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Meanwhile in the USA, meetRevolutionary Workers Even CAMPAIGNERS suppor- Several TO mark the first anniversary of the military coup in Turkey, sections and supporters of the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee were active in fighting for solidarity action:

In Britain the Workers Socialist League participated in the Turkey Solidarity Campaign's Week of Action.

In Italy, the Bolshevik-Leninist Group took the initiative in mobilising a demonstration outside the Turkish Airlines offices in Milan.

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The small demonstration was supported in token fashion by the centrist Proletarian Democracy group (PD) and the USFI Italian section (RCL).

The demonstration was however attended by a large squad of police. GBL demonstrators carried posters calling for workers' and peasants yor the right of self-deter mination of the Kurdish people."

The GBL has also been seeking ways of raising the Turkish repression in the European parliament in a bid to block EEC aid to the junta Their members have been calling on Communist Party activists to contact Communist MEPs, and made a direct appeal to one Euro MP, Mario Capanna.

It appears that Capanna has already raised the issue of Turkey three times at the Parliament, but that there is no longer the opportunity to raise discussion on individual death sentences.

However the threatened death sentences against 52 jailed leaders of the DISK union • confederation may well be a different issue.

Euro-MP The new term of the Euro-Parliament opens in October, and Capanna has agreed to plan further interventions on the Turkish question.

He is asking if any left wing Labour MEPs would be prepared to support such an intervention.

Bani-Sadr militants of the newly-fused League played a leading role in ronvening a successful tinn Turkinh RAA lind 6111y Turkish Dogan Tarkan have been active this week at the Labour Party conference.

Dogan, a former trade union official, faces a threat by the Home Office to deport him to Turkey where he would be jailed and tortured by the military regime there.

LAST WEEK, three groups IST WEFK three arnun. each of about 50 Mojahedin

supporters, converged at a point on Tehran's Taleghani Avenue. There they chanted slogans against the regime and overturned a bus to form a barricade.

The protestors 100-strong solidarity m in Berkeley on anniversary of the Ei coup.

ACTION constituency Labour Parties, as well as Labour s VIPs, Trades Councils, trade union branches, and trade union leaders, have already signed Dogan's petition. But the campaign is still urgent.

Contact: Friends of Dogan Tarkan, BM Box 5965 London "Anna LULLUIS VVL/IV 3XX.

confronted by a troop of

Revolutionary Guards, and although the Mojahedin were better armed than usual -machine guns and rocketpropelled grenades - the pro-government forces inevitably triumphed.

If victory could be won Sirs and Duffy: who's in the STOP by totalling martyrs - and the mystique of martyrdom is certainly very powerful among the Mojahedin as well as among the Islamic Right - the opposition to Khomeini would have won long ago.

offer "the appropriate advice" to white trade unions. These unions are racist from top to bottom and aim to preserve the privileged position of white workers. Any friendly advice to them simply legitimises their claim to be proper Duffy and Sirs try to justify their planned trip by saying that they will only go if black unions want them to. They also say they want to visit BL and Smiths Industries factories to see if guidelines on black workers' pay are being kept to.

Yet their visit can only be turned to advantage by the South African government and supporters of apartheid. If Sirs and Duffy really want to help black trade unionists, they could make a start at home.

When BL workers went on strike in South Africa, Duffy didn't lift a finger to call solidarity action in Britain.

Such action can really be effective in helping black workers organise and fight the pro-apartheid multinationals. It is worth infinitely more than the sort of education they are likely to get from Duffy and Sirs. backing to the march trom the area NUM. He said that the Yorkshire miners had already sponsored some 60 marchers to Blackpool.

Socialist Organiser supporter Dave Ayrton was one of the speakers at the press conference from the march steering committee. He recalled his experiences on the People's March, and argued that the working class must lead the way to fight for jobs.

Information: Arthur

Bedford, Transport House, Sheffield (phone 71323), or Bill Innes, 40 Park Lane, Leeds (458442). For the Right to Work march: Right to Work Campaign, 265a Seven Sisters Rd, London N4.

have thrown in their lot with the supporters of ex-Presi dent Bani-Sadr, subordinating their own (mystical-utopian) programme of a future classless Islamic society to his vague -and cynical promises of democracy and national salvation.

The previous days brought their customary quotas of executions: 22 on one day, 23 the"'next. And Khomeini gave yet another unmistakeable proof of the regime's unrelieved backwardness, announcing the need to purge schools - even primary schools! - of "corrupt elements ... Who pretend to be Islamic scholars, but really don't Islam." anything know about He warned "they would be ready to serve the United States or the kusslans • . : they will lose the benefit of being able to go to school What could however signity a serious deterioration in the situation is the as yet unconfirmed news that the government forces have crushed the Kurdish opposition along the Turkish border. If this is the case it could mark the end for a Whole period of the mass armed liberation struggle of the Iranian Kurds.

ANDREW HORNUNG

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