MER Article "Tudeh's Policy Is a Betrayal of the Working Class" Fereidun Keshavarz was elected to the Tudeh politburo at the Party’s first congress in 1942. He was elected to the Iranian parliament in 1944 and in 1946 served as minister of in the short-lived government of Prime Minister Qavam. In 1958 he resigned from the Tudeh politburo and central committee. H (Author not identified) • 7 min read
MER Article "The Clergy Have Confiscated the Revolution" Abdulrahman Qassemlu is secretary-general of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) in Iran. He is the author of Kurdistan and the Kurds (7965) and Problems of Economic Growth in the Developing Countries (1969). From 1960 to 1975 he taught at the Ecole Superieure d’Economie in Prague. He met with Fred H (Author not identified) • 9 min read
MER Article Economic Sanctions and Iranian Trade Former President Jimmy Carter’s announcement of economic sanctions against Iran on April 7, 1980 aroused little enthusiasm except in Tehran, where crowds roared their approval of a formal break in ties with the “great Satan.” At home, hadn’t the freeze of Iranian assets, the longshoremen’s refusal t Philip Shehadi • 4 min read
MER Article Iran's Economy Workers, bazaar merchants and artisans, farmers, salaried officials and professionals -- all expected that the departure of the Shah would mean better economic conditions for themselves and the Iranian people. At the very least, funds that had been diverted into corruption or used to purchase expens Patrick Clawson • 13 min read
MER Article "Signs of Civil War" Shirin Tehrani is an independent Iranian socialist who has lived most of the post-revolutionary period inside Iran and spoke with Fred Halliday in Europe in late April 1981. There has been much attention here on the dispute within the regime between the faction around President Bani-Sadr, and that (Author not identified) • 9 min read
MER Article The War and the Struggle for the State “Was it not your KGB which indirectly passed on to us the secret plan for the Iraqi offensive?” President Bani-Sadr’s point-blank question clearly embarrassed the Soviet ambassador. Vladimir Vinogradov lapsed into an embarrassed silence but his face was lit by a smile which was as broad as it was en Eric Rouleau • 15 min read
MER Article From the Editors (July/August 1981) The Iranian revolution is well into its third year. It has been difficult from the outside to follow the complex course of recent political developments there, but it is clear that Iran’s future will be determined for years or decades ahead by the balance of political forces that comes out of the in The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Morgan, Domestic Intelligence Richard E. Morgan, Domestic Intelligence: Monitoring Dissent in America (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980). Konrad Ege • 1 min read
MER Article Hill, Mahkama! Enid Hill, Mahkama! Studies in the Egyptian Legal System (London: Ithaca Press, 1980). Enid Hill has produced an unusual and important contribution to understanding the political economy of modern Egypt. Her book, clear and easy to follow, adopts an anthropological approach to the study of the Egyp Peter Gran • 1 min read
MER Article Kissinger Memorandum: "To Isolate the Palestinians" MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION DATE AND TIME: June 15, 1975 12:15 to 2:35 pm PLACE: Suite 311, Hotel Pierre, New York City SUBJECT: Meeting with Jewish Leaders (Klutznik Group) Kissinger: First of all, I want you to know how much I appreciate your taking off on the weekend to come here. (Author not identified) • 24 min read
MER Article "All This Time We Were Alone" Saleh Baransi was born in 1929, finished elementary school in his village of Tayba, and went to Jerusalem in 1944 to continue his secondary studies. In 1952, he was appointed a teacher in a secondary school in Tayba. In 1957 he was one of the founders of the Popular Front, which was established in I (Author not identified) • 17 min read
MER Article A Palestinian Option Fred Halliday’s comments on the debate that constitutes the bulk of Towards a Socialist Republic of Palestine (1978) require a serious Palestinian response. Unwittingly, perhaps, Halliday’s comments tend to undermine this debate, and put a damper on Palestinian intellectual and passionate exploratio Khalil Nakhleh • 7 min read
