An old Trotskyist article from the 1970s on the relationship between Left and Islamic fundamentalism during the Iranian Revolution. Workers Vanguard Spartacist League When mullah rule was established in Iran in early 1979, the vast bulk of the Western left actively supported Ayatollah Khomeini’s seizure of power. Virtually the only group that refused to bow to the Islamic reactionaries was the Spartacist League, to which the League for the Fourth International traces its origin and from which founding cadres of the LFI came. At that time, when the SL stood on the program of revolutionary Trotskyism,
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