Organization of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class
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The Organization of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class (Persian: سازمان پیکار در راه آزادی طبقه کارگر, romanized: Sāzmān-e peykār dar rāh-e āzādī-e ṭabaqa-ye kārgar), or simply Peykar (Persian: پيکار, lit. 'struggle'), also known by the earlier name Marxist Mojahedin, was a splinter group from the People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Organization of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class Sāzmān-e peykār dar rāh-e āzādī-e ṭabaqa-ye kārgar | |
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Abbreviation | Peykar |
Leader | |
Founded | 1975 |
Dissolved | 1983 |
Split from | MKO |
Newspaper | Peykar |
Membership | Maximum 3,000 equipped with light weapons[3] |
Ideology | |
Political position | Far-left |
National affiliation | Septuple Coalition |
Members associated with it declared that they no longer self-identify as Muslims but rather only believe in Marxism–Leninism. They subsequently started an intragroup conflict with other MEK members who refused to join it (on the grounds that they still believed in Islam) and tried to purge the group in to make it purely Marxist. Originating in 1972 and officially founded in 1975, by the early 1980s Peykar was no longer considered active.[5] Peykar was considered "the most extreme" among all Iranian communist groups active at the time.[6] Peykar was subsequently suppressed and through imprisonment and executions, its existence came to an end by the early 1980s.[6]