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Address Send NWS The summary trials and executions of well over 100 of the highest officials of the Shah's tyranny (including a Prime Minister, heads of SAVAK and of the armed forces) have struggling for national independence today means putting off till tomorrow the fight against capitalism.

"The only free Ireland is one freed from the yoke of all capitalists, whatever the nationality stamped on their passports."

Michael O'Callanain, speaking for Provisional Sinn Pein, underlined the gulf between nationalism and socialism in a demagogic attack on ideologies "from Moscow, Mao or Marx"

In their conception of a two stage revolution, even the second stage does not include socialism. provoked widening ripples of hypocritical protest throughout the world.

Many who had not uttered a word against the Shah's 25 years of oppression and brutality have now found the execution of its agents and perpetrators "contrary to human rights"

A prize for cynical hypocrisy must go to British Labour Foreign Secretary David Owen, who backed up the Shah's regime to the end. Last week he expressed his "total opposition to summary trials and executions which failed to guarantee basic human rights in Iran"

To Owen, no doubt, "human rights" were safer when they involved huge arms deals with British capitalism.

However, the priest-dominated, Islamic courts which are carrying out the trials are not democratic courts which workers islamic The Islamic courts should be directly represent the masses of replaced by courts which consist of the direct representatives of the working masses who suffered the worst effects of the tyranny.

The stepping up of the much publicised executions over the last two weeks (though the promised trial of the Shah in his. absence has still not begun) is partly a demagogic effort to avert the attention of the masses from the rapidly. worsening. economic situation.

• Angry demonstrations by unemployed workers demanding that the government provide work have been reported in the last few days in Tehran (in front of the house of the powerful "progressive" Ayatollah Taleghani) and in / Isfahan, Tabriz and Shiraz.

Long before they have run out of agents of the previous anti-working class regime to put on trial, the new Islamic anti-working class regime of Khomeini and Bazargan Kave started to face their own political trial in front of the masses whose problems they fraudulently offered to solve. would like to take advantage of this a below.

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