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HKE statement on Khorramshahr victory is on the basis of such a reform and mo- against imperialism and Zionism."
The Hezbe Kargarane Engelabi (HKE-Revolutionary one of the three groups in Iran that adhere to the Fourth International, issued a statement on the occasion of the decisive defeat of the Iraqi forces in the second battle of Khorramshahr. called for a new advance of the mass mobilizations in Iran.
In addition to the slogan "For the Total Repulse of the Military Attack," it raised the slogans "Forward to Economic Reorganization of the Country and the Regions affected by the War," "Forward to the Establishment of the First Workers
Peasants Government in the Near The statement said: "Now the victories at the front have shown that Saddam's army could be defeated only by the mobilization, organization, and the consolidation of mass movements of the people and the workers and toilers organizations, and the military forces. The recent victories have not only provided conditions for consolidating the movements and organizing millions of people, but have weakened the position of the capitalists, landlords, and government bureaucracy. This became clear with the ousting of the Bani Sadr wing from the government and the exposure of the plot by Ghotbzadeh....
"The shoras [workers councils] were under attack. Bourgeois and petty bourgeois politicians and their disputes dominated the political state.
Victorious Iranian revolutionaries (DR) eyes of the disinherited masses in the region and beyond are fixed on the Iranian revolution as a guide for their struggle against imperialism and Zionism....
"As a result of its victories...the Iranian revolution is now in a better position to reorganize the economy of the
The experience of the revolution and of the war has shown that it is bilizing the peasants that the conditions will be created for establishing a linkup and unity between the peasants and the workers.
A nationwide campaign against illiteracy, which is part of a cultural revoluthat will strengthen the tie between the cities and countryside and advance the revolution. Such a campaign is possible only by mobilizing the masses of students and tea-
"We have seen the measures limiting freedoms of political and workers organizations. These steps have not only not helped achieve the victories on the front but have weakened the home front. To prevent terrorism...what is needed is not limitations of freedoms but political enlightenment, encouragement of policical discussion among the masses, and mobilizing them on this basis. Therefore, the following steps should be taken to establish political freedom-freedom of the press, recognition of the rights of anti-imperialist and prorevolutionary parties, an end to illegal arrests of anti-imperialist workers, activists in the workers shoras and others.
In the wake of the victories...it is important to establish unity among the oppressed nationalities in the various regions of the country and, more important still, the war-hit regions. after the military mobilizations of the
But the war created conditions favoring the initiative of the masses in action.
"The power of the mass mobilization, the revolutionary confidence of the tion advanced... Not only should all ob- of these peoples can all the working peomasses in defense of their revolution swept away these obstacles. The Jehad Sazendegi [Campaign for Reconstruction], which at one time had difficulty in getting to the front has...assumed a key role in the war. The Pasdaran, who at one time had difficulty in getting the simplest weapons now have the equipment." In the beginning of the war, the workers had a hard time getting miliiry training; now this has become one of ne main factors in the victory on the var-
In short, it can be said that le thousands of martyrs who shed their lood on the battle fronts have not only berated Khorramshahr but put the revotion in a better position to deal the nal blow to the weakened capitalist
"...Iran has become a revolutionary ample for the entire Middle East; the 2 only by mobilizing the power and initiative of the masses that the obstacles can be removed and the tasks of the revolustacles to the work of the workers shoras...be removed but they should be given control over production.
The industries as a whole should be put under the control of the shoras, the capitalists' account books should be made public, and a state monopoly of international trade should be established. These are immediate steps that must be carried out to prepare the way for overall plan-
"In the present conditions, reviving agriculture requires...a deep agrarian reform...Such an agrarian reform requires the support of the peasants throughout the country, the active collaboration of the Jehad Sazendegi and the Besich [Mobilization of the Poor] in the regions. It
Arabs, Kurds, and the tribes against the aggression of Saddam Hussein, it is clear that only by granting the national rights ple of the country be united in unbreakable unity against imperialism."
The statement called for the publishing and education in the languages of the oppressed nationalities. It continued:
"Women make up half of the sociUnity in the struggle against imperialism requires mobilizing this half of society. This can only be done by building a women's organization that would fight for women's demands in the framework of the anti-imperialist strug gle....
"There is an urgent need for a government of the disinherited, independent of the capitalists and landlords...this need is being felt more than ever. Such a government would make Iran into a bulwark of all the disinherited of the Islamic world for the final victory in the struggle