Tudeh Youth Organization

Tudeh Youth Organization
Founded	22 March 1943; 81 years ago (1943-03-22)
Preceded by	Young Communist League of Persia
Membership	≈5,500 (1952)[1]
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Mother party	Tudeh Party of Iran
International affiliation	WFDY
Newspaper	Razm
Magazine	Mardom Baraye Javanan

Tudeh Youth Organization (Persian: سازمان جوانان توده, romanized: Sāzmān-e javānān-e Tuda) is the youth wing of the Tudeh Party of Iran that was founded in 1943.^[2] The organization is affiliated with World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY).^[3]

It published Mardom Baraye Javanan (lit. 'People for the Youth') weekly and then Razm (lit. 'Combat') daily newspapers.^[4]

The organization was led by Reza Radmanesh,^[5] who was succeeded by Nader Sharmini from 1947^[6] to 1952.^[7] Under the leadership of the latter, the organization proposed more radical slogans while siding with the moderate faction of the party and attacking the hardliner faction for being not enough revolutionary.^[7]

In 1966, a split occurred in the organization when a group of members left the party because they considered themselves Maoist.^[8] They subsequently founded an organization named the Revolutionary Organization of the Tudeh Party.^[9]

References

1. Sepehr Zabih (1966). The Communist Movement in Iran. University of California Press. p. 176.
2. Khater, Akram Fouad (2010), Sources in the History of the Modern Middle East (2nd ed.), Cengage Learning, p. 333, ISBN 9780618958535
3. United States Congress, House Committee on Un-American Activities (1956), Soviet Total War: "Historic Mission" of Violence and Deceit, vol. 1–2, U.S. Government Printing Office, pp. 589–90
4. Haddad Adel, Gholamali; Elmi, Mohammad Jafar; Taromi-Rad, Hassan (31 August 2012). "Iran Party". Political Parties: Selected Entries from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam. EWI Press. pp. 219–20. ISBN 9781908433022.
5. Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. p. 294. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
6. Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. p. 335. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
7. Gasiorowski, Mark J.; Byrne, Malcolm (2004). Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran. Syracuse University Press. pp. 112–113. ISBN 0815630182.
8. Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. p. 294. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
9. 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. Archived from the original on 21 February 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2016.