Fahd's Revolutionary Organization
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Fahd's Revolutionary Organization ( ar, منظمة فهد الثورية) was a
communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...
organization in Iraq. The organization was founded in the middle of 1985, after a split from the
Iraqi Communist Party The Iraqi Communist Party ( ar, الحزب الشيوعي العراقي '; ku, Partiya Komunista Iraqê حزبی شیوعی عێراق) is a communist party and the oldest active party in Iraq. Since its foundation in 1934, it has dominated the ...
. The founders of the organization consisted of younger cadres of the Communist Party, who opposed the party leadership. The organization sought to build a new Marxist-Leninist party, recalling the legacy of the Communist Party stalwart leader Yusuf Salman Yusuf ('Fahd'). The organization published ''al-Munadhil ash-Shiui'' (المناضل الشيوعي, 'The Communist Militant'). The founder and leader of the organization, the labour leader Hikmat Kutani, was forced into exile in Canada. He became a member of Worker-communist Party of Iraq. Kutani died in 1999 in exile.


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