Masses Islamic reaction
Socialist Press1979 1979-07-18Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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A new stage has opened impose a counter-revolutionary dictatorship in Iran.
The 'revolutionary guards' of the black Islamic republic are continuing their campaign of violence and repression, with increasing arrests of opposition torces.
The mullahs' crusade against 'corruption' and 'vice' has rolled on from the execution of gays to sending prostitutes to their death before firing squads.
The bourgeois and clerical leaders are pressing ahead with their efforts to rebuild for their own uses the armed forces of the Shah's dictatorship which were shattered during thei But they now face growing resistance from the masses they seek to oppress.
On Thursday, 'revolutionary guards' fired on a demonstration in Abadan of *3,000 Arabs demanding autonomy for Khuzestan, main home of the large Arab minority in Ira.1.
Other militants from this struggle for national rights have launched a widespread campaign of sabotage.
But probably the most dangerous threat hanging over Bazargan's cabinet • and Khomeini's revolutionary council is the news that Kurdish nationalists have visited Khuzestan in a bid to link their struggle for national self-determination with that of the Arabs.
Even such limited democratic movements will find their aims rejected by the 'revolutionary leaders.
The struggle to win their demands will be successful only if it is integrated into a struggle by the Iranian working class to overthrow Khomeini and Bazargan with their allies and move forward to a socialist revolution in Iran.
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SOC 'ALIST PRESS, Wednesday 18 July 1979
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