Left in the Limelight

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to bring ift inter- ion and lould be material movement were daily steps, though at times towards class struggle. With our own power we can merely reach trade union conscious- ness. At the time when workers were being martyred for our econ- omic demands then more than ever we needed to acquire "class, political, and socialist conscious- ness". This consciousness can only be acquired from the outside of the workplace and this is now the fundamental task of the revolu- tionary intellectuals (...)

Today again we workers are the vanguard of the mass national movement. We have been important factor for tion and continuity religious, democratic movements. For example, after the "Bloody Friday" (8 September 1978) we were the predominant force which maintained the continuation of the movement through our economic and political strikes; especially the heroic political strikes in the oil and steel industry, and by the Tehran cement workers. We thus produced a revolution- ary momentum and strength within the general movement of the masses. But today we still lack consciousness and a leading inde- pendent revolutionary organisation.

We must bear in mind that a lack of a united revolutionary working class organisation has been the cause of all the historical defeats of our mass movements. To prevent a repeat of these defeats, the fundamental task of today for the working class's free- dom fighters is to bring about the formation of such a class organisa- taking new very small, the most the preserva-