Hari - "Marxist-Leninists know that only a Marxist-Leninist party inside of Iran can help the Iranian people. We ourselves are not aware of the state of the Marxist-Leninist movement inside Iran...."
Just spent a few hours in the downtown L.A. Public Library stacks perusing volumes on Iran. Of the volumes I was not aware of previously, this one <https://www.juancole.com/2022/03/revolution-poignant-memoir.html>, by the daughter of two Iranian-American activists <https://www.nedasemnani.com/book>, students at Cal Berkeley in the late 60's, who were in the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (Marxist–Leninist). In '79, they returned to Iran. Her Father, who was in the leadership of an underground leftist opposition group until the summer of 1981 <https://thebaffler.com/salvos/revolutionary-daughter-semnani> , disagreed with their planning for an uprising, which took place later, on 1-25-'82, in the town of Amol <https://thebaffler.com/salvos/revolutionary-daughter-semnani> . Via ,"*Rebels With A Cause <https://woodsmokeblog.wordpress.com/tag/union-of-iranian-communists/>*: The failure of the Left in Iran <https://woodsmokeblog.wordpress.com/tag/union-of-iranian-communists/>," and a Wikipedia entry on the Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Iranian_Communists_(Sarbedaran)>, you can read an acct. of the uprising. Her Father, arrested in Tehran, on July 11, 1982, was imprisoned in the notorious Evin Prison and executed in Amol on 1-25-'83, along with 21 other cadre. I assume he was tortured, facing the rather macabre questioning of his captors, such as is related in,"Tortured Confessions <https://www.ucpress.edu/books/tortured-confessions/epub-pdf> : Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran <https://archive.org/details/torturedconfessi0000abra>," by Ervand Abrahamian. As for contemporary M-L's in Iran, my gut tells me, they are few and far between. The Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Iran_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist%E2%80%93Maoist)> ) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Iran_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist%E2%80%93Maoist)>, which has roots in the Sarbedaran Movement and the Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Iranian_Communists_(Sarbedaran)> is among the organizations listed @ Maoist organisations in Iran <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Maoist_organisations_in_Iran>. I'd have to dig a little bit more to ascertain whether the <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_Communist_Revolutionaries_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)>Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (Marxist–Leninist) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_Communist_Revolutionaries_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)>, & the OCR, here <https://goingagainstthetide.org/2025/04/30/a-brief-history-of-the-ocr-and-a-trajectory-for-its-future-development/>, represents any continuity. A cursory scroll through their webpages <https://goingagainstthetide.org/2024/09/10/the-rcp/>, would appear to reflect some experiences in or with the RCP in the 70's. From, "Reading Lolita in Tehran," I gather the RCP had some following in the Iranian Student Association <https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/09/the-iranian-students-association-and-the-end-of-the-shah/> back in the 70's. I assume, "This Flame Within : <https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c2-002a-a423-84e111d5b498/c1e8dcb0-6c91-4858-b3dc-78a914649b80/978-1-4780-1881-0_601.pdf>Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States <https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c2-002a-a423-84e111d5b498/c1e8dcb0-6c91-4858-b3dc-78a914649b80/978-1-4780-1881-0_601.pdf>," published by Duke U. Press <https://www.dukeupress.edu/this-flame-within> in 2022, would expand further. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40910): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40910 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/118098006/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
