader.

And from the point of view of Mugabe, his newly-found Cuban sponsorship will help to get him taken more seriously by the imperialists who have so