Ashkan Hashemipour

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...