Tudeh Youth Organization

Tudeh Youth Organization (Persian: سازمان جوانان توده, romanized: Sāzmān-e javānān-e Tuda) is the youth wing of the Tudeh Party of Iran that was founded in 1943.^[2] The organization is affiliated with World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY).^[3]

Tudeh Youth Organization
Founded	22 March 1943; 82 years ago (1943-03-22)
Preceded by	Young Communist League of Persia
Membership	≈5,500 (1952)[1]
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Mother party	Tudeh Party of Iran
International affiliation	WFDY
Newspaper	Razm
Magazine	Mardom Baraye Javanan

Tudeh Youth Membership Card

It published Mardom Baraye Javanan (lit. 'People for the Youth') weekly and then Razm (lit. 'Combat') daily newspapers.^[4]

The organization was led by Reza Radmanesh,^[5] who was succeeded by Nader Sharmini from 1947^[6] to 1952.^[7] Under the leadership of the latter, the organization proposed more radical slogans while siding with the moderate faction of the party and attacking the hardliner faction for being not enough revolutionary.^[7]

In 1966, a split occurred in the organization when a group of members left the party because they considered themselves Maoist.^[8] They subsequently founded an organization named the Revolutionary Organization of the Tudeh Party.^[9]