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Members of the London area of the WSL joined a 40-strong picket on Saturday last, 7 July, at the offices of Iran Airways in Piccadilly, London.

This was part of an international campaign of. protest against the arrest in Ahwaz of three members of the oil workers council, about twenty steelworkers and fifteen members of the Habz-Kargaren-e Sosialist (Socialist Workers Party), the Iranian section of the 'United' Secretariat of the Fourth International.

This campaign should be continued by resolutions through labour movement organisations demanding the release of these militants, and sent to M. Bazargan, Office of the Prime Minister, Islamic Revolutionary Council, Tehran, and Karger, PO Box 41/3586, Tehran.

During the week there will be a delegation to the Iranian Embassy, and a further picket at the Iran Airways office on Saturday next, 14 July at 2pm, which all readers of Socialist Press are urged to support.

One group whose supporters will definitely not be present to support this solidarity action will be the Healyite Workers Revolutionary Party.

The WRP has scandalously endorsed the jailings of the HKS members, retailing as good coin the Khomeini/Bazargan regime's claims that the HKS have been in contact "with a network of United States agents operating in Iran"

Newsline on June 11 accuses the HKS of:

"trying undermine that the same swoop that arrested the nine HKS members also rounded up three militant oil workers, twenty steelworkers and hundreds of other militants -who were ail held without charge in a bid to break strikes in Khuzestan.

The WRP for its part openly supports the continued oppression of national minorities and of women by the reactionary Islamic regime that is attempting to consolidate capitalist rule in Iran following the overthrow of the Shah.

This latest act of class treachery by the WRP is further confirmation of the fact that their opportunist political alliance with reactionary Middle East bourgeois regimes has led them into complete opposition to the independent struggles of the masses and to proletarian revolution in Iraq, Syria, Libya or Iran.

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SS, Wednesday July by the bureaucracy and the Tory press against the whole left wing.

His report declares:

... we must ask ourselves why Jim Dickens found it necessary to take these generally unreasonable steps...

"Some members of the GC made no secret of their wish to