Abstract EN:

Inspite of its determinated role in the revolution, in particular through the workers' strikes of the oil industry, the iranian working class did not obtain its share of power in the state apparatus. At the time of revolution, the iranian working class already had some sixty years of organised struggie, first through the "commuist party" and later through "tudeh party of iran". . . However the repression undertaken by pahlavi regime, especially after the coup d'etat of 1953, completely blocked its political and labour union activities in the iranian society. As already as the beginning of 1970s, the non-religious opposition movement (and the leftist in particular) were becoming more threatening for the shah's regime. Under such circumstances the regime could have been overthrown by non-religious opposition forces. Khomeini with the aid of imperialist countries, the usa in particular, appeared on the political arena and using the fanatic tendences of part of the popular forces, manipulated the popular movement to take hold of power at the exclusion of all non-religious forces and in particular the leftist sector of the working class.