INTERVIEW WITH TUDEH LEADERS

lranian people's struggle

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N interview with Dr. Radman-

esh, Ehasam Tabari, Mahmud
Boghrati, Ahmed Ghassemi, and
Dr. Forutan, leaders of the Tudeh
party, the party of the Iranian
workers.

RS situation in Iran is danger-
ous. Both American and Brit-
ish imperialists
endeavor to extend their grip
on our country.

Our struggle for national in-
dependence is part of the same
struggle of the British people
against the financiers of the City
of London and of Wall Street.

Our party sincerely desires
friendship between the Iranian
and British peoples.

The most dangerous enemy of

the Iranian people within Iran~

is the group of feudal magnates
round the Shah and thoSe who
have commercial connections
with the big foreign monopolies.

All the hopes of the Anglo-
Iranian Oil Company to get back
its oil properties rest on these
most corrupt people, who form
the court of the Shah and have
their connections with ‘high-rank-
ing army officers.

The Americans, too, have many
friends in these quarters, and
the Shah’s friends have long
been preparing a sell-out of their
country. .

These big landowners, court
officials, army generals and mer-
chants are the most reactionary
section of the Iranian ruling
class. .

The present government of
Dr. Mossadegh and his National
Front, does not belong to these
groups, which are in many ways
opposed to it.

Dr. Mossadegh’s government,
however, is not grounded in the
Tranian people, but represents
another section of the Iranian
ruling class.

His government is composed of
and supported by the small Iran-
ian industrialists who are strug-
gling to free themselves from
the grips and restrictions of the
big foreign monopolies, and al-
so by a section of the landown-
ers. :

They do not oppose all foreign
imperialism. In fact they are
willing to allow the Americans
more possibilities of political and
economic penetration into Iran.

For them the enemy is British
imperialism and the Anglo-Iran-
ian Oil Company. They seek to
limit the struggle of the Iranian
people for independence exclus-

intrigue and.

for independence outlined

ively to the struggle against the
British imperialists.

While many groups and par-
ties are organized into the Na-
tional Front organization of Dr.
Mossadegh, in fact, these groups
and. parties are chiefly small.
They have few members, little
organization.

Recently, some divisions have
appeared among them, especially
the division between Dr. Mos-
sadegh and Sayyed Kashani.

But they profit especially from

the enthusiasm of the Iranian ~-

people for the struggle against
imperialism. They try especially
to draw the shopkeepers, peas-
ants and artisans, who are so
numerous in Iran, behind the
slogans of the National Front.
e -

The National Front, while con-
ducting a limited struggle against
British imperialism, in fact) helps
the penetration of American in-
fluence into Iran.

And it is hostile to the real
national. movement which is un-
der the leadership of the Tudeh!
party.

The Tudeh party has been il-
legal since 1949. The Central
Council of Trade Unions has ak
so been suppressed.

To belong to the Tudeh or to
a trade union is officially a crime
in Iran.

Every organization defending
the rights of the Iranian people
suffers persecution in some form
or another.

Government - supported hooli-
gans have twice plundered the
Peace club in Teheran, belonging
to the Iranian Peace movement.

In Tabriz, supporters of the
peace movement were sentenced
to ten years imprisonment.

But despite all persecution, the
Tudeh party is still alive and
still a force in Iranian politics.
As crisis follows crisis, more
and more the Iranian people are
looking to Tudeh to lead them
out of their present distress.

Tran is a country of great
natural riches but pressing pov-
erty for the ordinary peasant,
worker and small man.

Because of American and Brit-
ish pressure the majority of the
budget is spent on the army and
the police. As a result, social,

- cultural and health services are
~ pitifully inadequate. .

Because of their abject pover-
ty they are forced to abandon
their villages and flock to the
towns for work. As unemploy-
ment in the towns is widespread

British scientists discuss
plan of action for peace

pines 200 leading British sci-
entists met in London recent-
ly to map out a plan of future

action for their one-year-old Sci-

ence for Peace Organisation.

They heard Dr. R. L. M. Synge,

FRS, Nobel prizewinner for
chemistry in 1952,.say that there
isa magnificent basis for develop-
ing science “once a government
could show that it has some faith
in the future.”
Delivering the’ opening ad-
dress on “The Scientist’s Respons-
ibilities,’” Dr. Synge told the con-
ference that the main applica-
tion of pure science during the
past 50 years had been for the
“technology of war.”

“The most important activity
for us here and now is to work
to put a stop to existing wars and
prevent future wars by agree-
ment between the nations. That
is why I support the work of the
‘

British Peace Committee,’ he
added.

Dr. A. H. Gordon, secretary of
the organisation, suggested «a
series of exhibitions for the pub-
lic showing the constructive uses
of science as a possible way of
enlisting support.

One resolution deplored “the
pressure on men and women who
have recently graduated from

‘university to undertake research

at military research establish-
ments or within the universities
under schemes financed by such
establishments.” It was carried
unanimously.

Dr. E. H. S. Burhop, an Atis
tralian and former atom sci-
entist, moved a resolution which
called for a new approach by the
government to the USS.
USSR to secure agreement on in-
ternational control of atomic
energy.

‘and so on.

and —

and growing, the peasants starve
in the streets.

