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Our £2,500 Special Fund starts with £110.00 in the first week including £25 from supporters in Denmark and £10 from supporters in Mozambique. Although the end of July may seem a long way off the weeks will quickly pass and no time should be lost in taking up the fight to raise Meanwhile the regular £600 monthly fund must not be neglected. The March Fund closed at £602.93 and the April Fund has got off to a good start with £179.90 in by London and Oxford supporters are running regular totes. The winner of the London April tote is card number 102 and this week's Oxford tote was won by card All donations to the Special Fund or the monthly fund should be sent to: Socialist Press Fund, 31, Dartmouth Published by Folrose Ltd. for the Workers Socialist Printed by Anvil Printers Ltd., London. Registered "At present we need é powerful army more than we need bread"

That was the view last week of Iranian Premier Mehdi Bazargan-a man who is personally not short of bread but still desperately lacks bodies of armed men under his control to impose the semblance of capitalist order on the revolutionary ferment in Iran.

His chief need for the reconthe target.

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Park Hill, London NW5 1HR. struction of the bourgeois army which largely collapsed in the aftermath of the fail of the Shah) is to control the ligtning growth of national movements for self-determination.

The Islamic regime's fear of the break-up of the unitary state is magnified by the fact. that together those whose nationality is not Persian make up the majority of Iran's population.

In the past week new nationalist demonstrations and armed eague, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, a newspaper at the Post Office. clashes with the regime have been reported from Kurdisti an in the west.

In the northeast a stat of virtual war exists between the Turkoman people and Bazargan's depleted army.

- Military means The regime, saying it accepts a degree of autonomy but no separatism, has threatened to use "all necessary military means" to crush the Turkoman Mass action in support of national self-determination has also been reported from Baluchistan in the south-east and in Kuzistan in the south.

Bazargan also needs his army to assert the power of his capitalist regime, concerned above al!

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This means opposing mounting militant demands for jobs by the millions of unemployed Iranian workers, and also attempting to shift the balance between the feeble power of his official state apparatus and the enormous strength of his patron Khomeini who bases his would-be religious dictatorship on the armed "Khomeini committees"

In this internal battle Khomeini's power was boosted once again by the farcical referendum of March 30, which Bazargan, despite earlier publicly-voiced doubts, was obliged to adopt as his own.

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