Revolutionary Organization of the Tudeh Party | |
Colorcode: | red |
Split: | Tudeh Party of Iran |
Merged: | Laborers' Party of Iran |
Newspaper: | Setare-ye Sorkh |
Foundation: | 1966 |
Dissolved: | 1979 |
Ideology: | Maoism |
Position: | Far-left |
Country: | Iran |
The Revolutionary Organization of the Tudeh Party of Iran (ROTPI; Persian: سازمان انقلابی حزب تودهٔ ایران|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.
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. 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.[1] The base of its core membership was abroad, made up of students studying in Western Europe.