IN OUR last issue Brian Grogan presented a minority view on the Socialist Action editorial board on Iran. JOHN ROSS replies putting the views of the majority.
BRIAN develop. last issue Casse case.
Despite repression panied LilasolVe of the Khomeini Peron . LO ArgentiThe is imperialism the Illasses Walke tions 'pressure' seizures land. Mass control the Oppressed the MPLA Illl Angola, Frelimo in Michael along with 25,000 US troops. While reorganise military 'The govern- powerful, nevertheless which the let land foreign monopoly foreign But was the at- nature of Khomeini forced the trades progressive 'However, reactionari than - later the govern- diverting struggle front students. the of shoras the Iranian mobilised to years, in Far allowing, or to defeat creating, the limited Iraqi the Gulf war.' The Khomeini Furthermore: 'Islamic fundamentalism the cloak under which the na masses take up. their tionalist of the demands and aspirations.' so, apparently we nave in Iran regime, Kho- SLaLC apmeini's, which bends to paratus. the revolution, Islamic regimes general, fundamentalism directly state "progressive cloak' under which the masses take up their demands. mobilisations take place constitutes against Iraq as part of this progressive anti- meini imperialist mobilisations.
If this were true then the Khomeini regime, while 1979. doubtless • having certain regressive features, would essentially pletely 'progressive' bourgeois physically shaneed regime of a type which we Despite doing have seen in a number of This best to salvage what semi-colonial countries.
How does this equate with state reality?
First there are histor- whose position has 111y ical cases OI regimes through which, while thoroughly war it materialty bourgeois, created a certain which the saLe workers other prorule ficiently used tion revolution.
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the Iranian But chance to an end return part of its ritory Its supported.
wate was is not even was tol the nian, seized by (of the Irahave conhas ssed the to defeat The the ternal to with the aim JaDOO Wee flict with lost any that tral prop been ing ones. its pre-wai It has been that has States Whose tivities petty Iranian alter the has mussels decade seized by tify that organisa Grogan graceful SOCKIISL the war would be For example goal • the regime the slogan of masses, BT has admitted to an industrial tribunal that its sacking of John Deason in May was victimisation for trade union activities. In admitting guilt, BT's barrister Mr J Griffiths Jones said that the company voluntarily submitted to an order for Deason's reinstatement, but continued to refuse his reinstatement and would therefore pay the legal maximum compensation of £41,856.20. The company did all this without a shred of evidence being presented against them! In fact it is clear that the company took this course of action to forestall such evidence coming to light. NCU City branch member ANN FIANDER reports.
TRIBUNALS are stacked in employers' favour. Less than iwo per cent of all dismissal cases brought to tribunals result in reinstate. mentores o even test the tribunal's inbuilt bias to see whether o not it could get away with its victimisation unscather Its 'pre-emptive strike drew angry remarks chall, Oliver Lodge, who said it was for • the tribunal to decide on an John Deason order for reinstatement on the basis of evidence. He did not necessarily think that such an order would be granted in this case the state Lodge condemned BT's stomach determination to pay compensation as 'irresponsible beravioli estate holders. The company, he said, had 'fallen on its own sword'. But BT's 'sur- victimised render' was only tactical. In the first place, John Deason would still be without a job.
If the company can ted guilt away with buying out trade vetting.
activists even The at the rather expensive price of £40,000 — it will be more than satisfied. BT's profit some last year was £2000 million: that could finance an awful lot of victimisations But more importantly,
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BT 'guilty' of victimisation, political vetting