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The only serious examination yet produced of the opportunist political line of Gerry Healy's Workers Revolutionary Party in relation to the patty bourgeois nationalist regimes of the Middle 45p plus 15p p&p from: WSL, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London The "anti-revolutionary" demonstrations were triggered by a battery of attacks from Khomeini including public floggings of "adulterers", , a ban on the sale of contraceptives, and the decree that women civil servants should wear the traditional veil, the Chador, at work.

The demonstration forced a climbdown on this last point. But presumably the WRP feels that the government was wrong to concede to these "antirevolutionaries"?

Will we now see Sheila Torrance, Vanessa Redgrave and other prominent women members of the WRP sporting the Chador?

Of course not. The very idea is repulsive and absurd. So why do the WRP leaders defend the religious bigots who are attempting to impose this humiliating and degrading mode of dress on Iranian women?

Does the WRP favour Iranian women achieving equal rights with men or not? And, if not, how do they square their reactionary position with the explicit stand in defence of women's rights embodied in the Trotskyist Transitional Programme and the entire history of the Communist movement ? Uncritically supported The reality is that to defend the struggles of militant Iranian women would bring the WRP into conflict with the line of the Khomeini-Bazargan regime.

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