Progressive Youth Organization ( fa, سازمانی جوانانی مترقی, ''Sazman-e Javanan-e Mutarraqi'') was an
anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist
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organization in
Afghanistan
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. The organization emerged from the New Democratic Current (''Jerian-e Demokratik-e Navin''), a leftist movement that had been established by
Abdulrahim Mahmudi,
Abdulhadi Mahmudi,
Akram Yari and
Seddiq Yari. The New Democratic Current founded the PYO in October 1965. PYO never made its existence or name known to the public. The group brought out the publication ''
Shalleh-ye Javid'' ('Eternal Flame'), and its followers were generally known as ''sholayes''. PYO was dissolved in 1972.
[http://www.kas.de/wf/doc/kas_9674-544-2-30.pdf ]
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Youth organizations established in 1965
Organizations disestablished in 1972
1965 establishments in Afghanistan
1972 disestablishments in Afghanistan
Anti-revisionist organizations
Maoist organisations in Afghanistan
Youth organisations based in Afghanistan
Youth wings of communist parties
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