A worker gets on an average
30 rials (less than one dollar) a

day.
The handicraftsmen and small
shopkeepers and traders — the

majority of the town population

—are facing bankruptcy as im-

Eager reader

A. L. THOMPSON, Shirley,
B.C.: Enclosed is my donation to
a fighting paper. I enjoy read-
ing the PT immensely. I look
forward to your weekly paper
with great longing and I take
pride in reading it from front
to back. Keep up the good work.
I would certainly hate to see
our: labor paper go on the rocks
and I’m sure a great many other
readers feel as I do. I’m sorry
I can’t do more to help you in
this great press building cam-
paign. Keep up this great strug-
gle to win the peace over the
warmongers to the south.

1 raf foe
Here's an idea

JAY ESS, Vancouver, B.C.:
As a regular reader of the PT
{ think your paper is tops, but
you don’t seem to be getting
anywhere. Your grand altruistic
efforts are wasted. Do many
readers far removed from the
skidroad know there’s such a
paper?

By all means keep up the tried
and true methods of mass propa-
ganda and agitation. Engage in
elections, work in trade unions
But I believe that
other methods will alsa have to
be tried which are, let us say,
less sectarian.

There must be dozens of ways
that are different that trained
men could think up. I myself,
untrained but observant, would
like to offer a proposal for
what it is worth. |

Have you people ever given a
thought to the old way of using

- throw-aways, but brought up to-

date? A leaflet half the size of
an ordinary leaflet. with the
same thing printed on both sides
to catch the eye; featuring a car-
toon or a slogan of a few words.
Such throw-aways should be is-
sued regularly, week after week,
year in and year out. Distribute
in the main shopping districts.
Furthermore, why not, once a
month, issue a supplement to the
Pacific Tribune consisting of one
page, ‘size of PT, with short
articles of about a dozen lines
each, made up of articles culled

Maohaieked. Riza Pahlevi, Shah of ahi opens
the Iranian parliament at Teheran.

goods.

ports from the U.S. more and
more flood the market.

What few industries Iran ‘1as
are also feeling the heavy com-
petition of imported foreign
Many of them have
crashed or are near to bank-
ruptcy.

from the paper over a Sail
period, taken from all depart-
ments — national and interna;
tional news, local items, sports,

editorials, etc. Use the supple-
ment to-advertise the PT.

I am sure that if you should
appeal to your readers to come
up with proposals of new ways of
putting over our ideas to the
thousands who don’t as yet know
you, it should bring results.

DuBois on Truman

UPCOAST READER, Campbell
River, B.C.: Some of your read-
ers who rarely see the National
Guardian may enjoy these com-

ments of W. E, B. DuBois on the
retirement from the White House —

of Harry S. Truman:

“The president whose exit we
celebrate is a perplexing human
being. He had no broad educa-
tional background. He had an
inferiority complex natural after
succeeding Roosevelt, which was
followed by an inflated overesti-
mate of himself, his powers and
his place in history. He imag-
ines himself as stepping down
from a most successful adminis-
tration; in fact, He was emphatic-
ally repudiated by the largest
poll in American history, having
ruined Stevenson’s chances by
imposing his own policy on him.

“Truman’s contradictions in
character have frightened the
nation. He blends homely like-
ableness with human insensibil-

‘ity and stubbornness which has

no regard for the truth. When
he saw himself defeated in 1948,
he deliberately lied to liberals

‘and Negroes with no intention

of even trying to fulfil promises

-he knew his own party would re-

pudiate. He was quite prepared

- to assent to whatever course they

took. He ‘defends
voice with low invective,
stands by his friends no matter
whether they are honest men or
thieves;
mind is made up he fights Mc-
Carran and McCarthy. :
eet | down in his hard-bit

Margaret’s

Premier Mossadegh of Iran meets with a grouP
of religious leaders in his home.

as one of the greatest killers

-when his flippant threat to

‘Boys in Washington furnish @

Pro-Rec blackout

_ thoughtful

and -

‘which said repairs and mainte”
but once his stubborn

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 27, 1953 — _ page

Political and social liberties
are precarious, severely limite
and are continually under attack:

Yet the national moveme®
has not been crushed. It is
growing and will win independ
ence for the Iranian people from
the imperialists, both British a”!
American.

soul, he ranks with Adolf Hitler — :

our day. Without expressing @ 4
word of public regret he kille
150,000 Japanese men, womel
and children and was surprise

it again sent a shudder aroun
the world. He forced the natio?
into the Korean war and trié
to scare it into universal milit- 4
ary service. His last word to the
nation is a threat of universé
doom such as no other sa!
ruler ever uttered. :
“Truman’s truculence, his loud
clothes and terrible shirts.
bad enough; his distortion of ™S
tory and ignorance of literature
are even worse. Read his last
grotesque story of our relations
with the Soviet Union. :

“These can be nothing les
than deliberate misstatements 2 |
Truman’s. part. He proposes
make the nation believe what.
stubbornly wants to believe.
and his whole administration 9
propaganda, which his Brigh

command. He, his cabinet, his

generals, his ambassadors sum
mon their ghost-writers as they
do their cooks. They distort the
Truth and the Right so co”
pletely, that the nation last No
vember said in vast despait’
‘Anything but Truman — eve
Eisenhower.’ ”

READER, Squamish, | Bicae
notice in Bert Whyte’s colum?
how Tille Rolston acted in ae
school budget towards Pro-Re¢ i
but maybe he didn’t think 2004
giving the lady credit for he
provision for °
safety in other matters - the
blackout curtains. ; f

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March 5 carried an article hea
ed “School Board Improvement>

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