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Militants' of Iran. They describe the Mojahedeen as "petty-bourgeois' ', intending to organise a coup rather than an uprising, and denounce them for going into an alliance with Bani Sadr rather than themselves and organisations such as Peykar and Komala.

If we were in Iran, perhaps we would have sharp differences with the Mojahedeen over practical day-to-day politics. It may be that given differences we have over the strategy for socialist revolution in iran, that at some stage a serious break would be necessary between ourselves anq the Mojahedeen.

Certainly there is already nise that a break with BaniSadr will be necessary sooner or later. We think sooner rather than later. But the National Council of Resistance — or more particularly the local councils in Iran are of major significance.

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Revolutionaries, I think, should seek to build them, and would collaborate with the Mojahedeen in doing so. Perhaps we would discover that we have a different strategic notion of the role of the councils after Khomeini's overthrow.

We almost certainly would place more emphasis on criticising Bani-Sadr and IT IS worth pointing out the moral of the Labour Party Conference and that your analysis of the prospects for socialists within the Bennite Left of the Labour Party were over-optimistic.

Your analysis - and that of others who saw opportunity within Bennism -rested on the inactivity of the bulk of the Labour Party La small minority be socialist to get a majority of activists.

What you failed to realise was that though the Labour This new problem may affect about 46 of the 74 pressurised water reactors PWRs) in the US. I don't know if this includes the 17 PWRs at risk from rusting mentioned last week, but in any case it could well be a death blow to the UNPI.

To cap that comes the news that just as the last of the protestors against the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Station in California has been evicted from the plant, serious errors in the construction of the plant have been uncovered.

While police were arresting 1850 demonstrators, engineers were checking the earthquake safety supports for pipes in the reactor's Right will never act to fight the Tories, they will always act and act most vigorously to counter any "threat" from socialists.

LAURENS OTTER Wellington Science back-up cooling systems. These would be crucial to provide emergency cooling for the core if an earthquake knocked out the primary cooling system. This might not be so serious were Diablo Canyon not a mere 2½ miles from an active earthquake faultline.

The braces for the cooling pipes appear to have been attached the wrong way round so that some pipes are stronger than necessary while. others are weaker. Engineers constructing the system appear to have used plans for the second reactor on the cooling system for the first reactor. Whose side are they on?