[The June Fund closed at £616.97, nearly £150…]
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The June Fund closed at £616.97, nearly £150 below our target of £750! Our July target has been raised to £850 so if we are to achieve that figure a very special effort is called for by all our readers and supporters. With the International Summer School and summer holidays an additional drain on our supporters' finances at this time of year we do appeal to you not to let your contributions We need every penny of our fund if we are to avoid serious cash problems at a later stage. So send us all you can. Our address Socialist Press Fund, BM Box 5277, London WC1V 6XX SSE to our fund suffer as a consequence.
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And the Islamic Republican Party's public abuse of him has become increasingly contemptuous.
To judge from an interview he gave to Le Monde two weeks ago, he has become under pressure a half-demented paranoid.
Little wonder when he beholds, like his predecessors Bahktiar and Bazargan, his pitifully limited historical role.
He has become little more than a spectator as the battle between religious reaction and the Iranian masses gathers pace, threatening barbaric consequences but at the same time opening up possibilities of further revolutionary gains being added to those won in the fight to topple the Shah-now belatedly dying on the banks of the Nile.
*No surrender of arms to Khomeini's guards! Disband Khomeini's amy-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 minorities.
*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 al 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!