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rapidly amongst workers and youth.

• Last Friday the left wing Fedayeen-e-Khalq called a rally around these slogans and in direct opposition to Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolutionary Council. It attracted an eager crowd of over 100,000. • And during the weekend this initiative produced an echo from even the Islamic guerrilla group, the Mujaheddin-e-Khala, whose leader Massoud Rajavi, speaking at another large rally, took up the Fedayeen's demands-in particular their call for the replacement of the standing army with a "People's Army"

The Eleven members of a vicious pro-imperialist Protestant murder gang in Belfast were last week sentenced to a total of 42 life sentences for their campaign of bestial torture and and help us achieve our target.

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Now vague talk of a referendum to rubber-stamp the power of Khomeini's 'Revolutionary Council' and empty promises of eventual elections to a constituent assembly confirm clearly that the new regime is intent above all on "normalising" capitalist exploitation in Iran, and stemming the huge revolutionary movement which shattered the power of the Shah.

But the last week's events show that thousands of armed Iranian workers and youth have Lea gue, 31, Dart as a newspaper at IRANIAN STUDENT SOCIETY Labour Movement Conference on Iran Sponsored by Lee Trades Council)

Saturday 3 March Needs Trades Counc Club, Saville Mount Leeds 7 intimidate anti-imperialist At least some of the eleven butchers' are known, to be members of the reactionary Ulster Volunteer Force, a terrorist group dedicated to preserving the stranglehold of British imperialism over the occupied six counties.

Assassins

But while these vicious assassins suffer the consequences of their barbaric actions, other murderers and torturers are not only left free to continue their intimidation and repression, but are actually backed up by legal sanctions and the power of the state.

These licensed terrorists of course include the British imperialist army, the RUC, and the prison screws at the Long Kesh concentration camp.

To bring an end to their savage activities the British labour movement must join actively with Irish workers to force the immediate withdrawal of troops and ensure the right of the Irish people to determine their own political future.

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A task force of up to 200,000 Chinese troops, allegedly advancing in human waves | across minefields, continues to press its punitive raid" into Vietnam.

Vital Vietnamese road, rail and telecommunications links have been broken, and wholesale economic disruption caused as thousands of panic-stricken refugees flee south from the war zone.

Reactionary deals

The Peking Stalinists, fearing the growing mass demands for improved living standards, •have attempted to "solve" their crisis by turning to reactionary deals with imperialism.

In such deals they offer themselves as a loyal ally against the Soviet Unionand in attacking Soviet-backed Vietnam they hope to prove this.

But the Hanoi Stalinists hold an equally reactionary position. A combination of nationalism and bureaucratic determination to crush all forms of • opposition led last month to the indefensible Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea Nationalism And within Vietnam itself the virulent nationalism of the Hanoi regime has led to sustained attacks on the language rights of the 1½ million Chinese population in the country.

Black market.

The inability of Stalinist bureaucrats to establish a planned socialist economy has also opened up huge economic problems in Vietnam. Last year's crackdown on the Chinese minority was related to the flourishing Chinese-led black market North and South, which had cornered the majority of the rice market.

In retaliation the Chinese cut off 80 aid programmes worth an estimated $300 million per year to Vietnam, whose agriculture is also Hanoi Stalinist Giap facing tastrophic tion.

Such divisions • and conflicts serve only to weaken the international working class and strengthen. the hand of imperialism.

Workers must demand the immediate withdrawal of both Chinese and Vietnamese troops to their own borders.

But there is no likelihood of stability or socialism in that region until a Marxist-led political revolution achieves the overthrow of the chauvinist bureaucrats in Hanoi, Moscow and Peking.

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