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Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran) اتحادیه کمونیستهای ایران | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1976 |
| Dissolved | 2001 |
| Merger of | OCRML Pooya Group |
| Succeeded by | CPIMLM |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism-Leninism Maoism[1] |
| Political position | Far-left |
| International affiliation | RIM (defunct) |
Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran) (UIC(S); also non-officially translated by others as the League of Iranian Communists; Persian: اتحادیه کمونیستهای ایران, romanized: ʾEtteḥādiye-ye Komūnīst-hāy-e ʾErān, lit. 'Union of the Communists of Iran'), simply known by its former armed branch's name Sarbedaran (Persian: سربداران, romanized: Sar-be-Dār-ān, lit. 'the head-on-gallow mass') was a Maoist organization in Iran. The UIC(S) was formed in 1976 after the alliance of a number of Maoist groups carrying out military actions within Iran. The group prepared an insurrection starting in 1981, but it was dismantled by 1982.[2]
Although it has gone through several ideological changes, it has maintained a general Maoist viewpoint advocating that Iran is not a capitalist society but a "semicolonial-semifeudal" one. In 2001 the UIC(S) became the Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist).
- ^ Mirsepassi, Ali (2004), The Tragedy of the Iranian Left, RoutledgeCurzon, Table 10.2 Characteristics of principal secular left-wing organizations, 1979–83
- ^ Gustavo Gorriti (1999). The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru. The University of North Carolina Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0807846766.