Saydal Sokhandan was an Afghan poet, a

Maoist Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...

activist, and a student leader. He was studying at the

Kabul University Kabul University (KU; prs, دانشگاه کابل, translit= Dāneshgāh-e-Kābul; ps, د کابل پوهنتون, translit=Da Kābul Pohantūn) is one of the major and oldest institutions of higher education in Afghanistan. It is in the 3rd ...

in the early-1970s. He organized students from

Progressive Youth Organization Progressive Youth Organization ( fa, سازمانی جوانانی مترقی, ''Sazman-e Javanan-e Mutarraqi'') was an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist organization in Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanis ...

in the university. PYO is considered the first revolutionary

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 ...

formation in Afghanistan with Maoist ideology.

Poetry

Saydal Sokhandan has many poems in the

Pashto language Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani (). Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages ...

. One of his poems is: په ټوپک او په برچه دی استعمار پاره پاره کړه
شابه شابه ای کارګره خپل ایمان غیرت ښکاره کړه Translation: ''Tear apart colonialism with your gun and knife''
''Bravo Bravo Workers show your faith and determination''

References

Afghan communists 20th-century Afghan poets Pashtun people Maoists 1972 deaths Year of birth missing Maoism in Afghanistan {{Afghanistan-poet-stub