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"BRING DOWN THE TORIES THIS WINTER' Saturday November i5 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 Open to all labour movement bodies Credential £1 (unwaged 50p) from G. Webster 169, Barclay Road, Smethwick, W. Midlands only misery to the masses and a renewal of imperialist hopes of restoring control in this crucial strategic region.

But at the same time the Khomeini regime, which has sprung to the defence of a treaty negotiated by the Shah, has demonstrated beyond doubt since it rode to power last year that it has nothing to offer the working class or the Kurdish. Azerbaijani, Arab and other national minorities within Iranwhose economic demands and struggles for democratic rights have been stubbornly resisted.

Rekindled

Though the nationalist fervour that animated the mass movement which ousted the Shah and provided Khomeini with his base of support has not yet completely evaporated -and has now been rekindled by the Iraqi aggression-Khomeini and the reactionary Bani-Sadr government had increasingly been resorting to moves to repress the masses and left wing organisations such as the Fedayeen.

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Post-revolutionary Iran has shaken imperialist domination throughout the Middle East. Iran has proclaimed its support for the Palestinian people: it has been at the forefront of the fight to raise OPEC oil prices in the face of anger among imperialist leaders: it has tweaked the nose of US imperialism in the hostage issue; and-perhaps worst of all-it remains an unstable political powder keg in a key strategic area of imperialist control.

There is no doubt that the American warmongers would dearly love to see the Iraqi attack precipitate a political crisis in which Iranian military hardliners could move forward to oust Khomeini, crack down further on the masses and shift Iran back firmly into the imperialist camp.

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Cowane Centre Cowane St., Stirling y Morning L Workers Soc In the midst of an unprecedented wave of closures and redundancies, the Tory government is bringing in new measures which will penalise all workers receiving " large redundancy payments.

After November 24 any person with capital of over £2,000 will cease to be eligible for supplementary benefit.

And more than half a million workers will find that they are no longer eligible for exceptional needs allowances because they have more than the permitted level of savings.

Pensioners

This of course applies to large numbers of workers whose leaders have persuaded them to sell their jobs in steel and other industries for large voluntary redundancy payments.

It also hits pensioners who have saved sums in excess of £2,000.

But the new regulations will not actually save the government any money-since 44,000 claimants will be freed from deductions when the limit is raised to £2,000.

Union leaders-worried that if the new measures become known they will find their members more resistant to redundancy-are up in arms.

ISTC leader Bill Sirs has called for a "thorough investigation".

But there is nothing remarkable in this policy: it is in line with the Tories' general strategy of inflicting the maximum humiliation and suffering upon the unemployed and the poor in their efforts to drive down the level of wages.

It is linked to their moves to cut benefits for strikers' families; cut the valué of child benefit, to scrap earningsrelated unemployment benefit, and cut the value of sickness and unemployment benefit by These moves can be stopped -by stopping the Tory government in mass action to force it out of office.

Sirs Members of the NUJ in London were voting as we went to press on a £5.30 offer for a 'London weighting' payment in reply to a claim for more than £15. They have been on strike for two weeks after receiving an initial offer which would have given most members £1 a week.

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