Iran: what revolution?
On 22 October, the Saturday afternoon Iran solidarity protests at Trafalgar Square, London, were more dominated by royalist flags than previous Saturdays. Iranian leftists demonstrate separately, by the National Gallery, and by no means all in the royalist-flag crowd are royalists; but this week the discourse of “43 years” of oppression (as if all was OK under the Shah) dominated. One of the slogans on the royalist-dominated sound system was “One solution, revolution”. That shows us how empty that slogan (used at one time by the SWP, and more recently Socialist Appeal) is. The socialist task...