Progressive Youth Organization ( fa, سازمانی جوانانی مترقی, ''Sazman-e Javanan-e Mutarraqi'') was an anti-revisionist

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organization in

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

. 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 {{Afghanistan-party-stub