Revolutionary Organization of the Tudeh Party

Revolutionary Organization of the Tudeh Party
Revolutionary Organization of the Tudeh Party
Founded	1966
Dissolved	1979
Split from	Tudeh Party of Iran
Merged into	Laborers' Party of Iran
Newspaper	Setare-ye Sorkh
Ideology	Maoism
Political position	Far-left
	Politics of Iran; Political parties; Elections;

The Revolutionary Organization of the Tudeh Party of Iran (ROTPI; Persian: سازمان انقلابی حزب تودهٔ ایران, romanized: sāzmān-e enqelābī-e Ḥezb-e tūda-ye Īrān) was a Maoist group that split from the Tudeh Youth Organization in 1966, following the Sino-Soviet split.

History

The ROTPI's history is traced back to February 1964, when a group of young members of the Tudeh Party of Iran became dissatisfied with the party's leadership over siding with the Soviet Union during the Sino-Soviet split.^[1] The group maintained that Tudeh was reformist (in contrast to being revolutionary) and claimed that it wanted to revive the defunct Communist Party of Persia.^[2] The base of its core membership was abroad, made up of students studying in Western Europe.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Behrooz, Maziar (1999), Rebels With A Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 40–42, ISBN 9781860643811
^ Haqshenas, Torab (27 October 2011) [15 December 1992]. "COMMUNISM iii. In Persia after 1953". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Fasc. 1. Vol. VI. New York City: Bibliotheca Persica Press. pp. 105–112. Retrieved 12 September 2016.

[Behrooz-1] Behrooz, Maziar (1999), Rebels With A Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 40–42, ISBN 9781860643811

[Iranica-2] Haqshenas, Torab (27 October 2011) [15 December 1992]. "COMMUNISM iii. In Persia after 1953". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Fasc. 1. Vol. VI. New York City: Bibliotheca Persica Press. pp. 105–112. Retrieved 12 September 2016.

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