Communist Party of Persia explained

Communist Party of Iran
Colorcode:Red
General Secretary:Heydar Khan Amo oghli
First Secretary:Assadollah Ghaffarzadeh (first)
Avatis Sutlanzadeh (last)
Successor:Tudeh Party of Iran[1]
Foundation:1917
Banned:1921
Ideology:Communism
Youth Wing:Young Communist League of Persia
Position:Far-left
Newspaper:Peykar
International:Comintern
Country:Iran

The Communist Party of Iran (Persian: حزب کمونیست ایران|Ḥezb-e komūnīst-e Iran) was an Iranian communist party. Originally established as the Justice Party (Persian: فرقه عدالت|Ferqa'ye ʿEdālat) in 1917 by the former social democrats who supported Baku-based Bolsheviks, it participated in Third International in 1919 and was renamed "Communist Party of Iran" in 1920.[2]

Haydar Khan e Amo-oghli, one of the leaders of the Constitutional Revolution of Iran, was elected as its general secretary. Its foundation came about as a result of the establishment of the Soviet Republic of Gilan, earlier that year, by Mirza Kouchak Khan and his Jangali ("Foresters' Movement") insurgents.

The party was banned in 1921 (coinciding with the defeat of the Soviet Republic of Gilan), though members continued activities underground until the foundation of the Tudeh Party in 1941, which thereafter became the official communist party in the country.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Vahabzadeh. Peyman. Guerrilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy, and the Fadai Period of National Liberation In Iran, 1971–1979. 2010. Syracuse University Press. 182. 9780815651475.
  2. Book: Tachau. Political parties of the Middle East and North Africa. Greenwood Press. 1994. 9780313266492. 159. Justice Party I. Frank Tachau.