Ashkan Hashemipour

Comrades in Arms: The Mujahidin, Fatah, and Iran’s Transnational Guerrilla Movement

Abstract Throughout the 1970s, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), particularly Fatah, cultivated a global network of solidarity rooted in worldwide anti-imperialism and advocacy for the Palestinian cause. Among its allies was the People’s Mujahidin Organization of Iran...

The Revolutionary Organization of the Tudeh Party: Iran’s Maoists and the Global New Left

In 1964, a group of Iranian students in Europe, inspired by the proliferation of armed, anticolonial movements around the world, split from Iran’s Tudeh Party and formed the Revolutionary Organization of the Tudeh Party (ROTP). The ROTP promoted guerrilla warfare along Maoist lin...