From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Progressive Youth Organization
(
Persian
:
??????? ??????? ?????
,
Sazman-e Javanan-e Mutarraqi
) was an
anti-revisionist
Marxist?Leninist
organization in
Afghanistan
. The organization emerged from the
New Democratic Current
(
Jerian-e Demokratik-e Navin
), a leftist movement that had been established by
Abdulrahim Mahmudi
,
Abdulhadi Mahmudi
,
Akram Yari
and
Seddiq Yari
. The New Democratic Current founded the PYO in October 1965. The group brought out the publication
Shalleh-ye Javid
('Eternal Flame'), and its followers were generally known as
sholayes
. PYO never made its existence or name known to the public. PYO was dissolved in 1972.
[1]
References
[
edit
]