The Iran revolution in 1979 was taken over by Ayatollah Khomeini and the mullahs which most on the Left saw as a reactionary development
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The Iranian revolution – a Marxist perspective
1979 saw the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the coming to power of Ayatollah Khomeini – an event that split the Left inside the country
Rejecting the sectarian politics of Northern Ireland
Unlike the sectarian politics of Republicanism and Loyalism, the Marxist analysis of the Troubles in Northern Ireland emphasised the class division over religion
Karl Marx – the Euro philosopher!
The ideas of Karl Marx were a mix of German philosophy, English economics and French politics so very Euro in its ideological composition
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