baulked at this.
At the same time the attempt to reintroduce the "Uister' police, the RUc, under cover of the Provisional ceasetire was an abysnal failure, The vigilance of the minority saw mass protests developing against the RUC pattols gueypee Revolutionary marxist literature in Persian Three Concepts of the Rassian Revalution Imperialism and Permanent Revolution Jacques Valioe From Red Books, 97 Caledonian Rd., N1 pickeb to jail.
last Thursday.
entering its owil embassy.
but by the Direcfor of Public Prosecutions. 25p Not content with hounding the Irish population in Britain through the use of the so-called Prevention of Terrorism" Act, the British police have just claimed atotber 21 foreign" victims. Twenty-one members of the Confederation of Tranian Students have been charged with "conspiracy to trespass" under the notorious conspiracy Inws-the same laws that sent the Shrewshury Their crime? Staging a non-violent sit-in ar the Iranian Embassy in London oo 29 April to protest the torturing to deatb of nine pronnent political prisoners in Iran. For this they are still being held in prison, bail having beeu refused when they appeared in court It would be au obrious embarrasment to the lrabian Embusy if it were to prosecute Iranian students for which, according to internatJonal law is alter all Sranian soil. By usiny the conspiracy Jnws these stadents are beiny prosecured not by the Tranian Embusy- which has long been exposed as a front for SA VAK, the infumnous Iranian political police The Shah's regime in Iran-has bucchered over 300 political prisoners in recent vears. and another 40.000 political prisoners are held in its torture chambers. At present 5,000 prisoners are on bunger strike against the recent killings. Last year Iran spent E2,000 million on armaments, and all those who do not submit to the new one-party system instituted by Royal Decree will also find themselves in jail. Trade unioos are illegal and striking workers are machine-gunned down Enough to move even the Labour "lefts'. you might think. Think again-with a few exceptions the Labour Tefe' is helpless becnuse its alternacive to the Comnon Market, a capitalist "Little England; preciscly involves building 'independent' links with countries hite iran Peter Shore in purticular has been active in promoting such trade deals.
The Iranian Students Society in Great Britain (c/o 101-103 Gower St., London WCI) have started a hunger strike in London in solidarity with the 5 0D0 hungerotrikers in lrah and with the 21 arrested in Britain, who are hunger-striking antit their release They are calling on sritish students and trade unionists to help thei in preventing the further use of the rep ressive conspiracy luws by joining their pickers and sending lelters of protest to the Home Oftice, MPs and the neece Hamandinn che inmedisle relence al the ?1
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