Iran Minister Resigns

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As Prime Minister Bazargan tries in vain to surrender the nominal power of his position, disputes between the bourgeois cabinet in Tehran and Khomeini's 'Revolutionary Council' in Qom become more frequent every day.

But the professional politicians are losing the battles to prevent the zeal of the clergy from a bid to export the Islamic revolution' to Bahrain, across the Gulf, and moves to instal more dutiful and less critical figures at the head of the state-controlled oil industry.

The latest casualty of these skirmishes has been Defence Minister Riahi, forced to step down from office for 'health' reasons.

Riahi's resignation had been inevitable from the moment when Khomeini appointed himself supreme commander of the armed Bazargan upwards of fitteen thousand people are held as political prisoners.

Numeiry, the head of the Sudanese regime has faced civil war and numerous coup attempts.

The left regime in the Congo, too, is being severely threatened by right wing interests as well as a militant working class that nearly toppled the military in the general strike of 1976.

The overthrowing of. governments, strikes, struggles, for national liberation and peasant uprisings that are occurring throughout west and equatorial Africa reflects both the sharpening of the crisis of world capitalism and the nature of these neocolonial states which were artificially created by imperialism to facilitate political control.

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Few if any of the crimes of the Stalinist bureaucracy in other countries can have surpassed the deeds of the Pol Pot regime in Kampuchea between 1975 and the end of 1978. - it now seems to be generally accepted that between one and Refugee camps