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USFI leader Mandel The new Iranian paper of on Jan. 20 an editorial conchi break from Khomeini or for t in order to ensure the success of this plan, they even threaten the mass movement with a bloody coup: either the Bakhtiar government or military rule! This is the ruling classes' answer.

But the oppressed masses will not be fooled by such threats. They haven't given thousands of lives to keep the same regime in power, to have the same imperial army "maintaining law and order", to leave the possessing classes in their place.

They will continue until the complete overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a government of workers, peasants and other toilers. This is the only solution to Iran's present political and social the 'United' Secretariat of the iding with the passage below -he building of soviets and work crisis.

The most important task of revolutionary socialists is to help bring about such a solutian. We must ensure that the overthrow of the Pahlavi dictatorship is linked to an attack on the capitalist system and the bourgeois state.

Our most immediate task in this direction is to fight for the compléte overthrow of the monarchy and all the social and political foundations on which its power is based.

We-a number of different revolutionary socialist groups formed inside and outside Iran and now in the process of fusion -have come together to give a response to this important need.

This publication is the result of our cooperation. Fourth International carried naking no call for a political ers' militia.

Our aim is to link up the. different sectors of the move.

ment by publishing this national revolutionary paper and to make our contribution to organising the revolutionary mass struggle by arming the vanguard layers of the mass movement with the revolution.

ary programme of action.

Our success depends on the cooperation of all Iranian revolutionary socialists. We will make every attempt that they should see this paper as their own.

There are some who see the tasks of the socialist movement limited to scattered activities simply serving the spontaneous movement.

Our understanding of a revo.

lutionary socialist struggle is

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SOCIALISI PRESS. Hednesdas 2l Februar: 19.9 Trotskyist-organised Young Socialists' anti-Tory rally in Trafalgar Square, 1964. This was too much for the right wing. The Trotskyists were Jeff Harris looks into the murky histo a=11: ›ks into the urges in the Labour Pai Part Two Part Two expelled.

ze youth movement, the Labour Party reconstituting its own strian satioreau the LPS under bureaucratic control.

In 1968 the Annual Labour Party Conference heard that its student body NALSO had been "infiltrated" by elements which were "in opposition to the party's principles and policies" It was disbanded. It wasn't until 3 years later that the present National Organisation of Labour Students was set up.

Betrayals

All this took place against the background of the betrayals and anti-working class policies of the Labour leaders from Gaitskell and Wilson through to the fakery and posing of the 'lefts' Once again the right-wing was able to organise freely and 4 Tory MPs of the sixties were all ex-Labour membèrs. More recently crypto-Tories have emerged in the higherloffices of the Labour Party (George Brown, Stonehouse, Prentice, Dell, Taverne, Mayhew, Marsh, Gunter etc.). all openly declaring allegiance to the bourgeoisie they served so faithfully when claiming to be socialists.

In 1976 the right-wing began to make noises about the activities of "Militant" supporters, claiming to have found evidence of Trotskyism in their