[special report from 'Labor News', paper of the…]

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special report from 'Labor News', paper of the process still unfolding in Iran.

True to his history of adopting implacable positions, Khomeini overruled the provisional agreements reached between: Kurdish leaders- and representatives of the bourgeois cabinet and Islamic Revolution: ary Council.

His demands for a campaign to crush utterly the Kurdish rebellion do not spring from the perverted principles of religious bigotry.

This line has been dictated Licens Kms 200 by the supreme principle of selfpreservation for Khomeini and his reactionary regime.

In their negotiations with the Kurdish Democratic Party, the Ayatollah Taleghani and Bazargan's emissaries were dominated by the fear that the Iranian regime would be unable to crush the rising of the Kurds by force.

The KDP claims 10,000 armed and committed militants, who have already shown their LAREAS Saggez Hamadan Kermanshah organise mass civil war by mobilising all the most backward and reactionary elements in the regions of Iran under his control, and despatching them to Kurdistan as the "people's answer" to the Kurds' demands.

Violent

In this latest and most violent phase of reaction, the religious leaders have been able to count on the solid backing of US imperialism.

Comforted by the deals with imperialism which continue to feed the profits of the international • bourgeoisie and alarmed by the prospect of a revolutionary proletarian alternative to Khomeini's barbarism, Carter has offered arms, equipment and moral support to the Revolutionary Council.

As the crisis in Kurdistan intensified, Khomeini's appointed prime 'minister Bazargan once again offered his resignation.

Impotence

increasingly marginalised and irrelevant, Bazargan and his "government' had been reduced to figures of farcical impotence.

The prime minister's resig. nation acknowledged the reality of a situation where power did not fie with the cabinet and its ranks of bureaucrats, but had its centre with Khomeini's Revolutionary Council in Qom and extended across fran through the force of the army and the parallel apparatus of Islamic militias and tribunals.

OUR DEMANDS:*No surrender of arms to Khomeini's guards! Disband Khomeini's army-Build workers' militias against Islamic reaction and threats of imperialist restoration.

*Lift the ban on demonstrations! For full freedom of political organisation and demonstration- End state censorship of the press!

*For the rights of self-determination and separation of the Kurdish people and all other national minortties.

*For free elections with universal suffrage to a genuine constituent assembly.

*Defend the workers' committees! For the building of elected soviets!

*For the right to strike and form free trade unions.

*No secret trials, no secret police! Release all those political prisoners not linked with the Shah's dictatorship!

* Against sexual oppression! For full legal rights and social equality for all women and homosexual men.

*For the building of a revolutionary party, Iranian section of a reconstructed Fourth International!

OLIDARITY WITH LIBERATION Picket London Conference at Lancaster House. MonMARCH from Lancaster House Central Halls for rally 7.30pm.

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*Tabriz Reza'iyeh KÜRDISH Mahabad *

day September 10, 9am - 10 am, and 5pm - 6.30pm.