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Please send all donations-however/ IN "TINI Iraqi soldier each other's equipment, it is the imperialist warmongers who stand to gain-from contracts to re equip with new weapons and ammunition.

And as the military might of two left nationalist Arab nations is expended on mutual destruction, it is the imperialists who benefit-recognising: that this reduces the threat of action against the Zionist state of The imperialists are also well Our international work has also been expanded with solidarity work on Turkey and Bolivia and with the establishment of the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee.

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Socialist Press Special Fund BM Box 5277. London WCIV 6XX aware that both Hussein's supposedly "socialist" Ba'athist regime and Khomeini's Islamic republic stand fundamentally opposed not only to communism but to the basic democratic rights of the masses of workers and poor peasants, and in particular to the rights of oppressed national minorities and women.

Masses lose

Whichever regime emerges from the rubble of Khuzestan as the "victor" , this bloody and costly confrontation ensures that the masses lose either way.

This is why Socialist Press stands opposed to support for either side in the war. We defend neither Khomeii nor Hussein against each other. We vould "however defend either regime against imperialism were it subjected to a direct attack. : We stand for the overthrow of both. Ba'athist and Islamic reaction, and the establishment in Iran and Iraq of workers' and peasants' governments which between them could amicably negotiate control of the waterways of the Gulf in the best interests of the masses in this strategic region. 20 g

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