The Revolutionary Organization of the Tudeh Party of Iran (ROTPI; fa, سازمان انقلابی حزب تودهٔ ایران, sāzmān-e enqelābī-e Ḥezb-e tūda-ye Īrān) was a

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group that split from the

Tudeh Youth Organization Tudeh Youth Organization ( fa, سازمان جوانان توده, Sāzmān-e javānān-e Tuda) is the youth wing of the Tudeh Party of Iran that was founded in 1943. The organization is affiliated with World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY). ...

in 1966, following the

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History

The ROTPI's history is traced back to February 1964, when a group of young members of the

Tudeh Party of Iran The Tudeh Party of Iran ( fa-at, حزب تودۀ ایران, Ḥezb-e Tūde-ye Īrān, lit=Party of the Masses of Iran) is an Iranian communist party. Formed in 1941, with Soleiman Mirza Eskandari as its head, it had considerable influence in i ...

became dissatisfied with the party's leadership over siding with the

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during the

. The group maintained that Tudeh was

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(in contrast to being revolutionary) and claimed that it wanted to revive the defunct

Communist Party of Persia The Communist Party of Iran ( fa, حزب کمونیست ایران, Ḥezb-e komūnīst-e Iran) was an Iranian communist party. Originally established as the Justice Party ( fa, فرقه عدالت, Ferqa'ye ʿEdālat) in 1917 by the former So ...

. The base of its core membership was abroad, made up of students studying in Western Europe.

References

{{reflist 1966 establishments in Iran 1979 disestablishments in Iran Maoist organisations in Iran Tudeh Party of Iran