Name-ye Mardom

Not to be confused with Mardom (newspaper).

Name-ye Mardom (Persian: نامهٔ مردم, romanized: nāma-ye mardom, lit. 'The People's Letter') is a newspaper which has been published by the Tudeh Party of Iran during different periods with different outlooks.

Name-ye Mardom

General manager	Reza Radmanesh
Political alignment	Tudeh Party
Language	Persian
Country	Iran
Sister newspapers	Mardom Razm Khavar-e no Rahbar
OCLC number	269184338
Free online archives	1947–1948; no. 170–335 1948; no. 336–459 1980–1981; no. 186–528 2000–2010; no. 579–850
Media of Iran List of newspapers

Content

Name-ye Mardom was originally an intellectual journal and emphasized on ideological subjects.^[1]

"Filthy Hope" (omid-e palid), a poem by Nima Yooshij was first published by the newspaper in 1943, with a foreword by Ehsan Tabari.^[2]

According to Ervand Abrahamian, the political line of the newspaper can be divided into two terms marked by the party's second congress in 1948.^[1] Before the second congress, it used to publish articles sympathetic towards a wide range of socialist thinkers, including Henri de Saint-Simon, Karl Kautsky, Georgi Plekhanov, and Jean-Paul Sartre.^[1] However, it then turned into a more Soviet-approved newspaper by publishing articles on Vladimir Lenin's One Step Forward, Two Steps Back; Social Realism in the Arts by Andrei Zhdanov; and works of Joseph Stalin such as Question of Nationalities, Marxism and Linguistics, Internal Contradictions of the Party and Short History of the Bolshevik Party.^[1]

After the Iranian Revolution, it served as the official daily of the party.^[3]